Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1848-03-11
Summary of News.

Taylor, that is not willing-nay anxious
that his claims should be submitted to a Ma
tionaI Convention. Indeed, they believe thai
to be the mode to secure his election.
The Millerites have fixed upon another
day for the grand burst up of worldly affairs.
1t IS TO come in May next, when, according
TO their calculations the wo.id viii be G00O
years Of age for certain, and will take its
4 freedom blow out. They IRE getting ready
( for il at Leroy, New York
A large house lot in a town near Boston
/ is to be given to the author Of the best orlgI-
nal conundrum at Concert in Boston.
Every where throughout the country we
see notices of the successful use of chloro-
+ form by dentists, surgeons, and physicians.
4 The Lowell Mass Courier states that il
has reason to believe that there is no present
intention to reduce the wages of the opera
! tiyes in the factories in that city.
The celebrated French wrestler has been
beaten at New Orleans by a young man at
that place.
The Southport Telegraph says that John
Hewes, known as Capt. Hewes, residing in
I Pleasant Prairie, three or four miles from
this village, shot himself, ON Saturday after
on his bed, by dischargng a pistol into his
mouth.
The Chinese are becoming more polite;
the term usually translated g barbarians,"
has been dropped (when foreigners are spo-
ken of, } by all the mandarins round Canton,
except the chief magistrate of the districtin
which Whampoa is situated.
Syracuse, the great salt mart of New
York, has recently been incorporated as a
city. II now embraces Syracuse and Sail
ma. The total population is 1874.
The richest man in ST. Thomas, one of
the principal ports in the West Indies, is u
negro as black as ebony He is SAID to be
worth not less than three millions of dollars,
and has acquired his wealth by trafiicking in
persons of his own color
The Earl of Powis--a grandson of the
celebrated Lord Clive-of East India mem
ory--was accidentally shot by one of his
sons, while pheasant shooting in his Park,
in England. 1t was not fatal at the time,
but on account of his age, (63,) illness SUI
pervencd, and he died from the effects Of the
wound.
The BARRIERS of ST. Louis recently en-
deavored to form monopoly, to raise the
price Of shaving. one conscience stricken
knave, refused to join the association, and
the meeting could effect nothing; and the
next night the enraged BARRIERS went to his
house and besmeared it all over with tar,
rendering it truly house of mourning.
In 1890, near Rouen, was found a skele-
ton whose skull held a bushel of corn, and
whose body must have been eighteen feet
long.
The ST. Louis Union, says -" Last night
q boy stole a lot of eggs from wagon at
Norfh Market. Two policemen started af-
ter him, and after race of a square or two,
one of the men coming up with the thief,
laid his hand rather heavily upon the fell
lows hat--breaking the eggs. The boy
thinking his skull was broken and his brains
were escaping, cried "murdern most We
hemently, and required argument TO believe
that that which was running dotrn HIS cheek
was not his brains"
The Washington Union favors, generally,
the terms of the proposed Treaty, but de-
mics thar the President has any agency in
its formation. 1t says that MIR. Trst acted
throughout the whole affair without au-
thority.
Hon. George Washington Campbell, a
distinguished citizen of Nashville, Tenn,
died at that place on the 18th ult., aged so
years. He was formerly Minister TO Russia,
Senator in Congress, and subsequently Sec
rotary of the U. ;. Treasury.
Mrs. Lanman, of Norwich, Conn.,, widow
of the late Judge Lanman, and mother of
Park Benjamin, the poet, was burned TO
death, on the 18th ult., by her clothes taking
fire At the CRATE. She was about seventy
years of age.
1t is generally supposed that Trexler
(Whig) has been elected to Congress in
the Sixth District of Pennsylvania, to I'll
the vacancy caused by the death Of the Hon.
John w Hornbeck.
There is report, tina, the Ten Regiment
Bin has passed the Senate. It stands no
chance in the House.