American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-08-12
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The London papers of the week previous to
the sailing of the Europa contain elaborate re-
ports of two divorce cases, one Grim. con. case,
one breach Of promise, one seduction case, one
case of cruelty in beating a little school-boy
almost to DEATH several murder cases, two
riots and innumerable trials of smaller offences.
California is not the worst place in the world
Chauncy Jerome, of New Haven, Conn, has
bottle of wine which 7. b. McManus gave him
in Ireland a few days before he was transported
for life, with the remark that they would have
the pleasure Of drinking it together some time
in New York. The wish is probably soon to be
realized.
The first railway in Sweden has just been
completed it extends from the Lake of Lang
bar to that Of Yngen, in the district of FEpstad,
and is about seventy-hve miles in length.
| San Francisco Hunts Merchants Magazine
for May states the fact that the exports from
San Francisco are larger than from any other
city in the United States, not excepting even
New York, and that in imports and tonnage it
stands among the first. The gold forms by far
the largest part of the exports.
Laad Sales-The Joliet 1ll.l Democrat saws
that one firm in that town, agents for non-resi-
dent land-hoders, have sold to settlers, since
he first Of January last, more than 10000
acres Of farming lands. The prices at which
all those lands have sold, all of them being un-
improved, have ranged from $3.50 to So per
acre
The Kennebec Journal says young lady in
Augusta, o few days since, witnessed the mar
riage of her own grandfather with her own
grandmother. 5
The city of Philadelphia contains about nine
thousand more houses than the State Of South
Carolina. r9-
A Successful Appea'.-Rev. DR.. Mclean, Of
Freehold, n j., WHO has lately taken the pres
idency of Lafayette College, Pa, preached on
Sabbath day, Sd instant, in the Presbyterian
church, in the town of Huntington, Pa, and on
Monday secured from the congregation one
thousand dollars towards the endowment Of the
college. '..
A Chicago paper states that the ladies have
got up bonnet as an Offset to the "kiss-me-
quick" and the "hold nae fast" of the North
They call it the t'no-you-don't."
An Irshman writing from California says,
"Its an Elegant country. The bedbugs are
as big as dinner pots, while the feas are used
for crossing creeks with-one hop and they are
over with two on their backs 'iaAla
Princeton College.-The summer term of this
venerable institution commenced on friday
with an unusually large accession of new stu
dents. The Princeton Why says that the NUM-
ber of students will be larger than last year.
The Providence Post says Martin Van Buren,
is MS buoyant and elastic now as he was twenty
years ago. and adds that "one reason perhaps
is that he has not. drank Intoxicating liquors In
the last thirty years, and is remarkably regular
in everything save his politics." nea Inn 4
They have pumpkin in Mobile, which was
raised in that vicinity, weighing one hundred
and sixteen pounds
AT a late meeting Of the bankers of the Turk
ish empire, it was estimated that the drought OF
this year win diminish the revenue one hundred
millions Of piastres. E'- =
Persons Of either sex may captivate by as
suming feigned character, but when the De-
ceptiop is found out, disgrace and 'nnbappiness
will be the consequence Of their fraud