The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1851-07-24

years OF age %fequenlly become ''iieads Of
families" widows are not suffered To re d
main long in weeds, aud the m lrshals u
ceport-in a population Of 13.0O0-only e
one old maid Wumen oi any age. ma r.
ton or condition, who will! come here are e
assured of profitable aud proper employ II
ment, and in due course uf time appro u
pirate husband. C
a PRoFIr,BLE NEWSPAPER III is said q
that The New York Tribune newspaper
will divide this year $50. 600 cleaPpfptit,
about S24, 900 each to Greeley & McEl.
rath, and the rest To seven associates in
the editorship aud book keeping. /
New YuRK CoNGnEssInNAt. ApPoR
TIoNMENT.-The legislature of New
York passed a hill 10 apPnrti"n the State
into ongressional Districts, aud The Go
vernon having signed il. tbs same is now
a law of the State.
JENNY LIND At CLEvELAND.-The
Cleveland Herald has seen dispatches
which enables it 10 announce that JENNY
LIND will sing in Clev elaad some time
during the summer.
misunderstanding tn the Medical
Times, there are in London ASA doctors
Of medicine, 1877 surgeons. SO hnm9n
p~aihists. This gives about one doctor of
medicine to Ola inhabitants. aud on" sur
genn to 1851 of the population Ofthe
doctors of medicine, GIG are authors.
TnE IR9N BUslNEss.-The Pi,tslurg
Gazette says that many of the furnaces
up the Allegheny are now out Of blasi,
aud those yet 10 blast are in a very de
pressed condition. The prices of pig
metal arc ton low 10 save the proprietors
from actoa| loss,
YENERABLE PrhsoNAG AGES. The Spring.
field Post says there are living in the
own of lmnonburg. in Mass at The pres
ont time, J0rty eigh persons who were
living when tie Declaration Of lndppen.
dence was made. Several Of them ale
over ninety years old. The entire pop.
uIation Of tho town is but 300.
FATHER MATHEW left Cincinnati on
Thur9day last tor Pittsburg 1t appears
by the fnllowing extract Of letter from
him, declining ID go to Chicago, that his
'ucre 1sing Ieebleness of health will com
pei him To cease his labnrs in this coun.
try and hasten home. He says: ALAS!
time and imfrmity are rapidly doing their
work. A fresh attnck of my insidious
malady paralysis, debilitaled my feeble
constitution, and has imposed on me the
sad necessity Of declining al invitation
that would protract my stay in America
beyond the close of August. when | pro
pose bidding a fnal, though reluctant,
farewell to he kind. %virtuous aud noble
hearted citizens Of this great Republic
DESIGNS IN Lower CALipoRNfA.-Th,
New York Courier and Enquirer say
that il is in possession f information
which induces the confident belief lha
the annexation of Lower California to hi
Union, 50 as 10 make, by the divisiun q
California, another slave State, Is in cou
temptation, and has such sanction fr0r
prominent aud influential men as place
The ultimate success Of the movement be
You'd doubt. In the first place little or n
oppoailion may be expected from the ia
habitanls, aud IN the second, unlike c.
ba, tho Pceuo of operations is tim remOt
fnI interference by our government.
= A Coon RULE.-A man who is yer
rich now, was very poor, when he was
boy, When asked how he got his ricl
&C, Re rop'ied: -"My father taught IN
never 'pplny ill my work was %inishe,
aVl never 10 spend money until | ha
9ernsd IT, II | had but half an huur
work IN q day; | must do that tao Gr,
ding aud haIfon hnur. Aud after this,
Tas qllowe! to play; aud | then couI
play with much N ire pleasure than if
he'd the thought Off an unfinished task be
FIRE my mind. early lnrmed the hnbi
Of dung every thing in time and it sool
became perfectly casy To do so. II ist
his habit " prosperity,
BRUTAL MuRpRR A most brutal muir
Ter was committed in Jacksnn. Ashlan,
county, on the 9TH. The victim was
lutte daughter Of Isaac Vauliburg, an OK
w NlNlEVh' LNl hGO WuH dlIIlt lCI
aud the unfortunate child was idiolic an
blind. The circumstances, the Unio
9ays. were lhese;-A fend in human shan
named Sllnrgravrr was employed as
loborer on the farm ~ Mr. V. Tho fam
lily, except the little girl aud s, altende
2 celebration on the 4th During the da
hp attempted To violate the child, an
beat her 10 death. The murderer hu
been arrested, and should suffer the law
oeyerest penalty CcreIoad Herald.
ENoRMoUs HgAD.-Onth the lth inst. "
saw the largest human head WI ever h
held. 1t was that Of boy. agel abo
two and half years, the son Of Mr.. i
Hurd, residing near Cumberland.
Dimensions, according To our mrasur
ment, were az follows: around The hu
279 inches; from tor If uno ear across
TO tho top Of the other ear, lSJ inch,
from the level Of the eyebrow To the ,
ciput20 inches, To get a proper cunce
,i"' Of this head. let these measures
1,rd upon tho largest crauiums that C
1s found. Tho boy is able Ia walk
1ang s%apPoried a liule Ivy The hand. +
e"neral healih since his birI, has be