American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-08-14
Items.

/ Hdrdtton.-A letter from Athens states that
workmen employed four miles from the city, in
draining the field of Marathon, found the place
of sepulture of the warriors who fell there in
the memorable battle four hundred years before
the birth of Christ.
A Blast--In the outskirts of North Adams.
Mass, where they are blasting flint rock in
grading the Troy and Greenfield Railroad, q
stone of a ton weight was thrown by blast
several hundred feet into the air. and in de-
scending struck the roof Of dwelling house,
and went all the way through to the cellar, car
rying beds and bedsteads, and everything else,
IN its way along with it. The occupants were
4 seated ut a table in a room adjoining that
through which the stone passed. eating supper
i Hlegaimdte Children.-The last Legislature of
this State passed law which provides that
| children born out of wedlock shall be legal
heirs OF their mother, in precisely the same
manner and to the same extent as if they were
not illegitimate The Hartford Republican sug-
gests that the law is well enough so far as it
goes, but it does not go far enough. Inasmuch
as this class Of children are very apt to have
fathers as well as mothers, it thinks that they
should be legal heirs of both parents We can
think of no objection to such law, except that
ii may tend to encourage children to be born
in an illegitimate manner.-Lo,ceH (Hass.)
ARaertcdR
Chlorotorm and Etherizdtion in Childbirth
The Halfyearly Abstract Of Medical Sciences,
No. l3, 1851, besides many valuable articles to
the profession, contains one of very general
interest on the use of chloroform or etheriza-
ton in cases Of childbirth. DIR. Murphy gives
$40 cases in which chloroform was used with
the happiest effects and no accidents. DR.. Simp-
son gives $50 cases of q like nature. DR..
Simpson gives ,5l9 cases of females subjected
IN onmStbntip xpitb
occurring Other physicians have contrasted
the natural labor with those under the influence
of chloroform, with results entirely in favor of
anesthesia.
BY the death of Marshal Sebastian there
now only remains five Marshals-Soult nomi-
mated in 1917 Gerard, in 1880; Reille, in lS49;
Jerome Bonaparte in 1914; and Excemans, in
/ 1915. Jerome Bonaparte was nominated by
the Emperor in 1914, but his appointment was
not ratified until after the revolution, by the
President of the Republic.
Cincinnati, which in the year 1900 held but
seven hundred and fifty inhabitants, now nearly
(f not quite) outnumbers Boston The last
census tells of its one hundred and sixteen thou
sand inhabitants Her imports domestic and
I foreign, amount to upward of $50, 00O, 900, and
her exports to $50, 900, 900 annually She has
some dozen journals and twenty five weeklies.,
SOME men t0Oh speeches.. Lyman Trumbull.
Of Alton, is one of these. Said the "Old Ran
ger, after replying to a jury speech of Trum-
bulls: And now, gentlemen of the Jury
have demolished his positions, refuted his argu-
ments, and answered everything but his looks,
and defy the devil to do that. - Boston Post.
The Washington correspondent Of the New
York Courier states that Mr. Webster will not
return to Washington until November. The
writer adds that in the mean time he will re-
side on his farm in New Hampshire
Steam Communication 6et,recu Neu York end
GeRod.-A new line of steam communication
between New York and Genoa is mentioned in
the English papers as having been organized
by Messrs. Livingston, Wells Co., Of the for
mer city
The Russians have singular method of ex-
torting disclosures from prisoners. In their
libations is mixed n drug, which has the effect
Of rendering them delirious, and in this state
they are watched and interrogated, when secrets
are diyulged.
The present season has been an extraordi-
nary one for tornadoes We seldom open an
exchange that does not contain accounts Of one
or more storms, A very severe gale occurred
at Kanesyille and vicinity on the night Of the
18th ultimo, following the Mississippi river for
fifty or seventy-fte miles, the extent in width
not known, laying downfences and grain crops,
and tearing up the largest sized trees, unroof-
ing houses, and doing great damage .r,
The Colts viii make and sell forty thousand
lreyUlying pistols during the present year.