Daily American telegraph., 1852-04-03
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Atoms.
A cool April day is this-sometmes SUNSHINE
sometimes cloudy. SO with the faces that pass
us on the Avenue: the sunshine of happiness and
goodness beams from some, the clouds of sorrow
and wickedness from others. SO too are the
hearts within.
Philadelphia is the largest city on the Western
Continent.
Thomas Jefferson was born one hundred and
nine years ago.
The Arkansas Democracy hold State conven-
ton at Little Rock on the third of May.
Philadelphia evening papers are received in
Pottsville daily at p. m. Distance, SO miles.
A colored woman named Arthurs has been ar
rested at Cincinnati charged with causing the
death of her three children by poison.
James Thompson and wife, of Bourbon county,
KY, have obtained five thousand dollars dam
ages from John p Campbell for sander.
A man on Spanish Flat, near Auburn, Califor-
MIA, few days ago took out n piece f,gold
weighing over forty ounces
4 train of cars recently made trip from Sa-
vannah Ga, to Chattanooga, Tenn, distance
of 432 miles.
A verdant traveller has come to the conclusion
that New York lawyers write with their toes,
seeing so many sit with feet on their desks
William G. NcKenna, aged thirty-fve years,
died suddenly in Milwaukee last week Cause:
q Want of the Maine law
There are six hundred steamers on the Ohio
and Mississippi, of 10000 tonnage, worth
SlG000,0 900, and carrying S250000 600 freight
yearly.
There are four hundred and forty-nine coffee
houses and tavern stands in St. Louis city and
county on which taxes per year are paid to the
amount of $4,000 Good drinkers in that part
! of the world
BosToN LECTURES. During the past season.
T. =. Whipple lectured ffty-three times for which
he received not less than 81 900 above expenses
DR.. Q. W. Holmes lectured fifty. seven times, and
received over 81, 100 profit.
Mr.. THOMPSON, surgeon in the British navy
has submitted plan to the commissioners of the
admiralty, by which candles and oil may forever
he dispensed with, many thousand pounds an
nuaily being saved, and yet ten times more light
secured to every ship ahoat.
RECIPE FOR NIGuTNARE-Just before going TO
bed eat two pigs feet and fried pie In less
than an hour you will see u snake larger than
hawser dcvouring eight hluc-haired children, who
have just escaped from monster with sorrel
! eyes and u red-hot oyercoat.
The dwelling of Martin CARRIER, near Eaton,
Ohio, was recently destroyed by fire, with all its
contents. While contemplating the smouldering
ruins, Mr.. G., man of about fifty years of age
remarked, There is AL | am worth" and fell
dead,
Mrs. Swisshclnl citrcss of the Pittsburg Sat
urday Visitor having lately had n baby of her
own-her first after being married fifteen years
the Burlington Sentinel philosophers thus:
An honest woman, ouc may safely bet,
Who thus without the least pquivo,aton
Pay u the world most important d.Lt,
Though clearly free 10y 90 sntute limitation"
The number Of muSEcts manufactured at the
Springfield armory during the last year,
u ,OUO-a large excess over previous years-at
cost So - per muskct This shows a reduction
in the cost of the muskct Of fifty per cent. since
1899 The monthly wages of the workmen have
| increased during the last ten years from $37.S7
to S3S 50, or 'Sc. per month.
PERSONAL IpENTIrY.-A case occurcdin Boston.
which shows how mistaken persons may be. 4
man has been examined on five accusations for
procuring butter fraudcntly, and several indiyi-
uaIs swore that he was the man who committed
the offence. Another individual was subsequent
" found, who was charged by others with the
same offence, who greatly reSembled the one first
accused. The witnesses are now in doubt which
is the offender.
FRESH WATER ON SmPBoARD.-It is stated
that very important step has been taken in the
British navy to secure n supply of fresh water at
sea. compact disting apparatus has been
adjusted 10 the cabooses, whereby. with the
usual, or little more than the usual, expenditure
Of fuel, full daily supply of sweet, wholesome
water is procured for the ships company. A
similar apparatus, it is said, has been applied to
one of the Philadelphia steamships.
LOVE- OF ruE BEuTrrrL-W Women have n much
nicer sense of the beautiful than men. They are,
by fur, the safer umpires in matters Of propriety
and grace \ mere schoolgirl will be thinking
and writing about the beauty Of birds and flowers
while her brother is robbng the nests and de
stroyinr the flowers Herein is n great natural
law that the sexes have each their relative excel
cnccs and Deficiencies in the harmonious union
Of which lies all the wealth Of domestic happiness
There is no better test Of moral excellence, ordi-
nariiy, than the keenness of ones sense. and the
depth Of ones love, Of all that is beautiful.
Tue FIRST NEWSPAPER IN VIRGINIA.
Palmer's Register states that the first press in
this State was imported by the city of Williams
burg in 1880. The prices Of advertising and
subscriptions Of those times are thus stated In the
following extract from the terms oil the paper,
contained in its first issue
"All persons may he supplied with this paper
MT fCly doLars U ysar, and have advertisements
! lof a moderate length inserted for ten dollars
he fys ,ceek and sercn doTrS far each week after"
4 Ii should he recollected, too, that this was
weekly paper, making the cost to subscribers
about nnety-six cents q number,