Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1852-08-24

81 W"' cry ob Ffiuay morning, al
q fire, between The New Marker and United
lire companies Ills said the fight lasted
lor three hours, and upward of one hundred
pistol shots were fired, One of the par,ici.
pants was shot IN the mouth, and disli0urcd
for lifo. A respectable merchant. named
Dder, and Mr.. Sparks, member of The
New Market Company, were also sho, aud
not expected 10 recover man named
PinIner was also shot, bur not seriously in
iured.
RAaRsiKD EkeINgs,- Cc,ap,., Erficksoii II
lnow engaged n a. impottans experiment.
Sustained, I IS said, BY The capital Of fanEn-
glish house. llis 10 double the pressure or
the air. by the increase of 1870 degrees Of
heat; the heat being produced by a very
small euanliy Of fuel. This rareifed air is
10 drive piston in a large cylinder, and
this piston is 10 give motion to ihe wa,er.
wheels of q steamer. ~,
THE HARVARD COLLEGE LlBRARy.--It pp.
pears the present number of volumes in tho
library Of Harvard College. including the
theo ogical. law, medical and society's H..
brares. is $4,000. There are 10000 un.
bound looks and pamphlets. There have
been added during the year 1929 VOLUMES,
exclusive Of 2453 pamphlets Or these.
676 volumes and l949 pamphlets were
special donations.
Hanover, and some smaller German
States, have joined The German commercial
league. Free trade with England, &c. has
be1n tried for several years, butts new aban.
ldoned. Experience has shown thai those
German States, where league for protec.
Ition was formed, have prospered vastly more
than those that followed The advice OF Grea,
Britain. Ii will come 10 the same result in
this country in due time.-O. S. Journal.
Mr.. Buckley, Of Newburgh, New York,
has succeed in reaching California with a
hive Of bees. He started with three, bu, in
TWO The wax melted while crossing the
lslhmus.
The editors in New Orleans have been
amusing themselves this hol weather by
shooting at each other. Thus far they have
taken care not to hurt each other, though
they have fired with riAcs at 80 PAGES and
muskets at 90.
Mr.. knowllon, who was the Democratic
Speaker Of the Maine House of Representa-.
tivcs In l947, says: cannot and shall not
vote with the Democratic party al The Pres
DENTAL election. Things is wotkin'l'
The Greenvile Journal says person
lately wentto Concord, N. H., with letter
Of introduction from Bellamy Slorer 10 Gen.
] Pierce, but was refused admiltance 10 his
excelIency, as Gen. Pierce could see no.
body save his political friends !
The Germans of Pittsburgh intend hold
'haryest home" celebration during the
presen, month. The affair will come off
al some place on The Monongahela, and the
festivities will continue for week.
Last week, the last dis,illery in Newbury.
port, Mass, stopped operations. Thirty
years ago-says the Union, there were more
stills than churches in the place.
1 DON PATT and A. w. ARMSTRONG, late
auditor OF Hamilton county, had a fight in
the streets Of Cincinnati shorl time since,
in which the Judge was bedy damaged.
The receipts on the Little Miami and Co.
umbus and Xenia Roads for the month of
July, were $4,000, much larger than those
Of last year. This has been principally
from passengers,
Neao Post QGces.--A post Office has been
established at Macedonia Depot, Summit
county, and lie Grand Odell appointed
| Postmaster.
| Also al Byard, Coumbiana county; F. J,
Cannon, P. NJ.
The number Of communicanls in the Old
School Presbyterian Church, is 210,414 /; In
the New, 14o. 652, TOTAL in both, before
division, 220, ,557-now 35l ,o66
i Ohio.-A correspondent in Sandusky
county writes us, that Ohio will give Pierce
and King not less than ten thousand majori-
.Ily.-Neao York Ereaiag Post.
i Practising upon your credulity Mr.. Post.
Don't you believe word Of il. Ohio will
give Scott and Graham 10000 majority and
never shed tear Toledo Blade.
/ Charles "A. Jacobs, another New Orleans
millionaire, wentto the "det Of worms" as
Tom Hood called it, on The goth ultimo,
leaving 81, 100000 behind him,--Scioto
Gazette.
There ale now in Pittsburgh 1900 vehe-
|, cles of all descriptions, from the carriage
Iofthe millionaire TO the druy Of the dray-
man.
! EcoNoMlcAL.--A German woman in San
dusky CRY buys and eats cucumbers in
cholera times, because they are SO much
cheaper than in healthy times.
4 The emigration TO Australia continued
unabaied. The British Government inlends
sending 1000 Irish conslables 10 tha. plOcs
10 keep peace.
| The number of dead letters received al
1.-The General Post Office for The fiscl year,
lis estimated at $780, ,000--and the oggre.
gate money found therein S4o, o,336,70,
The seventh annual Fair Of the Ross
| County Agricultural Society will be held in
: Chiico,he on Friday and Saturday, the 9th
and 9ih days oil October next.
d The rumor that Sands, the circus rider,
4 had fallen and broke his neck, is reported
} 10 be false. The New York Times has a
! dispatch s,oling that he performed at Oswe.
90, last Wednesday.