Daily American telegraph., 1852-09-17
City items.

City Items
~ We understand that q very remarkable
case has been presented 70 the Medical Society
Of this ciy-a child aged four years, four feet In
height and weighing ssyeny-hve pounds His
physical strength and masculine development are
nearly equal 10 those Of mature manhood, while
his mind and temper, though sound and natural.
are infantile. We may expect some account Of
this prodigy from the faculty In few days.
pkE- An inquest Is now in progress here which
will no doubt result In astonishing the whole COM
munity, and fully proving the awful depravity Of
the human heart. We forbear giving the infor-
nation we have obtained until the jury has rem
dered its verdict, as we have no desire TO arouse
indignation before every particle Of evidence, favor
able and aaJapoTabis, has been produced. Abor-
ton, &C., are suspected.
g6S@ Two inquests were held yesterday in the
eastern part Of our city-one over the body Of a
colored man who bled TO death from the rupture
of blood-vessel; the other over the body Of a
colored woman who was found drowned in the
canal near the bridge on Virginia avenue. The
yerdcts of the juries accorded with these facts.
aey- little boy, son Of Mr.. JAS A. Wise, on
7th street, was riding on one Of his fathers
carts, yesterday afternoon, when he accidentally
fell, and the wheel passed over his body, njuring
him so that he died very soon after the accident
occurred
HY- We would suggest to our friends on the
Island the propriety Of burning brush in the
day time. If they would do this our streets
would be quiet at night. We had another false
alarm last night.
gW Kunkels Nightingales appear again this
evening at Odd Fellows Hall, on which occasion
Master Adams sings, in white face, that gem of
Mrs. Frances s. Osgood, entitled 81 have some
thing sweet to tell you" The troupe, of course
appear, and 60 through their variety of enter
tainments, On tomorrow afternoon, perform
ance will take place at 3 o'clock, for the accom-
mediation of families and children unable to at
tend at night Children will be admitted on that
occasion for ten cents each and five adults for
one dollar Tomorrow evening is positively the
last appearance of the company in Washington
Boy Officers Boss, Handy, and Barnaclo ar
rested four more Of the negroes who were en-
gagged in the riot last Sunday, when Lee was so
dangerously wounded. Three were committed ;
and the officers think they will catch them all.
We sincerely hope so.
Bey@ The Washington Light Infantry, Captain
Tate, returned home last evening from Winches-
ter Virginia. in excellent health and spirits, hay
ing no doubt spent an agreeable time with the
good people of that pleasant, hospitable, and re-
| spectacle town.-Int.
SALE OF GOVERNMENT CANNON. hundred
and two new iron guns, old patterns, weighing
nearly half a million pounds, were sold, day or
two since, at the Arsenal, in this city, at prices
ranging from eight to twelve and quarter cents
per hundred pounds. They are cheap fence-p
at this price.
The ex-Queen of the French has purchased
Orleans House, Twiekenham, formerly the resi-
dence of Louis Philippe, for s23, 900, from the
Earl of Kilmoray.
The official report Of the Board Of Health of
the city Of Buffalo for the month of August
cholera reaches three hundred and twenty-six
mike, why don't you fire at those ducks, boy,
don't you see you have got the whole flock before
your gum" q know l have, but when get
good aim at one two or three others will swim
right betwixt IL and me-"
On Sunday night, in Baltimore, little girl
three years Of age, the daughter of MIR. j.
Hughes while with a little sister, about three
months old, took an old candlestick md, beating
lit over the head, so injured it as to cause its
death
There are 47S convcts in the Massachusetts,
State Prison at the present time.
The proprietor Of Pittsburg hotel has been
arrested for keeping bawdy house.
Mr. Murdoch Of Philadelphia, the favorite
tragedian, Is working farm in Warren county,
| Ohio
| census OF Iowa, taken by the State, is now
nearly completed. II shows a population Of
over 300, 900, and an increase Of $4,000 since
! 1850
A gentleman seeing some cows In a field gra-
ring, said he did not wonder 'that the grass did
not get high, as II was could down" Again,
seeing a cellar nearly finished, he remarked,
ut was On excellent foundation for a story"
i A woman named Jonanan just about forty
years Of age cut her throat literally from one ear
10 the other, at Cleveland, on the 18th inst She
used razor 10 perform the fatal act, and from
appearances drew 1t several times across her
throat evidently intending to make sure work
An exchange says there is nothing warmer than
love. Nor nothing that cools so quick, he might
added.
The Nantucket Mirror states some 500 to ,O0C