Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1852-03-12
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ter Brooks. (whig) Uniled States Senator, for
FOOss's unexpiFed term.
ELEVEN hundred ladies waited on KOssu,h in
Cincinnati. on Thursday last, and presented him
with 81 100.
II THEY pass The Maine Liquor Law in Penn.
sylvSuia, what will become Of The periodical
men who sell Punch
THERE are at presen. 1854 pOuper children in
Massachusetts under u years of uge.
Six millions Of three cen. pieces have been
coined at the mint al Philadelphia.
Two mules and twenty dollars is 40 Indians
vSluaIion Of wife.
OF SEVERAL preachers in Indiana have laIe.
ly turned editors. lis all the same. We ex.
PecI to turn preacher some Of these days.
A woman lately shot the seducer Of her
daughter in California. The wound no, proving
Immediately fatal he was married to his yic,;;m,
Immediately after which he expired.
THENF are a79 government Offices in Wash.
ing'On' s4l of which sse he'd BY virgininns.
FEMALES ';e r-rning from $40 10 500 per
month in tie cities of the Pacific, and husbands
are as plentiful as flies in a sugar hogshead.
7 UPWARDS Of four thousand men have been
discharged from The English army during The
year as unfit Ccr service.
LADY BYRON, the widow Of the poet, is living
at Southampton, England. She was Miss Mil
banks. We believe she has never disclosed The
cause of their separation.
IT Is estimated that 1900 persons, mostly
clerks and merchants, will leave ST. Louis, this
Spring for California.
A MASON by the name OF Mark Smith fell
from high brick building at Albany on SaIur-
day and was instantly Killed. He was ntoxca.
ted at the time, and had been advised 10 leave
the building on account Of il. VerdicI-dod
for the want Of the Maine Law"
THE HIsToRY of coffee is perhaps no. known,
or remembered by every one. writer in
Hunts Merchants Magazine says that in the
10Th century an Ottoman ambassador, Soliman
Aga, presented some Of the seeds TO a king ol
France, as pleasant beverage produced 10 Ara.
bia an Armenian, named Pasquel opened the
4 first shop for the sale of coffee ian infusion of
iI) in Paris. 1t now 10 general use oil over
the world and nearly all the coffee drank is the
produce Of the continent, where about one cen
tury ago il was not cultivated at all. The pso.
pie Of the East in place of raising it themselves
borrow It from tho Americans.
The WHEELBARRow CALIFORNIA EMIGRANT.
The man vino, some two years ago, crossed
The plains "on foot and nlone," with wheel
barrow, bound for Cailarniu, was named Brook
mire, an lrishman, from Warren, Pa, where he
left wife and family of children in very indi'
gent circumstances. Brookmire it is said has
lately returned from California, with about s 49,.
900 of the "dust," all OF which he dug aud
washed with his own hands, And his wife re.
ceved legacics during his absence TO the amount
Of $4,000, falling to her upon the death Of
some relations in Scotland.
INDIAN CENsUs.-By the accounts received
from the census agents, and information derived
from other sources, it is ascertained that the
number of Indians inhnbIng all parts OF our
country amounts TO about 4l8,000. or this
number 80, 900 is the estimated number Of those
inhabidng the unexplored ,erritories a4,loo
are the Indians Of Texas; 92,l30 belong 10 the
tribes living in New Mexico; Sass are in Cal
ifornia 9s,7SS are in Oregoni 1000 in Uiah.
Many of The New Mexican Indians are civil
lied, and have fixed habitaIions and towns.
A PRoFirABLE PENlTENTIARY.-The profits of
the Peni.endary Of Louisiana, during the year
1851, was sIa,6S9 81, of which sum four
thousand dollars are TO be paid into the Stale
Treasury, agreeable to the terms Of the lease,
leaving the balance Of profits 10 the lessees OF
Ss,699 81, upon business, as appears upon
their books, Of more than S9l5,000.
EXTRAORDINARY SCENE IN CoURT.--A civil