Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1852-10-05
VARIOUS s ITEMS.

reliable sources, that The amounts paid TO the
Statesman for printing, for the lasl session
Of The Legislature, exceeded thirty three
thousand dollars! The people Of the State,
who pay the i0xes, will bear this in mind
We venture the assertion that, under the
contract price now agreed upon, the same
amount Of printing would not cost over
toehty thousand dollars. The difference
has gone 10 reward parlizan, who has been
denounced by men Of high Standing in his
own party, as utterly unpriuciped and cor
rupt. We ask the tax payers Of Ohio TO re-
member these things. We ask them 10 note
the amou nj paid for printing, when it was
seized in open contempt Of the constitution,
by the Statesman and its tools, and also to
nole The amount that The same work will cost
~ The coming session, when it will be done
under the law, and in obedience 10 the con.
sliluton. The difference between the two
is the amount plundered from the people, TO
pay desperate, unrrincipled pariizan.-O.
S. Jour.
SOMETHING FOR INvALlDs.-An eminent
i phys ican of New Orleans, DR.. Cartwright,
has communicated TO The Boston Medical
and Surgical Journal, as an article entitled
I-"The Sugar House cure for Bronchial,
Dyspeplic and Consumptve- Complaints"
II is stated that residence In sugar house.
during the rolling season, far surpasses any
other means Of restoring flesh, strength and
health. lostby chrome ailments Of the chest,
throat or Stomach. The rolling season is
the harvest, when The canes are cut, the
juice expressed and converted into sugar.
In Louisiana il commences about The mid
die Of October, and ends at Christmas, but
is sometimes prolracted into January. DR..
9. says the vupor is most agreeable and
soothing 10 the lungs, and in his own case
entirely removed Distressing cough. He
stood for hours in The sugar.house inhaling
the vapot, and drinking occasionally glass
Of the hot cane.juice This is fac, nler-
esting 10 invalids.
; News FROM INDIA IN A WEEK THE
electric telegraph, which connects Lo ndon
with Paris, and which will soon connect it
: with Lyons, Chambrey, Turin, and Genoa,
is 10 be prolonged to La Spezzia, by the Sar-
dihan Government. From that port the
:. Submarine Company, i, is said, is 10 sink
an electric cable 10 The island Of Gorgona
: and frcm thence another TO Baslia. The
French Government will then continue the
line by land al lis own expense, 10 Ajaccio,
and The narrowesl point of the Straits OF
Bonifacio, where a cable fourteen kilome.
= Tres in length will, at the expense of The
company, establish communication with
Sardinia, which the Piedmoniese Govern.
. ment will conlinne 10 Cagliar. NJ Bonelli
the author of This plan, has proposed 10 the
Submarine Company TO prolong the cable lo
Tunis, whence France would conduc, wires
{ 10 Bougie and Algiers, while England would
y conduct others 10 Tripoli, Alexandria, Cairo
u and Suez. By this means Algiers would be
: brought within a few seconds of Paris, and
'. news from India might reach London in lit
|, !, lie more than week.
g VALUABLE CLAIM IN ENGLAND WANTING
: AN OwNER.-Mr. J. w. Bryant a, Washing
y ton Chy writes us follows,s
IL "ln the investigation of some claims oI
e Americans to estates in England lately,
have become advised Of one which has Of
y income of about $4,000 per annum, will
1, The title of nobility attached to it, The de
n. scendents of Geo. Browne, Lieutenant il
S; The British army, who emigrated 10 this
k, country about the year 1640, and settled a
Of Haverhil, Mass, am quite certain are lht
,e heirs"
h Further information may be obtained BY
=, addressing Mr., Bryant. al lhe National Ho
/, tel, Washington. If our name was onl,
s. "Mr. Browne" VIC certainly should nc
IL "give it up SO" without looking after thi
smart chance for forune.--New York Ea
n press.
IN MANUFACTURING SHOE STR1NGs.-Me
. chanical ingenuity finds nothing TOO insig
=" nfcant not to improve upon, if it supplies
4 want Of humanity in better or cheape
" ID manner. Among the enterprises in George
g q town. Mass, is that Of manufacturing sho
" strings. The process is simple, yet requirin
quite number of workmen 10 meet The de
mand for The ARTICLE. The strings are mad
~ ~ from call.skin and sole.lealher, the forme
~ ~ costing $50 per thousand, and the latter 81
~ ." per 'housand--lhe quality Of stock rangin
H. H. The prices. They are made for the Soutf
~ ern and Western market, and used with brC
~ gan shoes, which are so extensively manr
~, w. facIured throughout New England, in e!
i" change for The breadSlatfs of the Soulh al
West. The proprietor has acquired quite
80 competency within few years from his ell
,erprise.
|. o. o. F.-The Grand Lodge of ii
OIL United States Of the Independent Order
Odd Fellows, met in annual Convention
Baltimore on Monday last. On Tuesda
as we learn by telegraph, the following ge
tlemen were elected Grand Officers
WILMoT G. De SAUssuRE,o of South Car
Ina, M. w. Grand Sire.
HIRAM A. MANCHESTER, Of Rhode Islan
r. w. Deputy Grand Sire.
JAMES L. RlDGLEY, of Maryland, R.
:. Grand Secretary.
JOSHUA Van, ZANT, Of Maryland, R.
Grand Treasurer.
A Son STABBED BY HIS FATHER.-L
on Saturday night, brute named Her
= Garner who has been repeatedly requi
10 give heavy bonds 10 keep The peace
r wards his wife and family, came home
his dwelling ir The western part of the ci
and commenced his old abuse Of his "
/, and children. His son Henry, lad Of s
- 'L,. enteen, attempted 10 interfere in behalf
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