Daily American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1852, 1852-08-04


Counterfeit $40 bills on the Mama Valley
Bank, at Dayton, Ohio, are in circulation.
The British army in Ireland at present consists
of u 500 men,
Five hundred barrels of -four are daily kneaded
for biscuits in New York city.
The statement that two deaths had occurred
Mt Gettysburg, Pa, of cholera, is incorrect
The young lady who caught cold by drinking
water from damp tumbler is conyalescent.
The degree of LII. d. was conferred on the Hon.
J. Nj. Berrien by the University of Alabama,
Mt its late commencement.
A colored woman is preaching at Westminster,
Carroll county, Md, and the Democrat says she
breaches well Her name is Amelia Howard.
The theatrical managers of Toledo have en-
gagged Lola Montez to make professional visit
to that city.
The Norfolk Herald states that no less than five
sharks were seen together, few days ago, OPP
poste Ferry Point
Peter Salt, o resident of Warren county, Ohio,
was ridden on q rail last Monday by his neigh
bors, for shamefully abusing his wife.
One hundred and fifty persons died in New
York during the last twelve months of delirium
tremens.
Major John Allebaugh, of Rockingham county,
Virginia, threshed 100 bushels Of wheat from %
dozen of sheaves
Mr. Ira Thurber. of Utica, n. T., was drowned
while bathing in the Chenango canal, few days
since.
| Colonel Taylor, of New York city, co years of
age. was drowned on Friday while fishing off
New Rochelle.
The Cincinnati gas company have constructed
n gasometer which is capable of holding three
hundred thousand cubic feet of gas.
The court martial on board the big canoe
Pennsylvania, Mt Norfolk, is still under progress,
and promises to bring its deliberations to o close
at nm early day
Mr. THOMAS COLLIER, one Of the owners Of
the Henry Clay" who was arrested in New
York on Monday, has been held to bail in the
sum of SO 900.
Dutchman, having friend hung in this coun-
try, wrote to his friends, informing them that
after addressing large meeting of citizens, the
scaffold on which he stood gave way, owing to
which he fell and broke his neck.
The tobacco manufacturers of Lynchburg Va,
have called convention to assemble at Richmond
on some day not yet designated, to consider the
propriety Of suspcnding operations during the
winter months.
Accounts from Guayaquil to the lst Of July
state that Flores was still three miles below
the city, having been deferred from entering by
n French frigate Other reports say that he had
attempted to take the town, and failed.
hat which the Emperor Napoleon wore
during the Russian campaign was sold at Chateau
Thicery for ,O00f The hat belonged to Everard,
one Of the Emperors Ualets de chamjre, who lately
died
The Jacksonville (Tl) Journal says that
young man from Peoria, named George Brand
burg, was recently admitted into the insane hos
pital in that place, who is another victim OF the
spiritual-rapping delusion.
Quaker was waited on by four OF his work
men to make their compliments to him, and ask
for their usual new year's gift. The Quaker told
them, "There are your gifts-,choose fifteen
francs or the Bible" All took the francs but q
lad about fourteen, who chose the Bible, as the
onaker said il was good book; and on open
inc Il. he found between the leaves, gold piece
of forty francs The others held down their
heads, and the giver told them he was sorry they
had not made better choice.