Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1852-08-31

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Missionary from India, and lady; Miss Mar.
care, Newton, Messrs. Charles Francis and
Edward Newton. and Miss Louisa %Jauvier
from India; and Miss Harriet Livermore
from Jerusalem.
There was serious riot among four COM
panies Of The New York fremen. recently,
in which stones, clubs and firearms were
%iercely used, and a number Of persons
were seriously injured.
CRIME in CiNcINNArl.-The same average
of arrests for disorderly conduct, riots and
crime in Cincinnati throughout the year as
lately occurred in one week in that city,
would make The entire number OF arrests
81. $50. or nearly one 10 every four inhab-
iIan,s | That will do.
The crops Of wheat. rye and oats in Mis-.
s%issippi. are this year said 10 be the largest
ever grown in that section Of the country
| More wheat was sown than ever before. and
he yield has been much larger. So abun.
dant 10 il iha, wheat is fed 10 The mules and
hogs. \
Mrs. Eleanor Parke Lewis. granddaughter
OF Martha Washington, by her only son.
Judge Park Curtis. died on the 18Th uIt.. in
Clarke Co.. Va, aged 70. Her husband.
Lawrence Lewis. was the son Of Gen.
Washing,on's only sister, and was one OF
WASN'T g.on's executors.
The number Of emigran,s who arrived in
New York city during the frs. seven months
of 1851 numbered 1862 $40; Of 1852. 179,
0~51-increase in 1859 l6 472. OF those
arrived this year abuu, 10 900 were Irish,
81 900 Germans aud 5000 English.
The cholera broke out in Bellrfnn,aine
on Monday the l6Ih inst. aud by Tuesday
evening a majority Of The ciliZ ms had lett
town On Thursday morning there was
no, a case in The city or vicinity.
The publisher of The Ken,on R, publican
ffers his paper tn his Democratic friends al
fifty cents from now until The election, pay.
able vhen Gen. Scott is elected.
ATrunk.maker in Cincinnati has invent.
I'd q lilr.preserver trunk with which he
swan across the Ohio river ON Thursday
as, with per(ecI safety.
The Democrats HIT Convention a, Chi.
cago a few days since, and long John
Wentu orlh was nominated for Congress-
The meeting was nos. disorderly. and n
general figh, took place while i, was in SEES.
sion. and % Of the peace.loying delega.rs
withdrew.
The drought is so severe in some parts Of
New Hampshire tina, farmers have been
obliged TO Gu. branches from The trees to
feed their cattle.
The receipts of The Mad River and Lake
Erie Railroad this year are some $50 900
less than last year. and their running ex.
pens 8 $25 600 less, so the ne, profits are
more than las, year. The falling off is in
The item of passengers.
The Portsmouth papers state tina, the
workmen have commenced laying the rails
on the Sciotn and Hooking Valley RaiIroad.
An engine and platform cars have been sent
Them by The Sandusky and Newark Road.
The annual consumption of iron in the
United States. amounts 10 about one million
tons per annum, or one hundred pounds 10
each person.
The Cincinnati Commercial Of the Esd
inst. says:-"We learn from one Of our city
dealers that the Kannawra Company have
recently advanced the price Of sal, TO 28c
and SOC. per bushel; me former is the whole
sale price and the latter the retail price.
The O. S. Journal says ,ha. the HILLSIDE.
rough Railroad Company raised $500, 900
in Cincinnati last week.
New York. August IS The Brig
McMain. Of Thomaslown. bound for 81
kits. was burned this afternoon off Sandy
Hook Cargo worth $l7,000-insurej,-
The brig wa lowed ashore by a steamboat.
WASHINGTON, Angus, 2l.-Mr' Joseph
r lngersuli. Of Philadelphia, was confirmed
by the Senale to-day MS Minister 10 England
vice Abbott Lawrence, resigned.
The German ci,izens Of Brooklyn, N Y,
held u meeting recently. al which measures
were taken 10 circulate petitions praying
Tor the repeal Of ,he law prohibiting The sale
of commodities on Sundays.
Miss Ann Chase, second daughter of The
late Judge Samuel Chase. one of The signets
of The Declaration Of Independence, from
Maryland. died in Annapolis. NJ. d., ON the
7lh instant, in the 82l year of her age.
A band of Ethiopian MinsIrels has beef
organized in Baltimore, 10 sail for Bremen,
the ubjec, being to Try how negro mlnsirelsy,
will lake in Germany.
Tn. U. ;. Senate has confirmed The res.
,~ohalion Of Lieut.. Alverado Hunter, to his
rank of lieutenant III the Navy. of which h.
had been deprived by courl martial.
X. the Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun, says that Mr. Webster will
accept no nomination from any quar,er. al
; The talk To the contrary Notwithstanding.
The Chillicolhe Gazeue says thar no, less
Than three hundred and fifty thousand dol.
lars will be invested in new buildings esecl.
ing in that city the present season.
Wise g. Kinney are now making balloon
y ascensinns in Michigan. An ascent was II
have been made al Detroit on Saturday lasl
The Pacific Railroad, in Missouri. ha
been commenced, and the cars are expecie,
to be running on a portion Of ii in Mo .
4 three months.
n Mr.. D. A. Houk, of Montgomery county
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