Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1852-08-19

The number Of lives lost by the several steam
boat disasters in this country, from January LIST
TO August LIST, is computed at 42S; persons in
iured, 100; number of accidents, 20. Of these
accidents, Is occurred on western waters, one in
Georgia, and one, the Henry Clay, on Hudson
River. The above figures include only those ac-
tually known to be lost. In some instances, the
number of lives lost is unknown.
A young lad was recently scalded to death in
a slaughter house in Portsmouth, while the butch
er was cleaning acouple Of hogs. The hogs were
hauled out Of the boiling water, and one side be-
ing cleaned, the lad remarked that he could turn
the hog over, and in attempting it, lost his bal
ance and fell into the tub. He was a son OF Mr.
Henry Hans.
The Portsmouth Tribune gives a description Of
a new counterfeit $40 bill, on the Miami Valley
Bank, Dayton. The counterfeit is ! of an inch
longer than the genuine. There is a defect in
the right eye of the woman. The name of D..
Adams, Register, is autographed. The notes are
well calculated to deceive the best judges. Those
seen were dated Nov. II, 1851.
Where is your platform, gentlemen Whigs7
Give US a platform! A platforml--Keystone.
That fellow needn't bawl 30 Justify for a plat
form. The hangman will provide him one at the
proper time.-Prentice.
Clark, convicted Of participating in the murder
of Brewer and wife, il to be hung at Greenups-
burg on the Goth inst.
The Albany Atlas is terribly indignant because
somebody, as it says, has said that Frank Pierce
was once a "wild colt" We suppose Frank
never was a colt; though we have certainly heard
of his descent from q horss.-Prentice.
The Wing leaders hereabouts had better look
out. We shall wake the rascals up in q few
| days.-Staunton Democrat.
You wake up a great rascal every morning.
Prentice.
The degree of Doctor of Jaws was conferred
on Mr.. Meagher, at the College of St. Johns, New
York.
Gen. Scott has informed the State Rights Con-
ven ton of Alabama that he had nothing further
to say upon the subject of their inquiry than what
he has already said in his letter of acceptance of
the Wing nomination. All right.
Two hundred gallons of brandy were destroyed
by the officers at Providence, R. l., under the
Maine Law. All right.
Louis Napoleon is said to have bought two large
estates in Poland, valued at 100000 francs.
A steamboat recently ran upon a snag in a
western river and was Pierce-ed through.
The Parliament Of England recently dissolved
by the Queen, had lasted over four years.
The girls in Northampton have been sending a
bachelor bouquets of tansy and wormwood. He
says he don't care; he had rather smell them than
matrimony.
The Fayette New Era gives an account of a
murder which was committed in that county re-
Gently. 1t appears that sundry railroad hands
and others, congregated at the house of a certain
Richard Bates, for the purpose of drinking whis-
ky. All hands got drunk, and Joseph Alloways,
of Marion township, killed an Irishman, byplung-
ing a bowie knife into his heart. No fight or me-
lee had transpired previous to the murder. Allo-
ways is is jail. Whisky is out.
The editor Of the Kalida Venture, a leading
Democratic paper in Ohio, declares that he, for
one, cannot support the compromise article of the
platform, and that rather than do SO, he will re-
tire from the tripod.
The Boston Bee says that when the news of
Pierce's nomination reached Boston, the General
was Oh Mt. Auburn Cemetery, selecting burial
place.
y The True South, a D. mocratic paper of Mont
X ooroor, AIoloO.o aL.,no. "a Cav Cnott az. l.,
. carbuncle- faced drunkard."
J. ]. CIittenden has consented to deliver an
grafton upon the character and public services Of
Henry Clay at Louisville, between the goth and
30th of September, 1852.
The Christian Advocate and Journal and West
ern Christian Advocate contradict the statement;
) in regard to the present religious standing of DR.
y Achilli, as published in this paper recently. HI
is still preaching "with great success" according
to these papers.
7 The Yankees still keep inventing. One has in.
n vented a machine for digging potatoes, and anothe,
! has invented a machine for picking up stone.
: The Little Miami Railroad company have agree
to furnish iron to complete the Cincinnati an,
HillSboro road to the latter place.
Tho Scioto Gazette states that Gen. ]. l.. Tay
lor, Congressman from that district, is lying yer,
: i'll, at his lodgings in Washington City, of the pre-
vailing summer malady.
,e Hon. John WEIGH, Representative in Congress
10 from this district is unable to attend to his dutie
N in Congress on account of i'll health.
Fanny Forester, the widow of Dr.. Judson, re
Gently arrived at Utica, on her way to Hamilton
the residence of her parents. Her many friend
willregret to learn that size is in a delicate stat
Of health.
= A disease very similar to the potato disease ha
affected the beans in several districts in England
and the crop has been wholly lost. Fears begil
:; to be entertained that a more important crop-th'
~ wheat-will be attacked by like disease, as Their
are some indications Of it.
Sc The Deficiency bill has passed Congress. ]
a appropriates between five and six millions Of dol
to lars. The Indian appropriation bill has ais
passed.
nd Frank Pierce is daily gaining strength.--Cc
~ lumbia Democrat.
Let us know when he gets enough to keep h
saddle.-Wash. Tel.
y The cholera has been prevailing to an alarmin
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