The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-08-12

wabash rivcr, in Linton township, (PaD q III
I'D ult
Hume ?. Bill. ESQ has been appoint ID survsyss
OF the Port Of Memphis, Tenn.
man named Armstrong has been commit
ted 70 prison in @ ncinnat for trial, the charge
OF obtaining ~ 500 from Messrs. 6mead. Collard
Hughee, on forged note.
The M'nnesteon ssys that Mr. Fillmore, brothr
OF the President, who visltod ST. Paul last spring.
IN the capacity OF government timber agent haa
returned vita his family to that city with The IN.
teDtion Of remaining there
Halifax papers announce the arrival there Of Dir
John Gaspard La NHrohand the new Lieut.. Cover
nor, on Thursday, in the flag ship Cumberland, iron
Newfoundland.
On Monday last, about 10 O'Clock, q destructive
fire broke out in the frame cabinet maker establish
ment Of j. c. Reisnor. at Harrisburg, Pa. The Ere
communicated to the houscs adjoining, ocouPieA ~
John II Bigler, a. shoe store, and Mr.. Doughsrty,
MS dwelling, the roofs Of which wero considerably
damaged.
The lady who had 10 narrow escape lately, at
Niagara Falls, having boldly vonturcd TO tho large
sab which divides the American sheet Of water, was
other than the charming and spirited aotrssas
Misc Annie L0nsdaie.
We learn that young man, employed in match
factory in Fitohburg, was found on Saturday assr,
noon, in sitting position, on the second railroad
bridge above tho depot in that town. dead.
Two fellows who are ambitious Of namo in the
fighting world, havo made match for $50 side, in
q puglstic trial for superiority. They belong TO
Lowell, whore the fight will como of during tho cn-
suing week.
McFarley, an Irishman in West Newton, mistook
washing fluid for brandy, on sunday, and drank .
portion of it. Hs is now dangerously ill.
A party was returning from fishing excursion
of New Haven on Saturday last, having met with
Indifferent success, when sturgeon, weighing zoo
pounds eaped into the boat and was brought to
land.
Jonathan W. Snow, of Carolice, Tompkins Co..
N. y, was instantly killed by lightning, on Thurs
day last The lightning struck tho tines Of q hsT-
fork with which be WAS pitching hay
The funeral Of the late Robert Rantoul Jr., t>ek
place st Beverly, on Tuesday.
On the 9th ultimo, Mr.. Willard, an auo6onAsr
of st. Joseph, Mo-, seized by several persons,
taken to tho woods, and whipped to death The
body was badly mutilated Two of the perpetrators
Of the outrage arrested and committed to jed,
which had to BIO guarded to prevent the crowd from
lynching the culprits.
james II. Campbell, who was convicted Ut an sx-
ira term Of the Circuit Court Of De Kalb oeuaty,
Ala of tho murder and violation Of the person q
little daughter Of Mrs. Garet, Of Denter, Ohero-
kee county, was received at the Peniteniary the
4th ut. He is sentenced to imprisonment for Life.
and is now 81 years of age
The value Of real estate in tho city Of Savannah.
Georgia, has lately been estimated ut $l,602.6 4s
and that Of slaves ut s., 2S6, 484
On the I'd inst, q man named Perry Donovan was
killed in house in Vaudeville street, New Oneaaas
by one Michael Purcell.
Miss Harriet f. Hale, aged about twentyG Eve
years, committed suicide by taking laudanum. at
Winslow, Me-, on the Sd inst.
It ia said that the Hon. Robert Rantoul, Jr., had
an insurance Of $4,000 on his life.
On the 2lst ult., as Mrs. Athaliah Smith, wife e
Mr.. Moses Smith, Of Hudson, N H., YVES preparing
dinner her clothing caught fire and she was 20
frighfully burned that she lived only few hssrs
after.
The frat bale of new cotton this year arrived q
New Orleans on the LIST instant The first arrival
in 1861 was on the 25th Of July; in 1860, On tho
llth August; in 1919, August 7; and in lS4k
August g.
A barn and shed belonging to Mr.. VIM. Holnes.
of Fulton, Schoharie county, was struck BY light
ming during tho thunder storm on Thursday LAST
and consumed with all its contents.
The break on the Northern canal, at the sixteen
mile level. which has detain ed the boats for the
past week. is now repaired.
At the !ate general term Of the Supreme Court in
session Mt Delhi, the Rev. DR.. Andrews, late Rector
| OF the Episcopal church a. Binghamton, and for
| meEy OF Norwich. was admitted on motion OF Hsn.
! ID. 5. D;ckineon, to practice as az attorney aoa
counsellor at law.
| strpnsulation on Saturday. at Newark, J., FROM
| piece Of meat which became fastened in his
l throat while eating dinner
! A mep named VIM H. Purfli was, arrested in
Philadelphia on Monday for passing counterfeit -
notss ru porting to be On tie Rhode Island UAi9a
| colcred peoples mass convention, for the Sta1
of Ohio. has been summoned to meet at Clevea4iA
on the 9Th and 9th of September, to consider moa-
sures for the education and elevation of the free
colored people, and to choose delegates to national
conyer ton of tho free colored race in the United
States which is expected to meet in the approach
ing autumn.
The American Association for the Advansemone
of Sciences, which was to assemble ut Cleveland On
the 18th inst, will not meet the present year, n
consequence Of the prevalence Of disease in the
West.
A suit has been commenced in Now Orleans, b.
A. L. NELL, against the owners Of the steamer ST.
james, to recover apm them the sum of 81 900 tho
value Of his slave John lost by the explosion Of tho
st. james, and $50, one months wages.
A young man, calling himself John Alberto. in
Jail at Hudson on charge Of burglary and robbery
made an attempt at suicide last week, by cutting
the veins Of bis arm with razor
The New Orleans Board Of Health report nine
teen Of death from cholera in that city during
the week ending July 5lst.
The negro woman, Jane, was or Monday brought
before the Hastings Court for the murder Of Mrs.
Winston and child. She pleaded guilty without
giving any particulars, and was sentenced TO ~
hung the 10th Of next month
William B. FreemiIc was recently drowned in
Ceresco Lake, Wisconsin. He from Monroe
county, N. Y.
| Tho Ford du Lac Democrat states that, on the
18th nit, person named John II annon, committed
suicide at the United States Hotel in Benton.
An unusual number Of runaway negroes are said
to be lurking In the vicinity Of Memphis, Tenn
Thomas Shannon has been sentenced by tho Gym
thana court (Ey) to be hung August Z7th for the
murder Of John Decline
A man named Sherman was drowned at Lockport,
NJ Y on Saturday.
In Ellsworth, Me-, on Monday, young woman
named AImira Townsend by horse and
wagon furiou-ly driven by young named .Jedcr
Fries She lived but about 20 minutes. Fries has beea
rested.
Charles LOOMS, about 20 years old Of West
Granville, formerly Of Westfeld found dead in his
bed on Sunday morning
Richard Owen, Of Williamson county, Tenn, was
Killed on the Ath inst. in ARRAY With his brsthex.
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