Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1853-06-07

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IBn. ls,sle j lle.ly IdA N u Ane I .l,s j x
idencv of The Cleveland and Columbus Rail.
road Company. The Directors have elecled
II. b. Payne, Esq. 10 fill his place. Mr..
Kelly has been the President oflhis compa.
ny since lis organization, and discharged his
duties with credit 10 himself and profit 10 The
Road.
The American Association for the Ad-
vancemenl of Science will hold its next
meeting at Cleveland, Ohio, on the 99lh Of.
Juiy
Several persons who we're reported 10
have been killed by tho late railroad disas-
ter at NorwuIk, are ascerained to be living.
The whole number Of deaths was forly. five. :
Or this number nine resided in New York
city, five in other parts of the State, twenty
four in New England. and seven in other
places. There are included two cergymen.
eight physicians, sixteen women, and TWO
children.
ELECTION OF JUDGEs.-The first election
Of Judges by the people, under Tho new con.
sIiluIion Of Louisiana, took place al New,
Orleans on tho 17lh ius.., and resulted in
the choice Of democrat in each of the six
districts.
MOVEMENT Across TIE PLAINs.--The In.
dependence (Mo.,) Messenger, Of the 30th
u.. gives the following statement of The
movement from that place 10 Oregon and
California: Number of cattle, 1888; wag-
ems. l43; animals, $50; men, 385; carriages
4; sheep, $500.
The Baltimore and Ohio Road is afford.
ording fine harvest 10 the Ohio river steam
packets al Wheeling, bolh TO and from Gin
cinnuli. The Union line of boats carry
from 200 10 $50 cabin passengers each trip.
The American CoIonizaicn Society and
its auxilaries have sent out 10 Liberia, since
1890, in their various expeditions, 1857
persons. or these. 3,l23 were born free,
242 purchased their freedom, and 4C92
were emuncipoIed IN viewer Iheir ,emigra-
lion.
The penny subscriptions in England, to
be placed in the hands of Mrs Stowe, al
ready amount 10 $4,000.
The sum of $25, 500 has been subscribed
al Pittsburgh 10 extend The MonongaheIa
s'ackwa!er navigation.
The great suit between the heirs of Gen.
Lafayette and Others, for large tract Of land
in New Orleans has been decided agarst
the Generals heirs.
Official noce is given that The State De.
parlment al Washington is prepared 10 pay
the third inslalmcnt of the Portuguese in.
demDily.
A young man who started from Michigan
City on the night Of the collision, on the ex-
press train, stepped from the cars at the frs,
station this side of that place to get cigar,
and was left. lie got on the freight train,
and his body was among the corPses on the
following morning.
Five monarchs have now recognised tho
independence Of Liberia. and our own Re-
public still refuses. Great Britain, France.
Prussia, Brazil, and as we are informed by
The late Mohrovan advices, Belgium, have
successfully admitted the young African
commonwealth into The family Of nations.
| a man in New York recently received
intelligence thar relative had died in Scot.
land and left him legacy of thirty. five
thousand dollars, Upon receiving the news
he Immediately quit his work, got drunk,
an1 next morning was found drowncdin onc
Of the docks.
Our Navy is wolully dcfcien, in scunen,.
and the difficulty Of Obtaining the number
necessary 10 man our national vessels is
continually augmentng. AT this day We
are short oi the number absolutely necessary.
if we would keep up our national establish
ment, quite Twelve hundred men. The fri
gate independence is waiting the shipment
of five hundred men ere she cun resume her
place in active service.
Hon. Joel A. Mautson, of Illinois, and his
associates, with stock capital of 81 ,00O,-
600, are about 10 construct q road from
Joliet. Illinois, to Terre Haute, Indiana, on
The Wabash. Joliet is on The Rock Island
and Chicago Road. thus affording a route
from The Wabash TO Lake Michigan in ono
direction, and 10 the Mississippi river, oppo--
site DavenportS Iowa, in The other.
II. R. Slarkwealhcr, Of Northampton,
Massachusetts, says the Springfield Repub.
lican, raised last yeOr from an acre Of land
neal 1900 pounds Of tobacco, which he sold
at l44 cents per pound, amounting TO $3.50.
William and Henry Dickinson, of Hatfield,
raised last year, on three acres and three
louuhs of an acre Of land, about 5000 lbs.
Of tobacco, which they sold in Now York los
$1,000.
BosToN, May "a The railway bridge a.
Salmon Fails was burned yesterday. Dur
ing the fire, the train approached, and being
under such headway, could not stop, but for
lunalely the lmbers were still sufficient to
sustain The weight, and the train dashed over
safely.
New YoRx, May GA fire broke out
this morning in Brooklyn, and before il was
subdued The whole block, bounded by Full
ton, WilIoughby, Adam and Myrle streets,
was destroyed, comprising forty stores and
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