Hannibal journal. (Hannibal, Mo.) 1853-1853, 1853-05-30
mon PApERI REoETYEp YEsTERpAY.

Pike county Circuit Court, 10 assess the DANA
gss against the plank road company, Olsdgsd 10
have been sustained by the various parties along
the line OF the road, who had instituted suits for
trsSSpaSS, closed an entire weeks laborS on Sat.
urday last. Each case was acted on separately
and the verdict Of the commissioners sealed and
returned 10 the clerk OF the Circuit Court, with
an order 10 not open Il ill the next term Of the
Circuit Court, leaving the parties themselves
and oil others entirely in the dark, as 10 the
amount Of damages awarded the compliments.
II 10 thought, however, that the damages assess
ed, will fall imneSSurably short Of the amounts
respectively claimed by the petitioners in their
treSpnSS bills.
Tie Board Of Publication Of the Old School
PresEtSrian', report 10 the General Assembly,
now In session at Philadelphia that sales dur.
ing the yeur amount 10 nearly 100000
l5y the Presbyterian Old School General As.
Sembly, May 20h--
On motion Of DR.. Breckenridge il was unnn.
inouSy resolved, that first class Theological
Seminary be established IN the West. New
Albany, Illinois; St. Louis, Nashville, Danville
anu OlUClInNll, WcTb UWneu w IOCullOUts
DR.. Wood advocated New Albany IN speech
Of some length, urging the proposition Of the
directors Of the establishment now there to
transfer IN the General Assembly oil control Of
the institutions and funds Of the projected school
t. he established.
DR.. Breckenridge discussed the clums Of Tie
Old School Lane Seminary at Cincinnati. Ad-
journed.
TIE British government has complained Of
depreciation. committed by the Americans al
the Falkland Islands, and force has been sent
there by our Government, to protect the citizens
und property.
In the Norfolk Va, district, John s. MillrOn,
democrat, IL elected to Congress.
The Wings of Linn county are almost 10 q
man for Col. 10, Davis, Of Fayette, as the Wing
candidate FOR Congress In the third district.
The Glasgow Times learns that arrangements
are being made fer the establishment of n Whip
Piper in ChillicOlhe, at IN early day.
The corner stone Of the new Catholic Church
on Twenty. fifth, near Carr, will be laid mex
Sunday, by the Rev. Anthony Pencce.
Il is estimated that there will be lO0,o0t
visitors to the new York Crystal Palace, VIII
will spend ten millions Of dollars in that city i
three months.
A SLAYER has lately landed some $50 Arr
enrI in Cuba.
Cincinnati has 55s gambling places, Of q
kinds.
A Baptist preacher named CSrrowOy, cit
zen of Hyde county, lately, on some rrivOlOu
pretext, knocked his wife down with q Ohui
and then seized large stick and continued
beat her, until a man named LaSSitsr, who vi
boarding In the house, interfsred 10 preVel
her being murdered. WhersupOn COrrOwu
took his gun to shoot LOSSiter, but he diSArm'
him and left the house.
A few days afterwards, LaSSiter ohOneed
20 by the house, which stood near the publ
road, when COrrOway, seeing him pass, took
gun and ran through his field to cut him Of, al
overtaking him in the Savannah, shot him dsO
then took his victim and carried him some HI
mile into the swamp, threw him down int
mud, and stamped him below the surface Of
mud, covered him with brush, then ran of, ma
his escape from the county, and eludsd purSu
He had been married three times, and Oireu
stances have now come cut, which strongly
aioate that both of his deceased wives came
their deaths By his handS
RlThe Northern and Southern students
Ika TAM Collepa nj Gam hrid0a Mass.