The Woodville Republican, and Wilkinson advertiser., 1853-06-28
Gatherings by the way-side.
Collected By a friend ia to,cn, and oompil.d d
for Ae Wcpdwils RepWJlioaM.
SECOND SERIES.

AtuuT NehesIy, \isOfu NelnhgSn,l uteu
at the advanced age of 50 years.
The population Of the cities and towns 81
the United States, Is 100000, while l9,g6s,
600 live in the country.
The Lunatic Asylum Of Columbus, Ohio con
tains at present 500 patients,
There is duty OF FIVE dollars gallon, on
Spirituous Liquors imported into the Sandwich
Islands,
Honolulee, the capitol Of the Sandwich Isl
ands, is 476O miles from Panama.
Palace of Fontainbeau, famous for the res
idence of the French Kings, is 40 miles dist
ance from Paris, it was built three hundred
years ago; it was here that Napoleon first
communicated to Josephine the fatal divorce.
Paris, capitulated to Wellington, and Bluch
er, July 8, 1915,
The value of the Methodist Book Concern,
on the lst of January, 1852, was S6OS, ,4lS,54.
II. Clay, was elected Speaker of ten Sessions
of Congress.
Thomas Ii. Benton, was member Of the
Senate, thirty consecutive years, being the
longest time that any Senator ever held seat
in that august body.
Mississippi was admitted into the Union
in 1917.
Of the signers of the Declaration Of Inde-
pendence, six were foreigners.
The Tunnel, on the line of the Dayton and
CINCINNATI Railroad, is over 1000 feet in
length.
There are five persons in st. Louis, worth
over a million dollars each.
The cash value of Farms, in the United
States is estimated at $3,270,7SS,093.
The whole number of votes, cast for Presi-
dent, in November last, was 3,l62,890.
Martin Van Buren, is II years Of age.
The Hon. Amas Laurence, has given away
during his life more than 100000.
Mrs, Rachel Jackson, wife of President Jack
son, died, December %, 1928, aged 81 years
The American Colonization Society has sent
out since 1920, 7457 persons
The Government of PERU, voted million
of dollars to Simon Bolivar, for bis services il
gaming thelr Independence
There will soon be daily mail between
Louisville and New Orleans, s,--Sixteen, zoe
and Fourteen 1900 tonnage boats, to be EN-
ployed.
Paris, it is said has 100000 convicts.
Hail, fell twelve inches deep, at Tuscaloosa
Alabama.
There are only two hundred and eighty 81,
Indians in Florida,
Mr.. Scoley, Of Ohio, weighs 100 pounds.
Chief Justice Laney, is Roman Chatholic
The Falls Of Niagari, has power TO work al
the Machinery in the World.
Robert Morris, one Of the wealthiest men
and decidedly the greatest fnancier of tn
American Revolution, died In prison for debt
Samuel Dexter, Of Boston was the most sue
cessful lawyer of his day.
Christ, was crucifed, April Sd, AID. 3S.
There are no clerks employed at Washing
ton, in the different Departments by the Gov
eminent
flannel Hall, erected in l742.
Capt. Kidd, arrested in 1899.
The first book ever printed in the New
World, was in the Spanish language, in tn
year 1854.
) The value Of real and personal wealth Of tn
country exceeds 1000 millions of dollars, 0
an average of $4,000 to each white family c
five persons.
$5SO,0OO,O00, are employed in mantfaC
tures. $994,O00,000, are employed in tn
construction Of $4,000 miles Of Railroad.
Total population of the United States il
1850, was 2S,250,760.
We have on an average persons 10 tn
square mile.
The number of churches Of all denofnins
! tons in the United States is 1924, ayerag
worth of each 2,400.
! We have nearly 5000 Newspapers and PEI
iodicals.
The Dahlia, is native Of the marshes {
Peru-the number Of this flowers varieties
over 5000.
New York, in 1850, manufactured 10,31t
IA pounds Of maple sugar. Vermont aba
half that quantity. An the States manufat
tured 100000 900 gallons molasses.
Texas raised in 1882, 100000 bales of Co
Z ton.
Il requires III tons Of T iron, TO lay on
mile Of road
From Cairo to Pittsburgh, the average il
! !, cIinstion Of the Ohio river, is 81 inches
Christ church, in Salem street Boston, vi
: erected in 1928.
The northern part Of the United States VI
! frst discovered in the year 1902, by persor
! from Greenland.
The consumption ofSpiriious Hqnczi in y
j Uuited States, reaches TO $4,000, 900 gallon
y ! annually, being six gallons for every adult
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g rE Three thousand men, i is sasd, .
II employed in making cigars IN New YORK