Butte record., 1853-12-10

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extensively known as the late Chaplain to
Congress.
The ''Sons of New Hampshire had man.
moth festival in the Hall of the Fitchburg Depot
Boston on the 2d November. About $500
persons were present, and Hon NJ p. Wilder
presided,
The steam planning mill of of the Merrimac-
Company in Lawrence, Mass. was destroyed
by fire on the 1st November. Loss S25 900
In Louisville, Ky, on the 2d November.
Matthew F. Ward shot Prof Wm. B. Butler
in the left breast, and the wound has since
caused his death The cause OF the affair was
that Butler had chastised small brother of
Wards.
Thomas Board, the murderer of the Barker
family in Virginia, was executed on the LIST
Nov. On the first attempt the rope broke and
the unfortunate criminal fell to the ground.
Not guilty, is the verdict of the Jury in the
trial of the officers and owners of the burnt
steamboat Henry Clay.
The conservation of the Missionary Bishop
elect of California, the Rev VIM Kip, D. D
took place on the occasion of the festival of St
Simon and st. Jude, in Trinity Church, n Y.
> The Pacific Railroad Company was fully or
ganized Nov. 4, by the election of Levi S
Chatfield as President and William Leland as
Secretary
Yankee Sullivan, for his participation in the
prize fight, had beer arrested as fugitive from
Justice 10y the authorities Of Massachusetts,.
Hiram Vinsley and Charles Lawrence were
detected, early on the morning Of the 2Sth
Oct, robbing the Post Office in Uxbrdgc, Il.
l., and secured after desperate resistance.
They had opened about 200 letters The office
was in the grocery store of J. Taft & Brothers.
Lawrence belongs in Georgia, The parties
have been engaged in recent burglaries in
the village, as has been ascertaned since their
detection.
The Board of Health at Mobile have declared
the yellow fever at an end.
The steam tug .Ajar, from New York for
Boston, is supposed to have been wrecked on
the 26th of October, in heavy gale, and all
hands on board lost.
A fire occurred in Boston recently, destroy
ing property to the amount of about so, 600.
1t occurred in Il brick block in commercial
street.
The New Orleans papers say that the frosts
which had occurred there had removed all
fears of a continuance of the epidemic-yellow
fever.
The Augusta (Ga) Chronicie says the cot
ton crop is eifectually killed. except in few
favored localities, by the frosts.
The yellow fever had again appeared at
PeGsacola-among the deaths was Mr.. Henry
B. Trainer, engineer, formerly of Philadel-
phia.
FIRE IN LOUISVILLE, kY.-A fire occurred
in Louisville, Ky, on the 20th of fOctober, des-
troying property to the amount Of $500 000
The entire block of buildings between Bullitt
and Fifth street, on Main, was burned to the
ground.
At the recent Agricultural State Fair of
Virginia, Gen. Scott and President Tyler
were present and made speeches.
The wife Of one Frederick Thoefllcr, of
Greenyille, Iowa, was poisoned by him on the
24th of October Her body was found in the
barn, hidden in an old box, with nothing but
IA rag to cover it. The evidence against the
husband is conclusive
Rev. A. H. Lamon, the Wing candidate
for State Superintendent Of Education in
Louisiana, died at Baton Rogue Of yellow fe-
YER.
A meeting of liquor dealers was held in
Brooklyn, n Y, on Tuesday, Nov, 1st, for the
purpose Of devising means and raising funds
to test the constitutionality of the excise law
before the highest court. A committee of one
from each ward was appointed to recommend
such measures as they may deem expedent
and to report at a future meeting.
Elizabeth Clay, who shot her scducer at
Cincinnati, few days ago has been discharged
the Grand Jury having found no bill against
her.
The Bank of the State of New York was
robbed on the night of the lst November of
S237 900
The Virginia papers speak of severe frosts
along James River. All the outstanding to-
bacco is bitten black, and the crop will be
shortened one half
In New York, Frederick Offer, who kept a
grocery store in Lewis street, gradually poi
soned his wife by putting small quantities of
arsenic in her food, and when he had accom-
plished the act, put end to his own exis-
tencc by taking poison. The parties had been
married but about twelve months.
Thomas W Ligon, Democrat, has been cleo
ted Governor of Maryland In the Legisa-
ture the Wings have a majority of two on joint
ballot.
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