Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-12-31
MISCELLANEOUS.

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worded that legislative decision is the
application in order to avoid the constitutional objection
urged in other States.
The wife of German hotel keeper at Terre Haute In
diana, named Diet frightened one day last week
by drunken man drawing pistol on her husband that
she fell into swoon, from the effects of which she died
the day following.
recent report of the Georgia Central Railroad Com
pany shows gratifying increase in the business and
Prohts Of the road which speaks well for its management
Inc company have a fund Of 1922 1893 95
ana yet its dividends at the rate Of per c per
annum
Experiments for the making Of paper from the cane
reed OF the Southern States and from white pine
lngs nave been successful They were tried in Bali-
more.
The Committee on Patents in Congress have unapi
mousy reported in favor of the extension of Samuel
Cos patent Tor seven years. reservng to the Govern
ment OF the United States the right to make and manu-
facure the arms in all Of their armories for military
and naval purposes The reasons for granting are
to be that the inventor has not had the use of his
| patent in profitable degree.
In Washington County Court (dd.) Joshua Anderson,
aged % years has been convicted of murder the sec
ond degree for killing slave belonging Mrs Joseph
Sprigg, during ARRAY in June last the Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal and been sentenced the penitentary
for eighteen years.
At the latest date the yellow fever still fingered in
Brownsville Texas although its violence had considera
bly, abated The soldiers in the garrison were the prin
cpa victims, most of them being unacclimated There
had been nineteen deaths in the garrison from the 18th
of November the Sd December of which four
commissioned officers The total number of deaths in the
garrison during the epidemic is set down at forty.
Mr.. ANTHONY TEN EYcK, of Albany was killed on We'd
nesday night by being thrown from carriage which he
driving the Troy road. The night was dark and
the accident the effect of collision with another
carriage containing two gentlemen, both Of whom were
also thrown out, but nt seriously hurt.
reporter of the Cincinnati markets states that hogs
firm" That is stating the fact little too mildly
the hrmness of the porcne animal amounts to the
| cursed obstinacy.
An enteprising young from the West lately brought
into Milwaukee four elks which he has trained for har-
ness, and offers for sale.
company of five shot nine hundred pigeons in
one evening at the great roost in Themngo county Mis-
sissipp; and John and William Duncan shot and
killed each other in fight the occasion.
CINCINNATI WINE.-One Of the editors Of the Albany
writes that he has recently been into the cellar Of
Mr. Longworth at Cincinnati, where he found $50 900
bottles several hundred boxes and 200 900 gallons
bottled wine His champagne and still wines find ready
SALE the former at ST. per dozen. During the last
mer in consequence of the unskilfulness Of a in
charge of of the cellars Mr. L. lost 40 900 bottles of
champagne.
Benjamin Buckingham of Mortified (Ct.) was one of
the earliest California adventures He returned in due
time with fifty thousand dollars in gold. He was not
content He made second visit to the land Of gold and
golden dreams, and returned penniless Last week he
found dead in mountain cave His revolver which
found by his side with barrel discharged, and
small wound in the head told the melancholy story His
age was twenty seven.
The FRAUDS OF SPIRIruALIsM.-Som ofthe I" mediums
driving brisk business in their frauds upon the weak
minded individuals who have faith in this preposerous
deusion. Scarcely week passes that some complaint of
swndlng not made by those who yctimized by the
sharpers who practice it. We by the New York pa
pers that very respectable woman of Brooklyn in
duced to pay colored medium, who practices also
DOCTOR several large of money get the spirits"
m fbp of eff
The mediums having failed to give the lucky numbers
but idiot would expect them to do So for they
would scarcely give for fifty hundred dollars know
ledge which would put them in possession of thousands
arrested for fraud and have had examination
before the police court. Rascality always fourishes
where credulity is One of the sharpers very
coolly remarked TO the Judge: Why, can bring dozen
and before you who have made money through
us in that manner"
THE THOMPSON WnL.-The will Of Abraham G. Thomp-
which has been contested by his the
last two years. the ground invalid execution has final
been sustained by the surrogate the county Of York
The point upon which the turned alleged nsani
ty incapacity of the testaor indicated by his
persttous belief in the power Of charms magic dYniDg
rods the philosophers stone, the water of life and
rous other supernatural and natural modes of finding
hidden treasure making gold and curing diseases Some
curious testimony was offered going TO show that dece
dent quite student of magic natural and superna-
tura and that his ideas seemed to have been borrowed
from books entertained more matter Of speculative
probability than serious belief.
OF the 240 convcts confined in the Tennessee Penten-
tsry SO temperate before sentence and 202 intern
perate, and l27 drunk when they committed crime
There three who have had classical education,
common English education, 100 who read and
write SO who read only and CD who neither read
write. These statistics show very clearly that intern
perance and the of education the fruit
full sources Of crime.
The cotton factory near the Railroad Depot at Freder
icksburg, (ya) owned by Messrs F. j. w. Slaughter,
was burnt to the ground Monday night The fire ORR
ginated in the engine-room. The shngle-roof
trely consumed Strange to say the picker alone
saved and small portion Of the machinery. Loss
estimated at So, 600 About fifty hands employed
in the factory.
The value Of the articles which have passed over the
Erie Canal the present yearis estimated at S39 362
being 43 than the value Of the freighs last
year.
THE FIRST Ssov-SToRM-It is a remarkable fact that
snow-storm had occurred in Boston vicinity this
until yesterday afternoon the 26h Of December
In conversation with that venerable parsonage the old
est inhabtant" learn that he has never known sea-
son, until the present when has fallen until sf
ter Christmas This unusual fact furnishes another Illus
traon Of the truth Of assertion often made that the
winters in New England gradually shortening, even
If they do not become milder in their character.
Boston Journal.
Benjamin Buckingham, OF North Milford, Connecticut,
committed suicide by shooting himself with pistol last
week. in consequence is supposed, OF having lost
large fortune which ne lad accumulated in California
model return upon writ recently made by
deputy sheriff in Morgan county, Indiana. Ii was:
Starved the within but ft with brck-bsts by the
woman that l couldn't sarve it."
young woman named Ferris shockingly injured
at the wacot MILL Puwtucket, Saturday afternoon.