Washington sentinel., 1854-03-05
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~ JUsr THE THING NEEDED AT PLACES OF AMUsB-
MEST.-The Boston Opera House is 10 be furnish
| ed throughout with what all places of amusement
| need a good, comfortable seat, combining conve-
nience and ease. A selfadjusting seat has been
invented, composed of solid iron. II is subs,anti-
ally sci 10 The floor and fastened with screws. It
Il is onethird deeper than ordinary seats and is
easy as an arm chair. the back being SO skilfuly
constructed as TO yield to that position which may
hest suit the occupant. When unoccupied IL folds
itself into space of eight inches so that the space
way between each row Of seats becomes wide
! aisle, aiording the most ample room for the out
ward movement ofthe audience. BY this arrange
ment a hall which holds three thousand ordinary
seats, would contain upon the same space of floor
! ing three thousand FIVE hundred ofthe sefadjust-
| ing seats, affording the extra accommodation of
| space alluded TO above. Places Of amusement
! would be ofener visited if persons could find as
much comfort at them as they can at their own
| homes. Such a seat would remove one Of the
| greatest discomforts now experienced
| TExAs--By an arrival at New Orleans we have
some later news from Texas, though nothing Of
much Importance. The Galveston Nssos says the
crop Of cotton in the Trinity valley this year is
about double that Of last year. and very little oft
has yet been taken TO market.
The legislature has adjourned Il was the gen.
| eral impression at Austin that there win be a
called session. sss98 slsa sei fsst ..s
| We learn from the Austin correspondence ofthe
/ Neass that bill was passed, extending the time
ofascertainhg the debt of the late republic Tex
as also, bill authorizing the governor, with the
consent ofthe senate, 10 appoint three competent
commissioners to codify the laws OF the State; al
so, bill providing for the investigation of land
otitles west of the Nueces and bordering upon the
| Rio Grande, as high up as FL Paso.
4 SINGULAR RAILROAD AccIDENT.-The Hornels-
vile Tsibnne states the following singular acci-
1 lent 10 train on the Buffalo and New York city
| railroad, week since. 6 As engine No. 8 was
bound east with the express train, one of the ten
.ler wheels dnside bearng) broke, and one-ha'f Of
i passed OFF at tangent, leaving the remainder
to act upon the rails as atrip hammer for in making
The trip Of so rods it hammered up 13 eighteen
feet rails into balves, quarters. and ffihs; also
hammered The heads off one hundred pounds of
| spikes, breaking by the same hammer some forty
chairs, and finally hammered itself bammeress.
when Louis the engineer, broke too, for repairs"
! A SAD AccIDENT.--Robert M. Smoot, Of Mo-
bile, son OF the late Colonel Benjamin S. Smoot,
left home lately with his gun to kill some birds for
a sick friend. Having cooked his gun TO shoe, a,
a passing flock, and meeting with some slight in
terrnpton, he placed il against the fence in at
tempting 10 raise il, it accidenly discharged, lodg-
ing The contents in his throat. He fingered for
several days in great agony, which he bore with
| out murmur.
ATALI SpEcuLATIoN-We are informed, says
he Cincinnati Colombian, that certain house in
his city has in serious contemplation specu-
laion, which in vas,ness Of conception is far
ahead Of anything that has preceded il, even in
| his age Of gigantic IDEAS The plan is an invest
nent in bulk pork of one million thousand ponnds,
which, at the presen, value Of the article, would
tmount to $57 900, three times the value OF
III the pork packed in regular way, in the west
srn States for export.
J, ACCIDENT AT RIcHMoNp--The Richmond (Va.)
Dispatch states that about 10 o'clock on Tuesday
nieht just as The legislature adjourned, Mr.. Wn.
| Minor, Of Alexandra county, was found lying
near the wall of the south end ofthe capitol. with
1 mis- thigh broken anc face much bruised, having
evidently fallen from The porch above-a height OF
| xery nearly twenty feet. II was not known al
what time of The night he fell He was very seri-
| oasy injured
| CARRYING THE TELEGRAPH TO CuBA.--The Uni
led States surveying schooner Crawford sailed
/ rom Norfolk on Thursday for the west coast OF
Florida, where she will be engaged in the surve,
! ,f that part of the coast untraced, under the
charge OF professor A. u. Bache, the superntend.
ent. The Crawford, by direction Of Professor
Bache, will run line Of deep-sea soundings from
| Key West 10 Havana, with the view ofultimately
carrying the telegraph wires across to the island
! of Cuba.
| lS- The United States frigate Constitution,
Com. Mayo, was al 81. Vincent on the 26,h Jan
uary, with SLAYER which she had captured on the
| coast Of Africa.
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