Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-01-28
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Martin Koszta has ceased to be lion and become
suppiant for employment and bread He has lately So
icited clerkship worth five dollars per week in New
York. 81. '.." - .
nounced. The whole number of silver medals awarded
is 105 bronze number of exhibitors who received
honorable mention 1,210.
The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal ntimates the
possibility of the lead pipes, through which portable
water passes, being the cause of paralysis
Among the novelties introduced into Paris this year
fruit knives of Bohemian crystal The blade is of the
purest white crystal ard the handle tasteful mixture
of white and blue or white and Claret color.
dam eight hundred feet wide has been built across
the Mississippi at ST. Anhonys Falls 1t is built at the
head of the rapids by placing strnger wooden horses
the bed of the river the other the strnper at an
angle of fortyfve degrees BY this meas the water is
raised two feet.
The ship Three Bells made suddenly fann,us by the
gallant conduct of her captain towards the passengers Of
the San Francisco is an iron vessel built in Dumbarton
in 1S49 for Messrs John Finday and James Bell butch
ers of Glasgow At her christening number Of names
suggested for her, but appeared suit the
united tastes of her owners. Finally matter Of
compromise the Of Three Bells suggested and
adopted, the name compmenting each of the owners.
CAMPHINE STAGEs.-An action for damages was
brought in the Marine Court New York the other day.
ground Of injuries done tile complainant by the
explosion of camphine lamp in public stage Judge
Thompson held that from the welknown danger of cam
phine, its use in omnibus made party liable for
damages which, in consequence Of the said use may en-
sue. Judgment was accordingly rendered in favor Of
plaintiff for 800, the amount of alleged damage.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, as will be
seen by their advertisement have commenced running
two daily passenger trains between Baltimore and Wheel
ing Heretofore there has been only one the second
train going only as far as Cumberland.
VEsIsoSThe quantities of this game brought to and
passing through this city during the past few weeks is
altogether without precedent We told that the num-
Der frequently reaches high fifty sixty per day
Is said that the great fires which ragged in the woods in
central and Southern Michigan during the first part of
December drove the deer down in this direction and this
supposed to be the of their being much more
plenty than ever before Five and six often killed by
single hunter in day. in fact the woods for fifty
miles north are little less than grand for
those anmas.-7oiedo Republican.
MYsTERIous DEATH ACCOUNTED FoR.-The Elkton
(Md0 Whig says that Mr.. Job Wharton, of Bohemia
Manor has acknowledged the shooting of young Smack,
found dead in November last 1t purely accidental,
but Mr. Wharton denied all knowledge of it the time,
from groundless fear Of the consequences They
out partridge shooting together when the accidental dis
charge of Wharons gun proved fatal young Smack,
who was struck by the charge in the back and died in
few minutes. No doubts that the shooting was alto
gether accidental, as they were the best terms.