Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1854-10-14
News Items.

Covington, Ky, was the scene of intense ex.
element on Saturday, caused by the murder Of
a small boy, a German. The murderer was ar
rested and lodged in Jail, and strong threats
are made of lynching him.
The Atlantic Duck Mill, in East Haddcn Ct,
for the manufacture Of ofcotton duck, was dos-
troyed by fire last Tuesday night. The mill
was just built. Loss $4,000
The clerk in Adams & Co.'S. Boston Express
Office, who abscondcd from Buffalo, was ares
ted in Chicago on Tuesday last Only 2,G00
of the money was was recovered. The defaul-
ter has been travelling as the son of Mr.. Adams
and lost large sums of money to gamblers on
the route.
Smith 0Brian is in Belgium, having arrived
there about the 1st of September. So SAYS
the Dublin Nation; though, it adds, that
John Mitchell is trying to persuade the public
that o. Brcn is in Australia
Sir Allan Napier McNab, premier of the Ca
madam Ministry, has been returned to his scat
in Parliament, from the Hamilton District with
out opposition.
We see it stated that eight or nine gentlemen
composing the editorial corps of Savannah, but
one remais at his post. Of the rest, one h
died, and the balance left the city on account of
their own health or that of their families
A daughter of the Hon Caleb B. Smith, late
U. S. Senator from Indiana, at a recent county
Fair at Connellsyille, in that State, received the
highest prizc-a side saddle worth S100-as
being the best lady rider of all present.
Billy Bowlegs has mace up his mind not to
leave Florida. lie says he will behave himself
if the Government will behave itself, and leave
him and his two hundred braves alone. Ifnot,
he is determined to fight it OUT
Letters from Paris, say, that at Dicpre, this
summer, all the equippage (of nobility and otl,-
ers, are eclipsed by the four horse turnout Of
tho American families Corby and Rilgcway,
from Philadelphia.
Samuel D. Lecompte, of Maryland, has ac-
cepted the Office of Chief Justice of Kansas
DR.. Graham the murderer of Col Loring, at
the st. Nicholas Hotel, New York, has been
found guilty Of murder in the second degree
A stay of proceedings is asked for twenty days
to make up bill of exceptions.
Kissanc has been arrested at Cuba, small
town on the n. Y. & Il. r., by the officers from
whom he escaped. lie was taken on Saturday
night, and Immediately started for New York.
There is no doubt now entertained of his being
the author of the recent heavy forgerics on the
Chemical and Continental Banks, in New York.
Findlay his companion, is already i'll Jail avail
ting hearing.
A tclegraphic dispatch from Washington, da-
ted Saturday, says that in well-informed circles
that Mr.. Carry, Secretary of Oregon Territory,
will be appointed to the Goyernorship made va
cant by the resignation Of the Hon. John W.
Davis.
The State Bank of Indiana declines making
permanent arrangement for giving Eastern Ex-
change for promiscuous Indiana money.
The yellow fever was on the decrease through
out the South at last accounts. At Savannah,
on Wednesday, there was six deaths from the
fever, and at Charleston the same number.
Partial returns from Florida, show a demo
cratic gain Nothing decisive.
A prize of 500, offered by the Cosmopolitan
Art and Literary Association, of Sandusky, O.,
for the best Ode to the Greek Slave of Powers,
has been awarded to Mr.. Augustine Dugannc,
of New York. There were one hundred and
seventeen competitors for the prize.
$25,000 of the $40 bills of the Mechanics
Bank, Memphis, Tenn, were stolen from the
room of tho President on the 18th ult.
In consequence of the severe rains in the in
terror of Alabama, and the hurricane on the
coast, by which great injury to the crop has
been sustained, the price of cotton has adyanc-
ed from s. to 81!
Fraudulent notes, of the denominations of
$1O's and $5's, purp orting to DO on the Mer-
chants Bank of Fort Lavenworth, Kansas Ter
ritory, are in circulation in St. Louis.
Stealing railroad tickets has been decided
by the court at Albany, N. Y, to be no theft,
on the ground that they are no of any intrinsic
value until disposed of by the company to bona
fde purchasers, and, therefore, they are not
legally the subject for larceny. The case in
point was that of man named Andrews, who
was arrested for taking sixty New York Central
Railway tickets from on board the steamer
Manhattan.
Tho case of breach of promise and seduction
brought about a year ago by Anna Howard, in
New York, against W. X. Hull, Superintendent
of the Harlem Railroad, has been heard before
jury in Hudson Co., N. j., and verdict of
$4,000 awarded.
The steamer Princess, belonging in New Or
leans, was destroyed by fire. last Monday, near
Matches. Several lives were lost. No names
have been ascertained. Her cargo consisted of
cotton.
The N. 0. Picayune says, thore never was
perhaps, such hard time to get anything to
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