The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-10-26

cant By the election ofAr. Radabsugh.
In coyipgton. KY. on Saturday, a
little boy called a German "old Dutch
man" whereupon the latter attacked the
boy and killed him in the street. The
murderer was promptly arrested, and
threats were made that the Jail would be
attacked, with the view Of executing sum
mary vengeance.
The press of Michigan are opposing,
with some pertinacity, the organization Of
a new State from the Upper Peninsula or
Lake Superior, region, but tits thought
the opposition will not avail, and that the
State ofsuperiOr, at no very distant peri
cd, will have an existence.
The body Of man found at South
Berwick has been identified as that of Mr..
Charles Brewster, of Harrington, and son
ofSamuel F. Brewster, Esq. He had been
at Lawrence to work at the carpenters
trade this summer, but came home the
last of July and stopped about week. when
he left suddenly without telling his folks
he intended to leave,
The Salem Journal says that Mr. Hen
ry Meek of that city, caught on Friday
on the west side of Derby Wharf, lobster
weighing about twenty pounds, and appa-
rently in good health and spirits. This
was the fourth specimen of this shell-ish
which had been taken at the same place
within day or two,and all about the same
siza
The exact number of deaths in Boston
from cholera duringthe present summer and
fall has been 95S; New York 1859. The
population of New York is little over four
times as great as that of Boston, but the
mortality of this disorder in New York
has been nine times larger,
--On Saturday night, house in Perry
township, Licking county, occupied by a
Mr.. Taylor, was burnt down. and an old
lady member of the family, perished in
the flames.
The English papers are severe upon the
Sisters of Mercy at Eldad, who recently
inflicted the penance of describing the cross
on the floor with the tongue, which is de-
scribed as a most cruel punishment.
On Monday, a locomotive on the New
York and New Haven Railroad ran off the
track and was overturned. The engineer,
Mr.. Timothy Smith, was so badly scalded
that his life is despaired of.
"A distressing FIRE occurred last Sat.
uldayin Sussex county, Delaware, near
the Maryland line. The dwelling house
Of Elisha Dickinson was consumed, and
two of his children perished in the flames
The Ohio Central Road is to be open
ed about the 3oth from Wheeling to Co.
lumbus. A grand celebration will take
place, and an excursion train will be sent
out from Baltimore with guests.
About O'Clock Friday morning, the
emigrant train from Albany to Buffalo ran
overa horse near Newark, and the engine
and tender, and one car were thrown of
the track-the fireman was killed, but nc
other person was hurt.
The LARoEsT Hoa.-Martin Roberts
who resides on the river some six mile.
below Madison, in Kentucky, has hog
that weighs upwards of nineteen hundred
pounds, which he has sold for two hundred
dollars.
Six majestic elm trees, in front of
dwelling in Marlborough, Mass, have beer
insured by their owners in the sum of fv,
hundred dollars, against loss by lightning
or fire.
The New Alabamy Daily Tribune say
'some twenty-five negroes slaves passed
through our city on Saturday, in charge of
STAKEHOLDER from the South en- route for tn,
territory of Kansas
ALLEN county gave Scott, $50 votes
Pierce, 1895 AT the recent election tn
vote stood Swan, 1877; Norris, ,472. Max
ing change of 1908 votes in one small
county.
Mr.. Colt will realize an immense for
tune out of the Eastern war. Most of tn
, Russians, as well as the officers of tn
French and English armies will be arme,
with his revolvers.
"A Boston correspondent of Nev
York paper states that Hon. Robert
Winthrop was last week initiated into
f Know Nothing lodge.
, The cholera continues its rayages il
London, the deaths from that disease, dur
} ing three weeks ending September 9th
: reaching four thousand.
EFFICACY OF PRAYER.-Dr. Olds al
tributes his defeat to the prayers of tn
three hundred clergymen.
The Know Nothings have carried tn
charter election at La Sale, ILL.,, by on