Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-11-18

increase Soc,uoV
This increase is 20 per cent The estimates for Octo-
,er were sos, 600 to $I00, 900.


This increase is 20 per cent The estimates for octo
Der were $685. 600 to 100000. S
CHoLERA.-There were l,447 deaths from cholera in
Detroit during the months Of June July, and August
last On the 23d of June the deaths numbered Al equal
to one out Of each thousand Of inhabitants Detroit,
by computation contains population Of forty thousand
souls
R LoGG DRouGHT.-The Independence (Mo) Messen-
ger Of October q says cit is just four months since
had rain sufficient to lay the dust until Thursday last
blessed with o)d-fashioned rain storm, which
soon filed up cisterns and wells and knocked the
haulers out of businesss
ARMY oFrIcsas REsIGaEp--Second Lieut.. Jas. p Lew
ellen Of the first artillery and Second Lieutenant Melanc-
thon Smith, Of the eighth infantry have resigned.
gentleman in South Brooklyn has been presented by
Mrs Cowden Clarke with the veritable jug that Shak
speare aforetne owned.
There are no less than six thousand pianos manufac
ured in Boston annually and they are sold at prices va
rying from $225 to $l, 500 EACH
Shanghai Chicken is the title Of weekly pub
! lshed at Dayton (oho) by tho Shanghai Company.
Snow isdhree feet deep the top of Mount Washing
ton, in New Hampshire.
Robert F. Poe President of the Augusta (Geo) Bank,
died few days ago.
| The Jeffersonyle CInd) Railroad Company have been
mulcted in $21oo damages for killing child of Alva.
Outlet.
Mormon paper is about to established in ST. Louis.
| It viii be styled the "Luminary."
1 pESNSYLyASIASS FOR hANsAs.-The pennsylvania
pany, numbering about hundred and fifty persons,
left Conneautvlle the lst instant They joined
Rochester by another branch Of the company from
Cambria county.
| A CEsTENARIAs,--An old lady, named Sarah Candy,
and aged hundred and years, recently died
New Liberia, La. She born in the city Of New York
on the 25th Of December, 1T46.
MEDICAL PRIZE QUEsTIoS.-The New York Academy
of Medicine through the berality of few Of its MEM
bers offers prize Of $500 for the best essay The
Nof oyIT otr,op IF Tnfo
sented during the ensuing year The ral for the prize
is not restricted to the fellows but is open the pro-
| fession throughout the country.
RRMARKABLE.-A the burial of Marshal de ST. Arnaud
the flags Of France and Of England for the first time in
history, covered the coffin, and Mussenan cannon
resounded in sign Of grief at the funeral of Christian
general
'DIED IN TIE HARSEss."--Rev. Joshua I. Russell. q
Baptist clergyman Jackson Mississippi recently clos
ed very eloquent address before the Bible Society with
these words: Millions who around the Throne
of God singing the song of Moses and the Lamb have
been saved by the influence of this book" While
ing these words he looked up If he had vision OF
what he described, and paused moment, and saying II
have DONE" sat down. and Immediately seized with
fatal attack of apoplexy.
DRESSED FOR BaLL.--At Cincinnati last week young
lady named Ellen Tompkins dressed herself go ball
After she had completed her toilet and while waiting
her escert she seized with apoplectic f and fell
to the floor When picked up she found to be dead.
The asonshment of her friends at her unexpected and
WILD GAaE-Our friend, W. s. Terrence, opposite
Milwaukee, out with his gun in the vicinity of Elk
Rock, few days ago, and was absent from home but
about half hour during which time he killed two largo
black bears and brown bear We call this tall SPORT
ing, and would not mind taking hand in it oursef
| only had time.-Porkand (Orsgon) Tines.
WARREN TERRY Of Enfield (Ct died on the 7h instant,
in consequence of having received charge Of shot in
of his thighs while drawing loaded gun with the muzze
towards him from wagon ten days before
There was exported from Franklin county, Vermont,
by railroad during the month Of September 1874 $50 lbs
Of cheese and 600 lbs of butter valued at
cidentay killed Friday last while in the woods telling
| trees He was much esteemed,
Boiler ExpLosIoS.-Early Friday morning steam.
boiler used in raising and lowering dock for the recep
ton Of vessels Boston exploded with tremendous force
Several badly injured and the houses in the
vicinity shaken to their foundations. 4
! SAD OccuRRIScE.-An accident of melancholy na,
ture occurred Tgervie parish Of Terrebonne
on the 2lst ultimo. w. Ii. MORNING and w. L. ARnps
STRONG, intimate friends, in the woods hunt
ing when the gun of Morning accidentally went of,
lodging hado1en buckshot in various parts Of the
body Of Armstrong, severng the jugular vein and
causing almost instant death.
TERRIBLE AccIpESr.-0n Saturday morning, while the
family of Mr.. John Hoye, trunk maker, in Syraousss
On. " sitting about the breakfast table, pot Of
varnsh which was drying upon the stove and
exploded throwing the burning varnish in oil directions
about the and the family. Mr.. Hoye and h4
wife terribly burnt but believed not danger
ousy An infant burnt SO badly that there Fas
chance Of his recovery and two daughters were ss
severely but not dangerously burnt The walls Of the
room covered with spots Of blarng varnsh, and
considerable damage was done,-Alsny Register. ~