Monongalia mirror. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1855, 1854-03-04

Inc num3er OF tigers Killed IN Java du-
ring the year 1852, amounted to III.
1t costs halfa million dollars year to
keep St. Peters Church, at Rome, in re-
pair. ..S0l,. &..l,,.g
A stringent prohibitory liquor law has
been introduced in the Legislature Of
Wisconsin. sa. g, I'
A large meeting in opposition the Doug
lass Nebraska bill was held at Pittsburg Oh
Monday evening. LIZ, nm. ,lpy,
"A tailor who in skating fell through tie
ice, declared that he would never again
leave hot goose for cold duck. Nv.
There were one hundred and eighty
seven convicts in the Western Peniten-
tiary Of Pennsylvania, during last year.
AWFUL CoN.-"Why is tobacco chew
er like goose in a Dutch oven7''
''"Because he is salways on the spit."
The severity ofthe weather has render
ed the wolves very daring in their attacks
in France particularly in the Moselle.
D. I b.
Miss Mary Ann Hunt, aged 10 years,
died in Boston, on Sunday, in consequence
Of injuries received by the expulsion o.
burning fluids.
Ayoung man named Joshua Kelly hung
himself last week in Ludlow, VT, because
he had his clothes and $l4 in bills burnt
in conflagration. |
A violent storm Of thunder and light
ming occurred at Burlington, Iowa on The
Goth of January when the thermometer
was at 90 degrees below zero.
The Iowa Reporter says the emigration
into that state thisyear, is immense The
addition 10 the; population from September
lstito Dec. lst, from emigration alone, Is
computed at $4,000. '... .,a3S,
The Washington Star says that within
The next 8 weeks, 8 weddings in The cup
per circles" will be celebrated there, the
groom in each case counting over 30 years,
the brides scarcely out oftheir teens. &
Typhoid fever Of "a malignant type,
prevails in Wetzel county-Mr Joseph
Newman, clerk ofthe county cour! recent
ly died oft, and Mr.. Lanck, late candidate
for the Senate, is dangerously ill-also
many others. na5e aut
A gentleman ofAlton, Illinois, has in
vented pocket pistol, which, it is said,
will prime itselfand fire thirty-six times
in succession. 1t is only six inches 10
length, though it will throw a ball with
sufficient force to perforate an inch plank
at the distance Of o hundred feet. III.
The PonK TnADE.-The St. Louie
Tntelligencer estimates the number Of
hogs packed there at $4,000 head
Last wear the number packed there was
10000 head. A correspondent Of that
paper gives the following returns from
three packing points on the Missouri,
namely: Rocheport 1000, Brunswick
$500, Hills Landing 40O-total 1000.
Our readers will recollect the particu-
lars of horrible case in South Carolina,
in which two white men, named Thomas
Motley and William Blackledge, hunted
down runaway slave with blood-hounds,
and then put him to death by the most
prolonged and cruel tortures. These
iends were brought before the Court Of
Appeals at Charleston recently, and after
the motion for new trials had been dismis-
sed, were sentenced 10 be hung on the Sd
day of fMarch next. .S'si
Reviral among tic .S,cedes.-An Iowa
correspondent Of the Christiaa Times
states that Of twenty converts lately ad-
ded to the churchin Burlington, sever
al are Swedes. These, he says, have
been converted and brought to the truth
mainly through the labors Of our be-
loved exiled Swede, Rev. Fred. Q. Mill
son, who, banished from his native land
because Of his religion, and then sent
hither to Burlington by our Home Mis-
sion Society TO labor among his coun-
trymen in this place, has been honor;
ed Of God in commencing here, as we
trust, a more glorious work." q
Sects IN Nliaaesota.--The Roman
Catholics in Minnesota far outnumber
all other denominations. Bishop Cretin,
of the Catholic Church, has it in con-
temptation to build cathedralat 81.
Paul's, during the present year, at q
cost Of 100000. The Methodists have
four separate churches in the Territory,