Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-01-07
MIscELI ANEous ITEMS.


JoHz 4: PAhK.a, q. distinguished merchant Of Hsv
Bedford died in tha. city Friday evening NJ AN "a
vanced age He left fortune worth at least million Of
dollars. S1
The voters Of frsdericksburg, yirginis have decided
that the City Council shall subscribe $lOO 900 10 tha
Water Power Company, and the Mayor authorized 10
make said subscription payable in thirty years.
The Cleveland people have been holding an Erie meet
lng and passing some very stringent resolutions more
than intimating that if Pennsylvania shall refuse the
West free passage across her territory Ohio win
retaliate.
Letters from Naples that another ancient
town has been discovered several feet under ground be-
tween Acsrno and Soaar 1t is stated that it does not
resemble Herculaneum or Pompeii in any respect.
Mr. Abraham Pttsley, of North Fairhaven Mass vas
frozen to death in the woods Friday night last He
had been cutting wood in the forest for several days pre-
vious and lodging in cabin On Friday night he start
ed for home and it is supposed overcome by the in
tense cold. His age was about sixty years
During the storm last week in Chatham Mass Mr.
Abijah Crosby, shoemaker at work at his bench
when he found his shop was floating off He had lust
time to leave when the building went to sea- with ali his
stock and twenty dollars in money in his desk
Mr. ,Nicholson's church, episcopal corner Of Plum
and Seventh streets, in Cincinnati, which was built at
cost OF 81 000 is advertised at sherifs SALE There
is q debt of some SOC, 900 yet upon it,.
man named Smith fell down dead in the streets Of
Newport Kentucky Tuesday evening. The coroner's
inquest was died from the effects Of ntemperancen
James Clough, convicted at Taunton in December
1852 of the murder Of Gideon Manchester the officer
who undertook to arrest him for burglary the Governor
Of Massachusetts, has appointed Friday April 2s as tho
day for his execution.
memorial in circulation among the believers in the
spiritual rappings praying Congress appoint scientific
commission to which this subject shall be referred and
for such appropriation shall enable the commission
ers prosecute their inquiries to successful termination.
By imperial decree all the linen and SO forth of the
French army is to be washed by steam apparatus The
process has been essayed with manifold advantage in
some Of the military hospitals The economy Of time
and money is considerable, also tho sanitary benefit for
the troops.
The steam ssw-mil, machine shop, and iron foundry
owned by Henry Smonds, in Burlington Vermont were
destroyed by FIRE Monday morning An adjacent dwell
ling house was also destroyed.
Each Of the four steamers Of the Collins line have
crossed the Atlantic about forty times conveying in the
aggregate from fifty to sixty thousand persons and not
life has been lost by neglect careessness accident
DEATH BY BgD-BUG PoIsoS.-The Sandwich (Mass.)
Advocate that Capt Bangs Nickerson of Harwich,
drank, through mistake from bottle quantity of bed
bug poison In consequence of its being immediately
elected from his stomach it did not immediate
death He fingered along number Of days, and died on
the Goth ultimo.
locomotive baggage car, and one passenger car on
the Central road were thrown down tenfeet embank
ment at Bergen, near Rochester New York. Thursday
night in consequence Of the spreading of the track The
passenger car was turned completely but none Of
the passengers were seriously hurt
On Saturday last grindstone, which was revolving
with great rapdity at the Underhil edge tool manufao
tory in Nashua, N H. burst, and piece 400 pounds in
weight was projected upwards with sufficient force to
break hole through the roof In its descent the rag
ments struck q door, shattering it to pieces.
TYPOGRAPHICAL BLUsDBRs.-These sad things always
Sometimes they very funny to every body; that h
eeptng those who to blame for their preparation HIRE
contemporary wishing convey the fact that Inc
Duo de Nemous addressed his royal cousin the Count do
Chambord, as, "PainG the edest de maison,"
that the Due told the Count that he ane ho
ass) de notre maison!"
Another Aprnter setting up the wel known line He'll
has no fury like scorned unfortunately left
the in the last word That made it bad ~ o. Peayuae