The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-11-02
NEWS GLEANINGs.

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made to the summit Of the ridge, leaving
about eight miles 70 be trayersed by mule
carriage-ajOurney Of three hours.
Last week, in New York, an undertak.
er was set aside from the jury appointed to
try Charles Wager for murder, on the plea
that hewas too familiar with death.
Depredations to the amoant Of $4,000
have been committed in the Augusta post
Office by negro, who has confessed his
crime, and restored the most Of the money.
George W. Green, a banker of Chicago
hiss been arrested on charge of poisoning
his wife With strycbnine. The evidence a.
gainst him is strong. He isquite wealthy
and the case is likely to excite much inter
est. "
We are informed that the banks Of this
State have now ready, and will soon put
in circulation, small bills to the amount Of
100000, to take the place of the foreign
paper withdrawn from the State. - Ohio
Statesman.
The ecost of the lost steamer Arctic was
about 100000. Three-f -fourths of this sum
was covered by $500, 900 in
Wall street, New York, and the rest in
England and Hamburg. The Collins line
now consists of three steamers only.
Election of U. s. Senator from Vermont.
The Hon. James Collamore, of Woodstock,
Vermont, { American) has been elected U.
s. Senator, by a majority of about thirty,
in both Houses, for the long term. The
Hon, Lawrence Braiuard, American) has
been elected for the short term.
Since the loss of the Arctic, we see that
Mr. Shannon, of Broadway, New York, has
been drawing attention to a newly invented
piece of steel machinery, by which alarms
can be effectively sounded in fogs at sea
~ 1t is now assumed in England that the
ship Lady Nugent. which, last spring, went
from Madras with troops for the British
army in Burmah, was lost in the Bay OF
Bengal, with all on board, over four hun
dred persons. Nothing has since beon
heard of her. -,-,.,,,
= The earnings Of the Michigan Central
Railroad Company, in Sept, 1854, amount
ed to 1925, 5,235,73 against $182, 500, 80
for the same month last year. Increase
in the month this year. $42, ,635,93.
We learn that twenty thousand acres Of
land have been sold within week past, at
the Land Office at Jefersonville, Indiana,
at 1870 ents perlacre. which is the price
authorized by the late ,lsw,Of CangEesS tfor
all lands that have been in the market tkir-
ty years.
The Directors of the Vermont Central
Railroad have voted to take the fraudulent
stock issued by Crane before opening the
transfer books and TO hold it in allegiance
until some decision, Legislative. Judicial
or other action, is had in the natter.
A singular escape was made recently,
near Peekskill, NY, by an infant child,
which being thrown into a stream of wa
ter by the upsetting ofa wagon on bridge,
fell upon buffalo skin upon which it had
J been lying, and which fortunately foated
along on the surface of the water, and thus
saved the child.
A correspondent of the New York Tines
starts the question of the effect and mean
ing of the term schite in the naturalization
laws. Is it intended to exclude from citi-
zenship all but men of Circassian race?-
Does it extend to Chinese, Hindoos Amer
lean Indians, or is the restriction limited
to persons of negro blood? The imigra-
ton of Chinese into California is likely to
give particular Importance to this question.
Two cases are mentioned in which natu-
ralization papers have been granted to Chi
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nese. -..t
On Friday afternoon, on the Cincinnati
and Hillsborough road, as the train was
nearing Loveland, lat the rate of thirty miles
an hour, the locomotive struck young
steer, and threw him over the cow-catchet
up against the lantern, thence he dropped
on the timbers below. He was carried
several hundred yards, and was then help
ed off with ropes. AS soon as he was re-
f leased, he bounded away over the fields,
head and tailup, bnt soon returned, and
crossed the track only few yards before
the locomotive, coming very near taking
another ride on the railroad.
A VETERAN EMIGRANT FOR NEBRASKA =
The Monroe (Indiana, Sentinel says
Mr.. Powell, an old revolutionary soldier,
; ninety-fve, years of age, with his wife.
seventy-fve, left there on the 18th ult., fol
, Nebraska, in company with several other
: citizens. Mr.. P. remarkably hale and
vigorous, capable Of chasing deer, with s
rifle a.sboulder, twenty-five miles day