The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1854-02-17
HThe Mayor Of New York says, that the

ne Mayor OF New Ork says, ,lnat INT
annual expenses Of the city now exceed
these Of the four largest States Of the I'm
ION, including New York State.
Thirty thousand men are employed in
the United States in iron castings; twenty
five thousand an the manufacture Of pic
iron; and fourteen thousand in wrought
iron.
VIf you wan, 10 Increase the size and
Prominence Of your eyes, jus, keep an nc.
count OF the money you spend toolishly,
and add il up at the end Of the year.
H- The better animals can be fed, and
the more comfortable they can be kept,
the more profitable they are 10 the farmer
and alliarmors wc<k for profit.
For only three times within the present
century, has wheat reached the high price
of 50 per bushe in the valley Of Genesee
in 1916, 1889 and the present year.
70 Il is estimated that the value o.
public lands for railroads, asked from this
session OF Congress, according 10 the bills
introduced or projected, amounts 10 the
enormous sum Of 1850, 100000.
n<ln In Cincinnati, woman named Brow
nell and her two children, were seriously
injured by the stove being blown TO pieces,
a piece OF wood loaded with powder having
been found in the yard.
u- The " Potiphar Papers, which ac-
quired so much celebrity in Putndnfs
Monthly las, year, have been drama,ised,
and brought out in one of the New York
theatres.
~ An editor who has eleven libel suits
on his hands says he has been discussing .
law with lawyers so much lately, tha, IT is
hard work 10 keep him from cheating some-
body.
IL Senator Badger of North Carolina
is said TO declare ne cannot vote for the
Douglass Nebraska BILL because the faith
OF the South is plighted 10 the Missouri
Compromise.
~ The Mormons report population
OF rs, go. They have in the Great Sal
Lake City, 55 bishops, 25i priests, 95 dea
cons aud eos teachers. There is said TO bt
10000 Mormons in England.
CT Peters, in his History of Connecticut
says that the water at the narrows near Mid
dleiowu, was so compressed as 10 float a
crow.bsr This same Peters is sole au,
ihority for the famous Connecticut Blu,
Laws"
eS The Democratic members OF the
Ohio Legislature, in caucus, balloted for 9
candidate for United States Senator until
o'clock on the morning OF Saturday, Jan
IS, without eifecting choice. They ther
adjourned sine die.
n~We once knew minister who, in de
scIibing the Christians characer and the
ciicumspection OF his walk, said the way
TO heaven required as much care as it did
for cat 10 walk on wall covered with
broken bottles. Ii is something SO with M
editor, if he is TO please everybody.
nvOn the Goth ul,imo, there was a grea
nMaine Law Banquet" at Philadelphia
on which occasion a service OF plate OF the
value of five hundred dollars, was publicl,
presented TO Neal Dow, Esq, OF Portland
by the State Central Committee of Penn
sylvanja.
MoRE KESSEBrc STEERS. Mr.. DAME
Savage sold a pair Of steers, las, week, ioul
years old that giried seven fee, four inches
The purchaser gave him Sl7o for them.
Mr.. |. c. Clifford, Of vassalboro', also
sold pair Of three years old steers ,ha
gir,ed seven feet and Two inches. The
price obtained was 100. Old KennebeC
has few more Of tbs same sort len.
Name Farmer.
woSpERruL! Snook's mother and olC
Mistress Stubbs, were talking about little
babies. "Why," said Mistress Snooks
"when was a baby, they put me in quar-
not, and then put the lid on"
aAnd ild you liver' was the as,onished
enquiry of Mistress Stubbs.
dTAey tell me / did," was the very aston
ishing reply of Mistress Snooks.
swell, did you ever p-and Mistress
S,ubbs fell to knitting like all possessed.
~ Here is a beautiful sentence from
the pen Of Coleridge. Nothing can be
more eloquent, nothing more true:
Call no, that man wretched who, what
ever else he suffers, as to pain inflicted or
pleasure denied, as child for whom he
hopes and on whom he doais. Poverty
may grind him TO the dust, .obscuriiy may
cast i;s dark mantle over him, his voice
NAV be unheeded by those among whom
he dweils and his face may be unknown by
his neiyhbors-even pain may rack his
Joints, and sleep flee from his pillow, bu,
he has a gem with which he would no,
part for the wealth defying computations,
for fame filling worlds ear, for the highes,
power, for the sweetest sleep that ever iell
on mortal's oye."