Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1854-01-13

stoppage Then passengers could while leisurely
sitting in tie cars, make their arrangements for
stopping accordingly. The practice now in vogue
of giving the passengers intimation of the time
of stopping, leaves every passenger who steps tenn
porarly out of the cars in danger of being left be-
hind.-BaH. Sun.
SAD CASE OF INsANITY.-A letter from Boston
furnishes the following item, which is said TO refer to
the daughter of the Hon. Rufus Choate:
Il learn that very sad of insanity occurred
in this city but short time since, aad from singu
lar cause. The person deprived of reason is young
lady OF great promise, of very active and extraor-
binary mind, the youngest daugh liter of the most dis
tinguised member of the Suffolk bar. She attended
church not many Sundays ago at the Trinity in this
city, and listened attentivey TO a sermon on the sub
ject Of hell! The influence of the discourse opera
led upon her mind to produce insanity of such
type To require the use OF a straight jacket and
confinement in the hospital at Worcester The par
ents are in the deepest consequence of this
sad event. 1t thought by her medical attendants,
some days since, that she would recover
!
A REBELLION I AusTRALIA.-We have hereto
fore alluded to the dissatisfaction among the miners
/ of Australia. According to article in the London
Times the the crisis already to have been reach
ed Immediately after the discovery of the gold
mines the Home Government imposed a license fee
amounting to thirty shngs (S7,5O) month for the
privilege of digging gold The miners admitted and
paid, but not very willingly. Recently in Port
Philip, the British Governor announced his intention
of doubling the fee The miners refused to pay it :
formed associations to protect each other in that
usa; resisted the authorities sent TO collect it and
finally demanded the reduction Of the fee 10 ten shi
lings 0ne-tb1rd of what it had previously BEEN Al
ter Intellectual struggle the Governor recommended
to the Legislature the entire abolition of the tax :;
and there be little doubt that this advice will
eventually be followed
Thus" says the London Times, the Government
of Victoria is humbled in the dust before victorious
mob and the institutions still left to the colony exist
avowrdly upon Suferdnce." The rebellion thus far
is confined, ii i true, 10 single GLASS; in single
colony; but the example has been set, and is con-
tagous The people have become enlightened, as the
Times again says, as to the secret of their own
strength, and also as to the weakness of the body
which proessed TO control them" The will fol-
low in due time, as a matter of course.
REMOVING FIsHHooK FROM THE THRoAT-John
Greiner, lad about ten year,, of age, residing in
Fifth Ward, was playing on Monday last with fish
hook by holding it in his mouth, when by some
, mishap he swallowed it. He tried to remove it by
pulling the string but it had become firmly lodg-
ed in the lower and back part of the throat. The
little fellow not only frightened, but in great
pain attempts were made by the boys parents to
extract the hook, but they were unable to do it
The hook had become firmly imbedded in the throat
DIR. A. Walters Called and after many fruitess
efforts he at length hit upon this novel and ngen-
ous plan 10 extract it. Having ascerained the prob
able size OF the hook, pistol bullet of suitable d.
mansions was procured, hole pierced in the
middle of it. and placed upon the line of the shhook
and allowed to slip down to the hook. The weight
of the bullet, assisted by gentle pressure downards
with pair of curved forceps, removed the hook
from its situation. Thus liberated the point of tht
hook sticking into the lead, and being protected by
f ii, was safely removed-PHtsburg Journal.
THRILLING INCIDENTAL a temperance meeting
III Philadelphia, some years ago, learned clergyman
spoke in favor of wine as drink, demonstrating i
quite to his satisfaction TO be spiritual gentle
manly and healthful. When the CLERGYMAN sal dowr
PLAIN elderly man rose, and asked the liberty of say
e ing few words Permission being granted he spok,
as follows
t "A young friend OF mine (said he) who had lone
been incorporate, was prevailed to the oy of his
TRENDS TO take the pledge OF entire abstinence from al
that could inoxicate. He kept his pledge faithful,
for some time though the struggle with his habit wa
fearful, Till one evening, in social party glasses
Wine were handed round. They came 10 clergyman
present who took glass, saying few words in vim
: dcaon OF the practce--'' Well" thought the vount
: man, g If clergyman can take wine and Justify 4
so well, why not :" So he also to,k glass I
instantly feklnded his fiery and s!umbering annette
and after rapid downward course he died of deliri
! I'm trenlens-a raving mailman % The old man paus
u ed Tor utlerance AID was just able 10 add" Tha
young man was my only son, and the clergyman wa
the Reverend Doctor who has Just addressed this as
: sembly '' 80
Lord Aberdeen is said to have declared, that ba y
f ing once witnessed forty thousand dead and woun
- ded men exposed hattie field he shrinks fror
the responsibility of being party to any warlik
= operations
a A RIVER FLOWING UNDER CITY-Tbe Newar
IN Advertiser states that some persons who wer
engaged in grading the streets of that cty on the 0t
Instant while working at the of Nesbilt stree
IS between High and Summit came upon large boIf
about twenty feet Deep two feet wide at the mouth
), and seven at the bottom stream of water five fee
deep, running in south east direction was found
the bottom The discovery has excited CONSIDERABLE
curiosity IN the vicinity.