Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-02-04
DOMESTIC ITEMS.

DOMESTIC ITEMS.
The number Of destructive fires in North
America is increasing at rate that is truly
alarming
Miss Mary Ann Hunt, aged 10 years, died
in Boston, ON Sunday, in consequence of inju-
ries received by the explosion OF burning fluid.
The Iowa Reporter says the emigration into
that State this year is immense. The addition
to the population from September lst to De-
cember lst from emigration alone il computed
at so 900.
The supply Of female school teachers for the
West, in which Gov William Slade has taken
an active interest for years past, has been
eminently successful, and productive Of much
good
Mr.. Smith, you said you boarded at the
Columbian Hotel six months; did you foot your
bill ~ aNo, sir; but, what amounted to the
same thing, the landlord footed mo- Verdict
for defendant. Call next case.
The next State Fair Of Ohio will be held at
Newark.
daughter of G. w Camp was accidentally
burned to death in Norfolk, on Saturday
There were one hundred and eighty-seyen
convicts in the Western Penitentiary of Penn
sylvania, during the last year.
meeting Of the people Of Massachusetts,,
to express their opposition to the project of re-
pealing the Missouri Compromise, will be held
in the Faneuil Hall, on the 10th instant.
The Portsmouth, Journal dominates Edward
Everett as the next Wing candidate for the
Presidency.
Fred Douglass accepts the appointment to
address the Literary Societies Of Western Re-
serve College Hudson, Ohio, at the commence
ment in July.
A resolution has passed the Board of Assist
ant Aldermen, New Orleans to erect monu-
ment to that noble philanthropist, Judah Touro.
As the character of the monument is not indi-
Gated, remarks the Delta we suggest that the
city appropriate 100000, to be added to the
$50, 600 bequeathed for that purpose by Mr..
Touro, to build an almshouse, to be called the
Touro Asylum. Good.
The man who made shoe for the foot Of a
mountain, is now engaged on hat for the
head Of a DISCOURSE after which he will manu-
facture plume for General Intelligence.
Punch defines courthouse as a place
where penny's worth of justice is purchased
with shilling's worth Of law There is only
one thing less profitable than suing people,
Thirty thousand persons are employed in the
United States, in the business of making iron
castings twenty-five thousand in the manu-
wrought iron.
France is about to recruit ten thousand ad-
dtional seamcn.
Snow is sold in Santiago, Chill, at two dol
lars per hundred pounds-and it ia said that
the contractors do not give good weight at
that
Some Of the bankers Of Cincinnati give notice
that they hereafter charge half per cent. in ad-
dtion to their regular rates. on all paper dis
counted, on account Of the increased State tax.
Col Abraham Moore died in Boston on Mon
day, aged 6s years
A man named Butterfeld was frozen to
death in Concord N. H on Sunday. Rum!
Alice Mccoy died suddenly, in Pitsburg, on
Sunday. Rum
The timber seized since July i, on the Wis
consin and Chippewa rivers, as having been
felonously cut on Government land, amounts
to sixty million of feet and is valued ut from
$3.50, 900 to $5O0,O00
A series OF resolutions IL before the Legis-
lature Of louisiana commanding the action of
IonRress III bne hRZth case, anu uenying the
right Of the Government TO interfere with oiti.
zens showing active sympathy with the Cubans,
80 long as they do not involve their country's
honor.
Mrs. Landrexuf has recovered $40 900 dam
ages from the New Orleans Railroad Company,
for killing her husband by carelessness on the
road
Rents are to be advanced in New York, for
dwellings twenty to fifty dollars per annum
The New York Herald complains that Col
lector Redfeld is appointing Free-Soilers to
Office, and adycrtises in the chief Seward organ
A call is made for John Van Buren, in New
York They want to hear him on the Nebras-
ka bill.
The abundance of floating ice in the rivers
and bay, at New York, is producing great an
noyance and causing the detention OF the ferry
boats. The North river is solidly frozen over
80 that teams cross on the ice a. low down as
Dobbs's ferry
Alderman Sturtevant was the othor day COM
United to Eldridge street prison, New York, TO
servo out his fifteen days for contempt.
GILMAN'S .HAIR DYE.
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