Washington sentinel., 1854-03-26
NEWS ITEMS.

NEWS ITEMS.
A BRUTAL MoSsTER.-A young man, twenty
years of age, has been arrested, in Norwich,
Connecticut, for the following crimes. He is,
emphatically, "fast man." He entered a
house in Norwich, and committed danger.
Gus assault upon an old lady, and subsequently
murdered another old lady, named Church,
eighty-six years of age, by giving her three
blows on the head with a stone hammer In
1913 he put q stone upon the Worcester and
Norwich railroad, for the purpose Of throwing
train down precipice, for which he was I'M
prisoned five months in the county Jail.
An IMPORTANT QUESTION SErTLED.-Fuller,
of the New York Mirror says: "In company
with several ladies, we called on Miss Fox,
the spirit medium, yesterday. After the
ladies had satisfied themselves in interviews
with the spirits Of their grandmothers, we we're
invited to call some spirit from the vasty Deep
Upon the spur of the moment we asked if the
spirit Of General Taylor was present. Three
rough and ready thumps, far more vigorous
and emphatic than any we had heard, answered
in the affirmative We then asked Are you
still convinced that the Mirror was the first to
nominate you for the Presidency?' Three
laundering raps quickly followed; aud, with.
out the proof of the fact which which our files
afford US, we may now consider the question
eternally settled. Let the Herald put this in
its pipe and smoke it,
A GERMAN, in Cincinnati, has invented
powerful microscope, which has such an i'm.
mense magnifying power, that by it the dust
which by contact with the wings Of butter.
fly adheres to the finger is shown to be
number of feathers, on which longitudinal and
transverse lines may be discovered On very
minute particle ofdust from thewing of midge,
measuring only the one five-hundredth part
of an inch, and onethousandth of an inch in
breadth, the number Of scales is found to be
eighty-four thousand, which gives the enorm-
GUS sum of forty-two thousand millions to one
square inch. ~
BANK FOR SLAvEs.-The New Orleans Cam.
mercial Bulletin suggests that it would be
capital idea to establish savings-bank in that
city, where, with the consent of their owners,
slaves may deposite their earnings. Many, it
thinks, would be enabled to purchase their
freedom, and colonize to Liberia. The B,lle-
TIN mentions an instance where a slave had
deposited $3.50 with an irresponsible person,
and was unable to recover it. ,
A STRoNG-MISDED GIRL.-The Boston Times
says that, one night last week, girl in male
attire was brought into the Centre watch-house.
Her name was Kate Casey, aged fifteen years.
She had been to the Howard theatre, and
when arrested was endeavoring to gain ad.
mittance to her mothers residence.
A BUcKErFUL OF COPPER CoIS was dug
up on Monday by some workmen who were
excavatng cellars upon lot of land in Atkin-
son street, Boston, lately purchased by the Hon.
Abbott Lawrence. Two specimens of the
COINS bore dates of 1885 and 1859, having
been issued during the reign of George III.
Ten CASES OF DEATH by hydrophoba have
recently been reported to the Buffalo COM
mon council by the physicians Of that city.
| The board has adopted resolution to pay
bounty of % cents for killing dogs.
h, GEORGE Laws MusSETs are said to have
been disposed Of in England to the amount Of
over 81, 100000. They viii be ready in case Of
republican revolution in Europe.
THr SMALL Pox is raging among the Chip.
pewa Indians on the south shore of Lake
Superior, and the head-waters of the Chippewa
rivers. 1t is very fatal.
rd- In the case Of John T. Myers VS.. VIM
7. Shattuck, tried for the seduction of the plain
tif's daughter, in the Vigo circuit court, at
Terre Haute, last week, the jury brought in
q verdict Of 81, 500 damages for the latter.
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4 Probably Fatal lAsault.-Yesterday afternoon
difficulty occurred between woman named
Brown, residing at the corner Of goth street and
9th avenue, and Thomas Duffy rag pedlar, when
the iaiier struck thewoman upon the head with a
club, completely disabling her Duffy then fed,
but was pursued by Anthony Brown, the husband
OF the injured woman, who followed him for the
purpose OF ascertainlng his residence. Duffy,
finding that he was followed, turned suddenly and
struck Brown several powerful blows upon The
head with crowbar, causing MIN 10 fall insensi.
bic TO the pavement. A policeman of the 18th
ward happened 10 be in the vicinity at the time,
and arrested Duffy, who was taken TO the JefTer.
son market police court and locked up TO aw al,
the result Of the injuries he had inflicted The