Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-10-21
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
WILLIAM RICHARDS, one Of the Mormon saints, late,
deceased in Utah, leaves twenty widows emancpated b.
| his death.
/ Major LEE, of the eighth Infantry, u s. Army wa
long since killed the way from Rnggold Barrack
to the Presidio in Texas.
All accounts agree that the apple crop this season
abundant. Prices at Albany from $l.50 to $l.75 PEI
barrel.
The steamboat boiler inspectors from various parts Of
the Union in session ut Detroit about week ago
with view Of general consultation as to the best mean
| OF preventing explosions.
! The plan Of building houses with mixture Of lime
stone and gravel is exciting considerable attention
under the present high prices Of lumber and brick
/ ANNA HOWARD has recovered verdict Of $l3,0 0C
damages in suit in the Hudson IN " county court
against William X Hail. Superintendent Of the Harlem
Railroad, for breach Of promise Of marriage.
At the Office of the gas company in Cincinnati, the
other day, tested recently invented apparatus for
cooking by the heat of burning gas neat rsn range,
furnished with the proper burners broed beefseak for
half dozen persons at the cost of cent and baked
| at the same time pie for the dessert.
row took place week ago at Schenectady between
q German military company and party of rowdies
While the soldiers parade the rowdes amused
themselves by rolling hogsheads down hill, and thus
breaking the companys ranks. In the evening the same
rowdes broke into the soldiers ball. when the latter fred
upon them, wounding two men, one fatally
The Niagara Falls Gazette says that workmen are bust.
y engaged rebuilding Brooks Monument Queenston
Heights 1t is placed short distance from the former
site nearer the brow Of the mountain, and in
conspicuous position. From the view obtained from the
American side it looks if it would be much larger and
more beautiful than the old one.
French gardener is said TO have discovered that by
painting his lighthouses with coal tar the refuse of the
gas-house, all the insects destructive to plants and
fruits destroyed.
BUTrERWe hear from the interior Of New York State
that the summer weather which has followed the early
fall rains has had such effect upon fall feed
enable the to keep at work as freely as in
June.
The pile bridge the Hudson River Railroad just OPP
posite West Point burnt early Monday morning
distance Of seventy feet. The passengers from New
York had to be transferred to new train below the
bridge. The fire is supposed to have originated from
freight train
Two companies of credulous dupes have lately been
engaged in digging for money which they supposed was
buried South Bay in the town Of Fort Ann, Wash
ngton county, On ~ during the old French war. So
regularly has this idea been transmitted that scarcely
had passed in fifty seventy years. when
such attempt has not been made to the SUPPOSE
tious treasure
Mr.. JAMES UPToN, of Greece, IN. " an extensive
agriculurs has shipped twenty thousand barrels Of
pies to New York by canal this season, and has now
several boats ladng with the fruit He purchases
apples at all points accessible to the canal The crop
this year excellent one better than those Of several
previous years, and the demand for the fruit abroad
makes it profitable one.
On Saturday last Nathaniel Jellison killed in Lew
ston, Maine, by stone thrown from blast quarter
Of mile off. The stone weighed eight ten pounds
On Tuesday the venerable President of Magdalen Col
ege, Oxford Martin Joseph Routh, D. D.. entered his
Tooth year. Dr. Routh, the death of Dr. Geo. Horne
in the year 1871, was elected President of Magdaen
College.
A farmer named Mcdonald, in the township of Code
ch Canada succeeded in freeing four bears the 18th
instant, and then shot them all.
An action brought in Detroit last week for ejecting
young man from theatre for kissing danseuse has
been decided against the eector Holland who fined
thirty dollars The justice gave it his opinion that
auditor had perfect right to hiss actor actress
the stage he had reason for doing, and that per-
had right orcbly to eject from the theatre
until he had first been requested to leave
FLAX CULTURE IN IRELAND.-From official returns it
appears that in Ireland the number Of under
fax this year amounts to l59 1885, against 174579 in
the previous year showing decrease of BAL
in 1854
NEW LocoMorIvE-The Philadelphia and Sunbury
Railroad Company have put another locomotive of great
power their road The of it is the Carbon Run
The company have four locomotives upon their road
The fourth Kansas party is to leave Boston next Tues
day, and will probably be quite numerous.
JAMES MORAN, another Of the parties injured in
the late riots at New Orleans has died of his wounds
He makes the eighth victim.
Mr.. VIM. W. STORY, Of the late Justice Story,
in Italy, has finished statue of his father which he
has been for time engaged The statue has been
shipped from Italy for America 1t has been pronounced
by judges who have it to be perfect work of art
In front Of fine dwelling in Marlboro Mass, there
are six majestic elms which the keeps insured
against injury from lightning fire in the of five
hundred dollars!
DANIEL CHANDLER, of Concord, N. H., has been SEN
fenced to the State prison for life, conviction of hay
ing altered switch which caused train of to be
thrown from the track of the Concord railroad.
1t reported that Governor Seymour has appointed
NJ ALEXANDER VATTEMARE third commissioner to rep
| resent New York at the Paris Exhibition in 1866.