Smyrna times., 1855-08-29
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rapidly on the increase, if the telegraphie dis
patch published day or two since, announcing |
394 fatal cases there last week, be correct.-
This is an increase on the previous week of
103, fitty-three over the highest number in |
the year 1854, and precisely the same as the
largest number in any week in lS47. 1t is |
feared that before September comes and goes,
the record will be one quite as melancholy as
that of the dreadful fever of 1888.
METHODIsM IN AUsTR are now
in Australia in connection with the Methodist
church ll6 regular clergymen, besides a num-
ber Of native assistant ministers 1897 men,
bers, of whom 1880 are Europeans. and the
remainder native converts in New Zealand.
the Friendly Islands and Feeiee; 25,379 Sun
day and day scholars, $4,000 attendants upon
the ministry; 4l2 churches and 80 other preach
ing places.
0E.r The Cattle Show and Flowing Match
of the Agricultural Society of New Castle
county, will take place on Wednesday and
Thursday, the 10th and 1Ith of October.
match OF moving machines will also take place
on the same day as the blowing match, on the
farm OF DIR. Brown, on the Newport pike
.0(F Judge Constable of the Baltimore Coun.
ty, Circuit Court, died in Philadelphia, of con-
sumption, on Wednesday last. In the demise
OF this gentleman, the State of MARYLAND has
lost one of her abest and most eloquent sons.
and the bench one of its brightest ornaments
lie served with distinction in the I.egisature
IN the Reform Convention, in Congress, and
lastly as Judge Of the Judicial district of Bal
tlmOre.
The FEVER AT NORFOLK-The publishers
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suspend the puplicatian of that paper in conse.
quence otthe prevailing epidemic leaving them
without any efficient assistance The deaths
are from ten to ~ elve day, and the coIored
population, contrary to jhe experience Of other
cities where the fever usual v prevails. are
nearly as liable as the white inhabitants to its
attacks.
COLORED MILITIA number of colored
men of Boston, who had organized under the
name of 3" Massasoit Guards" with the lnten-
ton OF forming and appearing as a military
corps, recently appliad TO the commander-in-
chief for a loan of Massachusetts State arms
and received notice that their application was
refused.
An lNsATIATE VoLuPrrARY .-Orson HYDE
an Elder IN the American Church of Utah ana
lhGprop-IctOr OF several Salt Lake spraglios /,
at present IN st. LOUIS The object of hi.
visit, 1t Is said, Is to make additions To hi:
| hareh III the persons of ten aliianccd wives
now IN that city, wllem he will AXE measure,
to transplant to Salt Lake CITY, What am un
conscIonable appetite tins hUary old sinner mus
possess! Most men fud Que wife as much a.
they can comfortably manage, but what mus
ne be who voluntarily takes them by tens!
OI-rp M Tun-I.y II
kudd, son IT COninandcr Rudd OF the Navy
waa nssauItsd n the strect,ncar the Mrthodis
C""tch. IA Fredericksburg, Va, by some un
known ruthdns- who knocked hlm down an,
llred pistol at hun, the ball from which pass
ed through his hat.
lAPosroRs.-.l slgo!Iiny bcggar and hls wife
VINO applied to the superintendent of the poo
IN Rochester, N. Y, for a railroad passage Il
Buffalo, on the pretence that they were utter
ly destitute, were seached, when one .lundre,
and scventy-fve dollars in gold, WAS toun,
upon them.
GoING TO EURoPE.-Col. w. w. Scaton, on,
OF the venerable prGprlctors of the NatIona
Mteliigtncer, LETT New York in the steame
on Saturday, for Europe, on u tour of relaxa
ton, and to visit his daughter, the wife of TN
American Minister at Stockholm.
AN OLD CITIZEN GoNE.-Stephen Willis
Esq, one of the oldest citizens of Christian,
Village, died on Tuesday the 18th inst FL
was for many years engaged in surveying, bu
: tor considerable time had been ncapac tate,
by age. lie had reached his 18th year.
0T The importation of guanO In the lutte
States during the last seven years, ending Jun
20, 1854, was "a 900 tons. The largest i'm
portatlons were from Peru, and the smales
| from Africa, being only I49 tons. In 1854 tn
importation OF guano nearly quadruplcd thos
of any proceeding year.
O3- number of the cOlOred population q
Trenton, on Sunday, took one of their ow
number, rode him OH a rail, ducked him in tn
canal, for living and cohabitmg with couv!
OF white women.
0[-T The Hoosiers on the Wabash turn tbei
"agy shakes" to some account; they clm
into the top ola " shell bark" Just as the chill
comes on, and by the time the personal earth
quake" leaves them there's not u hickory nu
: OH the tree.
REMOVAL OF TONNAGE Duty "A recen
letter from Amsterdam says that the State
General have passed an act, which removes th
necessity oi paying tonnage duty at that port
W
a REAL NATIyE-William Walker, hal
breed OF the Wyandot tribe OF Indlans--a maj
OF education aud wealth, and who glories il
his Indian blood-as spoken of as Il candidat,
for Congress in Kansas.
ACQUISITION OF CUBA.-Mr. Dodge, our new
Minister at Madrid, it said, has limited at IN,
: acquisition of Cuba. The bare suppositior
} that he has done so has brought out the whole
Spanish press, including the official Gazette
, against any such purpose.
New York SrATE.-Full returns of The
present census have been received from .:
counties. which in the year 1850 had l, ,O32. .94;
inhabitants. They now have l,0S9,565, q
meagre increase of 56,622. This is exactl,
one-third OF the State.
65- The Corn Crop in Kansas, which at firs
promised nothing but starvation, is represented