The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-04-18
News by the Mails.

news Oy the MAILS
A sea monster WAS caught Punta Rossa, on the
Florida coast, the 28d ut which had mouth three
and half feet long, and wide enough to swallow
four inches its length body nineteen feet and breadth
nineteen feet, and weighing 5000 pounds.
:. Gey Resdsr, Of Kansas is going to Washington TO
the proper authorities.
French family, man and wife and Ave children,
were recently found to have been murdered and buried
prison The motive Of the monstrous crime was fifty
dollars worth Of goods.
Widows who have received forty acres Of land, and
who applying for the additional hundred and
twenty granted them under the late act viii not
DO required to furnish proof Of their marriage and the
death Of their husbands when that evidence has already
been furnished and is fe They must furnish proof
however, Of continued widowhood.
At Fort des Moines Iowa. there ia dreadful scarcity
Of women In house were found nineteen bachelors
and only one married couple The editor entreas the
ladies to come out there.
The Governor Of Nebraska has appointed Charles B.
Smith Auditor of the Territory, B. Rankin Treasurer,
and James 8. lizard Librarian.
On the 4th inst Mrs. Edward Thomson Of Lottesvile,
Her husbands brother, Nimrod, her assistance,
and, before reaching her, fell on the aosr corpse.
Their deaths were not two minutes apart
An affair Of honor has just been settled without resort
to weapons, between A. Pryor, Of the Richmond En-
quirer, and James Mcdonald, Of the Lynchburg Vir-
gnan This is the second affair Of the kind Mr. Pryor
has had on hand this spring Editors are looking up in
Virginia.
The total number Of applications under the bounty
land act, up to the 18th inst has been sev0nty.ona
Thousand two hundred
bill has been reported in the legislature Of Massa.
chutetts to erect new county from parts Of Medlesex
and Worcester to be called Washington. Every State In
the Union except California Connecticut, Delaware,
Massachusetts,, Michigan, New Hampshire and New Jer
sey contains county named In honor of the immortal
One young in the vicinity of Boston sho. himself
last week. because he could not get wife, and another
because he could not get divorce.
The Albany argus says the steamboats, every morning
arrive heavily laden with merchandise for that city and
the West: That vast space known as the steamboat
landing, is daily crowded with piles Of freight
We learn from the Buffalo papers that the ice extends
in one unoroken for than hundred miles
up the lake. and unless there should be decided and
mise Of lake navigation before from the first to the
tenth Of May.
petition in circulation in Cincinnati asking the
the torpedo man. who destroyed the lives Of Allison and
his wife, to imprisonment for life Arrison was SEN
fenced to be hnng on the 18th of May.
What has become of Brigham Young's grass widows
who were to lecture in Boston on Mormonism?
Hon Mr. Hiss, who so earnestly desired the acquaint
ance Of sister Joseph in the Roxbury Convent has de-
clared his intention not to reign his seat in Massa
chusetts House of Representatives.
train of forty care, containing live stock, was
brought into Albany on the 14th inst the Central
railway The train was nearly quarter Of mile In
length.
In Adair county KY the 9th of March, the vene-
amabe Mrs. Mary Adams sged years. who is entirely
blind
There very general complaint in Louisiana Of the
and the absence rain have seriously injured the cane
Dog poisoning in Newark, N. j. is creating consider
able excitement among the citizens One hundred and
fifty are known to have died already this month and
among the number Is one which lately saved child
from being run over on the railroad by train Of cars
and another which had run wild der merchenen for 4
long time, and whose likeness was cut in stone and
is used.
The entire loss resulting from the destruction Of the
steamer Huntsville. by fire. the Asaiasippi n feur
days ago, Is about $500 600.
man, named John J. Jones, was recently arrested in
Lockland, Ohio, on charge Of Numbering a person
named McCarde, at West Point NO. fourteen years ago
The House Of Representatives OF Wisconsin by vote
Of "A 10 "a have restored the death penalty In that
State. The Senate have yet to act upon the matter
VIM. p. Denton, Esq, a counsellor at law and member
OF the last Legislature Of Massachusetts shot MIN self
through the head with pistol at his residence in Bos-
ton, on the 18th inst and died almost enthusiastically
Elijah Wilkinson killed bis brothsr.in.lay Mr. JC
Young, by shooting him, in Mobile, the It'll Inst
Last sunday forenoon the colored sexton was ring
ing the bell Of St. John Church, Richmond, Va, It
broke from It's fasteDings and came crashing through
the hocr to the earth distance Of ninety feet. The
exton stepped aside
specimen of paper, manufactured from the common
cane the bamboo OF the Mississippi river has been
hoited ut st. Louis, and is highly approved.
The Grcmen Of Mobile celebrated the seventeenth
OF the organization Of the department. on the
The hemp factory Of Douglas Beer in st. Louis was
destroyed by Gre on the 1stn inst Loss, $4,000; nsu
rance S43,5O0.
In Orange county. Florida which has population of
four hundred persons, there has not been death in
twelve months
The San Francisco Sun, Of March IA, states that fifty
two murders had been comm tied in that State since the
LIST day Of February, averaging more than day.
Alexander Ramsey, late Governor Of Minnesota Terri
tory, has elected Mayor of st. Paul. by large ma
jority.
Thomas Greig convict, worked 50 well at the fire In
the State prison, that Gov johnson mas par
doned him out.
Twenty Of the caukers who struck for higher yaees t
the Charlestown, Mass, yard have gore BACK to
work at the old priceS2 80 day. The gang OF eau y
at work upon the frgste, numbers about
mem and y 70 thought she viii be entirely caulked ia