Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1855-07-07
CLIPPINGS FRon EXCHANGES.

oLiPfMcs FR0M EXCHANGES.
The Chicago J0aEaal Of TeesdAy
says: We learn that destructive hurTi-
cane passed over aportiOn Of KAEe county
on Tuesday last. doing much injury "a
properly. In Geneva. t.e Sweeiisl
Church was blown down. and severn
houses in the village and vicinity unroolei
A Batavia, several dwellings and store.
were unroofed. the storm spirit playing al
vers mad pranks. Great damage wa,
done to the orchards and grain tiells.-
We learn that hail-stones Of considerable
size fell in some portions of the county
! Married people had better keep out oI
Iowa. 1t is stated that at 4 recent term
of the Perrs County Court. in that state,
there we're twenty two applications for di.
vorce-seven;cen uf which were granted
One lady Sc; forth in her petition that her
lord always slept with his back towards
ihcr. She obtained bill. Another Lady
got bill because her husband had hcredi,
tary cold feet and kept putting them Oh
her.
"A man in Pawlet, Vt, after havin5
his corn destrt yed and his wheat field AT
tackled by the sable deprelators, and hav-
ing tried every kind of scare crow, to DC
purpose, he procured strychnine, in which
he soaked some corn, and strewed il oveI
his field. AS a result OF the first days eff.
fects of his preventive, he found the dead
carcasses of 20U crows i'll and about tie
field.
On Saturday, l7th instant, bridge on
the Ohio and Pennsylvania railroad, 3j
miles below Pittsburgh, fell just as a train
with 500 passengers, hal passed over
Going on further, a wash of gravel upon
;hc track OF the road, cau>el the locomo-
tive, tender and baggage ear, to run of
down a steep bank OF the Ohio. The coup
lings broke however, and no one in the cars
was hurt.
On sunday morning last, the rites of
Baptism were performed by an association
of ,ormoas, in the Ohio river at Newport
During the ceremony, an aged man nam
ed Williams, recently from England, ven
turod beyond his depth AMI was soon strng-
fglng for life in the current. His son, a
young man of twenty, went to his assis-
| Itance, but was unsuccessful, and both were
drowned.
WEST PoINT.-Whcn the class which
has Just graduated at West Point entered
that institution it numbered eighty one
Only thirty -four succeeded in holding on
The rest fell off from time to time, from
inability to meet the stringent requirements
oftho school. One of the thirty four was
the youngest member Of the class. Here
atetr there are to be five classes instead OF
four; and the tenn will be extended to
five years.
The shock of an earthquake was expert
cnced at Baltimore and vicinity on the
morning of the 18th, at II mini tes past
II. 1t reused about one half of the in
habitants Of the city, who rushed into the
streets. In the eastern part Of the city,
some windows were broken. The sho, k
was succeeded by rumhliny noise.
James Myers, the clown, and one Of the
ptopr ietoro of Myors and Mahison'o Cir
Gus Company, met with an untimely death
while performing on the slack rope at
Geneva, n. Y. The ring by which the
rope was fastened gave way, throwing him
to the ground with SO much violence as to
dash his brains out.
In the First District Court at New
Orleans, on the 10th instant seven persons
were convicted for murder at the morning
sitting Of the court--tour oi them, named
Callaghan, Shields. Kennedy, and CostcI-
10, to death, two, Haggarty ytanl Scott, to
Imprisonment for life; and one. Johnson,
to imprisonment for eighteen years.
It turns out that the female w'.o was
found dead in Brooklyn, in company with
4 young man-both having committclI
suicide-was New York ryprian anlI
has led bad life for five Yeas. 'FlleI
young man was her companion. and ",leyt
loved not wisely, but too WE'LL.
On Saturday, in Cincinnati, a youngE
man from Lawrenceburg, Ind, steppcd in
to a Drug store and asked permission to
lie down as he was very !. Permission
was given and physician sent for, when
it was discovered that he hal the cholera,
and died Sunday morning.
1t is said by the Journal that Thos. AS
1ury, Of Columbus, intends leaving So
100 to the Ohio Wesleyan University, for
he purpose of establishing a Manual La
oor Department. The donation is liberal
me, and does honor to the head and heart
If the donor.
Among the late candidates for Governor
he names Of Hon. A. II. Dunlevy. OF
" arTen Co., Judge Ruben Hitchcock, o.,
lake Co.; Judge Sherlock j. Andrews, off
Iuyahoge Co.; and John w. Andrews
If Franklin Co., have been announced.
Never trust secret with married man
Who loves his wife, for he will tell her
he will tell her aunt Haunah-and ami
lannah will impalt it as Il l,rof,uad secret
o every one OF her female acquaintances.
"A brother of Horace Greely was late.
y taken in by couple of sharpers at Nj.
CARA Falls, and swindlcd out of sI75 bv
he patent ball game Horace onght 70
end the daily Tribune gratis to that broth :
r.
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wnpDinO nynr tho GoI,I, -, A. C1 lie