The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1855-11-22
News Items.

date lof IfeSluenI OF the Onlleu ClateS III
1856.
The new census of Illinois indicates a
population of one million three hundred
thousand The population in 1850 was
eight hundred and fifty thousand.
The Madison. ind. Banner says every
body in that region is engaged in build
ing corn-cribs The like Of the crops in
Indiana and Kentucky was never seen
before. Farmers have their hands full.
1t is said that the fortune Of General
Cass amounts to the modess sum Of fue
miiilonsl The General has accumula-
ted, this fortune in great part in the ser.
vice of his country"
Henry Smith, Razor Strop Man denies
any sympathy for, or connection with
the Free.Lovers in New York. He says
he has a wife, and doesn't believe there
is another of the "same sort left"
Gerrit Smith has presented TO the
schooner Gerrit Smith. Of 0swego, for
the use Of the crew, the following vol
umes the Bible, the Waverly novels,
and Dicken' s complete works, the whole
being comprised in eighteen volumes
A very queer Gerrt that is.
The Toledo Biade says that the canal
broke AWAY back Of the city at midnight,
on Sunday last, and poured out for a
long time before it could be checked,
driving the inhabitants out of their beds
into the rain. No very great damage
was done.
Livingston, Wells 4 Co., express a
gents have notified the Treasury depart
ment that they will not pay the fifty thou.
sand dollars lately stolen from them until
compelled to do so by law.
The following Indiana Free Banks
have been wound up and their securi-
ties sold. The bills are worth. accor.
ding to the sums realized, the following
figures: Bank Of Connersvile, 81 cents
Wabash Valley Bank, 92 cents; Greene
County Bank, 81 cents; Merchants
Bank Lafayette, 80 cents Laurel Bank,
62 cents Government Stock Bank, 80
cents.
1t is said that Thomas Francis Mea,
CHER Esq, now member of the New
York bar, is about to marry Miss Ara
bella Townsend, a Filth Avenue Belle,
with 250, 900 cash as an incumbrance.
1t is now said that Hon Geo. NJ. Dal-
las is not eligible to the Office of Presl.
dent of the United States. He was born
in the West Indies, where his parents
enigrated from Scotland lie came to
this country with his parents when he
was about nine months of age These
old Know NoLhngs of the Constitutional
Convention, over which Washington pre-
sided, fixed up matters so that he is eff,
feCleelly excluded from that post.
The official returns increase the Amer.
lean vote in New York State. The Tr,-
baae says the American plurality will be
as high as fifteen thousand, perhaps
higher,
1t is said that John P. Kennedy will
be elected U. S. Senator, by the Legis-
lature Of Maryland, in place Of Governor
Pratt, which would be decided improve
mcnt.
At the recent State Fair at Indiana,
polls, various citizens of Wayne county
were awarded premiums, amounting to
near $I 900, besides innumerablo dipIo.
mas,
DR.. 0. B ITeaton has planted a field
Of 800 acres in wheat on his new farm,
near Virden, illinois. Four years ago,
the land was worth $l,25 per acre; now
it could not be bought for S25.
Sixty three thousand pounds of white
fish were received at Sandusky on Tues
day last. The value Of all the fish land.
cd on that day was about 80 500.
Widow Sally Eaton, of North Reading,
Mass, on Saturday, Oct. 9th, attained
the age of 100 years, and was visited on
the occasion by her descendants. She
had six children, five living,) "a grand
children, and 3 great-great-grand chil
dren.
John Steady night clerk and Report
err of the Detroit Post Office. has been
arrested for stealing money from letters
in the office. lie was held to bail in $2, |
600.
1t is settled that A. C. FIagg, the dis,
tinguiShed Gnancer of New York, has
been reelected to the Office Of Controller
Of that city, lie was on the Republican,
ticket, and owes his election to that fact.
We learn from the San Francisco
Chronicle that list of 70 deserters from
the u S. frigate Independence, has been
posted at the San Francisco police Office,
with u promise of 800 reward for the
arrest of each deserter.
The Chinese appear to be returning to
their old homes from California. One
ship from San Francisco to Hong Kong
took back 400, and another about the
same time took back 200 of that race.
1t is ascertaiued that the very best
quality of tobacco can be raised in abun-
dance in California, and the farmers are
beginning to turn their attention to its
production The southern parts of the
State are best adapted TO the culture of
the finest quality.
Our opening trade with Japan is likely
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