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

-There is an advertisement In a Ken
tucky paper Of a minister for sale. Hews
a slave to anreccnily deceased. li !.
stated that he holds license 10 preach
Churches in want Of pastor will take no.
1t Is said lhat Douglas Jesrold propo.
ses an American tour. He Is now a
wealthy man, but not great many years
ago he was battling with poverty !, and at
one Tine had nearly given up in despair.
"A preacher once said the ladies were
very timid; they were afraid to sing when
asked; afraid Of talking cold; afraid of
snalls OF spiders-but he never knew one
afraid to be married.
in Delaware and New jersey ,bs
peach crop give the promise Of being tho
greatest ever known. Contracts have al.
ready been made in New Jersey for the de-
price. "1'' - . ~"
One OF the Maine Democratic paners
IN view Of the exceedingly urgent necessity
oi union in that party forthe next election.
says that men who would quarrel under
such circumstances would6qht atLleir ,r;ires,
funeral! An appropriate figure.
"A Western editor says if a cotenno,s,v
makes fnces at his sister again, he must mats
up his mind to weas a slice Of court plaster on
us nose for the next three months. 1t strikes
US that this is oaly rou .dabout way of saving
That the party of the second part must look
out Tor what vulgar people would term bat
over the smeller.'
ARMS FOR Kansas. A. Lawrence. IF
Boston, has subs cribed 81 roo to furnish arms
tor settlers in Kansas, and il is said that A.
quantity OF arms and ammu milton has been for
warded, including GO Shary's rifles: If the
Government refuses to protect the settlers in
Kansas these weapons will be useful in vindi-
eating the doctrine of squattes sovereignty
-Jessee Wilson, of Lamar County,
Texas, buys a good "fold nigger' every
year with the products Of his bee hives.
A FEARFUL RrDE.-We learn from the Ind-
annapolis Jouraat, that locomotive descending
he inclined at plane Madison, Indiana, on
Monday last, owing to the wet track, rot be-
yond control of the brakes, and went down tho
plane with fearful velocity. When within n
hundred yards Of freight train which was
standing on the track, the Engineer, Samuel
lder, and he Fireman, Thomas Bizette. took
desperate leap for life from the flying engine.
Slr. ldler was dashed against switch signal
and instantly killed. Mr.. Bizette struck the
ground and instantly expired. Mr. E. J.
Robinson, clerk of the Company, who was
also on the engine, clung to it, and by the COL
!iSlon with the freight train, was shockingly
mangled, though yet living.
A SPECIMEN OF HUMAN NATURE. Last week
while a man employed at the sewerage works
1t Halifax, was being rapidly wound up out of
deep hole, after having lit the fuse OF a blast,
the rope, owing to the carelessncss of parties
ut the top, was suffered to drop back again -
Fhe man fell close npon the impending danger,
and in the sudden view of almost certain death,
fell on his knees uttcring accents of pvayer.
a t"ought struck him, however he seized the
hu ng fuse and pulling it 0ut Of the hole
saved his life. And then-alas, for his pen
ltencc. lie commenced swearing ut the men at
the wheel for having let him slip.
An IMPORTANT QUEsrIoN Settled
The Post Master at York, Pa, recertly
applied to Post Master General Campbell,
to know whether a letter supposed to con-
tain counterfeit money, could be openoI
in order to procure additional evidence in
a criminal prosecution. The reply of tho
Post Master General was cloar and emphat-
ic, that it could not be DONE and that the
only place where such letters could be
opened by the officers of Government was
the dead letter office at Washington CITY.