Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-05-06

of scizzors, recently. We keep on hand /
hickory club for such animals, and the frs
chance we get we intend to use it. We're NO
poking fun, but are in dead earnest.
800. California Oliges.-It is said that the
olive tree will flourish in all but the mountain
GUS parts of California as well as the oak. In
great many olive trees growing in their gar
dens. AT San Louis Obispe, there are some
very large olive trees growing upon the old
mission grounds The value of the olive crop
in Italy, Spain, Palestine, and other Mediterra.
mean countries, is enormous, and the importa-
tons into this country Of the fruit and oil is so
large, that it should stimulate California far
mers to obtain share of the trade Of an article
that can be SO easily produced upon the singu-
larly productive soil of that State.
...... Husband and Wife.-The Legislature
of Georgia has passed an act to define the liza
blities of the husband for the debts Of the
wife, and to define the liabilities of property
received through the wife for the debts of the
husband existing at the time of the marriage.
1t provides that hereafter, when persons inter
marry, the husband shall not be liable for the
debts of the wife further than the property re-
ceived through the wife will satisfy, and that
the property received by the husband through
the wife shall in no case be liable for the debts,
defaults, or contracts of the husband existing
at the time of the marriage" Several other
States have looked into and secured women's
rights in this important particular.
an Old One.zNA statement copied
from German newspaper, says that on the
22d of March last, some well-diggers in Ma
yence excavated part of printing PRESS
bearingt the letters j. G. and the figures HAL
The initials are supposed to be those of Johan
mes Gutenberg, while the figures indicate that
the press must be at least AIS years old. What
a, crowd of reflections pass through ones mind
on contemplating the history of that press
What contest between the past and present
When that press was built it was regarded as
an instrument of the devil While in our day
it is viewed as an agent Of Providence for the
cultivation, civilization, and christianization of
the human family Could that press, without
the aid of man, speak its own history, what in
teresting facts it would be able to relate Of the
progress of literature, the rise and fall of ma
tons, and other facts in morals and religion, in
which mankind generally take an INTEREST,"
An INCIDENT IN CoURT-When Miss Ma
tilda Heron had finished her evidence in the
case of the stolen diamonds the other day. in
Recorder Bright's court, and as she was step
ping from the witness-box, she dropped rose
from her bouquet, which, gentleman present
having picked up, he was politely requested by
the accomplished lady to accept. Wherenpon he
improvised the following lines, which, some
way or other, have found their way, first, to
the lady, and then to us:
& La rose cea pour Fam0ar"
gift of priceless worth
But am all too poor
To win the crown of earth
The crown OF love so bright,
So beautiful, so true,
Which CLEANS from realms Of light,
halo over you
Eyes, dark and deep fate,
Hair, sovereignty rolled
A glorious Lesbos crown,
With Sapphic thread OF gold;
Alas the rose is mine,
But not the love il tells
That love has sought shrine,
Where a nobler image dwells!-
Sale of Washington's Cravat and Jefer-