Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1856-12-04
NEWS ITEMS.

ut LAST yates, ONN hUlldrcu ana sixteen
students had entered the State University,
at Columbia, for the present session.
For kANsAs.-A train of cmigrants
for Kansas left Iowa City ON the both inst.
conducted by Gen. Lane.
Two UuNDRrD thousand dollars have
been contributed for the establishment, in
the South, Of a Theological Seminary for
the Baptist denomination.
SupDrN DrArn.-On Friday the DIST
ult., DIR. Geo. W. Moore, formerly of
Detroit, Michigan, died very suddenly of
inflammation of the stomach, at Council
Bluffs, Iowa.
The President has appointed Thomas
S. Cunningham, ESD, of Beaver CO., Pa,
Associate Judge Of the Supreme Court of
Kansas, to fill the vacancy OccasiOned by
the death Of Judge Burrell.
The Lagrange Bullctin, of the 9th inst,
estimates the number of hogs, hat will be
packed in that town this winter, at $4,000.
Contracts have been made at "a to 50
per cwt.
The first theatre ever established i'll
America was at Williamsburg, Va, Sep
TENDER 3, 1852. "The Merchant of
Venice" and Garrick's farce of -" Lethe'
were performed.
TnE Triennial Convention of the Ger
man Reformed Church were not able to
obtain a quorum. They sat four days.
4 Committee, of which DIR. Shaft was
Chairman, propose to constitute a General
Synod, instead of a convention.
The harder a man works the less he
gets. While the poor devils who dig our
canals get five shillings a day, the rutfied
shirt that oversees them gets five dollars.
Queer world, isn't it Bees starve their
drones, we starve our workers.
BALTIMORE AND Ono RAILROAD
The Baltimore American states that the
gross receipts of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, for the month Of October, have
been verylarge, exceeding by about ten
thousaHd dollars the receipts for Septemo
Der, Mhich were S459.Sl9 Is.
/EPIsCoPAL GENARAL CONVENTION
ION Monday, Oct. 18th, an amendment to
article 2nd of the Church was adopted,
permitting none but COMMITMENTS to be
members of the General Convention of the
Protestant Episcopal Church of the United
States.
POPULAR EorE.-Actuai and estima-
ted returns of the late Presidential election,
stand about thus:
Buchanan, 900
Fremont, 100000
Fillmore, 100000
Total, 3,75O,OOO
The completion of the Grand Trunk
R~ailray from Montreal to Toronto, will
place the former city in railway connexion
with the seaboard and Western States.
The distance from Montreal to Toronto,
by rail, is 333 miles. A train has al
ready passed over the road from Montreal
to Toronto.
FIRES IN NoRFoLK.-A fire broke Out
in Norfolk, Virginia, on Monday morning
about 2 o'clock, which is stated TO have
DESTROYED the office of the Norfolk
American" and greatly injured an ad.
joining building. A rumor prevailed thai
parties suspicioned of having fired the
"American' office were under arrest. A
second fire had also occurred in Ports
mouth, destroying six small tenements Of
little value.
TIE following is a " correct list" of thu
names Just given in baptism to the infan
daughter of the Duchess de Monpensier
-o Marie de Regla, Francisco de Assis
Antonio, Tulsa, Fernando, Amalia, Felepi
Isabel, Adelaide, Christina, Josefa, JOa
uuina, Justa, Refina, Lufgarda, Carolina
Bibiana, P~olonia, Gaspara, Melchiora
Baltasara, Ana, Aguada, Lucia, FRANCHISES
de Paula, Ramona, Todos los Santos
Brigidia, Dionisia."
/, GEO. BRoGDIN, tried in Toronto, Canadi
for the alleged murder of Thomas Hen
derson, has been acquitted. Henderson
was the bosom friend of Brogdln-hl
schoolmate, and the companion Of his ad
vancing manhood the latter took Hen
derson to his house, and while there Sc
, duced Brogin's wife and stole her ava,
f from him. Brogdin followed him 70
many weeks, finally caught him and she
. him dead. The verdict Of a Toronto jur
was, that he served him right
2 Nebraska Legislature.