The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-02-20

ted. 4. the child had been born alive by evidence
aramination of the lungs BY the hydrostic test
:. physicians who gave It as the1r opinion Inas ene
Isd lived because the lungs foated in wafer IN
ch pia and in parts The doctors had neglected to
Tnoi,s strictly the temperature OF the water IN
Ill lungs were tested. This was taken adj
Of bv the counsel for the defence Mr. Rich
1s Who by very ingenious and delicate expert
be placed OH the hydrostatic test unless the
Of the water had been very carefully as
iell'tF;ned He put asmal vial of shot, just heavy
cgh to float in water of medium temperature, into
t arm water, and it sunk On putting it into cold
sater The vessel foated. Ample authorities were
s'asad old and new, English and German, to show
~. no reliance should be placed the hydrostatic
.a The counsel declared his intention to explode
III English and German--by hot and cold water
hat should not put another innocent persons life
iaperil.
Tbe Peoria transcripts informed that the Roches
.srtN y J mill erecting company intend to place in
oneraon so mills Of the western prairies, during the
ysar 1856 the motive power Of which is TO be wind
.tone. The Transcript adds: We hear company
;sto Be organised Id Peoria for the Immediate estab-
iishment Of one of these wind mills. We under
aand that the cost of mill in operation Win Two
run Of four feet stones, is only S30o rms m
cost Of building, machinery and every requisite H.
cuding the right TIE patent. One on TINS plan
!. nov ii operation at Rochester, and, with two run
Il stones, thirty bushels Of grain are ground in an
hour. The running of the mill by wind power is
.sn months id the year, about the average time Of
team power deducting repairs, etc, and more than
mast of the water mills 1t represented to be just
that is wanted on the prairies.
Iohn H. Shrock the defaulting treasurer II the
,ouutv Of Holmes, Ohio, ran away with 500 900 of
he public money He was pursued to Europe cap
.red brought back, tried, convicted and sentenced
n one years Imprisonment in the penitentiary-
charles B. Smith, a resident Of the same county,
about the same time, borrowed horse worth seven
tvfve dollars, rode him to neighboring town, sold
lin, pocketedth money, was pursued, caught, tri
ed convicted, and sentenced to the Penitentiary for
tbree years. These facts according to an Ohio pa
nsr prove the law to be farce; we should say, to
be melodrama at least
The imperial horticultural society of Paris has
lust received communication from MI Iessier, one
of its members, stating that the ammonlcai waters
Of gas have the property OF destroying the insects
which commit such rayages On the fruit trees This
ammonical water is mixed with three-fourths it's
quantity Of common WATER and is then sprinkled
aver the leaves and branches of the trees "A small
trench dug round each tree to receive the water
which falls and this kills the destructive insects
which harbor about the roots Of fruit trees.
Rev. Thomas HILL Of Watham, writing on church
music to the Christian Examiner says, sometimes an
attempt is made to alter secular air by changing
the cadence to q religious form. We have recently
heard tunes Of this character from some new coee-
ion Of sacred music popular Irish and negro nelo-l
d
of the subdominant introduced as if it were to sane
tfy them The result is that the tunes are spelled
for whstling on week day, without being rendered
fit to sing on Sunday
IRELASp.-The Cork Examiner recently stated that
The quantity of potatoes at present to be found in
the possession Of the farmers throughout the coun-
try generally greatly exceeds the estimates formed
the close Of the harvest 1t appears that III the
rural districts of Cork business among the dealers
in Indian meal has fallen off TO very remarkable
extent
resolution has been introduced into the council
Of the first Presbyterian church, Buffalo, requesting
the trustees to remove the posts the entrance to
their grounds, on Main and Pearl streets, to sufh
Gent distance to allow ladies wearing hoops to pass
through The width the fair creatures want is not
stated ,E@Ht n
It is announced that the Missouri legislature
which has just adjourned, passed seven hundred and
seventy acts! Think Of those poor devils, the peo
pie, who are expected to make themselves familiar
with the laws of the country Ignorance of the
law excuseth no man" are told. I
party Of twenty.t ladies and gentlemen frora
Rockville, Conn. visited this city on Friday in the
capacity Of sleghng party, dining and taking sup,
Der at the Massasot house, and visiting the
and other Of the prominent features of Springfield
The ladies acted as escorts for the gentlemen order
insthesmeals, paying the bills and furnishing the
comforts Of the trip generally. We shall hope 10 re-
cord many fruits Of this leap year galantry a1aon.
our matrimonial announcements before the year Il
over. fSpringfield Republican
The Frankfort Crescent says that Mr.. Frederick I
Shutter died at Robinson's mills in Clinton county,
the 10th nit, at the age of one hundred years and
FIVE days. He fought at the battle of Bunker hill
and seryedin the revolutionary war as a scout
Thus has departed another of the links that bound
the present TO the past. se 8a# H.
A Mrs. Lucinda Thompson recently obtained
bill Of divorce from her husband, in Crawford coaD-
ty, Ohio, common pleas, at s o'clock, P. ~ At 10
has SIX 4
Iaeott in the presence of the court and bar. They
have fast way of doing business in Crawford
DR.. Cloquet, who since 1886 has filled the post Of
physician to the court Of Persia, has just fallen
ictlm to deplorable mistake, having drunk very
rong dose Of tincture of canthararides instead 81
randy. The deceased III receipt of salary &f
SCOOP. He was chosen by the French academy
when application for doctor was made by the Pei
ian king, and in July last he was married to an
Armenian lady a.5 s.eS Fl.
John Chout, president Pierce's postmaster at Un-
lerhl Center, was arrested on the 7th ultimo and
ault and battery on his daughter, ayonng lady IF
hirty years OF age. The offence committed by tile
onng lady, for which she was beaten BY her father
; appeared before the court, was the reading Of X
! papers He pleaded guilty and was fined four
dollars and cost Burlington, (Vt.) 4 Press
. me German and Belgian papers contain a saerao-
nal sent from Constantinople to the prince Garter
Ky BY the unhappy Poles, who, lured by her high
oandng promises, went to the east in order to form
so.called Polish legion, under the united auspices
! England and France. This document which lis
some length, from its simple, transformations, usl
ecianatory tone, has the stamp Of sad truth. tits
rltten by men deeply wounded in their honor ard
ef material resources, and is signed by two coso.
s four captains, and six leuts., some Of them be-
g veterans Of the Polish army of 1892 .
In the present European war Russia has had a
rye share of American sympathies, but we are very
uch shocked at the accounts of its iuhumanitias
he recent arrival informs that the emperor Alex
lder ii. has ordered special to be formed at
ef for trying captured Poles and Hungarians
he former are to epunished by death, the latter
.iVered to the Austrians for execution SO ma,1v
dish and Hungarian prisoners are taken in Kttf,
lat no fewer than four Judges ten secretaries, ala
culoners lnnumerable, are constantly empovedift
cir condemnation. The blood of these men will
Use like that Of martyrs, and sit heavy upon The Il
'ad, heart and arm Of the Russian emperor .5 C
The Boone county Gndiana) Ledger states thas ~
rec interesting young ladies, on going to bed at Fl
I. Hunts, near North Salem Hendrick countyg a s
evenings since, took vessel of live charcoal Tito
cir bed room, and on the next morning were all =
lnd dead. tits truly surprising that after So manT
cldents and 50 many suicides having been com
tied BY burning charcoal, that persons should be I
careless IN its use. The basis Of charcoal befas. Y
eonic acid, on burning, 1t generates what is u&u- o
termed fixed air, which is of the nature of daliY
wells, and when breathed into the lungs causes j
mediate death. Let nconsiderate persons tske Il
rning from the fate of these young ladies' ~
oil apIn