Nebraska advertiser., 1856-07-05
Nt6s Stems,

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A little boy diedin Bangor last week
from the effects of using al o~ldtobacco
pipe to blow SOAP bubbles with. His
little sister, who used it with him, is
living dangerously i'll. It is supposed
that they we're poisoned with the es-
sential oil of tobacco, imbibing from
the pipe which they were using.
The acting British Consul at Phila-
delphia is Mr.. Mathews, son of the dis
missed Consul.
A case of Black Vomit occurred a
few days since, on board a sloop that
hadiust arrived at Washington, from
the West Indies.
A company of thirty men have en-
rolled themselves to emigrate to Nj
caragua, at Washington, Texas. They
leave the 18th Of July.
The Methodist General Conference
has established the Kansas Conference,
embracing Kansas and Nebraska, and
all that part of Utah and New Mexico
lying East of the Rocky Mountains.
A very audacious robbery was com
mitted recently in Spain. A picture
of the Assumption, generally ascribed
to Murillo, OF at least to one of his
best pupils, was taken from the high
alter Of the church at Mendiguren,
near Vittoria.
A writer to the Chicago Tribune,
having accused Mormon Strang of
having nine wives, the latter denies the
soft Impeachment and says: "What
distinguishes him from the most public
men is, that he has nobody's wife but
his own"
Cattle and horses are said to be
dying by the hundreds on the American
bottom of Illinois, either from some
%virulent disease which has become cpl
demic, or from some poisonous herbs
growing there. The symptoms in all
cases have been found similar.
The 81. Paul minnesota Pioneer
says that good spring water carried
about in that city, costs about thirty
cents per barrel, and river water from
ten to fifteen cents, according to the
distance. In Winter time the rates
are much higher.
Car-building in France is making
rapid strides toward perfection. On
the Orleans Railway people can now
goto bed-fairly undress, and have as
good a nights rest as they could get
under a four-poster. For this the
traveller pays the price of two seats.
On DIT, that Mr.. Edwin Forrest is
about to marry Miss McMaken, daugh-
ter of the proprietor of the SATURDAY.
Courier, Philadelphia. This seems
very unlikely, however, as wepresume
it to be.absolutely necessary ito be off
with the old love before he takes on
with the new" :
lew days since a piece OF copper
ore, weighing twenty-four pounds, was
found at the Belgian settlement at
Green Bay, Wisconsin, which was
nearly pure. Several other pieces
have been found in the same neighbor-
hood, some Of which were too heavy
to be removed without mechanical
power.
Hon. Ryland Fletcher declines the
nomination for Governor, made by the.
Anti-Fillmore Convention of Vermont,
and has written a letter to the Know
Nothing Committee, officially notifying
them of his declension.
Green Adams and B. F. Rice, the
former the Know Nothing and the
latter the. Democratic Presidential
e%lector in the Sixth District of Ken
lucky, have already commenced the
canvass, and are stumping the district.
The Chicago Democrat, edited by
Hon. John Wentworth, Familiarity called
"Long john" who, for a number of.
years, was the Democratic representa-
tive in Congress from Second District
of Illinois, has hoisted the name of.
Col. John Charles Fremont, of Cali
fornia, for President.
A valuable horse, "Abdallah Chief"
belonging to Austin Wales, and others,
of Detroit, broke his leg a few days
since, in ~springing up after rolling
He was bred by r. G. Ace, of Orange
county, who sold him for 1000 dollars.
MI. W. a few weeks since was offered
5000 dollars for him. He was valued
at 1000 dollars, and was deemed one
of the most beautiful animals in the
country. After his leg was found to
be broken, he was killed.
The business of cutting logs at the
West is one of great magnitude. Last
winter on the following rivers the
amount of timber cut was: Rum River.
100, 900, 1000 feet. Upper Missouri,
40, 200, 600feet; st. Croix, 100, 000, 900
feet. Total, 320,000,0 900 feet. Thus
we have three hundred and twenty
million feet of timber now on its wav
down the Mississippi. Whot a forest
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