The daily union., 1856-03-28
GENERAL NEWS.

ting through the village In order to connect II with the
Greenyle railroad and understand the contractors all
along the line from this place the Stump House
tain are rapidly getting along with their work"
COLD coMFoRT.-Alfred Conklin, for more
than twenty years United States judge of New
York, the personal and political friend of Mr. Fill
more and minister to Mexico under that gentlemans ad
In long letter of the lth inst declares he
cannot support Mr.. Fillmore.
CINCINNATI, WILMINGTON ZANEsynLE RAILROAD
This rood the GAINESVILLE Courier of the 24th instant
nounces completed that city The Courier adds:
"In day two regular trains will connect with the
depot of the Central Ohio railroad in this city and will
largely add TO the business Of both roads And what Is Of
interest learn that the has been raised
pay the interest upon the income bonds due in April
CONVICTION WOMAN MASslACGHTER.-Martha
Connor been convicted of mansaugher Charleston
South Carolina tor killing Morris UGrady.
A wELIcsEsrowED rEssIoS.--The English government
has granted pension OF f2oo per TO Mr. Francis
p Smith, the inventor of the propeller in considera-
ton OF the services he has rendered his country the first
proposer and filter Of the to the mercantile marine
and feet Of Great Britain.
METHODIST oosrrRrNcr--The Philadelphia Ledger of
Wednesday last says:
"The Philadelphia Methodist Episcopal conference
senbes to-day the Trinity Methodist church in Eighth
street 1t is quite large embracing about hundred
preachers The territory within the bounds includes two
thirds of the region between the Delaware and the Susque
all of the State of Delaware and the Eastern Shore
of Maryland and Virginia"
CONTRADICTION OF THE RrxoR OF BnITsu
TO CAsApA-The United Service Gazette well-informed
military authority published in London-has the follow
ing in its last issue:
We are enabled state from authority that orders
have been issued for the return to England of regiments
from service in the Crme that no directions have been
given for the embarkation OF regiments to Canada, and
that orders have been given TO the brigade Of
guards to send any more draughts to the East
TEACHER BRArEs ruPIL~-At a school
near Mlgrove Ohio few days ago, the teacher Harri
son Kelly being about to punish pupil named James
William, aged seventeen struck stunning blow by
the latter with club and the next instant stabbed
with dirk knife Most of the muscles of the left oin
severed and for time fatal result apprebended
the teacher is recovering though he will probably
be a cripple for life
BEAVER IN ALABAxA-The Dallas Gazette of Friday last
says:
Our friend, Major G., shot beaver last Saturday
the Cahaba river which weighed forty pounds 1t is said
there good many beavers still left in this region, and
their numbers have increased n late years. because men
have ceased to hunt them as a business
Cnors IN CARROLL COUNTY MAaYLASD-A letter from
says
We have still any quantity of snow the ground.
The grain where it is bare of snow looks WELL and has
net bsen at all injured by the winter"
INSURANCE IN MAssAmusHTrs.-The amount of property
the citizens of Massachusetts, which insured
in the varoas companies in the State IL not far from FIVE
hundred millions of dollars OF this heavy aggregate
hundred millions insured In the thirtyfour stock Offices
in the STATE hundred and NINETY nons in the sixty
four Mutual Fire Insurance Offices, aud hundred and
thirty millions in the thirteen Mutual Marine and Mutual
Fire Marine insurance Companies.
THE FIRST sALmos.--The Portland (Maine) Advertiser
says the 6rst salmon of this taken last week
somewhere above Bangor, and Saturday IL was on its
way to the st Nicholas Hotel New York.
DEcLNRD--Rev. Dr. n. l.. Rice has declined the call to
the First Church 10 New Orleans where he offered the
extraordinary salary Of $1,000 per annum.
A xrw LINE or srrAxsHrs-The Diario de Ia Marina
announces the project Of line of steamships between
Havana and Cadiz. The steamer Ocean Bird, daily ex-
peced from the United States will the service
and will sail on or about the lst al next month TO be fol-
lowed fifteen or twenty days after by the steamship Mex
leo.
PERlIors yyAr AT NIAGARA FAuS-The Rochester Ad-
verser states that few days ago man cut cane from
Blackbird island Uverhangng Niagara Falls. The feat
was performed In this wise The ice had made from the
shore considerable distance until it almost met by
the ice from this island but still there frighuui
space between where The water boiling AID surgng
over the cataract Nothing dauned at this he procured
an ladder with which he erept along the Ice
and managed throw 1t over that both ends rested
the edge OF the ice the gulf and than went
himself the rounds OF the ladder After cutting stick
of red cedar sufficient make three four canes he %
tened IL over bis shoulder and then made the perlous
over the rounds Of the ladder in the way he
went
ARRIVAL oV MoRMoNs.-Tbe Burlington Gazette Of the
instant saws some two hundred Momons from Sweden,
Norway and England arrived in that city their way to
Salt Lake city.
MuHcAL-Ole Bull and bis troupe in New Orleans,
where they are announced to give several concerts.
Local rrEMs-Tbe local items Of the Council Bluffs Bu
gle have the merit Of exceeding brev We clip tho fol-
lowing from the last issue Of tha, lively paper
le-u the river getting rotten tis dangerous to
cross.
Enthusiastically pleasant days and frosty nights
Saor-Is all gone except occasional deep drift"
OrrTr COMPLIMENTARY "A periodical has appeared in
Edinburgh called the Wavey Journal which 10 stated to
be edi,ed and published by ladies' and to be intended
or the cultivation Of the memorable the progressive and
the beautiful An essay upon "American Young Ladies'
In the frs, number represents them the us ultra Of
feminine civilization. "The New York young lady says
the cssays ais the imbodimsnt of style she shows what
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