Nebraska advertiser., 1856-11-15
Ntns 9tGnts.

ATTEMPT TO Mon 4 JUDGE.-The
CassYille Ca NaadaTa, of T~hursday.
last, says:
We learn that a crowd of men under-
took to mob Judge Brown in court, in
Marietta, last week, ~onlaccount Of his
having fined several of them for dis
order in the court house. The marshal
and officers Of the court beingpresent,
came to his relief. He fined and i'm
.prisoned several Of the mobiles TO the
.extent of the law.
SLAVES LIBERATED.-Georg w.
johnson, one of the large sugar pllnt-
ers on the Mississippi, below NewOr-
leans, who died recently, has left an
estate valued at notices. than S700,O geo.
He has by his will manumitted all his
slaves, two hundred innumber. They
are all to be sent to Liberia in four
years from his death, and each one is
to be furnished with $50.
r. A. Prior, editor of the Richmond
Enquirer and B. B. Bolts, son of Hon.
John N. Bolts, were a~rraigned before
the Mayor Of Richmond, on Wednes-
day, to answer the charge Of leaving
the State Of Virginia to engage in a
duel. After examining several wit
nesses, the parties were held IN two
thousand dollars each to keep the
peace.
AMALGAMATtoN IN FRANCE. - A
Northern exchange translates from a.
Hayre journal the following extraor-
binary advertisement
"MATRMoNIAL.-A widow 30years
of age, possessed of a fortune of CO.,
900 francs, wishes to marry a nsgro.
between 40 and As years Of age, who
has received a good education. For
further particulars, address Monster
Des Rue E'Etretat, No. 81"
The taste of individuals in this
wicked isproYerbial unaccount.
able.
Anuggetof goldweighing six ounces
troy weight, has been found in a stream
near ArklOw, county Wicklow, Ireland
Mendoza, the old guide who plotted
Gen. Taylor through his campaigninto
Mexico, up to the battle of Buena Vista,
died in Mercer Valley, Texas, a few
days since, at the advanced age of
ninety years.
a very large iceberg, two hundred
feet high, and six hundred feet long,
and apparently one hundred feet longer
under than above water, was passed in
lat. SO S. Ion. 46W., by the Fitzjames,
lately arrived in the English channel.
The mammoth pig brought from
Chillicothe for exhibition during the
Ohio State Fair, was two years ard
three months old, and weighed on foot
one thousand one hundred and thirty
FIVE pounds. He measured nine feet
in length and about the same in girth.
1t is stated that the train on the Great
Northern Railway on which the Queen
of England was a passenger on her
Journey to Scotland, was driven at The
rate of seventy miles an hour.
The emigration from the port of
Liverpool, during August, numbered
10,363, against 8,908 in the cores
ponding month of 1855. Of this num-
Der, 1912 went to the United States;
1861 to Australia; 482 to St. John,
Halifax, and Quebec; and 80 to New
leland.
Mr.. Whitaker has recovered $3446-
SO damages from the Boston and Maine
Railroad for a broken thigh, by col
lision some years ago at a crossing
We learn that there has been a ire
mendous storm on the lakes, by which
several vessels and many lives have
been lost. Itseems to have been most
severe about the Straits, and the North
part of Lake Michigan.
The largest Touring establishment
in the world, it is said, will be in Rich
mond, Va. It viii be II stories when
completed.
More than athousand dollars in cash
have already been subscribed in New
York city for the relief Of the cholera.
stricken people of Madeira.
Lead has been discovered in Craw.
ford county, Missouri. The veins ap.
pear to beyery rich.
An artist in Louisville lately re.
eeived half amillion of dollars by tht
death of a California uncle.
The wheat crop Of WInnebago Co.
ILL.,, for the past year, is estimated by
a careful farmer at 333, 600 bushels.
The land sales of the Illinois Contra
{ Railroad Company for the first weel
, in September reached $4,000. TIL,
average per acre was $16,48.
George Steers, the famous Ney
York naval architect, was killed Of
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