Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1856-11-27
NEWS ITEMS.

It is estimated that over Sl50,000 worth
of property was destroyed by the recent
gale on Lake Ontario.
Mrs. Thorn, of Palo Alto, Michigan,
hung herself and child because her hus-
band refused to take her to a ball.
A woman has been fined S25 in Raj
eigh, for going to a fashionable soiree in
a state of semi-nudity.
THE RIVAL RrrLEs.-In England,
there has been a trial of the comparative
merits of the Minnie aud Brunswick
rifles. The result awards preference to
the French rifle, which will henceforth
be adopted by the British army.
Mendoza, the old guide who plotted
Gen. Taylor through his campaign into
Mexico, up to the battle of Buena Vista,
died in Mercer Valley, Texas, a short
time since, at the advanced age of ninety
years.
A New PrsroL.-The Albany Times
states that a pistol has been invented in
that city which will fire ninety times per
minute, carry a ball forty yards further
than any pistol now in use, and that it is
also much lighter and in every respect
superior to Colts celebrated pistol.
In Prussia, males are not permitted to
marry under twenty-five, nor females UNI
der twenty-five years of age. In conse-
quence of the operation of this law, M.
Platow, of the chamber of deputies, says
that during the last year every child born
in the duchy of Mecklenberg was illegiti-
mate.
LARGE TRAIN.-A stock train, con-
sisting of 1873 cars, loaded almost exclu-
sively with cattle, was dispatched east
ward over the Central Railroad from
Rochester, N. Y, on Saturday evening
of last week. Each car contained fifteen
head of cattle. The receipts of the COM
pany for this train were $500.
A RELrc.-Edwin A. Smith, of Smith
town, Long Island, found in his corn-feld
whilst hoeing corn, in the summer, a
beautiful gold coin of the reign of George
|. 1t is in a state of perfection, a guinea,
twenty-five carats fine, dated 17l6. The
field where it was found is not far from
where the British troops were encamped
during the revolution.
NAvAL.-At the Portsmouth, n. H.,
Navy Yard, the Constitution frigate is to
be thoroughly repaired, and fitted for sea,
and the old seventy-four Franklin is to
be turned into a steam propeller, with an
entire new equipment of sails, SC. The
Vandalia sloop-of-war is also to undergo
an entire repalr-all of which will give
much employment to the mechanics of the
vicinity. Norfolk Argus.
LOLA MoNTEs.-Madame Lola Mon
ties closed her engagement at the Forrest
Theatre, San Francisco, on Saturday
evening. We learn that she will play an
engagement, shortly, at one of the thea
tres in that city, after which she will re.
tire from the stage. 1t is said that she
has recently become deeply interested or
religious subjects, and that she intends
living hereafter a life of retirement.
SHOCKING AFFAIR.-About noon yes.
, terday, a Mrs. O'Niel, living in Pine
street, Frankfort, Pa, went out, leaving
her two children alone, and locking then
: in the house. The youngest, a girl two
years old, was playing with the fire, ant
4 the latter communicating to her clothing
she was burned to death before assistance
could reach her. The mother was rem
dered almost frantic by the shocking oc
a currence.-[Phila Bulletin, Oct. 81.
, MARINE HospITAL AT GALENA, H.
LINoIs.-The Secretary of the Treasur,
Y has selected a portion of the east part O
$ the southeast fractional quarter of sec
ton No. "a, asa site for this building
which he has purchased from Michae
McCarty, Esq, for the sum of S5,025
The Attorney-Ge General having reported
n favorably upon the title, steps will b,
taken for the prosecution of the work a
soon as the Legislature of the State cede
Il jurisdiction to the Government.
A RIGHTEOUS JUDGE.-A young maj
was sentenced in Pittsburg, last Saturday
d to six months imprisonment in jail, 70
~assaulting another with "knucklerS." Hi
counsel, previous to the. passing of tn,
y sentence, solicited leniency for his client
!, on the score of good character and gen
Is tlemanly conduct generally. The judg,
n replied that it was fortunate for him tina
h he was not indicted for an attempt I
a murder, and said when people with gen
, tlemanly culture and good character per
formed such deeds, he should punish then
d as rowdles and r~uffians. THE first gen
tleman of the land hal fare no bette
than the poorest man."
Ic GALLANT BoYs.-About two week
# ago, two sons of Mr.. j. S. Whilhoite, G
Monterey, in Owen county, Kentucky
one ten years old, and the other eighr
rode their fathers horse to the Kentuck