Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-04-22
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which the peace will have been signed, the
crown jeweler has been employed in the orna
mentation Of the quill of an eagle, and with il
the Plenipotentiaries will afiix their signatures
....,. Costly Iakstand plenipotentiaries,
in signing the treaty of peace in Paris, made
use of a silver gilt inkstand specially ordered
for the occasion. The inkstand is decorated in
the style of the first empire, and cost not less
than ll,O00f
$500. Religious 15leration.--A Protestant
minister was lately arrested in Spain for pro-
mitigating doctrines contrary to the established
religion. A Judge at Barcelona however, has
since decided that the Spanish constitution
establishes religious liberation, and the minister
in question has been discharged
.. Bardstorn in Ruins l-Bardstown, in
Kentucky, was almost reduced to ashes on
Saturday week last The fire broke out in the old
Green Tavern, and burnt through to the bluff
to southeast corner, levelling every thing as it
went. 1t burnt in its course one house for J..
G. Matthew; one for Mrs. Turney; two for
Dooney; one for NJ. Wickliffe; one for Mrs.
Gebway; G. w. Hills dwewlling and Office
McCoon's house; Methodist Church; ]. c..
Wickliffe's residence; the old school-house; A.
Moore's residence; Mrs. McAters residence !;
NJ. Donohue's house, Frien's old barn and
stables, and other buildings.
H. nJJa.y CL., TIL ,LoI La~n.,,.
Maria is said, by the New Bedford Mercury, to
be the oldest vessel in the United States She
has just returned to that port from the Pacific.
She was the first ship that hoisted the American
flag in the river Thames at the conclusion of
the war of the American Revolution.
...... The trial of the so-called prophecies,
Rhoda Wakeman, and her two disciples, Sly
and Jersey, for the murder of Justus w. Ma
hews, few months since, at New Haven,
under the influence Of religious fanaticism,
and which created SO much excitement at the
time, was brought to a close at New Haven,
April II, by the rendition of verdict of not
guilty, on the sole ground of insanity. The
prisoners we're all tried under one Indictment,
and no other result than that arrived at could
well have been anticipated, for the voluminous
evidence adduced on the trial went to strengthen
the conviction that the deluded prisoners were
wholly irresponsible for their acts.
...... The Japanese officials report that on
the 18th OF December another severe earth.
quake visited Jcddo, destroying houses and
temples, and burrying nearly 5000 people be-
meath the ruins.
$500. At Wilmington, IN. c. on Wednesday,
the Kitchen and boarding house, occupied by
Mrs. Barcliff, and owned by j. Z. Bunting
we're destroyed by fire, together with two stables
belonging to J. A. Taylor. Loss $4,000; no
insurance.
...... The Washington Light Infantry Com.
pany Of Charleston visited the "Cowpens Bat
tle-feld," in Spartansburg District, Is. c. on
Wednesday, to erect monument on the spot
which local traditions point out as where Col.
Washington, at the head of his troopers, over.
took the retreating British, and gave them the
FIRST taste of his steel. The foundation of the
monument will be of concrete, composed of
cement and sand and shells from Fort Moul-
trie, mixed in water from Eutaw Spring. On
this will be placed the base, an eight-sided slab
of white marble, from which viii spring cast
iron shaft surmounted by bombshell, on the
apex Of which will be golden eagle, being a
fac simile enlarged Of the staff of the Eutaw
flag, which is the heirloom of the company.
.... There is to be great demonstration of
the whole Masonic craft of Western Kentucky
and Tennessee, at the laying of the corner stone
of Western Kentucky Masonic College, at
Dodgeton, Fulton county, Kentucky, on the
oath Of June. More than forty Masonic bodies
will be present, and the arrangements for the
festival have been made on an extensive scale.
$3.50. The Pruntytown kva.) Gazette an.
nounces that destructive fires broke out in the
woods in Taylor, Barbour, Preston, and Har-
rison counties. Many thousand panels of rail-
fence, besides mills, barns, stables, grain, and
hay stacks, were burned up. Thomas Bartlett,
on Pleasant Creek, lost at least 1000 panels
Of fence. The loss Of James Newton, near
Pruntytown, is still larger. All the fencing on
his farm was consumed. Robert Rogers lost
$500 worth of grain, hay and rails. The saw.
mill Of Silas Giles and the barn Of Mrs. McIn-
tosh we're consumed In fact, hundreds are
believed to be sufferers.
...... There are seventy-one banks in the
United States having a capital Of a million OF
dollars or more each. The Bank Of Commerce
at New York has the largest capital, namely,
FIVE millions Of dollars. The Merchants Bank
Of Boston is next, having four millions. The
Bank Of Louisiana, at New Orleans, comes
nearly up to the same mark, 1908, 900 capital
The American, Exchange and Metropolitan
Banks Of New York have each three millions
and the New Orleans Canal and Banking Com
pany, and the Bank Of Charleston, s. c., have
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