Houma Ceres. [volume] (Houma, Parish of Terrebonne, La.) 1855-18??, 1856-02-07
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of whom were foreigners. and 3,l41
Americans 8. 479 were committed H..
672 were males, and 1887 females
The cholera is committing fearful raw
ages at Porto Rico. In one village Of
/ 900 inhabitants, 500 are reported to
have fallen victims in brief period.
One of the Oldest citizens of Boston,
who had just passed his ninety-second
birthday, was lately married to veneer
able lady of seventy-two summers.
The President, in his late message, re.
commends the construction Of six steam
sloops Of war. @
In the Post. Office Department, the ex.
cess Of expenditure over receipts, for the
fiscal year, was two million six hundred
and twenty.six thousand two hundred and
six dollars.
A gold covered Bible was lately offered
for sale in Philadelphia, for i've hundred
dollars. ~ & ~
The Florence (Ala.) Gazette, strongly
advocates the construction Of branch
railroad from that place to Tuscumbia. to
intersect the Memphis and Charleston
road. 5A5
In Boston during the year 1855, the
number of deaths was 4,O75, being $3.50
less than in 1854. ..rE s,ss.lg
The aggregate receipts from customs
at Boston during the past year amounted
to s7,733.7s4 being decrease Of $780,
6ss from the amount received in 1854.
Born Houses Of the Mis- sissippi Legis-
lature have passed bill to increase the
salary of the Governor to $4,000.
IT appears by statement in the Phila-
delphia Inquirer, that 977 buildings were
erected in that city during the year 1855.
In the city Of New York during the
past year there were I4.496 births, $685.
marriages, and 22,7s7 deaths.
We learn from the Washington Star
that Mr.. VIM. r. Nixon, Of Louisiana, has
been appointed to first class $4,000
per annu,n) clerkship in the Office Of the
Sixth Auditor of the Treasury. as.
In Fayetteville, N. c., on the night Of
the 4th ult., faro bank was broken up
and the apparatus was seized and burnt
in the streets next morning. The gam
blers had been in town only few days.
One Of them escaped and the other depos-
tied 81 900 as bail. - ' p
A Mr.. Isaac H. Hall, acting conductor
on tho Providence railroad, was Instantly
killed q short time since, by being crushed
while coupling two cars. This is the
third conductor who has been killed on
railroads, within a few weeks, while ill.
ing the station temporarily Of the regular
conductor who was absent on visit to his
friends. 1t shows the danger Of inexpe.
rience on the trains. .,,.
CAPT. Abel De Forest, soldier Of the
Revolution, died at Binghamton, New
York, on the oath ultimo. aged e5 years
and 8 months. He was, for = time, Cap
tain Of a West India vessel, and Hull, ii.
forwards Commodore Hull, was then one
Of his hands. af'Ai slg
A BOY, sixteee years old, has been COM
mitted to the House Of Refuge in Balti-
more, for having stolen his mothers
jewelry, broken her furniture, and finally,
for having attempt to stab her. e -sl..9
Iris reported that the Nicaragua Tran.
sit Co. and the Pacific Steamship Co.
are about to amalgamate their interests.
The terms, it is said, are agreed upon,
and the contract drawn out, - 2
DuRINe the year Guiding Dec. l. 1855,
there were received at Detroit, BY the
Michigan Central Railroad, Is, 974 cattle,
96 horses. $1,000 hogs, and 1855 sheep.
Nearly all were destined for tho Boston
and New York markets. A8 M
The Segar business in San Francisco
is said to be immense. A single stand
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