Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1857-02-12

hat a farmer in Princess Anne county
las had twenty men employed killing
lucks, and, up TO the ooh ult., they had
Consumed % kegs Of gunpowder. The
gentleman ships, on an average, 10 bar
els Of ducks to New York every week,
md some weeks as high3l barrels. They
consist Of canyas-back, mallard, black,
,prig-tail, baldfaccs, shovelers and a good
proportion of wild geese.
AN AGED woman, afflicted with an in
durable disease, recently arrived in Roch-
ester, New York, a stranger in the city,
m~oneyless, and fricndless. She said that
her son, having become tired of supporting
her, had placed her and herp poor baggage
ON the cars, and left her helpless as she
was, to take care of herself. She was
in charge by the overseer of the
poor, and the base ingraiitude of the son
is left unpunished.
WI SEE by the Reading pa Journal,
that a connection between the Lebanon
Valley and Reading Railroads was made
a day or 1--WE ago, at the 4 opposite the
Il lclShN b'pol, III lI't my ihO "S'
Locomotive passed up the road as far as
the Schuylkill yiaduct, on the 3D. of Jan.
The Bridge, though nearly completed, is
not quite ready for the passage of the cars.
The main portion Of the track between
Reading and Womelsdorf is now laid.
The new Capitol building at Columbus,
Ohio, is the largest of any State in the
Union. The appropriations already made
amount to 81, 10l,70 35 The architect
estimates the additional cost of completing
the building at 1868, $50 Gil, and of en-
closing, grading, and ornamenting the
grounds at $l50,000 more, making the
grand total of the whole cost of the new
State house to be 81 ,622 $50 80.
The Davenport (Iowa) Gazette says:
"A sail sleigh-not u sleigh for sale
made its appearance on the river ice yes
terday. The motive power was the wind
which gathered in a big sail, sen the
sleigh flying like Il bird across the ice
The sailor navigating it tackled about as
though the craft were in the water, in
stead of on it. 1t was a popular institution
during the day.
TnE READING ADLER published in
Reading, Pa, closed its sixtieth year with
the last number. 1t was commenced in
1897, and has been Published uninterrupt-
edly cver since. 1t is one of the most
lucrative German establishments in the
United States, and strange TO say notwith-
standing the German language is gradu-
ally going out of use, its list Of subscribers
is still on the increase.
The total valuation of the Common
wealth of Pennsylvania for all The coun-
ties, as shown by the auditor generals
report, is SJ3l ,73l, 30l-on which there
is Il tax assessment of Sl,6l9,967 76
! The number of taxable inhabitants is 5S2,.
lS5. The amount of stocks heid by In
corporated companies is 81 ,123 400
Value OF railroads and canals, S33,365,
, GIG.
l Cor. RrAH FRAzER, of Lancaster city
Pa, for many years q prominent politician
r of the State, die | in the Insane Asylum
at Harrisburg, on Tuesday last. Tht
Colonel, it viii be recollected became in
sane n month or two ago, owing to tinan
cial difficulties connected with the Ian
caster Bank, and was taken to the Asylum
IN consequence.
Tur Steam Frigalc Niagara was talel
ont Of the dry-dock at the nayy-yard n
Y, on Saturday the 10Th Of Jan. The,
; are expecting to have her under steam i
c a few days. We are informed that sh
will not, probably, make her trial trip un
! I'll spring.
S y ScRrw Steamship according to til
n New Bedford Mercury is being ftte
e out at Providence for the northern whal
fishery. Capt. Sowle, formerly of tn
ship Sea, of Warren, r. l., is to comman
her.
N Ok THE 9th Of Jan, the Legislature {
~ Rhode Island, in Joint convention, electe
r Hon. James +. Simmons, Republican,
e the Senate of the United States, in tn
place of Senator James, whose term
service expires on the 4th of March mex
IN BY the operation Of a general law
c. the State of Maine, the charters Of all Ii
,e banks in that State will expire during h
$, year 1857, and all have to wind up the
affairs, unless reehartered by the legisl;
rs tuTe now in session.
A SKATING March is said TO have con
OFF in the vicinity of Buffalo, between
to Philadelphian and a New York merchan
for $500 a side,