Squatter sovereign., 1857-01-06
News from all Quarters.

" IA Ii ofA Til StsAs1 III -.
G. Danserre communicated his beautiful
Invention 70 the world in 1889.
% Gun cotton aud chloroform are discoy-
ertes but q few years old.
c. Astronomy has added number OF new
planets to the solar system.
e Hoes printing press, capable Of print
ing zo,ooo copies an hour, Is very recent dis
coseTy-
G. The statement that yidaurri had en-
te;ed iTto an ansicahle treaty with CoInuonsort.
is confirmed.
r. Fulton launched the first steamer in
iSUs noIs there three thousand steamers
trayersiEg the waters OF America Only.
e. IN the legislature to-day, r. =. ". Al
stois was chosen governor, OF South Carolina.
and Hon. 6. Cannon, lieutenant governor.
G. The electric telegraph had its begin
cling IN 1915. The electric magnet was discoy-
cred il 1912 j; eleeteotyrins ia ssiil a later in
yelstioa.
gy A. P. Calhoun, Esq, has been rc-elsct-
ed President OF the South Carolina STATE AgTi-
cultural Saciety.
q Mira Granville Whytes' cltins 20 the
authorship Of . John Hailifaxn are now urged
anew. Meanwhile the publishers chdclle and
,
- i Republican Safe Convention for the
Nomination OF candidates for Congress and
State officers, viii be held at Concord on the
cth ef January.
c. The Arkansas Legislature have made
an exeravagant grant of land to the Cairo and
Fulton railroad, which the papers say will be
great monopoly il that State.
Jthn Middleton, born in Lancashire,
England was nine fest three inches high. Pat
t1ffpr ha Ptar- ta,a Ii csi-
born IN iI6i, was nine feet seven inches in
height.
e Historians relate that the Emperor Max
| inns was isht feet 81. inches il height. In
| the reign OF Ciaudian, man was brought out
| OF Arabia nine feet nine inches tall.
eE The origin cs rice is traced TO Ethiopia;
that OF buckwheat to Asia; Of asparagus to
asia; OF horseradish 20 China; CT potatoes to
Brazil; cf cabbage to Holland; Of parsley to
Esyps; Of 5cans 10 Greece; Of pears TO Spain.
e. Gazette is one CT the earliest names
given TO = newspaper. Like Picayuna, the t.
tie Cf well known Ne7 Orleans pa PER IL de-
rivss It's origin from small coin. = Gazette
was paid IN senice for the purchase OF the pc
rusai OF tee hrst paP=E printed taers in l62c.
g. Needles were first caaufactnretlia' Eng
laiad bF Esgro frcta Spain, during the reign OF
GAeen Nary tie bloody. Upon his death iha
art was iosf, a94 net recovered again lii 1866,
In the reign of Elizabeth, :. hen ksias Groves.
: German, according 10 the ca-oniclcz Stowe,
taught the ait to tee English.
e. Gas light was nnknoyFa in 1S00; now
every city ana town is lighted with gas, and we
have tn. asnoiIEceErasnE greater discoy-
cry h which light, heat, motive power. may
ali be produced frcm water, with scarcely any
cost.
Ye The ST Paul Democrat gives the result
OF q
| can be ag9eT: aimed:
| Counciliors-9 Buchanan men; Fremont.
RapTese1, ,atives-19 Buchanan; IS Fremont;
independent
fg- Tn.1s25 the first railroad was put in op-
erasson in Massachusetts. In 1900 there was
not single rsiiroad in the World n the T.
States alone there are now 'S.T97 niles OF rail-
road, coetiRg $2S5, 200 800 10 build, and about
22,Cc9 miles OF railroad in Europa.
| 4 very handsome pair Of elks with
| sp!ciliid aatlaTs recently arrived in New York
from Texas They are to tEot on the Union,
rsce-course, perfectly geatle and yTeii train
ed and will 90 mile in three minutes.
e. On sataFday night at O'Clock the esz
steamer Kentucky, yics forty miles above Gin
ciaaati, burst her steala-pipes. scalding eleven
deck handa and fireaen, aas! six deck passen,
gers Three OF the wounded soon died. The
| others were taken to the hospital, and are al
badly hurt. It is thought that four CT five
more viii die.
The wicked Boston Chronicle saws tha:
q flesy kind Of Telegraph is suggested by re-
cent writer, namely, to place a line OF women
| At the distance of fifty PAGES from each other
ard then coHl,aiS to the first the nsws 70 bg
/ transmitted PROFOUND SECRET. Ii Is con-
! fi1entiy thoGght that there would be greateI
dispatch secured by such plan than BY any
| telegraph no" in operation.
e. Almonds are ssid to have come into
| England first from DaIbary, about 1913.
Apples from syria, about 1a222.
Ep-icots from EpiTug. about 15f1.
| Cherries from Ponttls, as early as 4. d. 100
Goossberries from Flanders, before 1910.
| Peaches from Persia, 1862.
| Ounces fro:a Austria, 1878.
S-raberries from Virginia, before 1895.
Grapes from Portugal, 1923.
Muiberries fgou Italy, 1928.