The American. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1857, 1857-09-16
THE NEWS.

/ THE NEWS.
the of barley for bread and speaks of receiving
from Aroostook county, specimen of -four from
grain cut August 8. The Maine farmers acknowl-
edge early barley bread, taken hot, to be real
sluxury, and especially so, as it comes at season
when the meal aud -four chest is low, and Genes
see rather high The average yield Of barley on
new land is agerthaR wheat.
DEATH OF THE Hon. GEoRGE g. DUNN.--The
Hon. George g. Dunn, Of Bedford, Laurence county,
Indiana, died at his residence, in that place, on
Friday, the 4th instant of an enlargement of the
| spleen, from which he had been suffering for
| eighteen months. He was forty years Of age.
| During two terms he was member Of Congress
from Indiana, though by birth and education a
| Kentuckian.
| LARGE SALE OF Bibles AT the New York trade
sale, on Thursday, an invoice of Bibles from Jas
per Harding 4 Son, Of Philadelphia, amounting in
the whole to over ten thousand dollars, was dis
posed Of. This is probably the largest sale Of
Bibles ever made at one time, and indicates the
extensive operations Of the publishers Nj /,
The BIBLE ABRoAD.--At the forty-eighth an
| nual meeting of the Board Of Commissioners for
Foreign Missions, on the 9Th instant the afternoon
session was occupied In listening to statements Of
great interest concerning the progress Of christian
inquiry among the Turks. DR.. Schanf1er and Mr..
Treat just returned from Constantinople, spoke at
length on the subject. They describe the Turks
TO be fast awaking to earnest inquiries concerning
Christianity The Bible is freely sold every where,
lrby Turks and to Turks, even in the yard Of st.
Sophia's Mosque. Many haye become Christians
and been baptized and some of them are preach
ing the Gospel. The Bulgarians are also earnestly
inviting missionaries to come among them. The
Koords are also gladly hearing the Gospel In
eyery direction there is call for direct missionary
4 labor, and many Of the native churches are opea
to the missionaries for preaching The work among
! the Armenians has reached its highest point of
demand, The downfall of Mohammedanism in
| Turkey will be its downfall in India and every
where The Turksjudge of the inspiration of holy
books by the condition of the nations receiving
them.
The Secretary of State is grbdning over his APP
pointment of special messenger to Nicaragua
1t will be remembered that some time since Mr.
William Carey Jones, Of Washington city, was
sent out for the purpose Of procuring certain in
formation respecting affairs in that country, for
the basis Of official operations by the government
time, and at last comes--no information at ALL
but cock-and-bull story of the agent about being
| robbed on the Isthmus, and subsequent trials and
| sufferings that would melt the heart of stone
if that stone had implicit confidence in the story
The appointment excited considerable surprise at
the time, and the results have been only what
might have been reasonably expected. feel
sorry for General Cass whose usual good judg-
ment was doubtless overruled for the sake Of
obligng his old friend, Col Benton, whose rela-
tive (by marriage) the agent is Wash. Cores
| Pa. Inquirer. a,
The Democratic Convention of Syracuse, IN. ~
over which DR.. Taylor, the chairman Of the Barn
| burner Convention of ls49 presided, settled the
the city of New York by admitting eight delegates
from each Of the prominent factions, and allowing
| them to choose one
The Convention nominated the following ticket:
mptroler-Sandford Church Treasurer--Isaac
| Vanderpool; Attorney General yman Tremaine;
Secretary Of State-Gideon Tucker. aiI ;
ATLANTIC CRY, Sept. lO.--A fatal accident oc-
CURED yesterday at the new Methodist Church,
- IN course of erection here. large rafter
nov : some six or seven persons, broke
upon which werv..- - wound, distance
and precipitated them all to the 3. --~Ar
Of over twenty feet. One man named COM, :.
was almost instantly killed, and another, named
George Scott is not expected to survive. The
Others are all more or less injured. DR.. Pitney, Of
Absecom was sent for, and has since dressed their
wounds.
SUICIDE OF A LADY BY HAsGISG.--We learn
from Mr. L. Williams, of Throopsvile, that on
Saturday Mrs. Horton, wife of Wines Horton, ESQ.,,
formerly of Sennett in this county, and now Of
South Butler, Wayne county, committed suicide
by hanging herself in piece OF woods near her
residence. She suspended herself from branch
Of a tree by means of two skeins Of yarn. She
was the sister of DIR. Mccarthy, of Throopsville
The cause of this deplorable act is said to be do
nestle troubles. She and her husband separated
| about year since. We learn that her mother
and sister both committed suicide some years ago.
| Auburn 4mericdn
| DEATH OF THE OLDEST PERSON IN ILLINOIS,
Mrs. Catherine Donnelly, whose death at Wood
4 stock, McHenry county, on Tuesday, last, was an.
nounced in this paper, was one hundred and eleven
years of age, and was probably the oldest person
| in this State. She was native of the county Ty.
| rome, Ireland. She was the mother of twelve
children Notwithstanding her extreme old age,
she retained the full use of her faculties to the
last and until very recent date was able to move
about the house. For the last fifty years she has
restricted herself to one meal day, and that was
| always partaken Of after IL o'clock in the day
Chicago Journal, Sept. 8.
BEHIND THE TINEs.-A North Carolina paper
says: There are great many people who live
in ignorance for the want Of newspaper. Last
winter while travelling between this place and
Raleigh, we met man who conversed intelli-
gently about farming, but who had not heard of the
death of John O. Calhoun or Gen. jackson. He ex-
pressed great regret at their departure, and could
not imagine what the country would do without
them He was told that General Pierce had kept
things pretty straight, when he asked "Who Is
| Pierceg"
EFFEoTs OF WAR.-During the Mexican war, a
company ICY of 100 effective men shipped from
Detroit The company went to Vera Cruz. OF
these 10 were cut OFF in the forty days before Vera
Cruz. Five more persisted afterwards. The small
| remnant Of 80 returned from the campaign, and
went into quarters at Detroit. Of these, 10 have
since died and Of the Is living, not one is capa-
bic of doing hard labor.
| ARREST OF POSTMASTER AND HIS DEPUTY
Henry Reinback and Louis Reinback, Postmaster
and Deputy Postmaster at Franklin, Illinois, were
arrested on Monday, charged with robbing the
mail They have been suspected for some time,
and on Monday last decoy letter was prepared
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