The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1857-08-26
D' The notorious Buckeye Blacksmith is
the Stale for Wilmoi. M

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Y- The famous Baby that figured in th
Cunningham case, is on exhibition al Barn
um's museum. What humbug.
~ A firm in Buffalo has contracted Il
deliver 900 bushels of Wheat, at de
cline of so cents on present prices.
g The public debt OF England during
the last ten years, has been increased two
hundred aud fifteen million of dollars.
II A white boy, IA years of age, las
week starved 10 death in the city of Brook
lyn. Had he been a runaway nigger il i:
thought the abolilionisls would have fed him
-" In various counties of England proec,
tive societies have been formed Of persons
who pledge themselves not 10 purchase a
tbimble full of sugar until il has declined
four cents pound.
" The Legislature of Hayt, in session at
Port an Prince, have voted 10 raise the EN-.
peror FausIin S salary from $3.50, 900 10 $780,
600 year, which is about $4,000 a year
ol our CURRENCY.
g- An English paper informs us that il
costs as much per annum 10 support the
family OF Prince Albert, as ii does 10 support
forty thousand families OF workingmen.
TT President Buchanan was at Bedford
Springs ten days, and during his stay there
not man introduced the subject o: office,
although The place was crowded with visit
ors. 1t is said the President likes TO men-
tion this fact as complimentary 10 his native
Stale.
B Bayard Taylor, in late letter from
Germany, mentions having drank wine Two
hundred and ihitythree years old, i, having
been gathered in 1924, just four years after
The landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth -
lie says its taste was oily and otherwise dis.
agreeable.
II The State Agricultural Society Exhibi-
lion will be held in Philadelphia this year,
10 commence on the goth Of September, ard
continue four days. The grounds at Powell.
ton will be occupied for The exhibition. The
premium list is an extended one, and quite
liberal in It's details.
Ey The Canal Department of the Penn.
sylvania Railroad Company has been placed
under the charge of w. b. Foster, jr., Vice
President, as General Superintendent ; T. H.
Dupuy, E'q, Engineer, and d. L. Mitchell,
Esq, Secretary and Auditor.
rg The London correspondent of the N.
Y. Commercial Advertiser speaking of the
season in England, says: "The summer
continues without single day of cloud or
rain, ard the harvest is everywhere being
secured in the most splendid ordern
~ a lew days since a minister in Sene-
ca Falls. New York, hired livery horse aud
buggy TO go of a journey. He was absent
Two days, snapped horses six times, and
came back to the stable with The same morse
he took out, having made 500 by the ope.
ratious. ...- 20
EV' There is county girl up in Vermont
who is about to apply for patent for what
she claims to be an improvement IN 'hoops"
for ladies' skirts, They are TO be made from
Il pumpkin cut in one continuous coil and
therefore going up on spiral course they
are supposed to combine something of tho
merits of baby Jumper.
FREE SuFrRAGE.--Tbe people Of the Sale
of North Carolina have voted, by large
majority, in favor of the proposed amend
men, 10 the constitution, allowing qualified
voters for members of the House of Com
nous 10 vote also ror Senators.
THE CINCINNATI rRAeEDY.-Joseph Loef-
ner, who recently murdered his wife and
N. T. Haron, a merchant OF Cincinnati, has
been committed for trial upon the charge of
arson and of murder in the first degree in
two instances.
THE WAGON RoADs.-By private advices
we learn that the Fort Keamey, Honey
Lake, and South Pass Wagon Road Expe.
dition, DR.. w. Nj. +. Magraw, was at Fort
Kearney on the 3lst of July The parry
were all well and in fine spirits.
Hon. A. A. Smith, Judge of the Sixth Judi
cial District in Arkansas, died in Camdon
on the 4th inst. He was a man of extraor-
dinary. ability and extensive popularity.
The 7th Annual Fair of the Warren Coun-
ty Agricultural Society will be held at
Youngsville, OH the 10th of September.
There were twenty-five sail vessels and a
number of steamers in the harbor of Eric
on Sunday last.
A. X. Mcclure has been nominated fof
the Legislature by the Black Republican
Of Franklin county. 49,.
Sun FLowERs-Near Edith, South Carroll.
ma, crop is being gathered of four acres Of
sun.howers. The seed will be used for oil,
aud TO feed cattle and poultry, as in the South
of France; But the chief object is 10 Obtain
the fibres of The stalks for paper making
If the cultivation succeeds, il is expected 10
supply abundant materials for fne writing
and printing paper, as we'll as fine and
coarse for paper hanging