American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1857-03-21
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A Woman cowhided schoolm aster.
named William Martin, at Greepsburp.,
Pa, last week, for brutally beating her
son with knottcd club.
A bill is before the Louisiana Lepis-
lature allowing the head Of each family
to take three dollar newspaper at tho
expense of tho State. t"
The Michigan Legislature has amend
ed ,heprohibitary liquor law oflhalState +.
SO as to exempt from its provisions the
sale Of beer, wine and cider.
THERE are in the English language
1900 nouns. 40 pronouns. 5000 adjec-
tives, 5000 verbs 60 nte,iec,ions, &c.
In all, there are about 46, 900 words.
An excitement about bribery has
been created in the Louisiana legisla-
ture. A member of the Senate was Of
ferred fifty dollars to vote for q bill in.
cooperating Doibear's Commercial Col
lege at New Orleans. The Senate or.
deled the bill to be burned. s'a
The St. Paul Dem ocrat avs that the
new State of Minnesota will contain
more valuable land and more navipabIe
waters than any State in the Union. '' ''
In Philadelphia there are no less
than nine medical schools, five of them
being irregular. Fifteen hundred stu.
dents are claimed by The nine collect
lively as being in attendance this win.
ter. r# &
1t is estimated that sixteen thousand
acres of wheat were sown in Donphan
county, Kansas, last fall The rich
prairies Of that beautiful country are
represented as excellent wheat lands.
! Forty students have left the Mssis-
sippi University at Oxford since the
holidays; the majority having been ex-
IPelled for the offence of robbing hen
roos's A hopeful Institutions.
A recent medical Journal saye:--
Artificial excitements, whether from to.
bacco, opium or alcohol. iflargeIy per-
severed in, will work ruin tn mind, BODY
and soul" Those who believe that
"heal'il is duty" would do well to weigh
this opinion. .... ......' '....
The Russian Government talk of ma
king an important step for the eventual
abolition of serfdom. by purchasing the
seris OF all Proprietors having less than
a hundred.
| Lemon juice is relied on by the ply.
sicans in London for curing rheuma.
'ism. Three tablespoonsful per day
is dose for man.
There were no less than ten coroDers'
nquests in New York on Wednesday,
upon the bodies Of persons who had
como TO their deaths by sudden or vi.
olcnt causes, under such circumstances
as to render an inves,ig alton necessa.
ry,
Col Forney's residence in Washing.
ton city had been closed since last fall,
aud opened il 6 few days since it was
found that every part Of The furniture
from cellar to kitchen had been gnaw-
cd to pieces by the rats.
Girard College, at Philadelphia, now
supports and educates regularly three
hundred and fifteen boys, oll indigent
orphans. ....
About ono year ago frnan was is-
sued forbidding the sale of white slaves
in Turkey, This frman was owing en-
t'rely to the strong representations nado
by the foreign ambassadors. Redschid
Pasha has now resolved by his own
will, and without any pressure from
without, to forbid the importation and
sale of black slaves likewise.
Washington's Farewell Address was
according to the custom in that State,
read before both branches Of tho Penn
sylvania Legislature on Saturday pight.
Antoine,,e l.. Brown Blackwell, Lu-
cy Stone etah, have presented petitiops
to the Massachusetts Legislature for an
act securing the right Of sufli age to wo-
men in that State.
Henry Brotzmsn, living near Alien.
town, Pa, died of hydrophobia on tho
gath ult., from virus received six weeks
before. through wound in bis fpeer,
while he was assisting 10 skin horse
which had been bitten by rabid dog.
/ James sammons, found guilty in Gin
cinnati, Ten years ago Of poisoning his
fother's family, has been sentenced to DO
hung on the ath Of April next. .s.
Tho newspaper is sermon Gor the
Thoughtful, a library for the poor, and
blessing to everybody, Lord Brough.
am calls !, The best public instructor,