The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1857-06-17
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A Coon fpE..-an agricultural society up
ia Vermont offers the following premium
. A beautiful silk dress THE color and quality
10 be optional with the fair reeipient,) to the
maker of the best Loaf Of bread-the compete
tors TO be unmarried ladies'. and the commit.
tee Of Judges 10 consist Of bachelors and
widowers.' Il j. generally ihapght that
bachelors in search o. good housrkeePers
oil. be on hand at that agricultural fair.
The FIRE in Brooklyn. IL. H. mentioned
By telegraph. destroyed 1858 hOgsheads Of
sugar, $50 barrels Of molasses, and 200 hides.
Loss nearly quarter Of million Of dollars !;
insurance s209, 500. The fire was caused By
sparks from laborer's pipe falling upon .
bundle Of hay.
Spiritualism claims two more suicides.
George Stiles. Of Milford. Wisconsin. shut
himsalf through tie heart las, week AID
day or tan alters ards, his uncle. William
Stiles, stabbrd himself with ~bank u hay
fork. Both were spirituali.is. and died
martyrs TO their faith.
Somebody says Fortune is 6ekle." No
such thing Fortune is always pouring
forth. plenty. happiness. anil hanor; but men
sometimes get lazy and careless, and hold
their platisrs wrong side up aud then blow
away ~ Fortune. because she doesn't hll
them. That's tie truth &c the story.
Mr.. Lewis Kent. Of Talapoosa county.
Alabama, recently cut bee tree. Of the honey
from which the family partook. The same
night two III the children dled IN consequence;
and several others. at last accounts. were 10
4 pIecariOns condition.
The National Inielligrneer received on
Friday lasi from the venerable John johnson.
~ Cincinnati. an officer IL the Government
as far back a. Jeifrr.on's Administration. the
remittance d his fifty fifth years subscrip-
ton.
The Postmaster General has decided that
Deputy Postmaster cannot be compelled 10
obey a summons 10 appear 10 court with
valuable ur other letter that rests 10 his Office
addressed 10 another party.
young man n.med Knov. a printer, has
met with . sal bereavement. An uncle
whom liz hal never seen, died tie other ,lay,
aud let him $4,000. NJ. Knox has the
.ympphirs II the entire craft.
The yiek.burg papers contradict the re.
port that 500 900 had been subscribed in
Mississippi TO bur plantation Tor eI.Presi.
dent Pierce. Nothing q The kind has been
,lnne.
The sword prepared BY order Of Congress
Tor preseutatiun 10 Gen. Weol. 10 spprreis.
tim 81 his gallant services rendered 10 Mex.
ieo. and especially at the battle 81 Baena
Vista. has peen presented to the veteran.
PROrITApLG lSTEsTMgnT.--'rhe Episcopal
Fund u The Diocese u Iowa. some o. 900,
was invested 10 lands toupl, Of Yeas or 90
ago; the lands thus purchased are now esti.
mated 10 be worth $50 900
The Savannah Republican gives eredenos
70 a report that there are, ~ the present
time, one hundred and fifty sail engaged IN
lie African slave trade.
A great number ~ wcleh have purchased
large bully of land in Tennessee, aud sill
sOUn leave for The United States.
A man was recently arrested 10 Albany
on a charge of stealing his daughters ear.
rings 70 bet On a dog fight
Choice beef from Tennessee has been sold
lately 10 the Savannah market at thirty cents
per pound.
There are seven paper mills IN North
carolins. turning out IL 900 lbs Of paper pet
day.