Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1857-07-31

Islands, on fishing excursion
Say Orange peel contains an active pois
onous oil, which ieopardos llfc every time
IL is partskcn.
pdy- A late decision of John Petit saws
the city Of Lafayette is without any govern
ment
Bay Thoy are oil discoveries that think
there is no land whom they can sec nothing
but sca
bsSr Gov. Wise, Of Virginia, is at Wash.
ington to assist in the settlement Of tho new
Kansas war ut the South
sey- The man who took passage on the
wings of morning returned on the shades Of
night lie is doing we'll
D2S- Tho ancionts were Of opinion that
Echo was maiden who had pinned away
for love, until nothing but her voice was left
p1- John Van Buren, has recently been
rusticating at the residence Of Fletcher,
Webster, Marshheld, Mass.
pfg- The Free State men of Kansas, claim
that the census OF the inhabitants Of tho ter
ritory recently taken, shows population Of
near fifty thousand persons.
Day- Wo learn from the Piermont Wing
that among the visitors expected at the Eau
quier White Sulphur Springs this season is
ex-President Pierce.
Ds1- In Boston, Saturday, young mar.
ried woman was burned to death by the
ovcrturning Of fluid lamp which she had
placed by her bedside before going to sloep.
BS- This is truly progressive age we
1.-Two in. There are no "little girls" now
The sex jumps from infancy to young wo-
manhood. They talk of marriage at ten,
and at fifteen have families
p% An old man of 81 years, got lost in
tho woods near Nellisville, Wis, n short time
since and subsisted for nine days on cranber-
ries before he was found
Ia A correspondent expresses his belief
that the Schuyler fraud injured the Rail
road property of that county one hundred
millions of dollars, i. e., its market value
s<S- Since the opening of navigation in
February there are said to have been at least
two hundred persons drowned in the Ohio
River, between Wheeling and Pittsburg.
B6- The New York Aldermen have
voted to send special messenger to Eng.
land to induce the owners Of the "Great
Eastern to send her to that port
IA The amount of money contributed
by Edward Everett, to the fund for purcha-
sing Mount Vernon, derived from the audi.
snces at his lectures, reaches $4,000
edr We think that professional fox.
hunter is playing an even game when he risks
his own head for an animals tail Itmakes
precious little difference whether the result
be heads or tails.
p~ The woman put up at rattle in Per-
hams gift enterprise, recently, and who
brings her draree the sum of s25, 900, with
her hand and heart, has been drawn by a
man in Palmer Mass Unfortunate mortal
B6- The n. Y. Central X. r. Co., dis
charged about five hundred employees on
the first inst, the usual falling off Of bust
ness in the summer enabling them to make
this reduction of force
Bey- An English paper gives an account
of tea party Of sixty old woman, who were
the mothers Of eight hundred and sixty-nine
childrenl They must have had something to
talk about at that tea party, we should think
p6- A Kentucky editor thinks he is to be
pitied be cause he has been "a whole week
without mail intelligence Perhaps some
are still to be pitied more for having been al
their lives without intelligence of any sort.
pa Gen. Walker, report says, is about tc
return TO Nicaragua. We have no obiec
tons to his return to that country, but hope
no one will be silly enough to 60 with him
If they do, they may learn lesson that We
have been trying to improve upon since SO.
RAJ A cheap and handy remedy for diar
rhna is simply to take tumbler of cold
water, thicken it with wheat -four to tn,
consistency Of cream, and drink it Thii
is to be repeated several times during the
day, or as often as you are thirty; and it i:
not very likely that You will need il on the
second day
na5- The last letter of Mr.. Marcy, ad
dressed to Hon. John NJ Bolts, of Rich
mond, was TO introduce the latter as hi,
friend, to Hon. Thos ii. Seymour, United
. States Minister atSt Petersburg, Russia
! Mr.. Bolts, expects to spend several of The
ensuing months in tour through Europe
and will visit most Of its celebrated resorts
| before he will return
pa One day last week family living
on south Ann street, Hartford, CT, heard ,
grooming in the attic Of the building occu
/ pied by them, and rushing up stairs found
man who had been on a spree for severa
days, hanging by the neck, with leather
strap fastened to beam overhead. TIL,
: woman occupying the lower floor cut hin
, down, threw him down stairs, held his heaC
/ in pail of water until life was restored, anC
, then larrupped him soundly with the strap
Afterwards he went into her room anC
showed fight, when she attacked him witt
a rolling pin, drove him into the next room
and locked him in. The next day she gave
birth to a boy that weighed nine pounds
and il doing very we'll