Nebraska advertiser., 1857-12-17

Rumor says that Kossu:h viii pay the
United States another visit before 4eng.
Aman was lately subjected to Lynch
law in Western New York.
Alfred Wade, the first Governor of,
Choctuw Nation of Indians, was sworn
into Office on the 18Th ult.
Alexander Hill has obtained So, 1000 of
the Providence and Worcester Railroad,
for injuries received.
A man named Zebedee Hawkins has
been.arrested in Troy, charged with steal
ing a revolver of Miss Judith Hornbeck,
of Batestown.
Good openings are said TO exist in
Texas for the establishment of the book
and periodical business.
The Banks of Ohio, tits said, will be
prepared to resume specie payments as
soon as those of the East. 18
The Philadelphia soup societies are
making preparations to dispense soup to
the poor, gratis, during the winter.
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G. Parker, a merchant of Wilkes CO.,
N. c., committed suicide by taking lauda-
mum. iv1o af .fs .1ltt
The day police Of Newark, a few days
ago, subscribed enough funds to purchase
IS barrels Of flour for the poor.
In Rockville, Conn.,, 1900 frogs have
been found together in a spring onlyfour
feet in diameter. ta I'd
The Springfield Republican truly says
that farmers, as a class, have more ready
money than all others.
The Washington Star says: The Hon.
Fenner Ferguson, the Delegate elect from
Nebraska Territory, has been confined
to his room, at the US. States Hotel, for
several days, by severe illness, we regret
to learn. 9lfr
Rev. MI. Kalloch, of Boston, was seen
at Lecompton, Kansas, last week, and the
fact Of his having a lady with him caused
the gossips of that village a great deal of
unhappiness.
The Philadelphia Sun has ceased to
shine. The North American is the sole
surviving daily in that city which support
ed Fremont last fall. @
Three watchmen were fined each $25
and costs, in Providence, for entering a
gentleman's house after suspected parties
without authority.
The City Council of Cincinnati has
passed a resolution reducing the salaries
of the iremen and also greatly diminish
ing their number. "'-.
According to the report of the Croton
Aqueduct Department there are but 1873
miles of sewers to nearly 500 miles of
paved streets in New York.
81 1t is reckoned that there is one liquor
shop for about every eighteen families in
New York city, and for some neighbor-
hoods in the city n grog shop for every
ten families.
At Brownsville, Texas, the bones and
! heart of Isaac Alsbach, were found in the
ruins of a recent disastrous fire. His
brother had Just arrived from Germany,
only in season to learn his sad fate.
The police of New York city seized
two large boxes of obscene books and
prints, at an establishment in Greenwich
street. The proprietor was held to bail
In five hundred dollars for examination.
A large sompanyof poor working girls
started for the West from New York on
the 26th ult, under the charge of G. C..
Tracy. All of them go u there in search
of some employment. ' q. -.
Commodore Foote attributes to the in
1uence of the American missionaries the
formation of most of the late treaties of
Slain with Western nations, which he
thinks are already enabling that country
to progress so rapidly.
In Wheeling, Va, last month, a young
man, for SIS, hired aneighbor 10 brighten
his sweetheart by dressing asa ghost and
advising her in a s%epulchral tone-such
as used by all respectable ghosts-tom mar.
ry him. Some of the fast boys caught
the bogus ghost and belabored him until
ne called Tor quarter IN a name resem-
bling a human being. l..fl
1t is usual, in publishing marriage no.
tees, to say something handsome of the
couple, and the following very fattering
marriage notice we have clipped from the
Seymour (Ind.) Times:
Married, in Seymour, on Sunday the
9th inst, by Esquire Carter, MI. George
Wolfrom (better known as old Wolfrom.
the tanner, to Mrs. Frederick Miller. a
charming widow of twenty-five. Old
Wolfrom is the ugliest and flthiest man
in the United States without any excep-
ton; and how, with all his ugliness, he
got the widows consent to have him is a
mystery to US. We can assure the bride
that she neednot be afraid of any woman
running awaywith WiIfrom, for She, IS the
only woman that has been within ten feet
of him for twenty years. 31l ots
Two negroes were hung at Suffolk for
attempting to murder their master.