American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1858-10-22
fTEMs OF NEWS, DC.


yor two since, in which the defendant
was mulcted in verdict to the amount
of $4,000. The offence Was the scduc-
ton of another mans wife. The par
ties'reside at Jancsvills. ~
Hon. John Minor Bolts, of Virginia,
lost about $4,000 by the Fashion ra.
ccs on Long Island last week. He
shouldn't bet on slow stock. "a \ +
/ A London paper says that Qusen
Victoria will visit America in 1869.
AT concert recently given in Hun
gary five pianoes were made to play the
same air together by means Of electric
wires.
Complete returns of the elections in
the State of Delaware, held on the 9th
inst.,y show that. the Democrats have
carried the State by about 700 majority,
A Mr.. 1anier. has been astonishing
the people ofTuskegee, Alabama. with
his fea,s in tanning horses, eclipsing even
Rarey's performances. ;s,Is
Mr. Carey Jones, the literary legstee
Of the late Mr.. Benton, of Missouri, is
now engaged in writing that distinguish.
ed statesrnan's biography. ali!g Ua
| AN ANCIENT CHURcu.-The "tfirs,
Church" in Hartford ,Connecticut,(C Con.
gressional, must be model of its kind.
1t has been in existence two hundred
and twenty-five years, and has never
| dismissed a pastor. has had ten in
all, nine Of whom have lived and died
among their people and the tenth, the
| venerable DR.. Halves, has now been in
charge of it for forty years, and seems
likely to remain, as his predecessors did,
till death. .# ssNh
More than oho half Of the fishing feel
returned to Plymouth, generally with
small fares. The deficiency ia the
catch is tributable 10 the large French
| fishing fleet, who use travis. sometimes
four miles in length, having 1000 hooks
often taking 1000 fish per day Nese
Bedford Mer. In@ . a.8a
Hon LrrE.--A gentleman in New
forkinformed the editor of the Fayette:
vile Obsereer, recently, that he had
paid $1,000 for pew in DR.. Alexand.
er's (Presbyterian) Church, and besides
1t was subject to a ground rent Of $50 a
year. This we consider paying pretty
fextravaganlly for The privilege of grace.
THE London Punch thinks that there
are two kinds of taxes that would be
chcerfully submitted to "a tax on beau.
ty and tax on intellect. The beauty
tax would be cheerfully paid by all the
ladies, even by those who might be ex.
empted, while the intellect tax would
meet with the same large success among
men. '.@'
DURING the seventeenth entury, the
patenta granted for the inventions in
Eng land were $50 in the next hundred
years they amounted to $500, and in
the first fifty years of the present CEN
tury they had exceeded 100000.
RATHER HIGH PRIcED.--A. Keene
Richards, of Georgetown, KY, has de.
terfnined 10 purchase the celebrated
English race,horse. Fisherman, and
bring him to this country. The price
to be paid for him is $4,000.
AN "UPPER TEN" CoNvIcT.
ingdon. the Wall street forger, nov
Keeps the account books of Sing Sing
Prison, smokes twenty segars per day,
and sleeps on comfortable feather bed
in the prison hospital.
9TH. only real liberly.cap," says a
clever and witty author, lis a nightcap.
In il men visit, one.third of their lives;
the land Of sleep, the only land where
they are always free and equal"
Miss Amanda Burnley sued Mr.. J.
Sails, in Atlanta county, Miss, recent.
ly, for $4,000, because he promised to
marry her, and didn't, but married an
other lady. The jury only thought her
damaged SO.
! a WINDFALL FOR THE MILLERITEs.
The Comet is new stock in trade for
the Second Advent people. we observe,
are IN the market again with their old
augoiies about the world coming to an
end. We think a good deal more Of
the Comet than Of these crackbrains,
who think he is coming to set the Garth
in blaze.
The CoTfoN WANTS OF CHINA The
london Economist estimates that with
free commercial intercourse under the
late treaty with Chinabb four hundred
millions Of Chinese alone. will require
the whole cotton crop of the United
States to supply their wants. To cay
the least, the opening of this new mar.
ket will add greatly to the cotton power,
and add materially TO the value Of The
cotton lands Of tho South.
MoRAL.--At a late meeting of the
City Council, of Cleveland, high CON.
pliment was paid to the Erie County
Snowman" in the shape of resolution
which passed the body,to the effec, that