The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-05-27

DR.. Robert Hare, of Philadelphia, died in
that city on the morning of Saturday, the
18th instant, in his nth year. Ever since the
beginning of the present century, he has been
celebrated for the Jealous and successful prose
cution of chemistry, and especially of electro
galvsnism. For fifty years, the Doctor was
regarded as an peachsble authority in al
matters pertaining to chemical research.
A favorite mode of introducing in Brazil is
said to be, This h my friend; if he steals
anything from you, l am responsible for it."
We wish that this usage might be incorporated
among the "Rules Of Good Society" at Wash.
ington.
On the 9TH inst, a little daughter, three years
Of age, of Henry Denman, of Hasbrouck, Sulli.
van county, was scalded to death by falling
backwards into pail of boiling water. She
did not survive but an hour or two after the &C.
cident.
Jessie Barber, aged four years and nine
months, recently died at Chicago. Had she
lived, she would have come into possession OF
$4OO, 900, left by Jabez Barber, of Chies 90,
who was lost in the Pacific. The money now
goes to family in England.
The splendid copies of the Americana ntarc.
tic Exploring Expedition and Audubon's Birds
of America, sent by the President to the EN-
peror of China, have been found for sale in
book.stalls in Canton. The officials probably
sold them, and pocketed the money.
Charles Mackay and Rufus Choate, ir., sailed
in the Europa from Boston on Wednesday. So
also did Hassan Efendi, a messenger of the
Turkish Rear Admiral.
Arson G. Phelps, of the firm of Phelps,
Dodge, q Co., New York, well known as a mer.
chant and leader in religious and benevolent
enterprises, died suddenly in his chair at his
| house, on Tuesday evening. Anthony G. Gould
of the late firm of Gould, Banks, & Co., Albany,
New York, died suddenly on Saturday evening.
The shoe business is thoroughly revived at
Lynn.
Charles Reade, the popular novelist, and W.
II. Russell, the well-known Crimean cores.
pondent of the London Times, are both coming
to the United States to lecture.
-Four hundred bodies are annually taken from
the waters around New York. The verdict
found drowned" doubtless covers many q
murder.
| The Boston banks on Saturday had So, $50, 200
in coin in their vaults. The New York banks
$34, 730,728.
Twenty Boston merchants have given Mayor
Tiemann, of New York, chaise and horses
as token of their appreciation of his persona
and official character.
| Hon. Rufus Choate has consented to deliver
an Grafton in Boston on the 4th of July next
at the request of the Young Mems Democratic
Club.
Lady Franklin, widow of the celebrated Arc
tic navigator, is at present in Algiers.
The subscriptions to the b avelock monument
proposed to be erected in Sunderland Park
amount to FIVE thousand dollars.
The statute of DR.. Jenner, the. discoverer O
vaccination, has been placed in Trafalgar
square, London, and in a few days it will b,
uncovered.
| Daniel Gaver has been condemned to pa,
Sic, 900, at Frederick, Md, for defaming tn,
character of Mrs. Stewart, the widow of a cler
gyman.
Daris's Pain KilIer.-A preparation intend
ed as a balm for aches and pains was discover
ed by Perry Davis, of Providence, r. 1. 1T
popularity became universal, and it is as popu
lar to-day as ever it was. 1t may be found in
the closet or cupboard of all families, ready fol-
use at an instsnt's warning, and is considered
the best article known for :" the pains that flesh
is heir to."-BoSton Bee.
Sold by all medicine dealers l3