Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1858-09-23
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the Methodist Episcopal Church, was acciden-
tally shot In Indianapolis en- Thursday, while
walking aIoug the street from the residence Of
Bishop Ames. and narrowly escaped from
death. A ball from a gus, earelessly fired
BY i boy struck him in the face, entering his
left cheek, md penetrating to the nose. 1t
was promptly extracted aud the wound is not
considered dangerous"
A French music teacher, In New York, who
was married and over fifty years old, had been
endea voring to persuade a pupil aged about
eighteen, to elope with him. She amused her
self by pretending to love him, and or Thurs
day night a mischievous Younger sister sent a
note to the Frenchman, in the name of the
elder, directing him to meet her for an elope-
nent at a certain place with a carriage. She
revealed her plot to a Number Of Young men,
and when the Frenchman arrived rt the rem
devious, they belabored him with raw hides.
A brutal fight occurred in Pennington, Hun
terdon county, on Saturday, in which a man
named Rocks, abont 20 years old, who was
the aggressor, was thrown down and kicked
on the fody, and so severely. injured as to
cause his death i few hours afterwards. 1t is
said no one was to blame but himself.
Has-Two boys from Princeton, one named
Hughes, sixteen years Of age, and the other
Wilbur, oply twelve, about a week ago paid 4
visit to HightstowR, and its neighborhood, and
broke into the house Of Mr.. Joshua Norton, in
Monmouth county, near that Borough, and
robbed it Of sons twelve dollars in money, to-
gether with soma wearing apparel. After this
exploit, they went to New York, but returned
on Monday last, when they we're arrested, and
the eldest committed to the Monmouth county
Jail.
Forgeries to the amount Of $4,000, in the
shape of drafts On Messrs. Curtis and Dyck-
man, New York. purporting to come from a
house in Havana have been discovered. 1t
is alleged that they we're perpetrated by q
clerk nnmed Ludwig, who recently absconded
from Cuba. He and an accomplish named De
La Croix have been arrested.
A few days since, some burglars entered the
honse Of Bishop Smith Of the Episcopal Church
in Kentucky, through q window in the second
story, and carried off silver plate valued at five
hundred dollars. They overlooked however,
a bag in the same room, containing three hun
dred dollars in silver.
A young man in Philadelphia brought a
suit last week againt a young lady who had
given him the "mittcn,a to recover the gifts
of jeweIry presented to her during the court
ship The lady defended the suit, and argued
that inasmuch as they were given without any
hope, prospect or promise Of affection on her
part, he had no right to demand them. She
said, however, that she would return them all,
and give him a purse of $40, on condition that
the young man wonld never show his face in
her dwelling again, He accepted the offer,
paid the costs, and the suit was dismissed.
In New Albany, Miss, on the 4th inst.
Daniel Newman and j. j. Sarvis became in
volved in a difficulty. Both we're intoxicated
and Thomas j. Biee interfered, when he was
stabbed to the heart unintentionally by New.
man with a common pocket knife and killed
Newman was Immediately chained by an en-.
ragged crowd, and late at night they hung him
The statements relative to rich gold diggings
in the region of Pixies Peak, in Kansas, is cor
ToboTated by 9 number of gentlemen who
have reccAtly Y1urned ron That locality to
st. Lofts. Companies are being formed in
many Of the towns in the Territories to proceed
to work the mines.
It was stated & few days ago that Benjamin
Brown had been killed under his cart-wheeIs
at Colebrook, Connecticut. The man who was
with him, however, has told contradictory ste
ries in relation to the affair, and has finally
been arrested as his murderer. The body oil
Brown has been exhumed, and several severe
wounds, one Of them apparently made with an
axe, have been found upon it.
The Rockport (Ind.) Democrat relates a sad
occurrence in that place on Thursday last. A
house containing q family was blown over a
pFecipice. and, falling about seventy-fve feet,
was literally mashed to pieces, and horrible to
relate, Mrs. Glensbeckle was killed outright,
and her four little children more or less man
gled, but not killed, Though it is thought one
or two of them will die.
Three prisoners having escaped from the
Columbia county (Wisconsin) Jail a few days
ago, one John Murray, under confinement for
murder, earnestly desired to join in the pursuit,
promising to return as soon as the chase was
over. The rnnaways were not found, but Muir
ray, faithful to his contract, came back to his
old quarters after an absence Of a few hours.
At a camp meeting in London county, Va,
last week, the Committee" seized upon one
hundred and forty gallons Of whiskey, being
vendcd in the vicinity, and poured it on the
ground.
The GOSPEL IN CHINESE New Tesla
ment is about to be printed in the Court dia-
lect of China, in one octave volume of about
$50 leaves, at a cost of from IL to Is cents a
copy.
Fourteen shares of New Jersey Railroad
stock sold in New York on Thursday the 10th
inst, for $126.
Queen Victoria, at the Palace of Pottsdam,
was conducted by her daughter to the rooms
formerly occupied by Frederick the Great, and
in which no alteration has been permitted to
be made since the death of that celebrated
monarch.
EXODUS OF THE GRARsHopPERs.-The Doyles-
town Intelligencer publishes a curious fact in
reference to their departure 1t says that the
farmers Of that vicinity, who have suffered con-
siderably from the ravages Of this destructive
insect, were highly delighted on last Sunday
afternoon at seeing large mYriads of them tax
ing fight for other regions. They were dis
tinctly observed, high in the air, floating south
ward, aud their white wings, reflected by the
sun-beams, was a sight not soon to be forgot.
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