Daily national Democrat., 1858-10-20
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ADELAIDE Weaver, very smart young
"a, has recently been arrested, in New
Toy N.Y., for stealing in fashionable boarding
tonses Her style was the genteel one. A
"hsrmin.. pert talker, a splendid player on
she niano. a delightful singer, well read in
t t''e current fashionable lierature of the day,
VA S,C hrimful of life fun and wit. she with
S"I Drfsct facility worked her way, first into the
Pn6dence of the gentlemen and lady board
w. and next and lastly into the plethoric
,,ortmonnaies of the former and the ward
rrobes and iewelry Of the latter.
Mr. Thurston, the @rcnaut, was carried of
h,, his balloon from Adrian, Michigan, Sep
t:mber l6th, after his descent, and after the
basket and netting were removed and the
balloon had become inverted, he himself
bolding on to the uninhated portion, and
seated on the valve.board. He was seen yes
terdav. u6tb,) at II o'clock, r; NJ, high up
in the air, in the direction OF Maiden, Z. w.,
az was ascertained by compass-6earings by
narties observing him
shocking case of parricide occurred in
Now York. on the 10th September. David
Clute a man about twenty five years old, a
butcher by trade, has been arrested for the
crime 1t appears that about four o'clock on
thn afternoon alluded TO Jacob Lutte, the
Sather of the prisoner. aged sixty-five years,
oo,,,o home intoxicated Some words passed,
,"han the son struck his father Il violent
sIow telling him to the ground the old man
received dangerous wound upon the back
nart of his head, and in few hours after
died.
The Alexandria (Va) Gazette says, the
AGENT for the "Pure Catawba Brandy" for
that city had some of the article analyzed by
a competent chemist last Friday, and found
It to be "pure old rye whisky, colored with
burnt sugar" The agent, accordingly, has
thrown up his agency.
Two young men of Dayton, Ohio. sons of
DR.. Ritner, in attempting to cross the track
Of the Dayton and Western Railroad, were
struck by train, and the younger, Louis
Rkper, was thrown forty rods and instantly
killed. The other escaped with slight inju-
ries.
The ship Junior, which has become well
known by the horrid mutiny which occurred
on board of her, is fitting for the North Pa
cifc whale fishery, and is to sail under the
command of Capt. Lafayette Rowley, of Ed
gartown.
McCabe, one of the trainers of Morrissey
for the great prize fight, has been knocking
down several constables, who were levying
on an execution on the goods and ehattles in
the Sons of Malta Saloon in New York city
McCabe was arrested.
The price of the passage Of the three
horses purchased in this country for Louis
Napoleon, by the Vanderbilt steamer Ariel,
to Havre, was $500.
The city's bill for the funeral of Alderman
Murray. in New York, was $672, of which
$lS6 were for drinks on the road to and from
the cemetery.
Information had been forwarded to Wash
ington that the yellow fever had broken out
among the Spanish part of the prisoner crew
Of the SLAYER Echo, at Charleston.
The latest freak Of spiritualism has been
40 attempt on the part of some believers in
that doctrine, in Orleans county, n. Y, to
restore dead body to life
A New Bedford trader is shipping peaches
thence to New York, realizing good profit.
1t is new feature in the trade of that city.
In St. Johns, Newfoundland, twenty-five
houses were destroyed by FIRE on the night
Of the 18th September.
cY-Mr. Sherwood, Secretary of the La
fayette Railroad Co., and Mrs Allen, wife of
Rev. Mr.. Allen, Presbyterian minister, of
Lafayette, Indiana, recently eloped together
for parts unknown. Sherwood left wife and
two children, and sent word back to his wife
to dispose of the property, and with her
children, go back to her father Mrs. Allen
left on pretence of visiting her friends in ST.
Louis. Her husband went there to meet her,
and learned her unfaithfuness Mr.. A. had
been settled in charge of the First Presbyte-
rian church in Lafayette but short time.
A New PoEr.-Miss Caroline Matilda Smi
ley Of Nelson county, Va, is the Matilda
whose poetic effusions have gratifed readers
of the Southern Literary Messenger, Rich
mond Christian Advocate, and Louisville
Journal.
'TiAa is smart girl.
NEVER READ HIS WoRKs.-The Fredericks-
burg WAY News tells a story of G. P. r.
James going into bank in Union. and draw
ing check, which the Teller declined cash
ing, becaus+ he did not know him. " Don't
look like a gentleman ?" said MC. James
"0h, yes" said the Teller, but that is not
enough" al am c. p r. James, the novel
ist" Il never heard of you" replied the
Teller.
tE William Cullen Bryant and family
returned from Europe by steamship Africa.
A You've LADY, eighteen or nineteen years
Ofage, daughter Of Mr.. Haywood, gardener
Of John Jacob Astor, Jr., at Esopus, near
ROndout. N. Y, died on Tuesday from the
effects of fright She was riding in wagon,
when the horse took fright and ran with
great speed for about a mile, when he was
stopped The young woman was taken from
the wagon in dying condition, and lived
but a few minutes.