Smyrna times., 1858-12-02
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Hon. John j Crttenden and lady are at the
st. Nicholas. New York.
Neal Dow has been reelected to the Legis.
lature Of Maine.
Colonel and Major Burns, sons of the poet,
have accepted the invitation of the committee
OF the approaching festival III Glasgow.
Major Trimble, who is constructing a rail-
road in Cuba, has returned home on a brief visit
to his friends in Maryland and Delaware.
Hon. Josiah Quincy, Jr. has been nomina ted
as the temperance candidate for mayor Of Bos.
ton.
George D. Prentice. Esq., of the Louisville
Journal, is spoken OF for Governor of Ken
tucky.
POPULAR RLEcTUREs.-Bayard Taylor has al.
ready made more than one hundred lecturing
engagements for the winter.
OTRev F. ~ Ewing. pastor of the Prcsby.
teran church al Bloomington. ILL.,, has recently
inherited fortune of $l00000.
OF The last number of the Richmond South
was issued on Frdry. 1t is hencrforlh merged
in the Washington States, with Mr. Pryor as
editor of the consolidated paper.
Francis c. Walton, one of the members of
the Kane Arctic expedition, was buried in
Philadelphia Sunday. He died in destitution
Rev. Goldsmith D. Carrow, of Dover, Del,
late missionary to Bnenos Ayres, has been ec-
turing in Philadelphia on South America. He
returned home on Monday.
Mrs. L. H. Sigourney. of Hartford, Connecti-
cut, furnished fifty pour families in Boston with
turkeys, or fowls and pumpkin PIES, Of the best
quality, too, tor Thanksgiving dinner.
An accomplished young lady from Albemarle,
Virginia. was baptised recently in the River
Jordan by Dr. James Il. Barclay, missionary in
Jerusalem.
A weekly newspaper is about to be esiab-
lished in New York, under the charge of Park
Reniamin. II is to be entitled the ConSteILa-
ton, and the first number will be issued on the
first of January next.
A bill of indictment for libel has been found !
against james Gordon Bennett, editor Of the |
New York Herald, for an alleged libel on Hon !
John b. Haskin, charging that gentleman with |
having forged the records of the Willett's
Point committee. of which he was charman-l
On this charge Bennett was arrested on Friday
last.
An Indiana correspondent of the New York
Times thinks it probable that John C.. Davis
anti l4ecompton Democrat. and Henry S. Lane,
Republican, will be nominated as United States
Senators TO contest the seats of Messrs Fitch
and Bright. Their election by the Legislature
is thought to be doubtful.
Pay OF MAGAZINE WRIrERs-The Saturdav
Press in an article on Literary pay, says:-
" Harpers Magazine pays the writers from
81 30 to $40 per page; the Atlantic Monthly j.;
from So 10 $40; the knckerbocker So, which
Is equal to - for Harper and S6 tor the Allan
tic; the North American Review 81 so per
page.
Mrs. Hope Scott, the sole surviving Grand.
daughter OF Sir Walter Scott and The daughtpr
Of Mr. John Gibson Lockhart, died at Edinburu
on the 26ih ult Like near all the descend
ants OF the great Scottish novelist and poet.
she has been cut off in the prime of life. She
was married a few years sHce to MIR. Home
Scott, the eminent bIrrlster, who took the lat
ter surname on his acceeding 10 the Abbotsford :
estates. Mrs. Scott leaves two young children
and an insant of five weeks old, the only de.
sceudaDts OF the author Of /" Waverley."
The parshioners of Rev. Mr. Beecher, Of Sa- {
lem, Massachusetts,, while pastor and wife were. il
one day last week, out to tea, took possession of
his house, and flied it with -four, pork, lard. ,
cheese, apples, wood, money, aud live hOr- =
The hog, however, was probably left outside. :,
and was not admitted to a farther active mar
ticlpatiOn than the privilege of altering a grunt
or two OF approval at the new quirIers he was :
10 occupy. Mr.. Beecher and his wife wore =
home again under some pretext or :,
Orlher, when joyous scene was presented II
congratulations being exchanged. hyns sung.
aud the pastor returning public acknowledge
nents for the tavors he had received. u
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