American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1858-09-24
ITEMS OF NE US, sc.


section of the country. The corn crop
has already been materially injured
A fellow killed himself, in Cincinna..
ii, on Saturday night, in attempting to
drink quart Of whiskey on wager Of
one dollar.
The New York Herald says that the
cost of transmitting column Of news
by the Atlantic Telegraph Cable, will
be $4,000.
1t is estimated, says the Trenton
Journal, that the loss to Dyer county,
Tenn, by hog cholera, tho present
season, will reach two hundred thous.
and dollars.
A cute Yankee in Kansas sells his
liquor in gun barrel instead of glass
that he may avoid tho law, and make
it appear beyond dispute that he sells
liquor by the barrel. How far will it
kill /?
Prentice's Last. the Douglas
convention of Lasalle county, the first
business transacted was to take vote
to allow one of the delegates to read an
advertisement OF STOLEN HORSE
The sagacious owner knew exactly
where to find the thief.
The difficulties in Utah arc believed
to be suspended merely, not settled.-
So say recent accounts from Leayen.
worth. ...... .. ..... ....... .
In the town Of Crockett, Texas, it is
said there is not a marriageable female.
Hero is chance for some of the SUI
perabundant widows and lasscs of this
region. ...r . .u
a Homestead aw.--Thc legislature
OF Minnesota has passed law exempt
ing homestead of eighty acres from
levy for debt incurred;' also $500 worth
of household furniture, $500 worth of
stock and utensils, $500 worth of tools,
the library of professional man, and
provisions enough to support family
Tor one year. ..t ..IE .... ....
One ecey TO get a Gs6wd.-Itis said
that Judge Douglas is travelling in H.
linois with Spalding y Rogers Circus.
! lie goes with the "great show" and
speaks in their tent when it is over.
1t is said that three hundred Nor
mon women in Utah have abandoned
! Mormonism and made their escape
Has our army taken them under its
gallant protection?
EMIGRATIoN.--The Tazewcll coun-
! ty, (Ya.) Aa0ocats notices tho depar-
! ture families from that county forTexas,
as, and five for Missouri-all we'll to do
in the world. Among them was Col.
Robert Gillespie, ono of the Oldest set
tiers in the county. ...
Sudden Death. Mrs. J. G.. Rowe,
Of Stafford, Virginia, while crossing
! Commerce street, in Fredericksburg
on Monday last, was so frightened by
horse and buggy dashing up the street
that she died in few minutes of dis
ease Of the heart. .. .....
We learn from one Of our Southern
cxhangcs, that the Choctaw cotton fac
tory, in Mississippi is paying to its
stockholders a dividend Of twenty five
! per cent. .1 ga . u."o
BY the "act abolishing arrest in civ.
il actions &C., passed during the last
session Of Parliament, imprisonment for
debt is virtually abolished in Canada.
The effect will be to empty the jails of
Upper Canada OF debtors, many Of
them in large numbers.
In 1924 the Sergeant-at.Arms was
thirty-four days in travelling from
Washington to Edwardswillc, Illinois.
Fourteen days, were deemed short
period for the journey from Washing
ton to Louisville. The road can now
be passed over in thirty-six hours.
The Chicago Press states that there
arc nine men awaiting trial for murder
in that city. Three Of them arc wife
murderers. The last committed was
Jokobi, German, who murdered his
wife near Pittsburg, early in July last
He fled to Illinois, and was recently
caught-~at Danville in that State.
The third Fair of the Missouri Agri.
cultural and Mechanical Association
commenced on Monday. 1t was at
tended by some 5000 persons. The
display Of horses and cattle is unsur.
passed.
We wish that our very ingenious
friend who invented what was called
the "paying out machinery" for the
niagara and Agamemnon, would get
up little machine Of the sort to be
used in the case Of every newspaper
subscriber !-Prentice.
The festival Of the German societies,
to raise funds to aid in the erection Of
a monument in memory of Baron Stcu-