The weekly Butte record., 1858-11-20
Eastern News


cided that railroad companies have no right to
obstruct, with their cars, the public highways.
A calf with eight legs and four ears was
lately born at Sunbury, Pa.
A five legged frog has been fourd at Har-
risburg.
The Moravian Church at Bethlehem, Penn,
have over 81 100000 at interest
Mrs. Charles Grocer. of Troy, New York,
was horribly mangled by being caught in the
machinery Of her husbands grist MILL
At a row which occurred at Dutch Ball,
in Clarence. New York, woman killed
drunken Dutchman with an axe
Marco Bozarriss daughter has married
Frenchman, ana has become the mother of
several children.
An aged woman named Crosin was brutally
beaten at her own house in New York, by
gang of young rowdies.
The entire scenery, properties and wardrobe
of the Broadway Theatre have been sold to
satisfy chattcl mortgage. The wardrobe is
said to be very magnificent.
Several OF the survivors of the burning of
tie Austria are now in New York, in great
distress from want of funds.
Mr.. George Parish, of Ogdensburg, n. Y,
has fallen heir to the title and fortune of Baron
Souftenberg, a Bohemian nobleman He has
gone TO Europe 10 take charge of his windfall.
Capt. j. j. Wright has projected new line
of steamers, between New York and Havana.
A citizen CT Gotham paid $500 for a pew
in DR.. Alexander's church. He also pays a
ground rent of $50 per year.
The Atlantic Telegraph Company are "mak-
ing wages" working lead mine in Newfound-
land, near Cyrus station
The New York City Hall is to be repaired
by the erection ola new dome and clock tower
at an expense of $4,000.
Some wealthy sporting gentlemen of New
York, have determined to challenge all Eng
land to a four mile race over the Fgshion
course, for one hundred thousand dollars.
Commodore Vanderbilt drives a span of
matched horses that cost him six thousand
dollars. He has been offered nine thousand
for them.
They manufacture bogus coin at IIoosac, n.
Y. at the rate of $4,000 per month.
Coal is used in the locomotives of the New
Y ork and Erie railroad Company.
AT dam riot in Virginia, some severe in
juries were received among the rioters. The
military was on hand in time to prevent fatal
results from the dam outrage.
a child seven years old, born in Virginia,
weighing ninety pounds, and being forty-four
inches in hight, is causing comment in the cas-
tern papers.
A boy named Edward Mulligan died at his
fathers house in Ritchie county, Va, from the
bite of rattlcsnake.s
Two fellows in Patrick county, Va, swap
ped wives the other day, the one having the
best giving the other two bushels and half of
Potatoes to boot
Two men got into fight at Abingdon, Va,
and one struck the other with an adze, shaving
lhe whiskers off his chin, but not hurting the |
hide.
A tornado which visited Ithica, n. York,
blew down Circus tent and cut up other un-
pleasant pranks. During the storm, several |
houses were struck by lightning.
A chap named Berry, at Petersburg, Va.
having felon GU his thumb stuck his wrist
under railroad train and had his hand cut |
off
r. Y. Thompson, of North Carolina, was
recently robbed at Fredericksburg, Virginia,
Of notes to the value of $500. His pocket
was picked.
The Pastor Of the First Baptist Church, of
Va, Rev, Dr. Barrows, while bap-
tizlDg some converts, was robbed of his gold
watch.
A preacher named Parker, was lately gored
to death by BULL on his farm in Hinckley,
Ohio.
Michael Elk, killed bis wife at Cincinnati
and gave as a reason that she had the phthisic
and by her hard breathing disturbed his rest
An old man named Ami Baker of Sheffield,
Ohio, stabbed his son with a dirk, while dis
putting with him about business matters. The
assaiant is over so years of age.
The First Congregational Church, of Hart
ford, Conn, is two hundred and twenty-five
years old. Its present pastor, DR.. Haws, has
presided over it for forty years.
There is married lady in Salem, Mass,
whose Weights only 73 pounds.
John w. Keyes, Postmaster, at Springfield,
Illinois, and John Donlan, road agent, have
been turned out of Office because they refused
TO sustain Lincoln against Douglas
A Dutch shoemaker, of New Orleans, cut |
his own throat, and then taking a bottle of
wine, poured it down into his stomach through |
the hole in his gullet. lie didn't die.
A lady named Edgerly, lately died at Co