The weekly Butte record., 1858-11-06
Summary of the Eastern News

was poisoned to death at Wilson, Niagara county,
Pa, by physician named Creesweli. The latter
arrested.
Great numbers of wild pigeons have lately been
roosting about Easton Pa. The farmers catch
them in nets.
Mr. Augustus Dunn, formerly member of Con-
gress from Pennsylvania died recently of disease
Of the bealt.
woman at Mount Vernon Furnace, became so
enlaged at tresspa-Sing that she burst blood
vessel internally, and died.
The apple crop in West Chester, Pa, is an entire
failure.
Ira Stout. a murderer, received final sentence OF
death at Rochester, N. Y, on mis- birth day.
General Scott, injured himself badly while at
West Point by falling down pair of stairs. He
was bled and cupped and is getting better.
Smith was fishing in Lake Ontario and on pulling
up his net, found old rife therein bearing date
/ 1905. 1t was silver mounted and flint lock. II was
loaded with ball cartridge.
] The Universaists of Providence negatived pro-
position to admit females to their pulpits by vote
of fifteen to ten.
An exhibitor of rattlesnakes at Oswego, being
bitten by one Of his pets got drunk and saved his
own life; what the fate Of the "snaik'' is not
related.
\ man in Seneca N. t. has invented machine
which he AYERS will knit stocking in five minutes.
/ A crazy German named Shower, in New Jersey.
showed his head into a barrel of water and held it
there until he drowned. He crazy at the
! time.
Some Dutch brewers near IIoboken, n. Y, have
eXcavated a cavern in the solid rock, twelve thous-
and yards in extent in which they keep lager beer.
The students of Princeton College, n. j.. and the
town boys have had grand stone throwing match
about the propretorship of old cannon, formerly
used by the collegians. The battle was not Sc
rious nor decisive one.
/ A colored teamster of Newark, n. j., has fallen
heir to a North Carolina fortune of $4,000. That's
what we call "nigger luck"
Ebenezer Francis, lately deceased in Boston,
leaves fortune of about I've millions. His two
daughters inherit about one half.
/ A white swallow was lately shot at Concord Mas. :.
a boy chess player has been astonishing the peo
/ pie of Worchester, Mass. He played three games
at once, blindfodcd.
A chimney 235 feet in height is being built at the
( Charlestown Navy Yard.
A white woman of South Boston, went to ne
gro barber shop and solicited kiss from the tonso
rial artist and obtained it-as for the tooth
ach.
A girl twelve years old is now serving out SEN
tence of three months in the Boston House of Cor
recton. She and her mother having been found
guilty of selling liquor against the law.
Dan Rice, is said to he very sick at Zlnesville
Ohio.
Herr !.owenthall, the German chess player whom
Mogphy beat 50 completely in England, formerly
kepti cigar shop in Cincinnati, Ohio, and is ma
turalizod American citizen.
Mrs. Lyons, cowhided one Henry Frost, the ed
itor of scurrilous Cincinnati sheet called the
Yo,cn Talk for sandering her
A son of Captain Connolly of Cleveland, Ohio,
had copper-head snake pass his Bowels II had
troubled him for many months and caused him to
have ravenous appetite.
At Lodi, Kane county. ILL.,, two men were badly
wounded by the explosion of an anvil which was
being fred of in honor of an election. Ii burst in
several pieces.
There is a mare in EcoFse, Michigan, "a years old
which has had 26 colts, and at last accounts was
daily expected to have her 9th.
party oftwentysix persons started some weeks
since from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for Fraser River,
bat when ten days out, they luckily became nearly
famished and after running numerous risks from
indians returned to their homes. They in luck.
The only son of the late ReY. S. Williams (the
last of the Dourbons'') is now pilot on Lake
Winnebago.
At Camp Meeting recently held at Reddng,
Conn, was girl in her teens, weighing some sir
hundred pounds. Jee-whillikins What l-largc
she must have!
Two Mississippi negro boys fought duel the
other day One was slightly killed, the other was
severely wounded.
George Mercer, an Englishman, was recently kill
ed in prize fight with another EngIishmaa named
/ VIM. Houston, at New Haven, Conn.
Some ladies of Iowa City ran foot race for
silver cake basket. A young lady named Handy
corralled the spelter.
man named Murphy having insulteda lady at
4 Wadesborough, N. c.. was sezed by mob, tied to
tree, given two hundred lashes, ridden on rail
and tacn administered a coat of tar and feathers
lie left town to the tune of the ''rogne's march,
Near Winchester, Indiana, skeletons of men ten
feet tail, have lately been dug up.
I At St. Louis, Mo-, steam fire engines have COM
pletely taken the place of the hand machines, and
the city authorities offer such of the latter as they
have in possession, for sale cheap.
Finely favored champagne is manufactured in
New Jersey.
a monument is to be erected at Natchez Miss in
honor of General Quitman. \
Ex-President Pierce contemplatcs spending the
coming winter in Rome
Vice President Breckenridge is represented as
having declared his espousal of the little Giants
cause in Illinois.
C.G. Wilson has completed the task of walki NJ
one thousand miles in as many hours, at Lockport,
New York.
james Rodgers is to be hung in New York on he
18th OF November, by order OF the Supreme Court,
for the murder OF Swanson.