Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1858-12-02
THE NEWS or THE DAY.


The Sheriff Of New Castle county, Delaware,
or his deputy, will shortly have an extensive
of whipping to perform. At the late court
in that county, no less than seven persons were
of criminal offences, and. in addition
TO the fines and Imprisonment imposed, some
o. them are to be sold, and receive from elght
to twenty lashes each. One Of the convicted
"a woman found guilty of stealing a small
sum of money and a few articles OF wearing
apparel, from a person with whom she had tar
ried all night, is to receive ten lashes, and to
be sold, within the State, for a period not ex-
ceeding seven years.
Madame Moet, the celebrated proprietor OF
the champagne vineyards, whose daughter was
married the other day, has just met with her
death in a most extraordinary manner see
was gathering flowers in her garden, when she
felt herself bitten by a fly. She thought MOTH
ing Of tie slight puncture, but in the evening,
her face began to swell, and in a few days az
forwards, she died in intense agony. 1t IS sup
posed that the fly must have fed on pntrld
flesh.
James Gordon Bennett has been indicted
by the Grand Jury of Westminster County for
a libel on the Hon. John B. Haskin-sald libel
consisting of a point blank charge in the col
umns of the N. Y.sHerdd, that MI. Haskln
had materially and w%illfully altered the record
of the evidence taken before the Willet's Point
Investigating Committee, whereof Mr. H. was
Chairman.
Martha Morgan. a young and unusually
handsome girl, is to be tried for murder, at
Raleigh, n. G.. She killed in q brutal man
uer another young woman, who was her sue
/ oaccf11 r;1o1 f., AZ n Ao ofiOOc IF a vnunn man
A negro woman, known as Black Cooky,"
the Oldest person in the State OF Illinois, and
a native of Africa, who was freed from slavery
some years since, and has been living for some
years past in a small log cabin near Dixon, IN
Illinois, was burned to death on Friday last.
While she was in a spasm her hut took lire,
and she persisted in the flames She was one
hundred and twenty years of age-the Oldest
person in the State, and probably as old a per.
son as can be found in the United States.
The Pittsfeld Mass Sun says hat the
Rev Mr.. Smith, of Princeton, N. j., 80 years
of age, recently preached in the Congregation
al Church at Egremont, Mass, and on the
same day, the Rev. DR.. David Smith, OF Der
ham, Conn, his father, over 80 years OF age
preached in the Congregational Church at
Sheffield.
The residents of Railway, in view of the re-
cent incendiarisms in that place, have held a
public meeting, and offered a reward of$l, 900
for the detection Of the perpetrators.
The screw steamer North Briton, of the
Canadian Steamship Company's line, from Liv-
erpool on the 18th inst, arrived at Portland,
on Sunday having made the passage in ten
DAYS and a half. Her adyices are four days
later. The celebrated socialist, Robert 1--WE
is dead. No tidings have yet been received
of the steamship Indian Empire, and it isfear-
ed that it is lost. T g Pope has refused to
deliver up the Mortara child. Numerous ma
rine disasters with loss of life are reported on
the English coast the result of heavy easterly
gales. No American vessels were among the
sufferers. From India we have news to the
25th of October. Several encounters had ia
ken place between the British forces and the
rebels, in all of which the former were success
ful-a great number of the rebels having been
killed. Lord Clyde was making arrangements
to render his campaign a very effective one.
The master of a vessel arrived at Sunder-
land, England, from Quebec, reports seeing OIL
the Banks of Newfoundland, an iceberg which
was half a mile long, and five hundred yards
wide.
a lot OF fellows went on a deer hunt, the
other day, in Arkansas, and in less than three
hours, captured FIVE girls and a woman
That's great sporting.
The Leavenworth Times declares that the
dirt of the Kansas gold mines pays from ten
to fifteen cents a pan, while California dirt is
considered rich at I cents.
We have news from California, etc by the
steamship Illinois, at New York, which brings
81, 800, 900 in gold. A revolution was being
talked of at Valparaiso; some of the soldiers of
the army had been arrested. The Minister of
Ecuador had retired from Peru, and both re-
publics were actually preparing for war.
The time between California and New York
by the overland mail, is about twenty-eight
days, or five days longer than by steamer.
WiIliard's Hotel, at Washington, contains
about 500 rooms, with a dining room 800 feet
long. Can seat $50 persons.
A despatch from Columbia, s.. c., dated
Nov, Both, says the Grand Jury came into
court this morning and reported that they had
found no bill in all the three cases against the
crew of the SLAYER Echo. The counsel of the
prisoners will probably move for their dis
charge on Monday, when the question of the
constitutionality of the act declaring the slave
tIdu6 pr dCJ Will CUHO uP lOi dlSumShV IL
United States Alto. ney will endeavor to hold
the prisoners.
A small box has lately been gotten up, by
Henry Bunt, of Newark, with a kind of opera
glass attachment, and mirror inside, in which
six eggs are placed at a time, and the light be-
ing excluded, a glance tells the spectator wheth-
or the eggs are sound or otherwise. 1t is
called an onnoScope.
The town of Woodbridge, HiIlsdale county,
Michigan, was organized seventeen years ago,
and since that time not a barrel Of liquor has
been sold within its limits, and the entire Grim
inal business of the town, chargeable to the
county, is less than $50.
Cholera was carrying off a great number Of
people in Japan, at last advices. Its first APP
~pearance was said to have been after the ar
rival of an American man-of-war, on board of
which a case had occurred. The circumstance
had prejudiced the Japanese against foreign
ers. They supposed their wells had been pois-
ened.
DEATH FROM WANT OF SLEEP.-The question
how long can q person exist without sleep ? is
oftener asked than answered, and the difficult
ties of answerinor the onestion NV aynarimant