The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1858-08-10

BROKE JAIL.-IWo men Dy the maine oI
Costner, hailing from Cleaveland county, IN. %
we're arrested near town on Monday iast' ana 2,
committed to Jail for selling liquor 'by the small.
On Wednesday night they made their escape, with
the assistance it supposed ofsome outside pressure,
and doubtless reached North Carolina in time to
vote the substitution" ticket on Thursday.
As "North Carolina expected every man to do his
duty on that OCCASION it is to patriotic spirit our
worthy Sheriff is indebted for leg bail-a duty he
will hardly appreciate, perhaps-l0rkr'Ue Is ~
Chronicle.
PRISONERS RANsoMED FROM THE INDIANS
MORE MURDERs.-Dr Forney the Superintendent
of Indian affairs in Utah, informs the Interior
Department, that fifteen children, belonging to the
train of emigrants murdered at Sweet Water, have
been found the whites having effected their ransom
from the Indians.
Early in June four Germans were murdered
eighty miles from Salt Lake City, it is supposed by
the Indians, who, it was reported, were creating
difficulties on the Southern route to California. DIR.
Forney intends visiting the Indians with view to
their pachcatlon
RE-APPEARANCE OF THE PLAGUE.-The plague
after an ntermisson of twenty years. has re-appear
ed in district of the Pashok of Trpoi, named
Bengal, and, at last accounts, was continuing to
make ravages as an epidemic. There rumor
that it mad already reached Constantinople, but
tor this there was no foundation. The most
stringent quarantine regulations had been resorted
to.
SUIT AGAINST Com. PAuLDING.-An action
brought against Commodore Paulding by Charles
J. Mcdonald, in consequence of his seizure of VIM
Walker and his followers, on the coast OF Nicaragua
in November: 1857, is on trial in New York. 1t
is to be followed if successful by several others
The plaintiff Mcdonald, claims damages to the
amount of S50,0OO-S30 900 for the seizure of the
steamer Charles Morgan, taken from his possession
by defendant, in the harbor of San Juan, in
November 1857 and $4,000 for his own arrest
and detention prisoner
The Governor General of Canada gets s31 900
per annum-S6, 900 more than the President of the
United States gets
DEAR HUGGING.-An editor in Iowa has been
fined $500 for hugging young lady in church.
Daily Argus.
Cheap enough! We once Rugged a girl in
church ten years ago, and the scrape has cost
us thousand year Yer since Chicago 4mcrtcun
PULLING TEETH IN OLD TIMEs.-The primitive
method of extracting teeth in Scranton is thus
described by correspondent Of the New York
Express:
Zone end of firm hemp string fastened
upon the aching member, while the other, securely
tied around bullet purposely notched, was put i'll
the barrel of old fiint-lock musket, loaded with
an extra charge of powder. When all was ready,
the desperate operator caught hold of the gum and
'let drive Out few the tooth, and away bounded
the musket several feet This mode of extracting
teeth became the chosen and only mode practised
in this region for many years"
"Bring in the oysters told you to opcn said
the head ola household, growing impatient. ''There
they are, replied the Irish cook, proudly. at
took ME long time to clanc them; but I've done
it, and thrown all the nasty nsides into the strate.
bas~ A midshipman asked priest to tell him
the difference between priest and jackass. The
priest gave it up.
'One wears a cross on his back and the other on
his breast said the midshipman.
Now said the priest, tell me the difference
between midshipman and jackass
The midshipman gave it up, and asked what
it was.
The priest said he did not know of any
Tobacco-