Nebraska advertiser., 1858-01-21
'NEWS ITEMS.

,f1ce OF SeCIetdAg
n and has accepted the trust
r,a New York Express says that Wal
- ~flisbuster, was to have been sere-
:, that CITY, but his friends could
T.ise money enough to pay the piper.
Cleveland P~laindealer states that
ainent tragedian, Edwin Forrest,
las been quite Ill at the American
.~.s for the past few days, is rapidly
covering.
b.. Austrian Consul at New York has
he N Y. Express, laying his dam
a. $50 900 for copying from a Phil
einbia paper an erroneous statement
noernng him.
1,bD Murray announces the twenty
i thousand of Livingston Travels In
-;ca. The House of Commons has vo-
hat enterprising traveller $1,000 TO
Dsecute hisdisceTerIes.
\, g stated that Mr.. Lumley, the fam
unrsssario of Her Majesty's theatre,
don. has some intention of coming
pr 70 this country during the hex year,
brinping with him his fascinating
Tfarice, the beautiful Piccolomini.
The venerable Josiah Quincy is writ
Life Of John Quincy Adams, and
the voluminous papers left by the latter
~ been placed IN his hands for that
rpose. The first part is to be readym
ebruary.
A bow named Whitfield Burton was, at
swego, n. Y, smOthered in a bin Of
Aorts.
An ordinance making it obligatory on
akers and store-keepers to sell bread by
Eight, has passed the n. Y. Board of
bouncilmen.
Watson g. Co., car builders of Spring
sld. Mass, have concluded a contract
sith the Vice-roy of Egypt for forty first
lass passenger cars to run on an Egyp-
tan Railroad
Three sons Of Jos. Tully have been ar
listed at Clarkson, Mich, charged with
Ne murder Of their father, whose body
ras foundburied near the house.
At a fgh: recently in Washington CO.,
BIS, the participators came Out one mi
tus a nose and the other thumbless, as to
rs right hand.
Rufus Upham, of Cherry Valley, n.
n, went out TO dig a grave for a person
Tho had died, Some time afterwards a
tOuth, passing, found him sitting upright
the bottom of the hole, dead.
The store of Mr.. D. T. Baker, in Gin
tnnati, was entered by burglars one
Eght last week and robbed of over one
h0usand dollars worth Of furs.
The Chicago Press states the value o
ruperty lost on the lakes during the yea.
ISL 10 be 81, 920,315. This is partl,
ezlmated. Two hundred and twenty-Ont
ives were lost.
At Winsboro, S. c., the room contain,
tng ginned cotton, on Mrs. Dubois planta.
ion, was set fire to, accidentally, las
Wednesday, by two or three boys, and two
burned to death.
The New York Day Book has beer
bold, since the death of It's editor, Mr.
Stmson, for s., 800, to two of its prin.
iers, who are to pay in instalments of S1(
per week. 1t IS said that only q few
weeks since a brother of Mayor Wood of
fered SIC, 900 for half the concern.
The Richmond Dispatch suggests tha
he Florida Legislature pass a law 70,
he preservation of the Indians in tina
State, allowing no more to be shot unit
hey propagate In sufficient numbers Il
give all the volunteers a chance. TIL,
proposed law is similar to other "gam,
laws"
In relation to the extraordinary deve
opponents IN the Sage case, the Norwan
Gazette learns from Judge Butler, be
lore the examination was held, that tn
salIOr has confessed that he picked up tn
acts about the town, and then concocte
ne whole story for the purpose of oh
aiming the $500 reward offered.
Il seems now probable that the first vC
ame of the Historical Dictionary of th
treneh language at (which the Academ
pas been working since 1853 o 1856
TlI- be published before the end of jan
barry. Although this volume contain
more than 400 quarto pages, yet it dot
pot include more than the fortieth pa
of the letter A! Where's Webster?
The Governor of Massachusetts has Q
dered an election In the seventh distri
for a member of Congress in place of
Z. Banks.
The Hartford Times says that you
Sage. whose recent discovery In connC
ton with the Cromwell murder ca
caused some wonder has again mystic
ously disappeared. 1t is said he has
the country.
The papers announce a fire at Marie
Alabama, which destroyed a whole bio,
including the Perry House, printing a
law Offices, drug, book, and merchan
Stores. The loss is about $4,000.