American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1858-05-14
ITEMS OF NEWS, DC.

The Erie Canal was finally opent d
April %.
O-A Texas paper cay tho young ladies
hereabon,s are making ytea, raw ages OH the
grape vines. taking them for hoops.
Tuchcrman the mail robber has been
sentenced to twenty-onc years impris-
onment at hard labor.
o. The gyasshoppes are eating up the
young cotton, in Guadalupe equity, Texas
40 rapidly that the crop will have TO be re.
/ placed.
| The Herald published in Texas, says
the ladies Whereabouts are making
great ravages on tho grape vines, ia
king them for hoops.
W-A letter from gentleman in Cha res.
ton, South Carolina, says that the daily at
tendance on an afternoon prayer meeting in
that city, Is not less than two thousand.
YALE COLLEGE, "A student writes: In
the Freshman class about twenty. eight have
confessed their Saviour; in the Sophomore,
thiriy-six; in the Junior, tweniy.six, and in
the Senior Glass, some twenty.one.
From California we learn that rains
have fallen plentifully all over the
state and were of great benefit to min
ing and agriculture.
CLEvELaNp.--In the several Methodist
Churches in the three paris of the city name.
~. Cleveland, and East aud Yves, Cleveland
there have been one thousand conversions.
-WeSiern Christian .fdroeaic.
o. recent statement of the Methodist
Book Concern in New Yo,k and Cincinnati
shows their resources 20 be about 500 OOO
The profits during the pas, year were S366,
299. making deduction Of 33 per cent. for
bad debts.
a LARGE PERCH.-We learn from the
Brownsville Clipper, that whts perch was
caught at the mouth OF Dunlap's creek, with
seine (which weighed Elteen pounds. The
largest fish Of the kind that any of the fisher.
men have ever seen in that vicinity.
JEFFERSON CoLLEGE.--Of the Senior Glass
which consists of seventy-siX members, all
! but thirteen are now me m be rs Of the Church,
or profess TO entertain in u hope in Christ
II is thought that at least forty members of
the class will enter Some Theological Semi
nary in the fall.
The Davenport, Iowa, News says
that emigration up to the Missouri riv-
cr this season is unprecedented; it is
estimated that emigrants are pouring
into the territories at the rate of three
thousand day.
RAILROAD EMPLOYEES DISCHARGED The
| PennsJ lvania Railroad Company, on Sntur-
day, discharged one hundred and thirty. five
employees at Altoona. They were concern
ed in the "Strike," and we are Informed that
they had committed themselves To snch ra sh
and inconsiderab!e measures tina, they Lad
no other alternative than to quit.
A young Irish girl who was render
ing testimony against an individual
in court of law, said, 81 am sure he
never made his mother SMILE" There
is biography of unkindness in that
sentence.
They must have tall students Of the
West. The Wisconsin board of cdu-
cation has resolved "to erect build
ing large enough of accommodating
five hundred students three stories
hgh."
Bcnton's Thirty Years View, or
"reminiscences Of his senatorial expert
ence, has reached sale of 70, 900 vol
umes' There is to be new edition
with an autobiography of the author,
written within three month Of his
death.
The maple sugar season in Vermont
is about over, the crop being full av-
erage one, or trife less than three
pounds to the tree. Last year was
an extraordinary season, the yield be-
ing over FIVE pounds to the tree.
Judge Thompson, of the Marine
Court, has decided that negroes may
be permitted but are not entitled to
seats in public conveyances, and the
| jury before whom a case involving the
point was tried endorsed the opinion.
Col. Colt has sold the United States
government nearly half million dol
lars worth Of his small arms since
1871, and of these a greater number
were taken last year than in any pre-
vious year, five times over.
THE whiskey war at Mazuketta, Iowa
has become serious, and the whsksy party,
indignant at the summary suppression Of The
trafhc by the Temperance men, threaten to
burn the city. The Germans have released
several Of their coun,rymen from jail,where
| they were held for selling liquor illegally,
9nd the mayor has enrolled special force
Of two hundred policemen, probably inclu l..
ing Tho majority of The male citizens.
Horse CHEWING ToBAcco The anti.to.
bacco men have paroded in trump the asser.
on that man is the only animal which chews
The weed. The following from the Danvile,
Va, News will be welcomed as complete
Teiutation
One of the physicians OF our town owns
riding horse which loves tobacco mp TO any
good old eastern North Cnrolninn that ever