Nebraska advertiser., 1858-08-12
News Items.

lCOIll lll0 AAC fNOA DOpoA AlCl AAAS PAS
vided reinforcements for Colonel Step
toe. In addition to the troops which
were to be sent, the Department has
purchased a large number of Sharp's best
rifles, and abundant supply of ammuni-
ton. 1t is thought that if the force I'M
der the command of Col. Steptoe had
been equipped with this formidable wea-
pom, the result of the fight would have
been totally different.
A lady, not long since, commenced suit
in the Common Pleas Court at Ravena,
Ohio, for $4,000 damages for a breach
of marriage contract. The defendant
answered that he had agreed to marry;
that he had neverrefused, and was willing
to fulfill the contract. He got a license
and Justice of the Peace he went to the
girls residence and rendered himself.
The lady wanted time to think the mat
ter over, and finally concluded to dismiss
the case and pay all the costs.
The Paris correspondent of the Liver
pool Journal gives the following p~articu-
lars of the late attempt to assassinate the
Emperor Napoleon at F%ontainbIeau
The Emperor was riding slowly on
horseback a little in advance of the rest
of the party by whom he was accompa-
MED. Suddenly his horse reared and
SHED at some unseen danger, and the En-
peror, who is a first rate horseman, IN
stantly aware, as if by presentiment, of
coming evil, threw him himself to one side
Just as a perfect volley was fired over
him! The aSsassinS were ten in num-
Der, all Italians four have been taken,
while the remainder up to the present
time have escaped.
A man was discovered sitting on the
track of the Orange and Alexandria rail-
road the other day, as if taking a nap.
All efforts were made to stop the train,
but all in vain; and when the engine
struck him, it lifted him eight or ten feet
in the air, and he fell fas on his back in
the ditch, apparently l~ifeless. He was
taken into the cars, and the train started
back to procure medical aid; but he soon
commenced talking, remarking that they
were carrying him the wrong way. He
soon after raised up his head, and said
he was not hurt. He then rose to his
feet, remarking at the same time, 'Stran-
ger, you gave me a laundering Jolt halo!
let me get off, The train was stopped,
and he ran off as though nothing had
happened.
Five hundred and twelve re-
Gently landed at San Francisco avowedIy
for the purpose of prostitution. Their man
ner of life is said to be almost without
shame or the restraints of common de-
cency.
Statistical tables recently published
show that the revenue raised on tobacco
in France amounts to about $50, 900 600.
and in England to about S23, 900, 600, or
a total for both countries of about S43,-
O0O,0 600 a year.
Two hundred and ffty-four British
troops left Montreal for Liverpool last
week. This was the last detachment of
the 18th regiment recently ordered into
the Indian service.
a Miss Brave has been presented with
a free pass of indefinite duration over a
railroad in Pennsylvania. Being at home
alone, she saw that a tree had fallen on
a curve in the road on the opposite side
Of the river, and-that the cars, without a
warning, would evidently be thrown into
the river. She crossed in a skiT, and
as the train approached, succeeded in stop
ping it, thus saving, in the opinion of those
on board, all the lives on the train. In
structions have been given, whenever she
travels on the train, to stop for her at
such point as she finds most convenient
for her home.
THE WINE OF CALIroRNIA-Califor-
MIA, like Missouri, Will soon rival Ohio in
the product of native wine. There is a
firm in San Francisco which produced
last year two hundred thousand bottles of
champaign from their own vinyard in Los
Angeles. This is but one of many in
stances of California enterprise in wine
growing. Almost every state in the
Union adds quota-smaIl in many cases,
but always increasing-to the annual
produbt.
A large quantity of rags from the Cri.
mea were recently received at a paper
mill in Massachusetts,. Some of them
were dotted with blood, and among them
were many of the labels which were on
the bundles Of linen sent out from Eng
land, stating the name of the person who
sent them, and the place of residence.
Attached to one of these labels was found
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