Nebraska advertiser., 1858-07-15
News Items.

NUNS AtNO
Mr.. Henry Kessler, an old and ex-
tensive currier of Cincinnati, Is having an
elephants hide tanned as a curiosity. lie
purchased it in Wisconsin, where the an
imal, which belonged to a menagerle' had
died. He gave SO for the skin, and the
freight to that city was SIS. 1t is an
immense hide, so bulky that the tanners
handle it with great difficulty. 1t is near
ly two inches thick, and a full year and
a half will be required to tan it thorough
ly. 1t will be a curiosity when thoroughly
seasoned.
A letter from Florence, Italy, to the
Newark Advertiser states that Mr. Harris
marble memorial of Henry Clay for the
ladies of Virginia, is in progress, and
will probably be completed during the
wear. The same artist is further occu-
\ pied on the model for a colossal bronze
figure of Mr.. Clay for the city of New
Orleans. Mr.. Jefferson is also being
commemmorated in marble for the State
of Virginia by an aspiring young sculp-
tor of the Old Dominion, Mr.. Gait.
The Lafayette, Ind. Journal says, at
present there are not less than 1000
people sojourning in Illinois and Indiana,
from other States, for the express purpose
of getting rid of their husbands and
wives.
A single rose bush now in flower in
a garden at Providence, Rhode Island,
fills a green house 20 feet in length, and
contains some 5000 flowers.
Sir William Gore Ousley has complet-
ed his arrangements to leave Washing
ton and is awaiting orders from his Gov
eminent,
In France there are no less than nine
teen Presidents of Commercial Societies
now in prison, awaiting their trials for
fraudulent operations.
The Pacific Mail contracts has been ex-
tended for one year from the first of Oc-
tober next, for the sum of $685. 900.
The amount of sugar destroyed by the
inundation in Louisiana is estimated at
$4,000 hogsheads-wo worth $4,000, 600.
The cotton destroyed by the overflow on
the banks of the Mississippi, it is said
will be 100000 bales, whose value would
probably be $4,000, 900.
JEWISH DISABILITIES REMOVED
The English House of Lords has yielded
to the Commons, and the principle adop-
ted, that, hereafter, Jews shall have a
right to a seat in Parliament. Right and
justice have %triumphed OF last.
Some of the Southern papers are talk
ing of Senator Green, of Missouri, for
President.
The Sugar plantation of the late Sam
: uel s.. Harrison, in the Parish Of Bayou
Goula, La, containing 1913 acres of
= land, with 50 negroes, all told, good, bad
and indifferent-say so working hands
was recently bought at Sheriff. sale by
a free man of color, for the n sum of
1 $4,000. The fortunate purchaser is
now the proprietor of $500 acres of the
= richest sugar lands in Louisiana, and
! over 200 negroes.
r The following is supposed to be the
number of newspapers in the world: Ten
in Austria, fourteen in Africa, twenty
four in Spain, t~wenty-sixin Portugal, six-
f ty-ive in Belgium, thirty in Asia, eighty
) five in Denmark, fifty in Russia and Po-
land, three hundred and fifty in the Ger
e manic States, five hundred in Great Brit
: air and Ireland, and two thousand in the
United States; total 1854. From the
! foregoing 1t will be seen hat in the Uni
ted States are issued nearly twice as ma
= ny as in all the rest of the world.
Martin Kosta, the Hungarian refugee,
who was rescued from the Austrian au-
thorities in SO, by Commodore Ingra-
ham. of the United States Navy, died
: recently in very INDECENT circumstances,
y on a sugar plantation, near the city of
J Guatemala.
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