American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1859-01-28
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vises Ohioans 10 remain and not como
to beautiful Minnesota OF Iowa. -
He says it is the most miserable coun-
| try he was ever in, and that the man
who leaves Ohio for those western
lands don't know what he is about
| lSpeculators, he says, cry up those cold
lregions for the purpose of getting quit
Of them.
The writer went out West we'll off,
and now he is but the RELIC of his for
mer self, and is coming back to Ohio
this winter to recuperate.- - Cincinnati
Times.
The State of Texas has granted AZ
charters to railroad companies, of which
is have been forfeited, leaving 27
charters still in force. OF these eleven
are in process Of construction, with an
aggregate length, when completed, Of
1928 miles.
Dgy~ The press is mighty engine
for good or evil. Tales, stories, and
other such nonsense, are sought after
with eagerncss, to the almost entire
exclusion of matters OF higheS import
ance. This morbid appetite is kept
we'll supplied, because "it pays p
This is the age Of bronze-thc cage
Of gold" is yet some distance off, per-
haps a generation or two. But it will
come, and the press, with all its present
shortcomings, is destined to do it, too.
DG3~ 10 confound wealth with hap
lpiness, is to mistake the means for the
end. Yoa might as we'll fancy that a
knife and fork will give you an appo-
titc.
BE- A few days since the people of
Anderson, Ind, "ossertcd their sove-
reignty," and cleared out fourteen H..
quor shops and low groceries. An
effort had been made to inauguratc a
revival in the churches, but poor sue
cess attending the religious effort, it
was thought the doggcrics were the
cause of it, and an organized crusade
was made against them, and their dcs.
truction was complete.
The annual examination Of the pub
lie schools in San Francisco was com
menced on Nov. 20. The public schools
there are in u very creditablc state Of
efficiency. There are in San Francisco
county at this time 1862 children, of
whom Alb arc in attendance upon
the schools.
The examination Of the FREQ schools
in Virginia will take place somewhere
about the year 1907
Speaking of the Minnie Rife, Mr..
Kendall writes to the New Orleans Pic.
ayune from Texas, that in one of the
recent scouts against the Navaios, one
OF tho latter was killed at the distance
Of four hundred yards
Commander Maury, in one of his
lectures on the Highways s. Byways
of the Ocean,, states that animal mat.
ter, at the bottom Of the deep sea, ow.
| ing to the superincumbent pressure.
the exclusion Of light and heat, and the
saline properties Of the water, cannot
| Idecompose, but must remain precisely
in the state in which it is deposited,
for ages and ages.
! A young man named Henry Lane,
was suRocatcd at Toronto, on Christ.
mas Eve, by his bed taking fire, when
he had tumblod into it after drunken
orgic, the lamp dropping from his hand.
The Colonization Office at Baltimore
has letters from Monrovia, which cor
rebate the statement that another at
tempt has been made by the French to
secure load Of cmigrants, and thus
prosecute the new slave trade.
The town agent at Hartford, Conn.
sold 1888 gallons of liquor last year,
TO citizens, under law which forbids
all sales, except to the sick.
| There must have been right smart
chance Of sickness in Hartford during
the last year! y
a FIX.-A Presbyterian minister Of
Newark recently exchanged with a
brother minister at Patterson, N. j.,
and had his oyercoat stolen from hall
OF the house where he was entertained.
The garment contained his sermons,
and he was consequently obliged to
c&tcmporizo |!
ltf he was go workman needing not
to be ashamed" his loss vas q benefit
TO his hcorors.1
! Boswell, tho biographer and admiror
of DIR. Johnson, observing to the latter
that there was no instance Of bcgear
| dying for want in the streets Of Scot.
land" ] believe you aro right, sir, /"
said johnson, "but this does not arise