Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-10-05
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 nave had hail storm in the Lake superior country, where hail fell that one pelce weighed half a pound. oen. ocott has gone to the Pacific to ex anime the military stations. Has this any, '".ns to do with the San Juan trouble?
 ne famous Irish author, Dr. Madden, died recently.
 oeorse U. Atherton, found guilty in Aprll iast' of embezzeling s5S, ,OO0 from the Southern Bank of St. Louis, was sen- .eloeo to the penitentiary for five years.- lit oeSree of punishment is in an inverse ratio to the amount stolen Had it beer Sloo'ooo he would have had only one year
 heslle, the man who stole ever SO many female music teachers has been tried and sentenced to the penitentary for three years
 The great steamship, the Great Eastern, sailed out of the Thames and along the coast of England. She swims like duck, her engines work with ease and there scarce ly is any perceptible vibration. She can turn in a square of three quarters of mile.
 The favorite daughter of the black presi- dent of Hati, was shot by an assassin. while setting in her fathers garden.
 A Yankee girl who had been reading Longfellow's poem of Hiawatha, lately eloped with a strolling Indian. She was attending school and got some money from pa,. ostensibly to buy books but really to pay railroad fare.
 The election in California is over. Dur ing the present month elections will take place in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Minnesota, Mississippi, Georgia, Iowa and Kansas In November, New York, New Jersey, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts and Wisconsin will vote.
 Hon. Lynn Boyd is again dangerously ill.,
 Mir. Rives of Va., is writing life of James Madison.
 Rev. Solomon Mckinney has been order- ed out of Dallas county, Texas, by the citi zens there. He was member of the Metho- dist Church, North.
 The tax levy of the city of New York has been made. It is nine millions, eight hun. dred and sixty thousand dollars. The rate IS one dollar and eighty cents on the hun dred dollars.
 The population of California is about COG, ,000; of Arkansas is about 800 ,000.
 In New Jersey, Mr. Fisher has steam carriage for use on common roads It runs fifteen miles an hour and, under favorable circumstances, mile in three minutes.
 A French philosopher has demonstrated that the deuge will occur again. He shows how it will be done, but has been pleased to mt off the evil day for several thousand ye.gs.
 The revenue of the post office department is seriously affected by the universality of tcft5 dDHS -AI lGdS1 u VI toiidIo is lost every year by the government in con- sequence of the necessity of sending letters being dispensed with.
 Capt. John Orlando, Graham Crowell and Capt. Bacon, have been indicted at Barnstable, Massachusetts, on a charge of and returning to slavery in Pensacola, Fa., a negro slave. Bruised horse radish applied to the seat ,f the disease is vouched for as cure for neuralgia.
 There are eighteen antislavery papers and printed in the slave States line in Missouri, three in Virginia, two in two in Washington and two in Maryland. Ofthese ten are in English and eight in German.
 The opposition in New Jersey came near splitting and the know nothings threatened to get up separate convention, but have thought better of it. A few are yet dissat- isfed. In New York, the Americans made up ticket by taking some from each of the other tickets in the field.
 The Artesian well at the State house, in Columbus, Ohio, is now 2,062 feet deep- The water rises to within 27 feet of the top
 Sealng-wax for fruit cans can be cheap ly made as follows: Beeswax, half an ounce; gum shallac, two ounces, and rosin half a pound