American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1859-02-11
ITEMS OF NEWS, &c.

kev. William Drownhelu died at his
residence in South Union township,
Fayette county, on the 18th ult. He
had reached the pat,iarchial age of
cighty'sevcn years. I
The late emperor of Japan was
troubled with dropsy ofthe bowels, had
twelve wives, and was aged SO. His
name was Gao Saduco, and he leaves
an heir who is between 16 and II years.
A noted character called "tho Fakir
Of silva, has entered the ministry, and
gets u salary of $1,000 q year in Iowa,
having bestowed on himself the degree
of Doctor in Divinity.
Saint Brigham has just performed
the wholesale slaughter of cutting off
from communion with his church, EIGHT
hundred and sixty members who SYM
pathise with the Genties.
The Washington States predicts a
war with Spain, should Congress pass
the Thirty Million bill. a.h
Eloped nth his Step Mother.-A
young man Of the mature age of nine.
teen years who was employed in the
Pike House, at Bloomington, Illinois,
not long since, cloped with his step
mother on Friday the 14th inst.
The leading journals of the country
protest, with singular neutrality-suspicious.
the proposition to place thirty millions
Of dollars in the hands ofthe President
to negotiate for the acquisition Of Cuba.
A wise man will speak we'll of his
neighbors, love his wife, and pay for
his newspapers. WEB
A drove Of G000 geese for the New
York market, were put on the cars II,
Winchester, Ohio, last week. The cal.
culation of the owner WAS that the
feathers would pay him for lis outlay
in raising them and getting them to
market, and that the proceeds Of the
csrcasses would be clear profit.
| Col. Benton's furniture at Washing
ton is to be sold at suction. His pro.
perty ID estimated to be insulticicnt to
pay his debts.
A gentleman while in St. Louis, FAM.
liarly telegraphcd to his wife in this
city: what have you got for break fast,
and how IL the baby I? She telegraph.
ed back: 'Buckwheat cakes, snd the
measles a. L.s
The president Of She New York and
Erie railroad has issued ordcrs to the
conductors TO stalc the names of all
passengers. .' .
The Florida Legislature has deter
mined to let the poor remnant Of the
Indians, about eighty in number, live
there unmoIested. They were moved
10 this BY their replyto the State agent
who was urging them to remove -
There is room enough fer ;,ll to live
together iR peace, fur yuu ~ we'll az
for US; but rs for us, We will live until
We die in the country that God has
given us, where are the graves of our
rorefathers.' ...' H.'
A pair of runaway horses in Brigh-
ton, N. Y, were stopped by an intelli-
gent dog, who after he had failed to
stop them by getting before them and
barking, seized the rens drawing up
on the ground, and did not relax his
hold until the team stopped. After he
had been drawn for some distance, his
pull became greater upon one line than
the other which drew the horses toward
a fence, where they stopped.
An unknown wretch quietly entered
the residence ola colored washerwo oman
at st. Louis, few days since, and un
observed by her, set her clothes on fire,
and amid the awful screams of the
victim, made of with six shirts. The
poor woman died in awful az ony.
The Spanish wags suggest that a
monument ought to DO erected to the
President of the United States in the
center Of the Prado, at Madrid, rs he
is the first man that has been able to
unite the people for u thousand years.
The Englishmon is never happy but
when he is miserable ; the Scotchman
is never ut home but when he is abroad;
and the Irishman is never at peace but
when he is fighting.
"What PLAN said one actor to an
other "shall adopt to fill the house
at my benefit Z" 'Inyite your credi.
tors was the reply. 'an
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