The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1859-11-01
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THAsKsGrvIsG In New Jersey aud In!Ins,
Thursday, November q.
A WOMAN, named ELLEN IIuGnEs, was ar
rested at Rochester, on Saturday, for horse steal
ing.
THE Brownsville, Texas Echo puts Gen. SAM
lloUsTor down as prominent candidate for the
next Presidency.
A NEw rolling mill is Ia 10 butt at Eas.on,
Penn, for tho erection u which ! ~. 900 have
been rais.d.
A LETTnn from Norfolk reports the steamship
Quaker City as baving recoiS ed now piecse TO re
place the damage to her machinery, from Phila-
dephia. Sho will soon depart for her destina-
tiUn.
MIR. Joan NJ, CLErLErp, Deputy Street Com
missioner, OF New Orleans, accidentally shot
himself q few days ago whilst handling pistol,
In tho ohice Of tho street department. The
wound Is not believed TO DO fatal.
THK Agricultural bureau of tho United States
Patent Onice has sent oil a number Of tho
specimcns OF grain obtained from Syrian pro.
ducts to q ght Southern Agricultural jcie'iss,
Tor rial. Tho grams sent were such ss would
not grow in Northern latitudos.
TuE Philadelphia Common Council pasSed q
resolution last week to inquire of the trustees u
tho ~ works whether certain plan for general
ing gas by the decomposition Of water is OF any
value, and whether its introduction would render
necessary the construction Of new retorts and
machinery.
On Wednesday last, tho wife Of HENRY HER
RING, of Madison Townsip, Ohio, went into the
| orchard adjoining the house to pick some appe
| telling her daughter, a. shs LEFT tho house, that
| she would lie back In few minutes. In the
| course Of half an hour the daughter went to tho
| orchard to ses what det tained her mother, when
| she found her dead under y tree. IL Is supposed
| that she fol- from the tree and broke her neck.
A CONFIRMED opium eater, in Rochester, has
H., 4 L.. hal L. Ia t,nx al
If ~ and for four ears he has not used tho
drug In any shape, though before that he had
b.on an opium eater for forty years. Whom he
commenced breaking himself Of tho habit, he was
using the opium at the rate Of eighty grains
per day, and IL took him about two years to sc-
complish his purpose.
THE new day boat, the Dsnl. Drew, Will bs
launched this month. She viii run Aext season
between New York and Albany, in rlsce of the
| Metamora. The latter boat will run bstwecn
New York and Ilaverstraw. The Danal Drew
Is 250 feet long,-some 20 feet larger than the
] Armenia, Sha will be lifted up In Zip top Jtyio
aud will 10 one ofthe fstest boats ever pisoed ON
| the Hudson River.
A FEw days ago, a man In st. Louis sent his
| wife, residing in Chicago, two dollars. The wo-
man spent the money for whisky, got drunk, set
| lire TO her clothing and shanty. The neigh
bors eItinguished tho fire, but the woman was
/ found to be most terribly burned her breast,
body and left arm were nearly burned to a crisp.
She was, at last accounts, living bat suffering
great agony.
| THE ciectment sui: OF CUrTER against the
| heirs u MuILASPHr, after trial OF hfteen day
in the Circuit Court, at st. Louis, was given tc
| tho Jury on Wednesday afternoon. Next morn
Ing thsy returned verdict Of sloyen- -iifteenth'
| of the Liretto ArLent-ths tract claimed-to'
getber with dana Ies, $4,000 for withholding
| the land, aud n,Onthly rental Of e733. Ph'
elev sn-i iiftsenths Of the tract amounts to abs9
tweaty-Line and swo-thirds arpouts, and Ia val
| ued at but uttls hollow SGUO.OOO. The sssis
will Of course, 70 to the supreme Court.
Ds Saturday evening, I'D inst . man name
JOHNSON, went to the City Work Moase,
New Orleans, md attempted to shoot Mr.. Gal
i LsGHkR, one al the employees, hs was preyento
howevsr, AMI turned out. soon After he met
II the street aad shot jAMKs PoRrER, intiictlng
, , dangerous and probably fatal wound. Aho'
midnight, JANIS DusNE was severely stabos
4 in the street also another man, named i,ATsic
I. BRKnNAs, was stabbed, and supposed 20 % iaa
! ly injured JOHNSON is supposed ~ 10 th' POI
| petrstcE.
IrI. stated that another highly imPortsnt Dis
= | coysry has Just been made hsAr rfeasnestoNr "
y / Mo-, being a nvein or rather formation, son
sorty or dfty foot " bis containing platinum an
/ gc,I Nes,rs RRAVr and WEIss and ~
Kn,u. Of So. Louir visited the place last wool
and declared them selves both surprised sna graf
i iied TO fnd such On immense dspos,t OF niner
o. wealth In Missouri. Tho Arcadia ProTsot say,
O. i We have not as yet helrd about the sichHsss
N this ore, but presume II Is the same rs that 10
- : msriy discovered, some Of which we undsrstAn
j. contains about three per cent Of platinum.
o | A GKRMAs, rssiding In Berlin, No.. on q
!. night Of the 18th ult., heard . disturbsn
!, amorg bis hels. lie got Th took his gun .
. went out, whom he Imagined that he saw
e | opossum Oh slog between him and the CHECKER
:! lie isveIed his gun, 6rsd, and his game feu
ran up and put blA hand on his " bird"-but i
a agine his establishment, whom he pulled ul
ii man's head instead Of an opossum's hairy q
1s cas- Oa examination, the victim proved to
1t asllc~ coal-digger, an irishmsn. The par
70 .,.1ckrp German iuimsdis.sly rs'sel the sal