American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1859-03-25
ITEMS OF NEWS, dc.

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| Hon. Edward Everett has paid to the
treasurer ofthe Mount Vernon fund, up TO
the present time, s60,S93 81.
!. a colored man, named Cesar. died
al Covtngton. La. on the 9Th Of February, a,
Inc grea, aye of l3S years.
Some descendant of Solomon has
wisely remarked That those who 90 to law
Tor damages are sure 10 get them.
The Mayor of Cincinnati has had a
census OF the drinking sale ons taken, show.
ing TOTAL oi sixteen hundred aud eighty
eight!
GooD On the first of May next.
two OF tie oldes, theatres OF New York CITY.
Niblo's and the Broadway are to be pulled
down, to give place 10 stores and other use.
iul edfces. II = -
| Several keepers of drinking saloons
IN Washington, Washington cotfty, Iowa.
were last week arrested and fined for main.
tanning nuisances. 50
Seven years ago, land could be bot
wlihin ak, eight and ten miles OF ST. Paul
Tor one dollar and twenty five cents an acre;
no" ~ IS worth from one hundred TO three
''NN'Nus eo'aio PEI dCIe.
a cotcmporary says: In our csti,na.
non, The result of long experience and ob.
setValOn, an editor OF a newspa per deserves
lar more credit for wha, he keeps out of his
paper than what he puts in it. l
A Utica paper mentions the singular
case of q boy in that city who has Loss his
memory. Ho was taken home To his fathers
Office, and declared he had never been there
before. On meeting his father. the son did
moi recognize the patent-nei,her did he
know any other person than his mother. SO
A tempting Ofer.-In band of
G!pses, now encamped near Indianapolis,
Is beautiful girl Of eighteen. whose father,
sne chlei OF The tribe, offers her hand and
Slo;ooo 70 any respectable man who will take
her TO vile. The old gentleman also offers
TO leave of his vagabond ways, & live with
his children. A rare opportunity is thus
presented to any one wishing TO secure q
IoNely wife, fortune, and u iather-in law
Fitch IN, young America
It must have been cold i'm Portland. Me.
lady one morning found the tail feathers
OF her bird firmly frozen into his water dish
The lady clapped bird and dish into tho
stove, where fire in The rear soon tbaw.
ed him cut.
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The Mosque of Omar, at Cons,an,inople.
| Is h'ghiy perlumed with musk, which was
naked with the mortar in It's walls during
The time of their erection, several hundred
years ago.
There is only one objection 10 people who
mean well,' and that is they never can
spare time TO carry out their meaning.
When we record our angry feelings, letit
be on the snow that the first beam of sun
shine may obliterate them forever.
The parent who would train up child in
lhe way he should go. mus, 90 the way he
would train up his child in.
True prayer is not human. bu, a celestial
gut; ,he lrut OF the Holy Spirit praying in
us and with us.
generous mind does not feel as belong.
ing TO itself alone, bur to the whole human
race. - 49,.
Prosperity is no just scale adve rsi,y ia
Inc only balance to weigh friends in.
II man cannot find case within himself.
1t is to little purpose to seek it anywhere
else.
The recon, census OF New Orleans shows a
loss since 1853 of moro than &c, 900. s
The remains OF Ira Thurston, the nronaut.
who met his death by being carried off by bal
loon rom Adrian, Michigan, the 10Th Of Sep
TENDER last, were accidentally found about ten
miles from the place Of his second ascent.
The Migrants ofPhiladephia obtain commit.
ments to prison for thirty days, and then sell
! them Tor three cents to comrades who desire to
go to prison moro than they do.
Over $4,000 have already been received alta
fair in Boston, held to raise money for Homeo.
patAic hospital.
The town OF Hooksett, N. NJ, has voted 10
discontinue IFS liquor agency, April LIST, and dis
vide the liquor on hand equally among the Ie>
gal voters.
negro in New York, while bathing himself
in comphene for rheumstsm, was accidentally
set OH fire, and so shockngly burnt that his life
is in danger.
newly appointed constable at Rochester,
Michigan few days ago, undertook to turn
man cut Of court, who he thought was interrupt
ing the proceedings. The gentleman quietly
withdrew, and the constable soon after was in
formed that he had turned out the sheriff,
Capt j. II. Webb, man 80 years old, com
mitted suicide in Delleyille, Iowa, recently
lie was the first white man who cav Salt Lake.
436 slaYes, belonging TO Pierce Butler ofphii.
deipha, formerly the husband of Mrs. Fanny
Kcmble, were sold at auction in Savannah last
week, for 50, SOC, 2o5 an ayarage or7l6 a head.
Mrs. Mary Taylor, OF Lee, Mass, had a sur-
prise party of her 10 children, on her Ioo,h
birthday, lately.
The Albany Statesman gives a 81 etch ofa lee.
turc by blind man, and grayely says he 'spo Ike
without notes.
machine has been invented for pcgging
shoes. Itdoes the work ortweRty OF thirty shoe
makers, pegging large brogon in less than
half minute, which would employ q workman
ten or fifteen minutes.