The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1859-10-19
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docket of the Supreme Court now in session
in Providence, Il. l.. contains eighty three
petitions for release from matrimony. The
Court appears to be determined 10 keep up
with the business, and in a single hour re-
moved the yoke from the necks Of twelve
Disseminated couples.
One hundred and sixty.eigat miles Of the
Pacific Ralruad in Missouri have been com.
pleted at an aggregate outlay Of nearly Gle,
100000. There are yet one hundred and
fourteen miles to build in order to complete
the road to Kansas City. This is to cost
s7,000,G0 more.
About six thousand French Catholics with
their priest, on the Canada line. have lately
ignored Catholicism and joined the Protest.
ant Episcopal Church. Romish priest in
Baltimore also. recently joined the Episco.
pal Church.
The Belly.Nicaragua enterprise, is now
entirely given up. and the men employed
ieft.there in great distress, without payment
of their dues, or means Of support. The af-
fair cost its projectors 81 80, 900; total loss.
ELEcrgD.--The Rev. Thomas +. Peck, of
Columbia. s. c., has been elected to the va
cant Proiessorship in the Union Theological
Seminary, Prince Edward, Va.
Upper Canada has not Tor several years
had SO bounteous harvest as has lately been
gathered.
The New City Directory Of Philadelphia
shows population OF $50, 900. an increase
Of Ell .2ss since 1880.
The City Council of Charleston has desig.
mated Thursday. the Goth inst, as day Of
general Thanksgiving.
Twenty. four Of the principals Of the pub
lie schools in New York have been denied
their pay. because they declined or refused
10 open their schools with Bible reading.
The matter will probably be taken to the
courts.
Some gentlemen rscently concluded that
young friend Of oars. although his conduct
was aaexceptionable. ought to be watched
and so they sent him a patent lever.
A severe snow storm prevailed at Lancas-
ter. New Hampshire. on the 18th Septem
Der.
The monument to Henry Clay. in Licking
ton, KY. is nearly completed. II is said to
be one Of the handsomest works OF art in the
country.
The suicides throughout the Unlted States
nov average sbout nine week.
Tea years ago the presby terrain churches
in Nsrth Carolina gave se.60t IN csatrisu-
tionss this year they gave $500.
Within five years Indiana has erected Sc
ven thousand school houses, at an expense
Of eleven hundred thousand dollars.
AZ TIE state Fair, Philadelphia. "a. on
the Goth ult., there were present fifty thou-
sand persons.
A great revival Of religion IS progressing
at the Navy Yard ". 8. Church, Washing.
ton,
The receipts Of III. Americas Tract Soci.
ety fur six moaths on the Society's eurreRt
year, ending October !. have been. for pub
locations ssId, sos, 506.34, and in donations
aud legacies. $50. $50 A.; in all, s142. 1856.
81; being s5.060.50 more than for the cor
responding months Of the previous year.
100000 pages have been granted by eolpor.
tears in North Carolina.
A RaRE BIRp.--A famingo was shot few
days ago nrar Wilmington. N. q. u WIS
SIX leet SIX inches high. and when iis wings
were extended measured sir feet eight Inch.
Is. Il is fowl rarely seen in the United
States.
Ten persons are now 10 jail at Sieuben.
vile. Ohio, charged with eounierieiiing.
REsrosrBnnY.-Toa young minister who
complained OF the smallness II his congre.
cation, John Brown. Of tIaddington. SID !:
II is ~ large one as you will want 10 give
account Tor. in the day Of judgment
A scotehman has trained couple OF nice
TO turn reel for twisting twine. The Ia.
borers run about ten miles day. and reel
from one hundred 10 one hundred and TWEEN
~ threads. A halfpenny's worth Of oatmeal
lasts mouse four weeks; the clear annual
profit on each animal IS competed at SIX shit.
lings.
AsornER DUEL IL CaLIFoRSIa. - On tie
18th uitimo another fatal duel was fought
with rifles at fifty PAGES near San Andreas.
The parties we're DR.. Peterson and Col. VIM.
A. Gatewood. The former fell mortality
wounded. and died 10 two hours.
WIN. Miller has been arrested al Milton.
y. G.. for stealing the horse u Deputy sher.
iif Blair, OF Pittsylsania, Va.
The Mill belonging 10 solomon Corbett.
EssQst u Wllch tfum U hUCtNNNlet Ns tsS 10
gether with several hundred bushels 81 wheat.
belonging 10 Mr.. Lea Graves. was destroyed
BY ERE last "Wednesday night. The mill was
insured in the Grcusborough Insurance Oh.
fee, TO the amount Of $500.
A New York company has built factory
in Chatham county. y. c.. for the manulac
ture Of oil from iron ore. TIE ore yields
about fifty gallons Of oil 10 the ton.
u is estimated that The late fresheu de.
stroyed 100000 worth Of tobacco 10 Caro-.
line county. Va.
Pre,byierianism is .Iapidly advancing in
". Carolina. There are now l5,O53 Pres
bytenans 10 the State, being an increase o.
over three thousand in three years.
Samuel Z. Smith. a printer. formerly O
Dover. Delaware, has been ordained a min.
lister IN the Protestant Episcopal hufch
lemon Of four pounds weight. and 81 III,
circumference 81 twenty two inches, has beer