The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1859-03-09
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

ILLNoIs.-The next State Fair will be held
ut Rockford.
We presume the reason the wagon never
spoke was because it felt tired.
FIRE.-The loss by the fire at Memphis on
the lst inst is estimated at $4,000.
VALUABLE HoRsE,--The famous English race
horse Flying Dutchman, it is stated, has been
sold to the French government for $4,000.
"A wise man will speak well of his neighbor,
love his wife, take home newspaper aud pay for
IL in advance.
To BE HUNG.-Four men--Carrie, Gambrill,
Crops, and Stephens-are TO be hung in Balti-
more on the 18th of March.
A lad nine years old, in Carthagena, N. Y,
drowned himself in the canal because his papa
chastsed him.
"Mister, say, don't suppose you don't
know Of nobody who don't want to hire nobody
to do nothing, don't youp
DEcAPIrArED.-We learn that Postmaster
0'FLYNN, Of Detroit, has been removed from
Office by President Buchanan.
How TABLE-TuRNIxG Turns HEADs.-Twen-
ty-fve lunatcs in the Zurich Asylum, Switzer-
land are victims of table-turning and spirit-rap-
ping.
-Scarce-Unbustled ladies, pure and unde-
friends, sound potatoes, first rate butter and rich
printers.
- The number Of applicants for admission TO
the Asylum for 1nebriates, at Binghamton, N.
Y, is $500, and of these 400 are women. The
Asylum can only accommodate 300 patients.
Little boy, can 1 60 through this gate to
the river9" politely inquired fashionably dress
ed lady. "P'raps so +; load of hay got thro
this morning"
- What two places, names in France will de-
scribe the language Of parent who refuses to
give his daughter in marriage! Ans-Ushant
Havre.
- The iron mines Of Lake Superior are enter
ing on the business of the year with renewed ac-
tivity, and are making large contracts for the
delivery of iron ore
U. S. MNT.-The coinage at the Philadel-
phia mint for February last was as follows =
Gold, $147 1888 silver, $4,000; copper, $27,-
600; total, $3O1,9sS.
A Cincinnati paper considers a grocer's
wife of that city a very remarkable woman be-
cause she has had 2 children in - years. Poor
grocer.
LAKE ERIE NAVIGATION Buffalo, March 2.
The propeller Equinox, with full load Of mer-
chandise, left port ts-day for Cleveland. This
is the first clearance for the season. No ice in
sight.
SPRING AT THE SouTH.-A gentleman direct
from Charleston, S. c., mentions that the orange
trees are in blossom, pea vines are growing Wig
orously, and that last Sunday the windows of
the various church edifces remained open thro-
out the day.
SCARCITY OF GRAIN.-The scarcity Of grain in
many parts Of Canada is said to be such that
the farmers will find ii impossible to procure the
necessary seed for spring sowing
The INDIAN MUTINY.-The great Indian mu-
tiny has entailed upon the government of India
a military expenditure of f18,000 more. The
Sepoy outbreak has thus cost the enormous sum
of G23, 100000.
"A big spelling match is announced in Gov
ington, Ohio, at the High School, when the lad
biggest words without scratching his head, is to
receive prize.
= Unfavorable news is beginning to come
from Pixies Peak region. A most miserable
state of society and poor prospects for gold, are
related in letter in the Missouri Democrat of
a late date.
- Miss Kate Hillard, the organist of the
Presbyterian Church at Kalamazoo, was pre-
sented last week by the younger members of the
Society with beautiful silver tca-servicc valued
Mt $50.
JOURNALISM IN RUssIf-Sinoe the relaxation |
Of the censorship in Russia by tho present En- |
psror, more than 200 papers, dailies and month
les, have been started. This Is besides the |
journals issued by the government, and amount |
ng, under various names, to about so.
- KossUTH.-An American who visited Kos |
suth in London writes that he is in straitened |
living on the proceeds of his lee
lures and contributions, eked out by the rem |
Of Il Wi al IF
ost in railroad investments in the United States
An OLD CoUPLE.-The oldest couple in Yer
mont is said to be living in Hardwicl, the old |
gentleman being 81 and his wife 90, the two
having lived together in wedlock for 10 years.
The old lady says she can now do more house
work in day than half the girls in town, and
her works prove it.
- In the streets Of Leicester, one day, Dean
Swift was accosted by drunken weaver, who,
staggering against his reverence, said, al have
been spinning IL out"
eyes" said the Dean, at sec you have !; and
row you are rceling il home"
SEEING THE PIXIES PEAK ELEPHANr.-A Mr..
James W. Goodwin, Of Kansas has seen the Ele-
ohant head, tail, tusks, and all. lie spent two
months In the mining region-worked like
Ilaye-suffered the greatest privation, and real
zed less than an average Of sixty-fve cents
lay ms the fruits Of his toll SO says the Lafay-
tic (Ind) Courier.
TERRIBLE SoRRew.--0ne Of the most sad and
narrowing casualties that We have ever been
,aled upon to record, has transpircd in the fam
ly Of Mr.. John Gudgel, most worthy and re-
pcctable citizen Of this county. II seems that
! short time since, some Of his family we're suf
ering from inhamed eyes, two OF whom, a small
hid and an aged lady, have been made totally
lind by the bursting Of their eyeballs. A more
errible disaster to the living can scarcely be
onccived. bureau Co. Republican.