Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1859-04-05
NEWS ITEMS.

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R1-A few cases of small-pox in Provi-
dence, r. L., have SO frightened the citizens
lhat over i've hundred Of them applied al
he Office of the Superintendent ot Health,
ON Saturday last, Tor vaccination.
IEFANTIciDE.-Therese Busner, Swiss
girl. hardly sixteen years age, has been
arrested III st. Louis, for cutting the throa,
Of her new born babe with a butcher knife,
and then throwing the corpse into vault.
The only reason assigned by the prisoner
for this unnatural act, was the disgrace vi
being known as the parent of Il illegiu
mate child Gin Gaz.
DEATH OF A CENTENNARIAN Mis-.
Phebe ChrlStiana. a coiored woman, sup
posed To be l8 years of age, died at Stock
Township, Harrison County. o., Oh Tue
2oth March. She was one of lpurleeli
slaves who were brought from Virginia to
OHIO in 1920. having been llbera,ed and
provided with land by tho will of their
master. . r
EB-A correspondent Of the New York
'Tribune," writing from Germany, de-
scribes a brick road ON which he has trav-
eled. He says. tEal il will last fifty yeals.
and then the bricks may be turned upside
down and used for Ill y years more. A
road Of the kind. after several years of in
cessaut travel, is now quite us good as when
first made. The bricks are ma of kind
Of polteT's clay con aiming Il sandy sub
stance; and beng exposed To Il very severe
heat, this sIIcious material mc!ls, aud
glaZes the whole mass.
EIGHT CHILDREN At BIRru.-Abo
two months since, the vie oi acob Abbott,
in Golconda, G W., presented her hus-
band with eight pledges OF aiiec ion Al one
birth These children survived until six
weeks old. when two Of them sickcned and
died. rhe remaining SIX are slill living,
and thriving finely. The whole eigt |
we're very small specimens of humanity
W hen uslered into the world. as Nigh,
have been expected. This statement is
literally tue. 1t is vouohed for by num-
bers of respectable witnesses, who saw the
Boston Herald.
EE-"If." says the Washington Union
of Tuesday, the "HeralL'' should wheel
into the line of the Opposition As it did in
going over horse, foot, and Dragons To-
an eleventh hour la5orrr in the Black Re-
publican vineyard . Aud H." say oI.
Forney, closing the sentence, the Her
aid" should lind President as "ealy 10
betray those who elected HIM ia I go as il
III in 1856, then The change OF the Her
ald' will be found 10 be a most prof able
one. aud the adage once more fulfilled that
the fools are mol all deal" .....
WANTED HIM TO SErrLE.-The Barnes-
vile "In'elIigrncer" gets off The following
incident of the storm ~ Bellaire, on Fri-
day last
Mr. Sullivan, the Elk. President of the
Central Ohio Road, was sianding by new
building, and when the rain commenced
f ,lling picked up shutter To take into the
house. just then the wind struck the
shutter, which dragged the Ex- President
along. with his coat-al flying behind.
Mr. Baggs. the partner of Sullivan. seeing
that the Colonel was about to ascend, ran
after him, caught him by the coat nara
tive. exclaiming. "Eold on. Colonel! hold
OMIT want to have a settlement with you
before you go up!"
U-The following is one of the hume
ruus stories at1ual conc erning Pixies Peak
1t is the most graphic and captivat ng
statement that we have seen of the mau-
ner in which the gold is procured:
A man axes frame work of heavy
timber, built like stone boat, the bottom
of which is composed OF heavy iron rasps
The frame work is hoisled up To the top
of the Peak, and Il man gets on and slides
down the side of the mountain. AS he
goes swiftly down, the rasps on the bot
tom OF the frame w0ik sciape off the gold
in immense shavngs, which curl upon 10
the machine, aud by The lime the mau gels
to the bottom nearly ton of gold Is 10
lowing him. This Is the commuH- nalruei
of gathering it.
The PRESIDENT AND DAN SIcKLEs. -
The Washington correspondent of the
n. Y. Express. says: ..-E
IL is not true that the President has
visited Sickles in pri on, but he has done
what is near y as undiSnided and inconsis-
tent with his position. which Is to write
him warm and very sympalhizing le'ter;
thi, would hsye been bad enough, had the
Ctfense been committed out of this dis,
trict. tut when it is recol lected that ii tIie
jury convicts him. thai his tate Ior life,
death or criminal imprlsUnment will lay
with Mr. Buchanan, The high impropriely
Of sucls procoeIiuS H3as. Gtri4~. e'ery-
body.