The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1859-04-13
NEWS ITEMS.

ears" as the ass said TO the cornfeld.
- Franklin Sawyer has been appointed
lighthouse keeper at Potawattomie Is
land.
- An Irish judge said, when address,
ing prisoner: "You arc TO be hanged,
and | hope it may prove warning to
your
"A beautiful form is better than a
beautiful face; beautiful behaviour is
better than beautiful form; it gives it
higher pleasure than statues or pictures,
it is tho finest of the fine arts.
- A juryman was asked, whether he
had been charged by the presiding Judge.
SWELL" said he, the little fellow that
sits up in the pulpit and bosses over the
crowd, gin us lectur, but l don't know
whether he charges anything or not"
One of the hardest trials OF those
who fall from affluence and honor to pow
erty and obscurity, is the discovery that
the attachment of so many in whom they
confded was pretence, a mask TO gain
their own ends, or was miserable shall
lowness.
ES- A wing Of the Minnesota State
University is completed at cost of S49,-
900. 1t is one-third of the proposed
structure.
re- One hundred and fifty mules and a
large amount of stores have been shipped
from San Francisco to British Columbia,
to be used in surveying route for the
British Pacific railroad.
ES- A religious revival broke out on
board the steamship Washington, recent
", while on trip from New York for
San Francisco. Prayer meetings were
held daily.
The WHEAT CRoP.-In this vicinity
the wheat has improved most wonderful
" for the past two weeks.
Cassapolis Democrat, April s.
FATAL ACCIDENTAL Cincinnati, a
few days ago, Joseph Rindskopf, mer-
chant, was thrown from his carriage, and
instantly killed.
A LIGHT HOUSE on THE PENINSULA.
AN appropriation of $4,000 was made
by the late Congress for building Light
House on the Peninsula in Grand Tray
erse Bay.
INcEsr.-In the Logan (Ill.) Circuit
Court, John Green has been sentenced to
the penitentiary for the term of fourteen
years, for the crime of incest with his own
daughter.
THE BLACK PLAeuE.-The Calhoun
! Miss Independent of tho 10th ult. says
fourteen persons have lately died in the
southern part of Calhoun county, of n
disease resembling black plague.
ROMANTIC Youxe LApY.-In Utica, n.
Y, last week, the sheriff refused TO allow
a romantic young lady to marry prisoner
named G. w. Van Ness, who had been
sentenced TO the State prison for FIVE
years, for the crime Of burglary.
THE GROWING WHEAr.-From all
parts Of the west, says the Eaton County
argus, we receive the most promising nc
counts of the growing crop. 1t looks
well-never better at this time in the
season-through this and adjoining coun-
ties, rs our observation has extended.
Observation-Disclosures from Sevasto-
pol state that only few of the old in
habitants have returned; the city appear.
almost deserted and commerce. is ut ar
end. Formerly Sevastopol numbered
$4,000 inhabitants; now it contains less
than sixth Of that number.
THE ITALIAN ExmEs.-The Italian
exiles, who recently landed in Ireland, are
professional men, with few exceptions, and
men of liberal education. There are
among them lawyers IL, doctors Z, apoth-
ecaries s, notaries 4, gentlemen Ia,
clergymen I, tavern-keeper l, chemists 2,
artists 8.
FEMALE PRIZE FIGHr.-The Memphis
AUdlancke is informed that regular
prize fight came off between two women
of that city, a short distance below the
corporation limits, on Sunday afternoon.
The spectacle was witnessed by crowd
Of the lords Of creation, and the principals
entered into the fight with the spirit Of
Amazons.
MARROW EscArE.-In Cincinnati, re-
Gently, a barber, in passing from the stove
to the chair of the man he was shaving,
with the razor open in his hand, stumbled
and fell upon his customer. The keen
instrument would have cut The mans
throat had he not thrown up his hand
and thereon received tho blade, which
made deep cash that will require some
weeks 10 heal.