American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1859-03-18
ITEMS OF NEWS. &c.

The President has appointed Hon.
Robt. NJ. Lane, Minister to Mexico
with full liberty to recognize which.
ever Government he chooses or neither.
S60,S94 have been paid to the
Mount Vernon Fund by Mr.. Everett
up to this time.
The police of New York are stop
ping street begging. The consequence
is that the cheap boarding houses suf-
fer for their usual supply of cold vic.
tuals.
Buffalo il said to be seventeen
miles nearer Baltimore than it is to
New York, since the direct railway
has been completed.
The decaying body of a child three
or four years old, was found at Il paper
mill in Gardiner, Me-, in bundle Of
rags imported from abroad.
An exprossman in California chased
by eight wolves dropped his letter bag,
ran to pine stump, and Get it on fire;
the wolves tore up the mail bag, ate
the expresaman's dinner, and then
being frightened by the blaze of pine
wood, ran away.
1t is suggested that the emigration
to this country has decreased, and will
continue to decrease, because Ireland
and Germany have already sent us the
dlsposable surplus of their population.
A japanese nobleman, upon being
shown fashion plato in an American
magazine, was very much startled and
exclaimed: 'Ilow very fat your women
arc
The Hon. Aaron V. Brown, Post
master General, died Tuesday ,atWash-
ington, aged Ga. He was a native of
Virginia, but cmigrated in early life to
Tennessee, where he has occupied of.
-fcal positions for nearly forty years,
as State Senator, Representative in
Congress, and Governor.
A lady in Franklin county, Mass,
sent her ncwly arrived Irish girl with
note to one of her neighbors, with
instructions to deliver it in person.
Biddy finding that Mrs. - tho neigh
Dor, had just started for Northampton.
at once inquired the way and travelled
thither, twelve miles, on foot, searched
the streets, found the lady, delivered
her errand, arrived home the next dav.
having spent the night with Irish
friends on the way, and informed her
mistress that she was sorry, but she
must give up her place, for she could
not 60 any more such long crrands.
Two Adventures have lately made
$4O, 600 in Cobb county, Ga, by in
forming against farmers who had given
IN too low an estimate of their property.
the law giving them $40 on eyery hun.
dred that the estimate was too low
They then went into Morgan county.
but the people escorted them out Of
the limits, and they were glad to get
off with whole skins.
The seed trade of Boston is said to
amount to three millions. Fifty thou
sand dollars worth of minute flower
seeds are sold in year; ten tons Of
turnip seed, ten tons of beet, five
thousand pounds of tomato seed, and
live thousand pounds each of squash
and cucumber seeds.
Ajudge, in Logansport, Ohio, being
lnsulted bysa lawyer, got Mt once from
his seat, and gave the chm a soupd
drubbing.
A registry law passed the Assembly
of New Jersey OH Wednesday, by a
vote of 90 to 21. 1t was not expected
to pass the Senate, tho Democratic
majority Of that body being against it.
The Knoxville (Tcnn.) Register says
that the Hon. w. M. Churchwel of
that State has been appointed Minister
to Mexico, in place Of the Hon. John
Forsyth, resigned.