Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-12-07
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At Albany, N. r., man named I fnll- lips on returning home, saw, through the window of his house, man kissing his wife He procured an axe, went III the house, knocked his wife and the man down and began to kick them. The stranger got up and run off. The wife recovered long enough to tell him the stranger was thelr eldest son, who had just returned from Cali fornia and then became delirious. She has been sent to the lunatic asylum and the son has not been heard of since.
 Dog skins are worth dollar each. The glove manufacturers buy them readily at that price.
 Col Ben. Shelby, the famous Kentucky lawyer, is about to enter the ministry of the Baptist church.
 George w. Oliver, wealthy planter near Oxford, Miss, has been convicted o1 manslaughter, for killing one of his negroes.
 One daugerreotype case manufactory turns out over two million of cases year.
 They have man at Philadelphia nearly six feet tall, forty years old, who enjoys good health, yet weighs only 70 pounds.
 Sanded cotton has been offered by the Yankees as an offset to wooden nutmegs- A Massachusetts factory bought bale of wool, of Yankee growth or that grew oa Yankee sheep, and from it took 162 pounds of sand. Sanded cotton, eh?
 A great game of pocre is expected to come off here this winter The parties practice every day in order to become perfect.
 The value of the taxable property in Texas this year is SPA 351, 2G6. This is about hundred millions ahead of Arkan- sas, but we will reach those figures in four or five years.
 To show the foolshness of the Brownies, it is stated that three slaves in Madison county, Va, liberated by will, made ap- plIcation to the court and were enslaved again. In another cosnty seven manunit- ted slaves chose masters and voluntarily became slaves
 The true Yankee spirit manifests itself on every occasion. Old Brown wrote a letter to Mrs. Child, telling her to get up a contribution for his wife anu children It appears the old scamp left them desti- ute. Now in the south family destitute as his was, would have been cared for without any noise. Some planter would have built them a house and given them the run of his corn-crib and smoke house. But the Yankees must do it by subsclip- tion. There must be an agent to receive 1t and disburse it and the Brown family fund will be q good thing for the agent One Thaddeus Hyatt, offers photographs of old Brown for one dollar, the money, after paying expenses, to be devoted to his family. He expects to sell 10000. The Browns will get about $4,000 and Thad- deus S6,000 The cost of the photographs will be mere trihe, so that Thaddeus will turn many an honest penny. Lord, how they make old Brown pay. The idea of the photographs is keen one. If Brown is martyr, these philanthrophists should take care of his family at once. In the south one man would assume the burden. There they get up dollar subscriptions and give photograph for that, and out of the transaction money is to be made North ern philanthrophy is queer thing if one examines it closely.
 Parton, in his life of Jackson, settles the question as to the birthplace of the hero. He was born in North Carolina.