The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1859-12-14
NEWS ITEMS.


pig, when the boy cut of his tail.
= Prince Albert had been confined in
Windsor Castle by very severe illness,
says an English paper. 1t is usually the
Queen who is "confned."
- At the election in New York on
Tuesday, the democrats elected all of the
Aldermen, eight in number; sixteen out
Of twenty-four Councilmen; and fifteen
out of twenty-five members of the Board
Of Education.
- Sharp is not connected with the
manufacture of his famous rifle. lie re-
ceived considerable sum for the patent
several years ago, and retains toll or
tariff upon all that are sold.
- The black republican national"
committee will meet in New York city
on the 2lst inst, to decide on the time
for holding the NATIONAL convention of
1860, and to agree on the terms of the
call.
- Professor Wilson and beautiful
young lady made an ascension lately from
the fair grounds, Tuscumbia, Ala, in
balloon filled with smoke. They came
down safely, quarter of mile from the
point Of departure.
A dispatch from New Orleans
states that the sales of the Pacific Rail-
way stock and bonds will close on the
10th, when conditional sale will be made
on the balance, amounting to 81, 100000,
which will be set aside to purchase ne
groes to complete the road.
- The Forest Queen returned on Fri
day after an unsuccessful attempt to reach
Saginaw. She found ice in large guam
titles along the shore of Lake Huron, q
strong marginal sheet having formed
which extended two or three miles into
the lake.
- A London female pickpocket stole
five sovereigns from lady i'll an omni-
bus. The police appearing, she put them
in her mouth and swallowed two. Two
days after she died in the criminal hos
pital, her body was opened, and the mon
ey found in her intestines and returned to
the owner by penny post.
81 do not think, madam, that any
man of the least sense would approve of
your conduct" said an indignant hus-
band.
"Sir," retorted his better halt, chow
can you Judge what any man of sense
would do?"
= Mr.. Samuel Dunn, of Plymouth,
Wayne county, has produced some red
blaze corn which is rarely surpassed, eth
or in size or productivcness. Sample cars
measure IA inches in length, and there
were not less than 1875 bushels to the
acre.
When the celebrated Dunning, af,
forwards Lord Ashburton, was Stating
law" to a jury in court, Lord Mansfield
interrupted him by saying off that be
law, I'll go home and burn my books. y
any lord" replied Dunning, "you had
better 90 home and read them"
WASHINGTON IRvING.-A few days
before his death, Mr.. Irving visited his
mothers grave in tho cemetery, and,
while weeping over it, asked the superin-
tendcnt when he died to bury him by her
side. He had selected this spot long ago.
SHOCKING PLACE TO LIVE IN.-On
the 10th inst, lis distinct shocks of
earthquakes were felt at Copiapa. The
inhabitants, who were catholics, became
qudkers in about ten minutes after the
first shock, and fled affiighted to the hills
A German doctor, in Hanover,
Penn, recently attempted TO apply phos-
phorus to a daughter of Peter Reed for
the cure of a sore throat. The phospho-
rus ignited, set fire to the girls clothing,
burning her severely, and almost set the
house in flames. So disguised was the
doctor ut the result that he attempted to
blow his brains out the next day.
- The Winans steamer, which has
been so long building, made trial trip
from Baltimore on Friday afternoon, and
arrived safely at Norfolk the next day.
The steamer has been put in condition for
sea service, and it is the intention of her
proprietors to Immediately make series
of experimental trips with her from Nor
folk out to sea, superintended by them
selves in person.
= The total eclipse of tho 18th of next
July will be very important one to the
scientific world. The Director of the
Dorpat Observatory was the first to re-
mark that at the moment of observation
four CT the principal planets-venus,
Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn-will APP
pear in the vicinity of the eclipscd sun as
a kind of rhomboidal figure; phenome-
non of such extraordinary rarity that
many centuries will elapso before its repe-
tition.
A SECTIONAL PARTY.-Who says the
black republican party is not sectional
partyl They have not polled the vote
in any State they did in 1856, and yet