Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1859-04-12
NEWS ITENIs.


day, according TO the Herald" the most
sharply contested one held in that city, for
many years. The Republican majority
for Mayor is about GOO.
EJ-It is stated that forty fire lives
were lost by the collision of the Holmes
and Gibson. The value of the boats cargo
and money lost is about $200,00o. In-
surance on all $l75,0oO
E1- The trial Of Simeon Bushnell, one
of the thrty-seven citizens of Lorain
county, indicted for rescuing the slave
John, at Wellington, in September last,
commenced at Cleveland or Tuesday.
EF-Mr. Charles Key. of Baltimore,
brother ofthe late Philip B. Key, is fight
ing man of the first water, and intends if
the Court shall exonerate Mr.. Sckles, to
make him account personally for his
brothers blood.
SUICIDE FOR LovE.-A young lady,
named Miss Hutchins, committed suicide
shooting herself with pistol, causing
almost instant death. The only reason
assigned for the commission of the act, is
disappointed love.
EeE- Colored citizens of New York,
owning certain amount of property, are
voters under the Constitution of that State
Resolutions to amend the Constitution SO
as 10 extend the right of suffrage to ne
groes without the property qualif cation,
have passed the New York House by a
vote Of 83 to 81, and their passage by the
Senate is quite probable.
EN-Two families residing in the same
house in Cincinnati take the papers-one
an American and the othera German print
The German has dog. species Of "set-
ter" that is known throughout the neigh
borhood for his sagacity. When his mas
ter rises in the morning, the dog marches
down TO the hail ior the paper, and in
Uaria6ty returns Nth tie German sheet.
EF-The attention of the medical pro-
fession has been drawn to the following
mode of treatment, which has been found
useful in ague:
Infuse an ounce of well roasted coffee
in three ounces Of boiling water, and hav-
ing strained the fluid, acidulate it with
lemon juice. The whole is given at once,
five hours before the paroxysm.
COLUMBUS, April 6.-The dry house
of the Tub and Pail Company was des-
troyed by fire this afternoon. From fif-
teen to twenty persons were scalded and
bruised. They were standing on a plat
form about fifteen feet from the ground,
when the heat and steam burst opon the
large folding doors of the building, with
an explosion like that of boiler, forcing
them off the platform with burning tim
bers. Many are seriously injured-two,
it is supposed, fatally.
THE New CENT Po1soNous.-Seyerali in
stances have lately occurred in different
parts of the country where children have
died from the effects of poison takon into
the system by swallowing the new nickel
cent. AS this coin is small and easily
swallowed, there is great danger in allow
ing young children to have them in their
possession. The metal which composes
it has had a fatal effect, and would seem
to be poisonous. Parents should be eau
tious.-Hocking Sentinel.
A SAD AFFAIR.-It has already been
announced by telegraph, that Edward
Benedict, Of Detroit, stabbed his wife, in
Il fit of jealousy, and was arrested while
preparing to hang himself by chain from
tree. 1t appears that he had been drink
ing to excess, for several days previous,
and while insane from this cause, com
mitted the crime which he now bitterly
bewails. The "Advertiser' states that
he says he does not know why the act was
committed, and does not expect to be par
doned, either on earth or in heaven.
EEAt Wilkinson, Mississippi, boy
eight years old, son of Mr.. F. Best, was
recently killed by slave. The negro on
being arrested confessed, in substance,
that the child had threatened to tell some
Thing on him, when he managed to draw
him inside of building, struck him on
the back part of the head or neck with
brick-which blow stunned the little fell
low and felled him to the ground-aud
perceiving that his victim yet exhibited
signs of life, he jumped upon him and
choked him to death!
re- The authorship of the celebrated
sermon on "The Harp of Thousand
Strings" and "'The Spirits of Just Men
made Perfect" is asclibed TO the Rev.
Mr.. Lewis, Methodist Minister, sta
toned at La Grange, Tennessee.-Ex
change.
This is a mistake. The author of the
sermon referred to, (f it may be called
sermon" as well as the ''whangdoodle''
sermon, is VIM. Penn Brannan, portrait
painter, formerly of Cincinnati, and now
journal" Paragraphs ascrbing them
to various other persons have frequently
got into the newspapers Dayton Jowr-
nal.
ABDUCTION OF W1FE.-In Duchess
County, New York, Henry M. Barnes sued
Thomas N. Allen for damages sustained i'm
of the defendant taking his
wife from him and depriving him of her
society! The defendant stated that the
plaintiffs wife came to his house in the