Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1859-03-29
NEWS ITEMS.


EVThe Free Masons of Virginia intend
to erect splended temple AT Richmond.
E1-The population of Ohio is estima-
ted at 2,3oO,ooo just about the figures
which were given for Pennsylvania in
1850.
EYThe two rival candidates in Vir-
ginia for Governor have taken the stump,
with the prospect ofa long and heated can
vass before them.
EI-In indianapolis, few days since,
a little girl took a dose OF laudnam which
nearly killed her. She gave as a reason
that she wished to 60 to heaven to her lit
tie brother.
&EOver 48o bills have been introduced
into the House, and 296 into the Senate.
making 776 bills before the Legislature,
not one eighth of which have been passed
into laws.
ES- The negro. James Burns, who was
found guilty of horse stealing, was SEN
fenced by Judge Nash. this morning, to
an imprisonment of four years in the Peni-
tentiary.--Marietta Lntelligencer.
gThere was great excitement at
Omaha, Nebraska, on the 18th inst, oc-
casioned by the wife of Mr.. William G..
Brown, cowhiding the editor of the "Ne-
braskian" in the Post o ffice of that town.
N9~Gov. Medary, of Kansas. has "pock-
eted" and then vetoed the bill abolishing
slavery. The governor of New Mexico
signed the bill protecting slavery in that
Territory. Both are good Democrats"
of cource.
E The Port Hope &C. W. "Guide"
reports the fact'that. a few days ago, man
in that city, on a wager, ate % pounds OF
fresh goldfish; the Goldfish was boiled.
After this performance, he drank. by way
of variety, Mirty;four glasses of beer.
EHThe Wheeling "Intelligencer"
mentions ablicose bull that recently at
tackled a train of cars on the Baltimore and
Ohio road the other day. He valiantly ad-
vanced to meet the engine, and was trans
formed into '.jerked beef In a twInkling
ES-A young lady, about sixteen years
old, eloped from Boston, Mass, few
days ago, contrary To the wishes of her
parents. Her husband abandoned her on
Friday last, and it is supposed that he has
gone to California to seek his fortune. leav-
ing her to repent of her hasty marriage.
EE- Treasurer and Treasury robberies
are getting alarmingly frequent. Mr.. N.
G. Mitchell, Treasurer of Clarendon, Ma
rion County, O., was robbed. the other day.
of $500 belonging to the township. Mr..
Fl. D. Miller, Treasurer Of Blanchard. Har-
din County, O., recently drew 5000 of the
public money from the County Treasury,
and the next day the whole amount was
stolen from him.
wA Mrs. Martel, of Winnebago
county, ILL.,, a mother of two children,
elo2ed with the hired man, named j ones,
during her husbands absence, taking her
children. The runaways were overtaken
at Chicago. The woman declares that she
never will go back to her husband alive,
as he abused her; and that Jones did not
run away with her, but she ran away with
Jones.
AN INFAMOUS Acr-Some person OF
persons, between six o'colck on Saturday
evening, and before day on Monday morn
ing, did diabolical act to the railroad
track, about mile beyond Martinsville
by drawing out the spikes that fastened
the railing to the track, causing the track
to spread when the train attempted TO pass
in the morning. The freight train had tc
pass over first. The engine and eigh
freight cars were thrown off the track.
Five of these freight cars were com mpletelJ
mashed up, and the freight scattered il
every direction. Fortunately, no person
was injured. 1t is supposed that nearly one
hundred yards were loosened by drawing
out the spikes. -Chilticothe AdO. 1tM.
A Coon ANSWER The editor of tn,
Lewisbur9h (Pa. "Chronicle" wrote re
Gently to Mr.. Giddings. to ask if he evel
said that he could spit upon George
Washington, when he remembers that h.
was slave holder" To which Mr. Gid
dings replied, as everybody, including
those who invented the story, would ex
pect him to do. He says:
Il never said, or wrote, or thought, o.
conceived the gross and vulgar expression
which you say i attributed to me, or any
thing thai bears relation, likeness or simili
tude to it. On the contrary, | have at al
times and on all occasions insisted tha
Washington and his cotemporaries should
be judged according to the age in which
they lived, and the circumstances under
which he and they were surrounded; and
that shareholders of the present day, bret
and educated amid the institution. are ;
thousand times less guilty than Northerl
doughfaces, who, though bred and educa
ted in the tlove of liberty. yet encourage
and uphold the slave trade Tin this city
and in our Territories and Southern coast
with all it's attendant crime and revolving
horrors.''
From the st. Joseph Journal, March 81
, HlOklON, Calhoun County.