The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-09-18

Prof Agassix on his way home, having embarked st
Liverpool September 10, for Bossou
Tho Rev. Chester a. Lyman, of Nsw Haven, Conn- has
been appointed Professor of Industrial Mechanics and
Physics In the Philosophical department, Yah College.
The New 0rlcshs Della Of the esh sayss-ccn. William
came by s,esmScs, down The Mssissppi river. In
friends viii be ebd TO learn uat be- seems In The enjoy
the city, and we presume his intention 70 remain for
/ q considerable psrod
The Sons Of Malta had sournameni says an exchange
at Arlington, near Warrington. The successful knight
Mr.. A. j. Thomas Of Virginia, whc named a. Queen
| Of Love ard Beauty Miss Eliza AcNerhany, OF his own
s,a,e Inc Knights nss. 70 order were M hsnry Marlin
Georgetown. They named the Maids Of Honor, Miss
Harriet Nayor, Of Washington; Miss Jenny King Of Hal
tmorc and Miss Whitney Of Baltimore. Then the knights
and maids were crowned, and then there a dance,
1 and then all went home
sns.es sosnu s s $ %an ras 5sscf
! at Mcridcn, O., on sunday, the tth inst
Mrs. Esther Robinson, Of East Falmouth In her s0th
year " bright and has good memory, and Mrs Kexsh
Robinson, who is her ncghbor SIS years Of age ssll
does the cooking and household work and her husband
who is about as old, teams his own wood.
There In a negro residing in Constanfia a few miles
from the village Of Cleveland, who savc Of Mr.
Whtbeck In Coxsackic, near Albany, when slavery
FREEZER he owns about 100 acres Of land and i an in
dustrious and thrifty farmer His wife q also
until ne purchased her freedom d another master for
which he gave $780, The two sons OF Mr.. Whtbeck
thrifty farmers and live within mile or SO Of the slave
their father once owned.
sided in one Of the towns in Hampshire county Massachu
ses left the bulk Of his property be managed by us
tees until II should amount TO $500 000 when half
income TO be annually given TO twenty boys who
should faithfully perform certain conditions OF the will
oneourth to eighteen girls, oneeghth y -four young
for marriage portions, and the remaining eighth
to the same number Of INDECENT and deserving widows
The required sum will be reached in October next
The Boston Express mentions the folowing-Levi Lin.
coin who signed the charter Of the Boyle Market
sociation Governor Of the Commonwealth the IA
ther Of the last Governor, Levi Lincoln and Iieue-
nant Governor when Governor Sullivan died. thereby be-
coming governor Governor Levi Lincoln the elder died
at Worcester, April H. 1920, aged H. His widow, Mar
tha, died at the place. April 1928 and followed
to the grave by two sons-Levi Governor Of Massachu
sets, and Enoch, Governor Of Maine
Another Convention, 'to overcome evil with good is
to me ct at Buffalo the 18th September and
appended to the cali Andrew Jackson Davis
and wife, Parker Psbury, Henry Wright and Stephen
S Foster, and others Of "reformatory'' tendencies.
Fanny Fern has been travelling this summer She went
TO Lake George and on the way the steamboat
very much annoyed by the tobacco smoke deck She
says to regard the beautiful Hudson only
in the light Of an enormous spittoon.
Gen. Thomas Thumb has taken TO yachting and now
sails about Long Island Sound in Of the fastest crafts
going. He 'shversn his little mbcrs In true nautical
style, and spices the main brace with the guso Of regu
lar old salt.
Col 7. j. Whipplc of Iaconia, ". H. has Draco colt,
sixteen months old, which weighs thousand pounds
The Oewego Pdliddium says that Mr. 8. Gardner re-
Gently walked the water reaching the opposite shore
in six minutes and quarter. The name Of the river is
not given.
The Nashua Gazette understands that II the intention
the Bermudas, group Of islands in the Atlantic, about
600 miles east of the coast Of South Carolina where the
thermometer scarcely varies than four degrees
during the year, ranging usually from II to 76 degrees