The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1859-05-04
NEWS ITEMS.

Counterfeit twos on the Taunton
Bank, Of Mass, are in circulation.
1t is contemplated 10 hold horse
fair at Grand Rapids, on the 9Th Of July
Achilles fuller committed suicide
nj Mount Vernon, Ind, a few days ago,
by blowing out his brains.
= Three horses for Louis Napoleon
were sent out on the Vanderbilt, on Sat
urday last. They were shipped by J. n.
Bonaparte.
- A schooner is loading at Savannah
with Georgia lumber for the Holy Land.
1t is ordered by some carpenters at Da-
mascus.
= The number Of emigrants arrived at
New York this year up to the 9th ult.
was 9,72s, against 1887 TO the same
date last year.
- large number of Pixies Peak ex-
plorers from this State are returning
They have little to say, and nothing to
show. Milwaukee News.
= The number Of letters which passed
through the Post Office of Great Britain,
the past year, was five hundred and TWEEN
ty-three million.
= violent hail storm passed over
Spottsylyania and Caroline counties, Va,
on Tuesday evening of last week, doing
serious injury to the growing crops.
= Mr.. Hawthorne has just completed
work, the title of which no one knows,
not even his best friends. 1t will not be
published until he returns to America.
BRAINS AND RIcHEs.--Give a man
brains and riches, and he is-a king; give
him brains without riches and he is a
slave; give him riches without brains and
he is a fool.
- A letter from the Iron Mountains,
Lake Superior, dated April 9Th, says the
snow is four feet deep on level, and the
thermometer 10 deg. below zero.
Cleveland Herald.
= Two boys have been arrested at
Liverpool for putting chromate Of potash,
a corrosive poison, into the font Of holy
water in Roman Catholic church.
= Counterfeit fves on the Vermont
Bank, Montpelier, VT; Il rees on the Say
brook Bank, Essex, Conn; threes on the
Bank of Falmouth, Mass, are in circula-
ton.
"A wife wrote TO her husband in Cal
ifornia, and commenced her letter thus -
"Oh, tell me not that absence conquers
love! the longer you stay away the bet
ter | like you."
- The Northup girl, out near Detroit,
the Free Press says, has gone back TO
her nigger. They are living together in
Canada-giving practical illustration Of
the beauties Of Republicanism.
A family in Manchester, n. H.,
named Chamberlain, have for the last five
years kept the corpse of an infant in the
house as a pet. They were forced TO in
ter il by the authorities few days since
QUEER REASON FOR Nor FIGHTING A
DUEL.-When Lord Carhampton was
COMMANDMENT Chief in Ireland, he was
challenged by his father, but refused Ia
fight him, not because he was his father,
but because he was not gentleman.
- A preacher out West, while endeav-
oring to impress the Gospel upon his hear
ers, pointed TO a corner in which an edit
or was quietly taking a nap, and remark.
ed: "There are some in the corner who
shed the Gospel just like goose sheds
rain!n ~
MATRIcIDE. Anderson, Of Lon
DON CIV, died suddenly Oh Friday week
Investigation developed the presence o.
strychnine in her stomach. IL is sup
posed to have been administered by hel
son, for whose benefit her life was insur
ed for $4,000. The young man is under
arrest.
san. CAsE.-Mr. Peter Perry, Of Pori
Clinton, o., was recently drowned in San
dusky Bay under distressing circumstan
ces. Ills wife has since died from the Of
feet Of tho loss Of her husband. From
the moment she received the intelligence
Of his loss up 10 the hour Of her death
she never exhibited signs of sanity, being
perfectly wild aud delirious. -Four small
children were thus left orphans in The
space Of ten days.
Mr. CoBB.-It was an easy matter "a
carry on the Federal treasury while il was
fuslto oyerflowing, which was its condi-
ton for many years prior TO Mr.. CoBB's
Secretaryship. But il is not an easy
matter TO carry it on through a period Of
commercial embarrassment and prostra-
ton, with revenues diminished below the
necessary expenditures. In this view a
southern cotemporary does simple justice
TO the character and official conduct Of
Mr.. Conn. "Coming," it says, {" to the
head of the treasury but few months
previous TO the great panic Of 1857, which
deranged the whole monetary affairs and
commerce of the United States, and, in
fact, Of the world, his position has been
one of extraordinary difficulty and EN-