The Texas Republican. [volume] (Marshall, Tex.) 1849-1869, 1859-08-06

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being free from yellow fever, not case
having occurred
4 BIC CHIMNEY The Baton Rouge Ga
2ettc says that chimney at the Penitcn'
| tiary. % feet in height and 60 feet in cir
conference, has Just been completed.
The daily war expenses of France are
estimated at 5000, 600 francs of Aus
tria, at POO, 600 or each about $500, 900
PorrtArioS OF san Francisco w e men.
| toned day or two ago that the popula
ton Of san Francisco by census just
| taken. was s,0S2. This is a city which
eleven years ago was little Spanish
settlement, no larger than 1t had been a
century or more before. The United
States Government obtained possession
Of California in 1917 the gold mines
were discovered in lsis; American emf.
grafton began then, and now there is
a handsome city, with many elegant
buildings, and population Of nearly
eighty thousand The history OF the
world scarcely affords parallel TO this
rapid growth, and it is the more remark
able from the fact that the city is at a
distance of many thousand miles from
the centres Of American and European
population, and for a long time was ouly
approachable by long and tedious yoy-
age around Cape Horn OF the whole
population 1929 are whites, 3, la0 are
Chinese and | sos are colored There
are only about twenty-five thousand
females in the city, so that the males are
to the females in the proportion of two
10 one.
The WISE ASn AYiErr DvsL,-Thc Rich.
mond (Va) Dispatch, of the 10th ult,
has the following notice of this affair
Messrs o. jennings Wise and p II
Aylctt, accompanied by their respective
friends, Col J. J.. Davis and Vim. Old,
Jr., met yesterday morning in North
Carolina, a short distance from Danvilc.
After the usual prcliminarics, the com
batants took their positions, thirty feet
apart, and at the giving of the word Mr.
Ayett fired, his bali passing within
about an inch of the shoulder of his an
tagouist Mr. Wise then raised his ps-
tol and fired in the air The friends OF
the latter then advanced and inquired
whether Mr.. Aylctt and his friends de
mandcd another shot, to which mega
tive reply was given. An effort was
then made for an adjustment of the diff
Guilty, upon terms honorable to both par
ties, but Mr.. Wise declined making any
arrangements until he had an opportu-
nifty to coosut other friends in this city
They all returned to Richmond in the
Danville train at 81 O'Clock yesterday
afternoon A large number Of the per
sonal friends of each Of the gentlemen
met them at the Depot, with warm con.
gratulatieus upon their safe return.
ArrolSrNESr.-Jamos +. Warren has
been appointed District Attorney for the
Western District of Texas, vice Il. B.
Hubbard, resigned.
The Racine Wisconsin Advocate says
that a slight frost, sufficient to blackcn
vines, was visible at that place on the
ith ult
OBSERVING THE EsEny FRoM BALLOON -
The French Emperor employed the broth
crs GODDARD TO take an observation from
n balloon OF the position Of the enemy at
Castelncdola NJ GODDARD rose to height
of from five hundred to seven hundred
yards, stopped for minute or so, and
then descended again, with as much reg
ularity as he had shown in ascending
1t is believed that the balloon will be
useful auxiliary in the war
APPOINTMENT ny THE President j.
Sprcnger, Of Pennsylvania, Consul Of the
United States at Dresden.