The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-09-16
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

GI~ From recent estimates it is asCertained
that there are nearly 200 iron works in the
Union that these produce annually about
$4,000 tuns of iron, the value of which, in an
ordinary year, is fifty millions of dollars.
OF this amount the portion expended for
labor alone is $780, The amount of rolled
iron made in the United States is about 5OO,-
900 tuns per annum. OF this, about 800, 900
tuns are made east and 100000 tuns west of
the Allegheny mountains. ... i-
me- Miss II. X. Clapp, formerly of Ian
sing, Mich, well known as teacher, has
been among the Mormons, and has written
home her experience of the Saints and
her observations upon their institutions.
Her letter is published in Lansing paper,
and is very highly seasoned. She lashes
Brigham Young and his system, and exposes
the frauds perpetrated by the Government
agents in Utah. ....'..
Gs- There are in Massachusetts five Unita-
rian clergymeu who have been settled over their
charges for upward of half q century, viz:
Rev. Joseph Richardson, of bingham, settled
in 1906; Charles Lowell, D. D., of Boston, set
tied in 1907; Rev. Abraham Gushee, of Digh.
ton, settled in 1907; Charles Wellington, D. D.,
of Templeton, settled in 1907; Samuel Willard
D. D., of Deerfeld, who is eighty -four years of
ago. q
Ga- The Rev. Thomas Dewitt, D. D., Of
New York, has been spending two months at
the Holland Colony, a settlement of native
Hollanders, at Holland, Ottawa County, Michi-
gan, founded under the auspices Of the General
Synod of the Dutch Church. The churches in
tho Holland Colony have received very liberal
aid from the Collegiate Church in New York.
@sy~ The Boston Trapeller says of the sus-
pension Of the publishing house of Phillips,
Sampson & Co.: "The Courier, in noticing this
suspension, states that the Atlantic Monthly
load was one of the causes of their embar-
rassment. So far from this being true, we are
assured, on reliable authority, that the Atlantic
has not only paid its expenses, but very
handsome profit over its cost"
azs~ s~Thomas G.. Kearney, police officer in
New Orleans, died last week from an injury
received while diving. He dived into tho
water only about FIVE feet deep, and from an
elevation of some ten feet above the surface of
the water. lie was seen to 60 perpendiculary
down, with his feet straight up in the air, and
came up perfectly senseless and paralyzed
ma-Second Lieutenant Charles J. Lynde,
of the fifth regiment of infantry, was recently
tried by court martial in Utah for insulting
and striking Lieutenant Wharton, and for DISC
bedience Of orders. He was found guilty and
sentenced to be dismissed from the army. The
President has approved the sentence. a
Mss-Mr. Gerrit Smith, the Peterboro' philan-
thropist, pays for all the articles, letters and
sermons which he causes to be printed in the
papers. With him it is direct matter of bust
| ness. 1t would be we'll if many others who
ask the "favor of space" copied his example.
@s-Thero was lately on exhibition at Sid
| ney, Australia, a set of horse. shoes made Of
| native gold, Weighing twenty y-four ounces, and
| worth about FIVE hundred dollars. They were
made for pony in New South Wales.
ms-It is authoritativey stated that the
amount Of money RENTED home by Irishmen
| resident in America, the last year, for the pur-
pose of assisting their friends to emigrate, was
So, 1850 900. The ten preceding years the
amount remitted was $49,690,O0O. .
@g- The Scandinavians in Chicago pro-
pose to establish two Morse newspapers in
| that city = one to be printed in the Swedish
| language and the other in Norwegian. One
association Of proprietors is to control both
establishments.
| MS~A new steam fire engine was exhibited
at Boston on Monday. 1t weighs only two
thousand four hundred pounds, and can be
drawn by one horse. The machine will force
an inch and quarter stream two hundred
feet horizontally.
Ms-The tax levy of New York for tho nox
fiscal year is $4,000, 900, a tolerably large sun
for bad municipal government The rate il
| 81 10 21-10O on tho 800, the valuation o
property being $551, ,923,lOO.
Mgy- Ten Brock writes from England to
friend in Memphis that his winnings in Eng
land this year topped $4,000 to gain
which he risked but 100000. Think Of that
hewers of wood and drawers of water.
| Gs- Very pretty Geneva watches are sol'
in Paris this season in the form OF heart, il
that of o tulip, or representing shell, o1
which are admirably painted views of Ge
neva, or pastoral scenes.
| NssB- The annual income of Mr.. William
Mcdonald, the owner of Flora Temple,
said to be $4,000. He resides in Baltimore
Mg-James R. Mcdowell, prominent cit
zen of vicksburg, Miss, died at the Virgini
White Sulphur Springs on the 25th ult. ."
Gg-The losses by the great fire at Halifa
J on Friday night will amount in the aggregat
to about q million of dollars. ....