The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1859-06-01
NEWS ITEMS.

- The Clerk Of the Probate Court in
Cincinnati, who issued marriage licenses,
has eloped with pretty girl worth $780,
900.
= Judge Wright has granted writ
Of error IN the case of Mrs. Hartung,
whose execution will therefore be delayed
till it shall have been argued.
The assessed valuation OF the real
and personal property Of Detroit this
year, amounts TO $15,7e6,59l--being
$6l3,0s0 less than 1858.
- An exchange says that piece of
brown paper, folded and placed between
the upper lip and the gum, will stop
bleeding at the nose.
- A Norwegian shoemaker, living in
Minnesota, has obtained $4,000 for q
piece Of land near Chicago, which he
bought eleven years ago, for $50.
The marble statute TO Com. Perry,
to be erected at Cleveland, on Lake Erie,
has been contracted for, and it is TO be
ready for Inauguration on the 10th of
September.
- The Republic of Hayti has COM
missioned two colored gentlemen, Touis-
SAINT and Merdon, as Ministers 10 London,
where they have been received officially.
- The Toronto Leader states that the
robbery of Canadian letters sent into the
United States is very common, and that
registered letters are almost certain 10 be
opened and the money taken.
- Mrs. Anderson, of London, Cana
da, insured her life for $4,000, for the
benefit Of her son, shortly after, admins
tered strychnine TO the mother, from the
effects of which she died.
- One passenger on the Star Of tie
West on her late arrival New York,
Cornish miner, had one hundred and fifty
pounds of gold DUST valued at 100000.
- The Michigan State Fair for 1859,
will be held in the city of Detroit, on the
I'd, Sd, 4th and 9th days Of October
Horace Greeley will deliver the address.
= A dancing master was taken up in
Natchez recently, for robbing a fellow
boarder. He said he commenced by
cheating the printer, that after that every
thing rascally seemed to come easy to
him.
A man in Stockton, California,
cowhided a clergyman for reading the
marriage service for an eloped daughter.
She was joined in bonds, but her father
was put under them-to keep the peace.
- The Vanderbilt, which arrived at
New York on Saturday, made the quick
est transatlantic trip on record-her time
being nine days nine hours and twenty
six minutes; distance 3,l15 miles.
- The Legislature of New York have
enacted law 10 increase the legal rates
of advertising in that State from so cents
TO rs cents per folio for the first insertion,
and for each subsequent in a correspond
ing ratio-from 40 cents to so cents.
- Mrs. Darlington says that if she
should be cast away, she would prefer
meeting with the catastrophe in the Bay
Of Biscuits" for then she would have
something 10 i've on.
- The Grand Traverse Herald says
The schooner Telegraph, Capt. Ira Her
riman, arrived here on Sunday, and sailed
on Thursday, for Chicago, witha cargo Of
lumber, to Hannah, Lay d Co.
QUICK TRIP.-The schooner Perry
Hannah, Captain Garfield, arrived here
on Wednesday, having made the trip tc
Chicago and back in one week. re-. T
Herald.
- Two girls named Dalton are soor
10 be exhibited in Boston. The elder o
the sisters is eleven years of age, weigh:
fifteen pounds, and is twenty light inches
in height; the younger is nine, weighs
thirteen pounds, and her height is twenty
six inches.
- Mr.. Black, U. S. Consul at the
City OF Mexico, who, according to report
has been ordered to leave the country, by
Gen. Miramon, has acted as Consul il
that city for more than twenty years.
He is now an old man, and very infrm
- II is stated in the French journal:
that the city of Paris, in consideration o
NJ. Lamartine's great services to the coun
try in lS4s, has made him n present o
a handsome house and extensive ground.
in the Bots de Boulogne.
= Mrs. Lydia A. jenkins, of New
York, has been invited by the students o
Lombard University, Galesburg, ILL.,, e
deliver the Occasional Address at thu
Annual Commencement at that Institu
ton, on Thursday, the 9th of June next
We learn from the Port Huron
Commercial, that the Huron House, th,
Oldest Hotel in that city, was entirely de
stroyed by fire on the 4th inst. Sup
posed to have been the work of an incen
diary.
= The Tuscola County Pioneer ex
presses the belief that there is an amour
of mineral wealth Of no small importanc
in that region, and says that specimens o
various kinds shown, have tended TO con
firm the conclusion.