Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1859-03-15
NEWS ITEMs.

posed To be valentine, directed 'lo the
biggest fool in TifIin' Who will claim it?
Don't all speak at once
EY~The Sandusky Register" says:
"The Bayis again entirely clear Office, and
winter, to all present appearances, it is en-
tirely used up for the present."
EE- The two rival candidates for Sena-
toral honors in district No. g. New Hamp-
shire, are Walter and Benjamin F. Har-
rington, Brothers, who live on the same
farm, and in the same house.
EV John Percy, of Albany, brought SO
libel suits against the "Eyening journal" )"
claiming damages to the amount of ST.
800, 900. The suits have been tried, and
a verdict rendered for the defendants.
AEThe hens of France must be an
egg-layipg breed, for statistics show that
France furnishes England with nearly
200, 100000 of eggs annually.
Rw AT a recent supper and fair of the
ladies of the Episcopal Church, in Lancas-
ter, o., one cake realized the sum of y 40.
The nett receipts were about S24o.
BsE- Three hundred and seventeen thou
sand dollars in silver were shipped recently,
at San Francisco, in the ship Cyclone for
| China.
! EsE Six persons. some Of them hereto
! fore of unblemished regulations, have re-
Gently been arrested in Tuscarawas county,
| for passing counterfeit money.
RE-A Washington letter writer says,
that while sitting in the gallery of the Sen
ate chamber, and looking down upon the
assembled wisdom therein collected, he
counted sixty four candidates for the Presi-
dency.
B=g- Railroad trains are now running
regularly across the Isthmus of Suez,
drawn by locomotives built in Massachu-
setts.
GE~Itis said that 1 700 young men will
take diplomas from the Medical Colleges
Of Philadelphia this year.
Eg- Col. Swords has reported the ex-
penses of the Quartermaster's debt for the
late Oregon war at $25O,0O0.
Eg~Tke chicago ''Tlibune" says that
seventy-fve fugitive slaves passed through
Grinnell, Iowa, on their way from Mis-
souri, TO Iowa.
EFT At spelling school near Maumee
! City, Lucas county, on Thursday night,
Josiah George attacked John Bulger with
a knife, stabbing him three times. from the
effects Of which he died the following
morning.
EY Mr. John La Mountain, who is bull
ding balloon to voyage across the ocean,
Ewlll first bring his airy vessle to Chicago,
and make an extended trip over the lakes.
Gy~ Henry Cheever and Oliver i. Mar
shall, convicted of aiding and encouraging
the fighting ofdogs, in North Providence,
r. l., have been fined twenty four dollars
and cost each, making in all 81 10 80.
lS-Paul Morphy, the American cham
pon chess player against the world, upon
his return to this country,is to be present.
splendid set of silver and gold chessmcn,
worth $1,000, and board of like elegance
A medal and watch are also ordered fol
INN.
re- During January, only ten barrels o
flour were exported from the United States
to Great Britain; and at present prices ii
the two countries, it will pay to import
-four from Liverpool TO America.
AN OLD PRINTER.-Gen. George San
ney man printer in this office forty -'aint
gears ago. He has seen more than three
score and ten years, and is yet hale anc
hearty and as erect as an Indian chief
May peace and happiness attend his de
clining years.-tSciofo Gazette.
1T has often been predicted that the
heavy glass sky-lights over the Represen
tatives' Hall in Washington was not suffi
ciently secure. Early on Tuesday morn
ing, from some unknown cause, heavy
pane fell from The sky-light upon the desl
and chair of Mr.. Nichols, of Ohio, who
had moment before left his seat.
re Information is received at Wash
ington from Hon. Charles Sumner, tha
his health is much improved, and that he
will return early in the spring. He will
be present to occupy his seat in the Senate
should au extra be called.
GE~ During the past year Mrs. A. E
Flint raised on her plantation in Louisiana
/ 800 hhds. sugar, 1000 bbls. molasses
and 400 bales of cotton. This is the
largest crop ever produced on single plan
tation in Louisiana.
ES~A hog which had been running
wild in the woods in Fayette county, Pa,
near Upiontown, for the last four years OIL
more, until had become perfectly wild
was captuted recently in Center township,
and is now confined on the premises oi
Mr.. Deyinney. The animal is of a large
size, and will weigh when fattened at least
500 pounds. 1t is said that no less than
four dogs, four COWS, five calves and some
twenty head of sheep were killed by this
animal during the time he was at large in
the woods.
Gg~The East Bait imore Conference o
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