Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-07-20
News Items.

News Items. 1 John Van Buren has gone to Europe.- Some of the members of the opposition pro fessed to be exceedingly troubled for fear that J John would vote the democratic ticket atthe next election. They will be enabled to sleep of nights, when they find he is ab sent
 They have a negro in Boston whose feet measure over two feet and half in length { The last census shows that the number of acres of land under cultivation in Texas is 1,948,215 This is within a fraction of the number of acres in this State sold by the United States in two years
 The legislature of Oregon has adjourned without elccting U. $. Senator. This is unfortunate, as it leSsens the democratic strength in the Senate. The Governor oi Oregon has authority to call an extra ses- sion of the legislature, and it is to be hoped that he will do so and urge upon the rep resentatives to settle squabblcs and send a full delegation to Washington city,
 Fifteen persons are indicted and to be tried in the t. s. circuit court for the north ern district of New York, for forging land warrants Warrants have been issued on fraudulent claims to the amount of at least 20,000 acres which have been vacated. At least 40, ,000 acres on similar, claims have been located by innocent purchasers and pa tented.
 Lieut.. Nurry has been ordered to the command of the steamer Mystic. It is un- derstood this is done with view to his promotion, as the regulations of the service require the officer to be or to have been in actual command, to be in the line of pro- motion.
 Some ungalIant fellow has asserted that Queen Victoria is the best judge of Port wine in England.
 The Ugly Club" who has its headquar- ters at Petersburg, Va, has just elected the four uglest men in America, honorary members. The names of the unfortunate fortunates are B. c. Pollard, of Hanover J. w. Hall, of Halifax; G. D. Prentice, ot Louisville and distinguished gentleman of our city.
 The Utica (N Y.) Herald grows inten se- ly eloquent over the defunct Neapolitan King Bomba. Says he:
 His body rots in the royal cyrpt at Naples, his soul, we religiously trust, finds refuge in he'll" Whew! And the editor of the Louisville Democrat had a bouquet of flowers presented to him and then stolen by some scamp, of whom he says: He would rob churchyald d of it's decorationsl' In late contest the prize for the best poem on the poet Burns, was won by a young lady and the French Academy has awarded its great prize of poetry to Mele Ernestine Drouet. The title of her poem is "The Sister of Charity"
 X fireman in town in Massachusetts got married lately. His brother tiremen sercnaded him "wid der masheen" The stream of water broke through the ssglass ot the bedroom window and drenched the couple, thus producing coldness between them on their wedding night.
 The Buifalonians got of piece of fire works on the 4th, that was scandalous Ii represented broad expanse of crinoline, which, when first Illuminated was spangled with diamonds and full of furbelows and hounces, but these disappeared and gigan- tic skeleton skirt was left.
 Isabella Thompson of Washington coun- ty, N. Y., is five years and ten months old; three feet and ten inches high; weighs POP pounds, and her arms, between the shoulder and elbow, measure ' inches in circum- ference.
 Dispatches from the Indian Agent in New Mexico to Commissioner Greenwood, state that the Navojos are committing great depredations, and that another Indian war is imminent.
 Ex-Minister Dodge, says the proposition to purchase Cuba does not involve the hon. or of Spain, and that the course recommend ed by the President will lead to- its acquisi- tion. His known ability and the position he filled of Minister to Spain. entite his opinions to weight and consideration.
 Among the names on the list of those killed on the Michigan railroad, was that of E. C. Smith of Wall street, N. Y. The New York News has this paragraph:
 1.-The E. c. Smith of Wall street who was one of those killed on the Michi- gan southern railroad. was not merchant or a stock broker. He was a porter and a good man.
 As much as to say that if he had been a merchant or stock broker he would not have been a good man.
 r. An English missionary, now in Sumatra, lately wrote thus: "I have had the melan- choly satisfaction of examining the oven in which my predecessor was cooked" The Richmond Dispatch makes mention of a negro woman who gave birth to a daughter at fourteen years of age, which daughter had child at eleven years of age A Pennsylvania editor says that he ate a strawberry six inches in circumference, and weighing eighteen pennyweights. Geo. w. Kendall declines running for Governor of Texas
 The assessed value of the taxable proper ty of the city of New York is more than five times as great as that of the State o1 Arkansas, being within fraction of five hundred and ffty-two millions of dollars