The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-11-12
SHORT ITEMS-MOSTLY STOLEN.

CO Elk Gov. Jas. G. Jones, Of Tenn.
died at Memphis, Oct. 3sth.
CO The trial Of the Harper's Ferry in
surgents is still IN progress at Charlestowu
! Va.
cv The funeral of J. Y. Mason, late U
S. Minister to France took place at Rich
mond, Va. Oct. 29th. ..
CO To be regretted, but can't be helpe.
Christmas and New Years come on Sun
day, this winter.
GO Governor Randall, Of Wisconsin, Ia
appointed Thursday, the oath of November
as q day Of Thanksgiving.
~ The amount of salt manufactured a
SOlcuse, New York, is seven millions o
bushels yearly.
c. At the opening Of the Court Of Com
mon Pleas in Cleveland, last week, Their
was ffty-fvs applicants on the docket TO
+ divorce.
c. DR.. Luther, on the ODD ult., at Blk
near Dusseldorf, discovered the 57th Of .ht
asteroids, between Mars and Jupiter.
EyA deaf and dumb man in Connect
cut, who married u deaf and dumb woman
has had FIVE children, all of whom hear ant
speak.
cyAt Marquette, on Lake Superior
snow had fallen to the depth of three in
ches, on the 10Th ult., and it was still snow
ing.
EYOn last Saturday, at Ypsilanti, Mich.
the State Normal School building with two
libraries, furniture and laboratory, was con
sumed by fire. Loss S25, 900, insured fol
/ 10000.
CO The Georgia State Railroad is on.
hundred and thlrty-eight miles in length
and is owned by the State.
vBayard Taylor has new volume ir
press, called CAT home and Abroad" being
"a collection of Interesting personal expert
ences.
CyCapt. Cook, the chief Of Ossawatto.
ME Browns staff of officers. is II brother
in law of the Democratic Governor Of In.
diana.
CT Hon. Thomas Corwin is announced
to deliver q lecture at Plymouth church.
BROOKLYN, on the 29th Of November.
GET confagration 10 the neighbor.
hood of and including the Magazine Mar
ket, New Orleans, on the hight Of the I'D
ult. consumed propertyto the value Of near
ly 100000.
syJoseph jackson, the Postmaster Gen
erai Of the Sandwich Islands, who died at
Honolulu, August l4th, was the only son Of
Mrs. Lyman Beecher by Ter former hus-
band.
cyJ. NJ. FoIliett, a Justice Of the Peace,
charged with forging peasion papers, was
tried in Alabama on Wednesday before the
Uuited States Distric, Court and found
guilty.
CO Prof. Lowe, the aeronau., was to
commence initiating his bailoon-tho mir.
ship "Cty Of New York ON Monday. |,
will take twelve days to fl! it. He is then
going to Europe.
@ The manufacturing OF salt, from the
brine of the springs discovered at Grand
Rapids, Mich, has commenced. 1t IS ascod
quality Of salt.
e. 4 shock of an earthquake was felt
ut three O'Clock last wednesday, the 26th
ult., at Machias, Calais and Passport, in
Maine, and st. George, St. Andrews and St;
Johns, n. b.
ry'The eleven miles of Railroad neces-
sary to connect Chicago with the Missouri
River has just been completed between
Quincy and PALMYRA.
G-y" Mr.. Daniel Sweeney, who lives near
Pontiac, Livingston county, Illinois. estl-
mates his crop Of sorgum this year at one
hundred barrels.
cTThe Cape Cod boys, planted with
cranberries yield so beautifully that the land
is valued at one thousand dollars per acre
fer culture alone.
Ev A slaye-trade barbecue was held at
Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, on the Goth
uit., the whole crowd numbering one sun-
dred and seventy five persons.
gan old man in Indiana recently cow
hlded bis daughter nineteen years old for
wearing hoops. Another father in the same
State turned his daughter out of doors the
same offense.
CO The Gath of November has been set
apart'as a day of Thanksg wing in South
Carolina. This is the first appointment that
has been made for general thanksgiving in
South Carolina for number of years.
cyMrs. Hacket, wife of John Hacket,
Of Freedom, Sank county, Wis, was burn
ed to death on Saturday last, from her
clothes taking fire from pail of ashes she
had just taken from the fire.
Gy~The Spirit of the Times saws the
establishment Of Il National Race Course is
agitnted among the admirers Of that sport
nnd Washington City is invarIablo selected
as the great neutral ground near which i,
should be located.
c. The Kansas Democratic State Con-
vention which net at Lawrence. on the 2Gtt
ut., nominated Sam Medary for Governor
John p. Slough for Lieutenant Governor
John A. Holderman, for Congress ana
Judge Williams present Associate Judge foi
Chief Justice.
cY+ The last trans Atlantic news indi
Gates trouble in Italy. The Pope has fed tc
Naples for protection.
CT The Steamer Baltic arrived at New
York from California on 25th ultmo, with
ST., GIL ,554 in gold on board.
Cyan English missionary, now in Sum
a.r:, lately wrote home that " he had The
melancholy satisfaction of examining tn,
oven in which his predecessor was baked
cy Mr.. II. H. Poole, who was sent b,
the English Foreign Office to the Dead Sea
to search for nitre, which was reported t
occur there, has returned without success
The region of Sodom aad Gomorrah vii
nut furnish one Of the most essential sinew
Of war, and the price Of saltpetre ia likely t,
be kept up in spite of tho pence.
! GyA correspondent Of the Boston Jour
nal says that Louis Napoleon when he re
turned from America, left a small bill at hi
lodgings in the Hotel Napoleon, in Hobo
ken, which remains unsettled to this day.
gin Philadelphia, according to the di
rrctory, there are sos Smiths, 4l2 Browns
$50 Johnsons, 304 Joneses, 269 Williamses
225 Wilson's, and lIS Davises. OF tn
Smiths, so rejoice in the Christian name o
John, while Of the Joneses there are &c VII
kpn hv