Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-10-12
News Items.

i NEWS Items. G. w. Kendall, writing from his sheen larm Tn Texas under date of August 2Oth, says he weaned 400 lambs in one dav all aoout four months old His lambs, oelng of improved breeds are very valuable. we suppose he could sell them readily at 50 head. All of North Arkansas is fnllv equal to Texas as a sheep-raising country.
 A German phy siologist asserts that one half of the deaths of men between IS and 2S years of age originate in the use of to- bacco.
 Of 921,O0O bales of cotton consumed in the U. S., 760,000 are manufactured \ used at the north and 167 ,0O0 at the sontb.
 The dresses of actors and actresses some times cost immense sums. Mile Celeste had lace and gauge dress which cost sa- venteen hundred dollars The Parisians are much excited about the armor of Mile Vestivali, in the part of Romeo. It is made of aluminium, the new metal, weipbs only four pounds and cost 16, 900 francs- over three thousand dollars. The armor worn by Madame Pasta in the same part was ot fine steel, weighed thirty-seven pounds, was made at the royal works in Prussia and cost ten thousand dollars
 La Mountain and his companion, John A. Haddock, editor of the Watertown Re- former, are probably lost. They ascended in balloon from Watertown, N. Y, on the 25th of September, and the balloon was last seen fifty miles northeast from the point of departure, at an altitude of five miles and going due east with great velocity. No tidings had been received of them for eight or ten days. Their escape has been taken almost out of the range of possibili- | ties
 While we were looking for Greeley on the overland route, with the faint hope the Indians might catch him, he was on ship board and has arrived at New York. Per- haps he thought the air of Arkansas wonld not agree with him.
 A grocery keeper in Harrisburg, Pa.. was arrested and held to bail at the suit of a widow whose husband died from the effects of excessive drinking at the grocery. She also instituted civil suit for damages.
 The ladies now wear suspenders. No, we don't mean the strong minded women or Boomers. They wear them not to hold up trowserloons, but them other things. Se- riously, this is an important step towards health as it relieves the hip of constant weight
 Mir. Preston, our Minister to Spain, is coming home to take possession of the large property which his wife inherits as one of the heirs of the late Robert Wick Tiff, of Ky.
 The Vermont elections show gain of 5000 democratic votes over the Fremont vote in '56.
 The recent elections in two extreme DOT tions of the Union, both in Maine and Cali. fornia, are severe blows upon Mir. Donglas. In the liquor law State the candidates stood on the Douglas platform and had able lea ders, but the position was not found tena-
 ble and the result is, that while the majority
 against Buchanan was 5000, the opposi- s tion now carry the State by 12,O00 ma iority. In California the Broderckites are defeated and their leader killed in a duel ], A girl at San Antonio, keeps ten-pin r alley and offers to roll balls with any man : in the country. She has won S2,00O in
 six months, has never been beaten and can !, make ten strike whenever she pleases. ! There was terrible explosion of part r ot the machinery of the Great Eastern, by . which number of engineers and other, were killed. It did not, however, stop the = progress of the boat, though it will cause | the time of her starting across the Atlantic I to be postponed.
 l A bloody ahray occurred at Bayou Tor tue, in Nermillion Parish, La., between a
 body of outlaws, numbering hundred and fifty and the vigilance committee. Five
 were killed, one committed suicide and seventy were whipped. The Governor of Louisiana with company of military has l gone to the place of conflict.