New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-08-25
ATTEMPTING TO FLY.-7he Madison Journal 70

ATTEMPTING TO FLY.-Tze Madison Journal 70
laes the following incident:
4" Two or three weeks since man named Whiting,
living near Sun Prairie, in this country got religion 80
bad that be too pure for the prairie and Accord
irgy attempted TO To Madison some other rel
gous place.. lie was too pure TO travel like mortal,
and having faith that he could fly TO his destination he
attempted the experiment. He procured an umbrella,
ard climbed 20 the topmost branches Of tree in tho
skirts of timber. After hosting hs umbrella, ha
Jumped from the tree and began to kick and sqaabble,
thereby thinking TO propel himself through the air.
La Mountain Wise did not work harder than our
hero; but alas for human calculations nstead OF gong
ahsd he quickly descended TO the ground, holding on
10 the handle of the umbrella for dear life. lie at last
reached terra rna in sound state and has made
mp his mind tina, faith IL good thing, but should not
be taken in too large deses.
A late Madrid letter says: The present year and
1860 will witness in Spain great number OF local ex-
hbtOns which will serve prelude IN the provin-
ces TO the grand one Of 1862. CASTLE Cstalonis and
Andalusa have already fixed dates for these fetes or
of Industry. Valencia viii have an agricultural EXIT
bton on the 20 Of September next; Zamora cattl5
show on the Sth II the same month"; Nalsdohd VIII
have an agricultural and Industrial exhibition on the
il,h for the whole of Old CASTLE; ON the DIST Cindad
Real will have similar for the province OF whlch
il il the center; at Barcelona, an agricultural exno-
ton for all the provinces of Spain will be held from
the 18th TO the 3lst of October next and cattle show
for the province, from tho "a to the 9th june 1901:
Seville will also have an agricultural, industrial and
artistic exhibition next year, and Maaga seems IN"
cined to adopt the system of annual cstleshows The
provinces OF Gaica, Aragon, and Vaencia ~ rch IN
natural products, have not yet entered the hst
TERRIBLE HAILSroRN IN NEBRasK,.-Ws learn
that about clock p m of Thursday last lith inst,
few scattering halstones, some oil which were lager
than hens eggs began to fall 10 the south eastern part
of Omaha Nebraska and continued to pet things AMI
mate and nanmate with uDwonted severity, for about
fifteen minutes literally covering the ground with sheet
OF WHITE when heavy rain inerceded and thus spaIeu
the country from the further ravages oil WINTER. Iho
storm came from the northeast, breaking window
glasses and nearly annihilatug everything 1t touched.
The storm upaccompanied by wind, or the de-
struction would doubtless have been much greater.
The keJrdskan says few fields Just south Of tho
city were badly injured. st. 10. Journal, 18th.
MOB Law AT CHILLICoTHE.-We understand that
on Saturday last, gentleman presented 81 600
notes at the Branch of the Bank of the S.ae of Ms
souri, at Chlllcotbe for redemptiOn but by the time
1900 in silver had been paid him. crowd of seventy
five persons gathered in the banking and ordered
him 10 present no more Of the bills. They, further
more ordered him to leave town, and gave him the
rather brief space Of five minutes TO do |. in As the
crowd was highly excited, and cries even OF Hang
him :" were heard, the gentleman thought 1t the par
of prudence 10 retire. particularly he not abo
y r JPhila North American.
Prof. WISE UP AT LAsT.-John WISE the bal
oonist has made 20 miles of his trans-continen-
tai voyage lie wes 10 90 from Lafayette some 900
mjles or more. He tried TO ascend on Tuesday, but
could not On Wednesday he made another effort.
He took with him, says The Lafayette journal, about
300 pounds Of ballast and prepared for long
voysge. He remarked, when starting, that ne should
not be satisfied with trip Of LEES than 600 miles IN
length. He assembled a. O'Clock p. M, and a. 6:3o
D. m he landed two miles and hall from Cfssfords
vile. The Journal sdds, he editors wife said
when the kicked over the milk pail, comment Us
unnecessary"
SALE OF NEGRoEs-At a sale Of slaves that took
place Monday, at Bowling Green, in this State inc