Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1859-09-20

dication of a genial nature, pure, unworn,
and unselfsh heart.
Truth everywhere lies in small
compass. 1t is the pestiferous and fa'al
property Of error to be expansive and diff
ficult of condensation.
EyThe boys in Western New York
are 80 fast TO make Blondins of themselves,
that the doctors have full lists of fractured
limbs and broken heads to attend to.
EEThe New York Express" says
the potato crop, it is universally
agreed, was never more abundant in guam
tity, nor finer in quality, than it is this
season in every section of the Union.
RA Mr.. Skate, Of England, has in
vented Photographic apparatus that can
be carried in the hand, and which. work.
ing by means of trigger. can be used
with cause and certainty. He calls his in
strument the "Pislol Camera"
EE" The Detroit "Tribune' says that
since the formation of the Reciprocity
Treaty, the demand for Canadian ponies
has steadily increased, until the traffic has
become one of considerable importance.
The buyers are mostly from Kentucky.
~ The Kenoshe Telegraph" says that
three young men ofthat place, caught over
three hundred fish in less than three
hours, while fishing in Geneva Lake, with
hooks, lead and line. They consisted of
perch and bass, and were most of them of
good size.
GH A prusian correspondent to Brit
ish paper talks of the impending blind
ness of the King of Prussia, whose malady
meanwhile is making rapid progress, We
wonder if that king-Punch's Cliquot--
was not blind even when his eyesight was
said to be clearest?
EwThe Hamilton Spectator" exam
ines the replies made by farmers and mer-
chants in all parts of the Province to ques-
tions proposed by the Board of Trade in
that town, and estimates the value of the
crops at present prices TO be SIC, 200;
at average prices $l3, 100000,
@The Emperor of Russia is laudably
cultivating the arts Of peace, and endeav-
oring to promote the welfare of his sub
jects. According to our latest intelli-
gence, more than twenty thousand men
were at work on the railroad now in pro-
gress of construction between Peters
burg and Warsaw.
wWhen a young man steals kiss
from Lowell girl, she bushes like new
blown rose, and says smarty: "You
darsn't do that twice more" The Boston
girls hold still until they are well kissed,
when theyihare up all at once, and say: Il
should think you would be ashamed"
EEThe Evening Post" gives new
currency to the fact that "John Bell, John
M. Bolts and Edward Bates would not get
as many votes in Minnesota as William
Lloyd Garrison" The three Bs, like the
three animals who are "to meet again, are
doomed "to bray" as we'll as to be.
HThe "big tunnel on the Coving-
ton and Ohio Railroad, in Greenbrier
county, Va, is 4,7oo feet long, and 700
feet below the surface of the earth. 1. is
300 feet longer than the Blue Ridge tun-
ael. The width is 81 feet. to accommodate
double track, and the hight is 23 feet.
E4-Five prisoners made their escape
from the Vicksburg Jail on the night of
the 22d, by gagging and nearly numbering
the jailor, w. F. Purse. Their names
were Sol. Northman, charged with mur-
gsder; Henry johnson, burglary, and Charles
Johnson, Charles Hart, and John Tellon,
d %iarcenr; Il
a new shot gun me- been psriestsd
] ~ sTnlsl hiehs VII probably Bs.
in market next winter. Itis made for five
charges, on the revolver principle, and is
loaded and fred with great facility; it is
of convenient size and weight, and may be
carried through the most dense wood, and
in the most careless manner, without ac-
cident.
y- EN Russia is distributing her princes
between France and Britain. Nine of
these notables are already in England
We now learn that Prince Constantine Of
4 Oldenburg, uncle of the re'gning Duke,
I and cousin of the Emperor Of Russia, has,
with the princes and her children, seven
I'm number arrived in Paris.
Il re- Captain George T. Brown was
Dsdrownedat Pawtuxet on Monday morning,
ssby "a singular accident. He was on the
shore, for bali, when he was seized with
Ia fit and fell on bis face, where the water
4 WAS only six or eight inches deep, and
Iwas drowned. He was very worthy
man, about rs yeals old, and unmarried.
% UTA wageish chap, whose vixen wife, by
Z drowning, lost her precious life, called out
his neigh bors, oil around, and told I'm that
his spouse was dTowr ed; and in spite oil search
coald not be found. He knew, be said, the
very nook where she had :umbed in the
brook, and he had dragged along the shore,
above the place amile Cr more
above The plaeer' he people cried. "why
what d ye meanp'ase
The man replied: "Of course you don't
suppose I'd 60 and waste the time to look
beiowl l,ye known that woman quite spell
4 snl learnt her fashions toPble we'll; alive or
dead she'd go, swow, ogaLns, The current
Eanytawf'