The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1860-02-04

NJ The Republican State Convention Of
wisconsin 10 to be held at Madison on thu
.29th of February.
n~ The number Of distinct operation
REQUIRED in the construction Of an Enfield
riae are said TO amount to 769.
c% John W. Haskins, one Of the fore
most lawyers Of the Buckingham (Va.) bar
died suddenly on the lst ult.
60 There is one person in the Massa.
cbusetts State prison whose term does MOI
expire until 1880. There are So incarce'
rated for life.
w John E. Fry, member Of the STATE
Senate from Worcester county, IN. Y. II
said to be involved in the crime Of forgery
and yesterday resigned his seat in the Sen
ate. The alleged forgery is on firm il
Pearl street, for $500.
~ Mons. Charles Heidseck, the cele'
brated Champagne Wine proprietor, has or.
rived in New York City, en- route to thu
West to hunt buffalo and other animals.-
He is provided with the finest shooting
utensils-some of unequallsd Partisan excel
lence.
vrhe snow in Jefferson and Lewis
counties, N. Y, is four and half feet deer
on level.
GT In Birmingham, Conn.,, last week.
about 1000 persons had 6 skating carni'
VAL" and employed a brass band.
TA meeting in aid of the fund for Johr
Browns family was held at Salem, Mass.
Friday evening. Emerson, Phillips, anc
Rev. James Freeman Clarke were the speak
ers. 1t was stated that the fund is likely to
reach the liberal amount Of $4,000
v The New Orleans correspondent Of
the Charleston Courier reports the death Of
the Hon. B. R. Webb, Secretary OF the State
of Mississippi.
CT The daughter of late distinguished
physician of Philadelphia has gone into a
convent, taken the veil, and given to the In
stitution her whole property, amounting to
100000.
~ Mr.. Staples, lumberman, visited
Calais, Mo-, on the 9th inst, and was i'm
prudent enough to engage in a drunken ca
rcusal while he had $3.50 in his pocket
The next morning he found his wallet, but
its contents were missing.
EEJo, a slave of DR.. Wharton, in Nash
vile, Tenn, attacked a widow woman who
was going to market early in the morning,
and succeeded in violating her person before
help could be rendered. The scoundrel was
subsequently apprehended.
~Over 100 soldiers of the War of 1872
were in Convention at Columbus, CO., Jan.
10, and much attention was shown them
Resolutions were passed to vote for no man
for President but known friend of a Pen
sion bill. Two Delegates were appointed
to the Chicago Convention.
CvA Newfoundland dog, trained to har.
ness, took his owner, Master Houghton
Nichols, from Adams to Wiliamstown on a
sled last week inside of Swo hours, rested
one hour, and started for home, accomplish
ed the five miles in one hour and quarter.
Much CONSERVATION has been created
in London by the unusual severity of the
weather. Water backs in Kitchen were ex-
plodng in consequence of the water being
let into them too suddenly while chilled, and
show bottles in chemists windows were
bursting. The Surpentine has been bridged
over with ice, and it was recorded as re-
markable circumstance that $4,000 skaters
should have been gathered upon it at one
time.
CO Two young lades-Miss Beman of
Gustavus, and Miss Harrington of Green,
Trumbull county, Ohio, both Of whom have
been teaching in the Southern States, have
hapn compelled TO leave their Schools. be-
cause they were guilty of the crime Of hav-
ing been residents of Ohio, and consequent
ly suspected Of having doubts of the divinity
of Slavery.
Mr.. Van Buren,, in his late Albany
letter, speaks of Aaron Burr as "highly gif-
ted and Inflated" Is he preparing the
way to apologize for the traitors who are
now plotting the destruction Of the Union
Why Burr was one of the most cold hooded
traitors the world has ever seen, except
those who in these days talk treason on the
floor Of Congress and elsewhere.