Arkansas true Democrat., 1860-04-28
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 the 2l,t ult., Robert Cherry, aged 16 years, to Miss Josephine Gregory, aged l3 years, ," It is singular that children will partake of green fruit Miss Gregory should have waited for Cherry to ripen. It IS to be hoped that in transplanting him to war mer bed, it is not to hot-house.
 The expenses of the Ohio legislature, at its late session, were $S3, ,760.
 P. P Trevitt, of Sparta, Tennessee, while at a hotel in Nashville, sent for Dr. Carren, and while the latter was writing prescription Trevitt shot him, killing him instantly.
 Mir. Smith, of Mississippi, has resigned the consul -generalship at Constantinople. Salary, S3,000; expenses, S4,500.
 At sale of autographs in Boston, that of John Alden, who came over in the May flower, was sold for S2l 50. The sigma ture of Aaron Burr sold for Sl 50 of the Empress Josephine, 83; Thomas Jefferson, 82; Napoleon l. $3 90, and of George Washington, $14-
 The widow of Morgan, of antimasonic notoriety, died recently in the vicinity of Memphis. She married a man named liar ris and removed to Indiana. After the death of her second husband she went to Memphis
 "There is nothing new under the sun, for Egyptian mummics have been found whose decayed teeth had been filled with gold, by Egyptian dentists, more than three thousand years ago.
 The value of the taxable property in Ore gon is little over twenty-four millions.-- State tax on this amounts to S46,OOO.
 Property in Maine is valued every ten years. The valuation in 1860, is SlG6, O0O. 900. But as this embraces a great many species of property not taxable in our State, such as sheep, hogs, stocks, etc, It may be set down that the amount of taxa ble property in Maine is about the same as that of Arkansas. Our average value ot land is about five dollars an acre; there at least fifty dollars. The population of Maine in 1860 is about 61o ,O0O.
 The newspapers record the death of a man occasioned by eating strawberries which had been preserved in a tin can. Some how, it was supposed the acid of the fruit had come in contact with the metal of which the can was composed and generated a poison.
 A pair of sheep will increase in six years to 64. A pair of pigs, in the same time, several thousands.
 They had jubilee at Brayton's factory, at North Adams, in Massachusetts, week or two since Mr. Brayton made speech. In the course of it, he said that when he opened his mill, in 1882, wages for girls were fortv-two cents week, and calico one dollar yard. Now calico sold for eight cents a yard and girls get sixty cents day. They were paid the enormous sum of five cents an hour for their labor. Out of this must be paid boarding, doctors bills and deductions are made for every hours ab- sence. Some of the female hands actually earn over a hundred dollars in year.
 Grief will turn hair grey, but cotenpo- rary records a singular instance of lady who lost her husband, whose hair turned completely black within month after the dear departed went under.
 Dr. Isaac l.. Hayes, surgeon of the se- cond Grinnel expedition, in his new work, entitled "An Arctic boat journey" says: Esquimau is pluralised by the addition of an x.'
 A boy 13 years of age committed suicide by hanging, at Chicago, to relieve himself from the harsh treatment of his father.- It was white boy.
 Away in Portland, Oregon. they have an orchard that yielded s3O,0OO worth ol cherries, pears and plums in one season.
 The infamous Helper is writing another book to be used as a campaign document and to be published in May
 Hartford, Conn; Brooklyn and South East N. Y.; Milwaukee and kenosha Wis; Freeport, H.; Michigan city; keo keek, Iowa; and several other cities have gone for the democrats, by handsome ma jorities.
 At the Washoe mines in California, nlne | feet in certain lead, sold for S75, ,OOO. The Madison Pioneer corrects our errol when we said that if the population of tht U. s. should be thirty millions and the cos of taking of the census million and hal l of dollars, it would be half cent to sacf