The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-06-20
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

OF Tomorrow is the day on which lazy
people work and fools. reform.
OF A cargo of corn for Ireland was ship
ped direct from Richmond, Va, last week.
= OF The black leprosy, terrible disease,
communicated by Chinaman, has broken
out in New York city.
OF The President has signed the bill
which increases the pay of the Navy officers
about twenty five per cent.
or It is said that the defaulting New York
Postmaster, Fowler, is about to enter into
the commission business in Havana.
CT The Richmond Examiner, says all &C.
counts represent the wheat crop of Virginia
to be failure, and the tobacco crop no better.
CT The Hog Cholera has made its appear
anee in Greene county, Tennessee.
or Sayers' arm is said to be injured be-
yond cure, the tendoms having been severed
by Heenan's terrible blows.
OF Wisconsin has reduced the legal rate
of interest from II per cent to 10 per cent,
and allows two years for the redemption of
lands which have been sold out on mortgages.
OF In the trot on the 18th inst, between
Flora Temple and Patchen, two mile heats.
the latter was the winner in two straight
heats. Time, 1881 and 4.57 =. The first
mile in the first heat was made in 2.2711a.
The Troy Budget understands that John
Morrissey, the pugilist is to go Immediately
into training at the abbey" with view Of
fighting Heenan in August He has left New
York, and expresses his determination to van
quish the Champion Of the World, notwith-
standing he (Morissey) is threatened with
consumption
6F 1t is said that wild child has been
seen in the woods near the line of Howard
and Carroll counties, Ind A number Of per-
sons are looking for the child, but it has not
yet been captured.
IL The Liverpool Post of the 28th ult.
chronicles the departure of the ship William
Tapscott for New York, with 81 Mormons
on board, en- route for Salt Lake. Nearly
all are English.
GT A New York Justice Of the Peace re-
fused warrant for the arrest of an injured
Young woman who had struck her faithless
lover with q loaded cane, on the ground that
man who attempts to break girls heart
gives her right TO break his head.
or The famous case of the two mothers
and one baby, which gave Solomon SO fine q
ed recently in Rutland, Vt, where woman
the cradle. She brought suit for the baby,
and the magistrate, after hearing good deal
of conflicting testimony. decided in favor OF
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substantially the judgment Of Solomon in the
other case, and is probably correct.
or DIR. E. Y. Robbins, of New York, is
death on corsets, because corsets are death to
women. Says that in the year 1859, 10, 195
females died of consumption to 500 males
Difference owing mainly to tight lacing. De-
clares that a man inhales so inches more Of
air when he is undressed than after he has
got his toggery on. Powerful inference against
the safety of constructing the waist. Says ar
English woman is in the prime Of her attrac.
tons at the age Of 30, while an American Ia
dy has usually begun to fade just ten years
younger. That's so. ReasoR-English wo
man takes air and exercise; American ditts
takes airs and no exercise.
/ or The amount already subscribed in Eu
rope to the memorial 20 Humboldt exceeds
| $4,000
OF The Vermont Caledonian has . pod o
cotton which was raised in Glover, in tina
State, by Mr.. Abbott, ''real Southern cotton
as white and nice as any colored individual
ever picked on Georgia plantation"
/ OF A vast aquarium is being made for tn
Philadelphia Continental Hotel. Its area j
twenty eet square, its depth ten feet. II |
to be divided into two compartments, and II
object is to afford receptacle IL which tur
ties, Holsters terrzpins, e ID oBu,e genus ca
be fattened for the table.
i or A directory canvass of the inhabitant
of San Francisco now nearly finished, ind
Gates that the population Of the city Is full
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