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STRIKE OF THE BOARDING House KEEPERS FOR Paw
IN ADvANCE.-The boarding house keepers of Ha
verhil Massachusetts,, having suffered from do
iinquent boarders, recently held meeting. Rev
Mr. Cole said that every boarding house keeper in
town had suffered from $40 to 5000, but widows
mad suffered the worst Mrs. Kimball said that
she mad suffered $500 by delinquent boarders. Mrs
| Buffers said she had been taken in MANY times.
ana twenty OF the persons present named the sums
they had thus lost during the past year. making an
| aggregate of 81 900.
Mrs. Sweet said she met Young man who had
MS hair oiled and cigar in his cheeks, who in
suited her when she asked him for her paw She
mau not lost much lately, because she had been
saucy and would not be imposed upOn She wished
! these scamps were all cowhided, and she would be
! one to help to do it.
| ENcYCLoP EDIA BRITANNIoA.-Lttle, Brown Co.
OF Boston, have received Volume XIX of the Ency,
ctopGdia britannica, which appears to fully susain
the high character of the publication. Among the
contributions to the present volume the follow
ing: Reptilia, by James Wilson; Rhetoric, bv Pro-
lessor SpauIding; Richelieu, by G. Mason; Ro-
nance, by Professor Weir; Roman History and
nome, by Merrivale; Russia, by Professor Bishop:
py 9panitary Science by DR.. Lancaster; Savings
pan banks by Edward Richards; Scandinavian Litera-
ture, oy William Hewitt; Schiller nv ne Onincr.
| Scotland, by 7. Fraser Tvtler; Scott 'by pnr1y,
| 0Pauldlng; sculpture, by Professor Westmacott.
IHE HoBoKEN FLOATING BATrERY-The Floating
Battery at Hoboken, n. j., which has been in Co.'S
Sti uCGIon loT several years at immense
ana whlch very few persons have ever seen is de.
scrl0ed by gentleman who has recently been fa
! Vored with look at it, "as marine skeleton in
shape almost like long clipper ship, perhaps 200
leet, and 40 or so feet wide razed to within a few
eet OF the water-lpe. 1t is formed of iron mates
half an inch thick neatly riveted The whole il
covered with plankng, excepting the stern The
| framework is of iron, but exceedingly fran on5
delicate"
- SNGULAR CAsE.-At a recent Ulster county,
ew York, Court the following trial came of:
John Smith against Huram Hasbrouck admins
trat9r OF Adam WiesneI, deceased. MIR. Hasbrouck
Is administrator of Wiesner by virtue of his office
o. county treasurer. Plaintiff claimed that the
siessnes of Wiesner caused an explosion of his
PP0wuer-mlIl at Esopus, by which he lost 81 O0O- -
! "lesner was killed by the explosion and left no
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OPERATLoN THE SHOEMAKERs' Strike ov
BUTCHER BoYs.-lt is said that the butcher porters
OF Newburyport Mass, have struck for an advonca
OF from tw" to three cents basketful for CARRYING
home meat and provisions from market some nf
the market men have agreed to the demand The
| strike was caused principally by fear that as the
price OF boots and shoes had advanced the porters
would be unable to provide themselves with those
articles unless they received more wages.
GAGsE AND EFFECT.-A man was run over and
Killed by the cars last week on Garoga Creek ON
| the line of the New York Central Railroad He
was discovered upon the track and efforts nada IN
! warn him off, but as he did not get out of the wav
| ne was caught and crushed The jury empanelled
| was OF opinion that it was his deliberate intention
| TO commit suicide, predcating their belief unon
| the fact that he only had fourteen cents in his
| pocket.
VIOLENT TREATMENTS Rutland of Dover
Tenn, was arrested for the murder of his wife, was
tried, and sentenced to the penientiary for nine
years An appeal was taken to the Supreme Court
OF tennessee, and the decision of the lower Court
set aside and the Doctor discharged from custody
lie then published violent attack upon the citi
zens OF Dover, alter which they, a few days since
| m rim cd l.
dred lasbes on the bare back, and turned him loose
SPor THE SUY.-A solar spot, of rare interest
from Its changes, passed the SUMS disc be-
tween the 23d of February and the 7th of March,
oh the z9th OF February it was nearly round, with
Penumbra like the brush of a comets tail On
! the lst and I'd of March it was a spiral penumbra
OF more than whirl and half, with the black
! spot as the mead. Afterwards penumbraI oval
returning IN to itself, with one or two dark spots
| Some of the New ork papers are loud in tha;r
denunciations of Judge Russell of the Criminal
Court OF Sessions. lie is charged with nassinp SEN
fences OF almost lnhuman severity upon some of the
| irlendless prisoners whose violations of the law
have placed them in his power; while towards 9th
! ers lenity is exercised quite incompatible with
| the ends of justice
The death of Mr. }. K Hanson, one of the oldest
citizens of Washington, is announced in the Na-
| tionot Iatetiigencer. Mr.. Hanson was a nephew Of
John Hanson, of Maryland, President Of the first
| Congress, and near kinsman of Alexander Han
| son, formerly distinguished United States Sena-
tor from that State.
The PRINCES RErINUE.-Iti is stated that suite Of
twenty noblemen and distinguished gentlemen viii
! accompany the Prince of Wales on his visit 60 Can
ada this spring. 1t is said further, that his Roysl
Hlghness the Duke of Cambridge. the Duke of
| Newcastle, and Major General Bruce will be
among the notabilities on that occasion.
Instead of being hung, the woman Robinson.
who was accessory to the murder of her husband
| in Crttenden county, Arkansas last week, ESCAPED
and was arrested in Memphis, Tennessee. on Thurs
day last.
The New York Tribune chronicles, with much
satisfaction, visit it has enjoyed from Virginia
negro, who, it says ''like most of the negroes of
that State, and some of tho white men, was a gen
| tleman.' o.
The detective police force of Philadelphia have
oeen detected to be in completely with rogues 1t
is said that one OF the officers passed store while
TWO Enayes were despoiling it, and received a
prlhe OF $500 to "mind his own business
At the famous parish OF St. George's-in the East
| located in London, it required police force of
sixty men, placed in the body ofthe church. to
keep order. 1t is the old quarrel between the Pm
seyites and the anti-Puseyites.
A man has sued another in London for surpIus
| lot OF Spurgeon portrait lozenges The plaintiff
ordered lozenges with portraits Of illustrious men
upon them, but not with the portrait upon
the entire order.
The Republican Association of the city of Wash
lngton have elected the following named gentlemen
as delegates to the Chicago Convention Major R.
B. French, Lewis Clephane, G. A. Hall, and J. J.
| Coombs
A man named Henry Meeks has been arrested at
Marietta, Ohio, charged with causing the late
accident on the Marietta and Cleveland Railroad
by placing rail across the track.
The Lynn shoebinding ladies had a fine time at
a meeting at Lyceum Hall, few evenings since
and the following afternoon they appeared in pro,
cession with all their charms.
A special despatch to the Boston TrareVer, from
the Worcester Republican Convention states that
three iitths of the delegates favor Seward for the
| Presidency.
By recent legislative action the towns of Paw
tucket and Seekonk go to Rhode Island, and Fall
River and TivertOn to Massachusetts, This is
reverse ofprevous tenure.
The Alabama House declines to concur in the
Senate.s resolution, appropriating S5O,OOO to aid
Virginia in defraying the expenses incurred by the
| John Brown affair.
Tbe Naval Committee of Congress will be in
vited to visit the Naval School at Annapolis, this
| week, with view to examining the institution
and charging its Accommodations.
Six large elm trees in front of dwelling in
Marlborough, Mass have been insured by their
owners in the sum of $500 against loss by lightning
| and fire.
The Legislature OF Mississippi has raised the
taxes to seventy-fve cents on each negro, instead
of forty heretofore: and twenty cents on each
SlOO worth of land, instead of sixteen cents.
| row occurred in a Jewish synagogue in Cleve-
land, Ohio, day last week. The officiating
priest was driven from the house, and the furniture
broken up carried away.
Mr.. GOrd0, pastor of Gonaves, Hayt has for
mally refused to celebrate the memorial services of
John Brown, the priest saying that this Saint
but slave thief
The Secretary of War left Washington last
evening for Wythevale, Virginia to attend to some
private business. He will be absent about ten
days
Mr.. Richard j. Blunt, well known citizen of
Richmond, Va, committed suicide by taking
arsenic on Sunday morning last. He left large
family.
The dwelling houses of Messrs. VIM. F. Smvth
and j. \. Edwards at Millington, Kent county,
were destroyed by fire on Sunday morning last.
The cable connecting the telegraph lines in Iowa
with those east of the Mississippi successfully
laid at Clinton the 9th inst
Major Gross, whose trial took place in New York
last August has been sentenced by the President
to suspension from rank and pay for five years.
The mayor of Pttsburg has decided that the
prize system adopted by the giftbOok stores, is
violation of the lottery act
j. II. Bates, who murdered his son at Memphis,
(Tenn.,) year ago, has been apprehended and is
now in prison.
Tba Tar;