The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1860-08-01

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A yoIc.No At NoRK.-A correspondent
OF the Alta California gives the following in
cident Of a visit to tie volcano hilaues-
not the celebrated Mauna Loan the Sand
wich Islands, thirty.six miles from Hile:
The most wonderful, and TO u.s. mysteri-
Gus phenomenon We witnessed, was on the
second day Of our visit TO the crater. II was
noon, and we were sitting on high bank
al lunch. Il had turned my lace IN the d.
Iectipn Of the wind, TO avoid the intense
beat of the lske. was startled by noise
like the rushing together Of vast bodies Of
water. The natives Jumped up instantly,
and raising an Onearthly shout, scamPereh
off in an opposite direction. Turning to.
wards the lake, | beheld scene which
shall never forget. /, too, had 70 run OF
some distance TO escape the great heat. The
whole surface Of the lake was 10 state 81
the widest cOmmotiOn. Wave c!ashed on
wave. and all was confusion. Tremendous
b.!i0ws Of FIRE rolled IRON every side VI the
lake. and meeting in fierce conflict around
the ,sland in the centre, broke with fury over
its black sides Then, alter recediug again,
they rashed TO the onset once more, With 10.
creased force, aud, meeting together, shot
up into the air perhaps one hundred feet, one
vast spiral body Of red liquid lava, which
finally combed over and fell N graceful spray
back into the lake sEain. When things bad
been restored 10 their usual order, tie sur
face Of tie lake seemed to have fallen al
least ten feet
Lar YEAR SESTIyEsT. At public d" Tea
Parts" recently held IN one uf our country
towns where sentiments" weFe 10 order, a
timm bachelor was bpd enough To remind
the ladies' tbat leap year was upon them, By
Offering tie following:
Tine long assry year. have waited flf this;
Nos, il ypa u pop the question u surely .Ay yes.
To which a lady promptly responded as FOL.
loss:
The man without courage 10 10 hls own wosuz
MAJ " hIspwa Washing, and baking, snI brewing.
Bsslon Jguraqk
A Western paper chronicIing the lsne8t.
able occurrence 81 a staging attached to a
church being b'Oan down, ,eft lselihgly sass:
d" We are hsppy TO state that over twenty
persons we're brought suddenly TO the ground
sale, aud one man. Sir. wilkins, got bis neck
broke. NJ. ". was an eslimable Young man.
aud the father II good many children, be.
sides a good large farm we'll stocked. lie
was fatally injured"
FEARFtL oREcTiuS commend 10 our
lady readers the ioIIowing fearful objection
70 q most extersble fashion: " Young girls
wearing straw hats with little bells pendent
from the brim, will, in the short space Of two
months, become rross eyed Instances have
occurred Of malf0rmation Of tie ewes, caused
by the wearing u these little bells.'
WEALTH OF WV YoHk CfrY. -The iosal
value Of the real estate in the ciif u Nav
York. according 70 the recent examination
iar taxation, i, $50 ,535 .Gla. and the total
value 81 real and ppr.vn. property Together
!. s577, 230,Gjg. which - ali INCREASE npgn
tbs valuation Of 1859 u twenty-five miIliuns
and quarter.
" + it po..iJlr, MS, that you DO 80,
knrw tts uarne. ~ some IL yaIr bes,
friends ~ "tsasnlf-l don't even know
What ny own mas be year from nos r.
4 Georgia edifpr rs. received basket
and Oh, t1lioaing mtasaae from i lads -
" " Editor. I send vaN saa,a ~ pesfs
.lr as,t v8a Ers, a.