The Carrollton sun. (City of Carrollton, Parish of Jefferson, La.) 185?-1???, 1860-08-22


i uIn Lowell, there are twelve cor
i poratiors with an aggregate capital of
SIS, zoo, 900, owing 50 factory buildings,
cosltaining over four hundred thousand
| sp&ndles and twelve thousand looms,
witp other machinery in proportion :;
! employing eighty-seven hundred wo-
men and forty-two hundred men; man
ISufacturing yearly more than. one humid
| red million yards of cotton cloth, twenty
fveiaillion yards of calico, twenty mil
| iot yards lof bleached and dyed goods,
one and q. half million yardssef WOODEN
| ''e}e1hs 1apld over million yards of car
petihy' Think OF a strip ofa cotton
cloth yard wide and two hundred miles
long, made daily! Enough in year to
90 twice round the globe, with ends five
thousand miles long to tie with.
MA young German girl IA years of
age named Alga Courier, attempted to
commits suicide at Newark, n. J., on
Monday, by throwing herself into Che.
Passaic River. She was rescuedand
soon Fafter made another attempt hE
throwing herselfo on the railroad tratKS
in front of an approaching train Of aers
She .giyes no reason for her CO.. fuct,
hut ayows her Differentiation 10 commits
Es'l0fete
lhaddeus Hyatt. offers iii tfis3 o1s
tilnns ntifiic Alnerica,l u re-
! "a fIl6as Invent xs1. pf d
prsaefi ma Eain6 I'D In
sdivisiu1 ononoti4n, xprss ISis3|
cent INIT sucl liiig II No.
" pracfi saolle
It is said TINT John
present 6 Governor Of Illlinofss arrive "a;
332 years ago, at the 81 Ia a] MID preseaita
city of Quincy, in that S tsite only "a
cents IN his pocket Now Qainc iDnt a rs
20,0Oe Inhabitants, and III in God
lives in, and owns residence xhere,
which cost him. $16O, 200.
y EFIt was The last request before |
death ola gentleman of. session, ecent- |
lysdeceased, that his remains should be |
sexainin ed daily for peirod of ten days, |
bin order to- make sure of The fact that |
life had really departed, he having a
fear Of being buried alive. p
u The Committee on Farms, of the
State Agricultural Society of Wiscon-
sin, have made a careful estimate, from
which they set down the wheat crop of I
Wisconsin for the 1860 at %, 000,O T
bushels
The number of officers in the re-
gular army of the United STATE who
have risen from the ranks is 49, Itis
not generally known that there issa
law providing fer the bestowal of CONF
on deserving soldiers.
Il
EyThe wife of Peter Hammill, of
Auburn. Mass, has been arrested and
held for trial on u charge of setting freI
to her husbands resideroe, on Wed-I
nesday last.p The parties Aforementioned +
together for some time. k9<ss
srs Nm interesting discovery, namely,
the istence of native diamonds, has
beensn5,de in Australia. The stone was
discovered in the black-sand of the.
Ovens distgiet by an Irish miner ,nam-
I'd O'Neil. Y II
(. G5-Amorg the curiosities discovered
by the census takerisa prettylittle girl
If fifteen, in the southspart of Aionsonel
Mass, who has ahusbaad 81 years of
age. 49,.
u It1e Ghlcaass .ZolIay es, it is said, Il
will retqFn home with about $1,000 in
he tresfurx. the 49, Of tKessa sibi-
ions they gave ipNs@ York, Boston.
md Phifaadlelphiia.. . 81
Thaz French steam- transport
irene Ayas lost in Annoy hafhors with J
100 tohso of powder and other materials
# war; -,
-" Two girls cousins, aged fifteen and
iXtcen, hung themselves in Jackson
:o~uty, Iowa, recently, on yaccount Of