The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-07-04
GENERAL SUMMARY.

" Sake was poetizing public, at Tree
ton, the other evening, when the gas went out,
whereat Sake told the audience that if they
wouldn't find fault with his own meter, he
wouldn't mention the defect in theirs.
" Who is the Mississippi planter who
has paid $1,000 for house in Cleveland,
Ohio, for the exclusive use of his daughter, an
octoroon, Is years Of age She goes to Cleve-
land to receive a thorough education, the
daughter Of clergyman in that city having
been engaged as her instructor. The young
lady, although born slave, is now free. 1t
is stated that her income while she is in
Cleveland will be Scoops annum.-M Y.
Neics.
OF They have a "Grace Darling at
Bridgeport, Conn. On the night Of the 18th
inst, Miss Moore, an accomplished young
lady, the daughter OF the keeper Of the light
house on Fairweather Island, just heloX-
Bridgeport, heard cries for help at q distance
from the shore, and determined that an effort
should be made to rescue whoever it might be.
Ii was too dark to tell the direction or the
distance but summoning two young men to
her aid, she launched the boat belonging to the
lighthouse, and ordered them to pull out IN
the direction of the cries, herself holding the
tller. About two miles out in the Sound they
found sail boat capsIzed, and clinging to it
two men George Penfield and Harry Shields
OF Black Rock who were nearly exhausted.
One of them was entirely helpless, and with
great difficulty got into the boat; but both
were finally rescued from death by the cour-
age and efforts Of this brave girl, and brought
safely to shore. Mr.. Moore, the keeper OF
the light, has been for some years afflicted
with i'll health, and when unable to see to the
details of his office, this daughter assumes the
entire management, and through 1.-THE lonely
watches Of the night" it is her fair hand that
trims and tends'' the beacon that guides the
mariner safely on his way.
f~F Lord Palmerston has granted vessel
to T. P Shaffer of this country, to survey his
submarine Telegraph route, via Iceland, etc, to
this continent.
NJ A letter received in Boston states that
the yellow fever was very bad at Pernambuco
May H. Capt. Hopkins of the Schooner
Calliope, Of Boston, had died, and the crew
were sick in the hospital
~ The city of Jeddo, the capital Of Japan
is SAID 10 be, without exception, the largest
city in the world. 1t contains 100000
dwellings, and the unparalleled number OF
100000 inhabitants.
A VIGILANCE CoMMITTEE.-The Washing
a y giiance Com
mi tees- composed OF one Hundred and fifty
Prisons, has been formed in Orange County,
Va, for the purpose of Kidding the country
of certain disreputable characters, who are
suspected of various crimes, the principal be-
ing dealing with slaves, melting the latter to
i &c al,
arrested last week and ordered to leave. One
Of them was first publicly whipped.
HAND SWALLOWED BY A FIsH-A day or
two since large catfish was caught in the
river below this city, and placed in a box
Shortly afterward, upon opening the box, q
small hand was discovered lying beside the
fish. 1t was evidently the hand of lady, and
no doubt had been disgorged by the native of
the deep. The hand was partially burnt,
and perhaps was that of one of the ladies
who persisted by one of the late steamboat
disasters-Memphis argus.
~ What is the difference between one
stairs One steps up stairs and the other
stares up steps.
or 1t is nice point to decide exactly
when "girl' becomes a 'young lady" In
a suit in Schoharie county, Ohio, lately, the
cause turned upon the point whether the de-
PENDANTS daughter swas:a child entitled to be
boarded at half price, or a full grown specimen
of the female article, competent to have the
question poppsd' at her, and to faint away
at an affirmative response. 1t is now settled
that young lady is any delicate individual of
the feminine gender who will not touch onion
stewed in butter, or eat nice boiled cabbage. -
This great principle, which must forever set
tie the question, was promulgated by a know
ing witness on the trial referred to.
~ A Scotchman asked an Irishman Why
were half-farthings coined in England The
answer was To give Scotchmen an oppor-
tunity to subscribe to charitable associations.
frT Suppose that, some fine day, another
Garibaldi should land in Ireland, to relieve
that island from its unwilling subsection to
Queen Victoria-that ships, arms, money, and
volunteers shodld be sent to him from this
that the British Government
COMPLAIN. this example Of British aid to Carl
baldi, defended by Palmerston and Russell.
nav be referred to, at once, to answer all OBJ
jections.- Press.
Nor MARRrEp--Mr. John c. Heenan, the
fighting man, writes home on indignant de-
NAL of the claims Of the several females who
profess to own him as a husband. He was
never married and the women are impostors.
This hithlessness on the part Of the "Boy"
will produce sad work in one quarter. The
gushing Adah Isaacs Memken Heenan, au-
thress Of the lines aCome Back to Me-" (ad-
dressed to herabsent prize-fighting lord, will
be stunned.hy the blow. She has been draw
inc Immense audiences since she assumed the
name of EIeenan, and her right to that title
being denied by the highest authority, Of
course she sinks into insgnifcance again.