Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-03-20

laSG cOnpldlH VI Tue WcdGuci pelHS very
warm, causing perspiration to flow freely.
A-The citizens of Bangor (NIe.) are
apprehensive that their fellow townsman,
R. D. Bartlett, was on board the ill-fated
Hungarian.
BgThe Mayor of Pittsburgh has de- .
cided that the prize system adopted by
the gift book stores is ii violation of the
lottery act.
sm-S Seven of the twelve Republican
papers of Kansas are said to prefer Mr..
Seward for President, three Gov. Chase,
and two are silent.
MY Cake.
Two eggs, one cup of sugar, one cup
of butter, one table spoonful sour milk,
one half spoonful saleratus, and flour to
make as stiff as cup cake.
Strikes.
The striking contagion is spreading.
The shoemakers of Lafayette, Ind, have
struck for higher wages, and the Haver-
hill, Mass, boarding house keepers have
struck for pay in advance.
nA-A bill has passed one branch of
the Maryland Legislature giving the
Colonization Society $40 for every free
colored person over 10 years old sent to
Liberia, and $50 for every one under
10 years old.
rA- The Marietta Home Neaos aptly
remarks that ''Gov. Medary illustrates
his idea Of popular sovereignty by veto
ing bill to abolish slavery in Kansas;
and the Legislature illustrates theirs by
passing the bill into law over the veto. +"
Kanavxha River.
A bill has passed the Legislature
making an appropriation of three hun
! dred thousand dollars for the improve
ment of the Kanawha river; this is
good thing and will do much for the
prosperity of the Valley if the money is
only judiciously and properly expended.
-Pt, Pleasant Repudhcan.
HA- Milburn, in Ten Years of preach
er's life, says: II confess to grateful
love of log cabins; and am much inclined
to the belief that their humble roofs have
sheltered a greater amount Of health,
contentment and happiness, and virtue,
than in the best style of domestic ar, hi
lecture.
n@ Undoubtedly the oldest man in
the world, (says the N. 0. Crescent,) is
Capt. Viroux of Belgium. He was born
on the 9th of November, 1909, and is
consequently $50 years old He entered
the army in 1880, at the advanced age
of III years, and remained in the service
until recently, when he was put upon
the pension list.
The cred Demon of the Nursery"
The scarlet lever has been raging fea-
fully in Illinois and Ohio. At Bloom
ington, Illinois, during the past winter,
it is said that some four hundred chill
dren have fallen victims to the disease
| In Steubenville, Ohio, the deaths num-
ber from two to five daily, and already
some two hundred children have sue
cumbed to its deadly influence
BurniRg OF the Steamer Hickman.
CINCINNATI, March IA special dis
patch to the Commerciol says the steamer
Hickman WAS burned on Monday, when
Is miles below Little Rock The vessel
and her cargo are total loss. Two of
the passengers perished in the flames
The rest and the crew barely escaped
with their lives. The books, papers, &c,
of the boat were all lost.
Nr. IIickman.s Illness-"oh for Health!"
The Washington correspondent OF the
Pittsburg Journal says:
Great sorrow is felt here among the
friends OF Mr. Hickman on account of
his severe and dangerous illness. ooh,
that had youth, health and strength
to fight out, to the last, this great fight
said that gentleman to me few days be-
| fore he had left for his home in Chester
The Shoemal<ers' strike.
The strike among the shoemakers is
extending through out Massachusetts, and
New Hampshire. In Lynn, the ladies
are making active preparations for still
more imposing display. At an inform
meeting of a large portion of the shoe
manufacturers of Haverhill, held on
Wednesday, the determination not to
sign any of the strikers bill of wages
seemed to be general.
r@. 'Miss Martha Haines Butt" says
the Rappahannock tSoatherner, ''the
beautiful and talented young authoress
of Norfolk, has recently received mat
rimonial offer from Frederick, the young
i Prince of Denmark, who fell in love with
her at the Presidents levee last week.
i Miss B. refused him, preferring the po-
sition of free American lady to that of
a Danish queen. The Prince has re-
turned to Europe disconsolate.' -
Abundance OF Corn.
The Circleville IVotchman learns
|, from relative source, that 1.-The amount
of corn in cribs near the canal, between
that place and Chillicothe, is one hundred
and thirty ste Mousend bushels, ready foI
sale and shipment. This vast amount
is all on the west side Of the Scioto-
How much there is on the east side in
like condition, we are unable to say
but presume there is as much more
Surely there is an abundance of corn
!, ChiUicothe Gazette.
na- The Baltimore Annual Conference
: of the NJ. E. Church, in session at Win
r chester, Va, on the Sd inst, non-con
CURED in the resolutions on the slavery
question, passed by the Providence and
) Erie Conferences The non n-concur.
, renee was unanimous. The change
=, proposed is to added before the words
: the buying and selling Of men, women
/ and children" as found on page 81 O
5. Discipline, the words "slaveholding,
: so as to make the paragraph read as fol
} lows: Forbidding "slaveholding, tn,
: buying and selling of men, women ane
: children, with an intention to enslavs
: them"