Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1860-01-21
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Seventy-two persons of the age Of
seventy years and upwards, died il,
the city Of Providence, r. l., during
the year 1859.
A very heart-rending affair recently
occurred at Mount Vernon. Il lady
was found weeping bitterly a: the ice.
house, mistaking it for the tomb OF
Washington.
Franklin, ON hearing the remark
that what was lost on the earth went
to the moon, observed that there must
be deal Of good advice accumulated
there.
George Washington May, late lieu
tenant in the U. S. army, died in the
city Of New York on the 9Th inst
Mr.. May distinguished himself at the
battles of Palo Alto, Resaca Do La
Palma, the taking of Monterey, the
siege of Vera Cruz, and the battle of
Cerro Gordo.
The 1.o3don Times contains q pow.
erfal leader advocating grant of
21O,OO0,O 900 sterling for the defense
of England. 1t isn't AT all apprehen-
3ve about Louis Napoleon, but thinks
the works are necessary for future As
well as present generations.
A gentleman who writes to us from,
Paris, under the date of December 7,
informs us that he dined with Mr.. Ten
Brock, in Paris, on the Sd, and learned
from him that he stood to win $780,.
900 upon his American horse Umpire
for the next Derby, at an outlay OF
$4,000. BY this it appears that Mr..
Ten Brock was shrewd enough to get
all his bets tom early, when his un'
Known colt stood discredited ut the
rate Of 100 to H. Wilkes Spirit.
The bill abolishing slavery in Ne
braska, passed the Territorial Legisla
ture OH the Sd inst. 1t was expected
that Gov. Black would veto it. The
bill providing for a constitutional con
vention passed the House on the same
day.
In the Missouri Legislature on the
18th, bill banishing free negroes
under the alternative of becoming
slaves, which had already passed thu
Senate, was passed by the House.
On board the steamer Milwaukee
there is an Australian curiosity-noth
ing less than an Australian laughing
jackass. The animal belongs to the
feathered tribe, has feathers, wings
and long beak, is about the size Of
an sagle-hawk, and is found nowhere
else but on the Australian continent
1t laughs like an old woman, and il
the Australian forests at night, it ha.
led many wayfarer in search of al
old lady in such lonely condition.
This animal and the flying squire
have many conflicts together, in which
the jackass is generally victorious
On the same ship there are some o.
the peculiar ring tailed doves of thu
country.-San francisco Herald.
A brigand has been captured il
Sardinia, who is known to have per
petrated sixty murders. He was fol
lowed at all times by three enormous
mastifs, fed, according to the tradi
ton of the peasantry, upon human
flesh.
Joseph G. Baldwin, one of the Chic
Justices OF the Supreme Court of Cal
itornia, and now a prominent candi
date for the United States Senat,
from that State, is the author of tn,
well-known book called Simon Sugrs
The New Haven Register says tina
the valuable library Of the late poet
DR.. James G. Percival, Of that city
has been sent to Messrs. Leonard 4
Co., Of Boston, by whom it will b,
disposed of, for account of the mort
cages, at public auction. It contain
upward Of ten thousand volumes, an,
is yariously apprised at from $1,000
to 100000.
The officers Of the steamboat Ceres
arrived last evening from the Attaka
pas, via Bayou Plaquemines, and re
port that on Wednesday last, Old rive
had ice half an inch thick in it, al
along the shore, and in several place
the stream was iced over completely
This is novelty in our section of tn
world.---N o. Hcay,sne, 3Oth uzt.
An exchange thus computes tn,
value, of cotton seed as a source O
oil, and cattle feed A crop OF 5000,
600 bales of cotton as 500 pounds t.
the bale IS 1900, 600, 900 lbs of fibre
the cotton seed of which would b,
5000; OOO, 900 pounds or 1880, 900 tuns
100000 pounds is equal to 1880,
600, 900. pounds Of kernel, which, viii
give 81, 100000 gallons of oil, or 1852,
500 tuns ofol cake. Value s7,120,
600. gallons of oil at one dollar pei
gallon, &s7, 100000 762,s00 tuns o
oil, cake at $25 per tun, $l9,O57 900
Total, S106,l7 ,000
The total amount Of gold and silver
yielded by all the mines in the world
dom the birth of Christ down to The
year 1856, has been estimated at sir
tes,a. thousand too hundred and m;nt