Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1860-05-02
NEWS AND MISCELLANY.

On Monday morning the newspaper express train, ran
betwoen Albany and CasiletOn distance of miles
IN SIR mHtcs. This is at the rate Of seventy miles
hour ard probably the fastest time thathl yet been
made in this country.
steam plow has been introduced into Somersetshre,
EogAnl. 1t plowed upwards Of eight Of difficult
soil in "a day The same amount Of work would have
employed nearly forty horses. The expense was 65 an
acre aud powng by the ordinary would have cost
at least double that sun.
The Mormon faction under the leadership Of Joe Smith
Jr, have recently been holding meetings in Illinois Mis-
souri, and Ohio, and have determined 10 reestablish
many themselves Kirkland Lake County OHIO where not
years three thousand of that congregatrd and
erected magnificent temple. This temple is to be
fitted in gorgeous STYLE Kirkland is a village pleasantly
located branch of the Chaerin river Smith already
on the ground and the stake" will be in full blast 10
a few weeks. The re-cstablishment of Momonsm there
on an extensive scale is said have caused much excite
ment among the rural population.
Two men named Moses Young and William West got
into difficulty at Auraria Nebraska on the 9h inst
respecting title deeds which the letter held
cure debt of 1928 due him from the former when
Young deliberately eveled his gun and killed his credi
tor. He concealed himself until evening, when he
arrested by a crowd who with remarkable moderation,
determined he should have fair trial aud elected three
Judges and appointed Sheriff for that purpose jury
of the best citizens then emplneled. aud at 10
o'clock in the morning the trial Vas commenced con-
tnung until dark, when tue prisoner was pronounced
guilty aud sentenced to be hnng the 9th inst. a
judgment which was fully and formally carried out.
There is paper published in Alabama, under the
title of the Shareholder, edited by Gayle
Mr. Gayle blows up tremendous storm about the ears
of John Forsyth of the Mobile Register-accuses him
of shameless mendacty and charges all sorts of wicked
ness upon him. The Register copies of the spicest
attacks upon ITSELF aud regards them excellent spec
mems Of gratuitOus advertising.
On the 9Th inst Mr. David Brumley, Sen Of Green's
in tho nf
Miss Mary Ann Davis, living somewhere in the
vicinity The bridegroom % years of age the blush
ing bride Ii. Thus Winter oltimes fingers in the
lap OF May" 1t would be safe to bet that Mr.. David
Brumley, Sen, is worth good sunni in bank.
Cotton buyers are complaining of the frequency with
which matches are found in cotton A manufacturer in
Coventry lately found box Of these destructives
pying such situation in bale as to leave doubt that
they put there when the cotton WAS packed. The
dealers should complain. 1t is the bountItu use of
cotton that make so many matches.
1t is said the deaths by consumption among the stone
cutters Of Quincy Milton Rockfor and the marble works
of Vermont since they have ceased shaving, have de-
creased fifty per cent Thousands of arzans whose
poyment is prejudcal to healthy lungs have decreased
their liability disease in the greater proper
ton by letting the moustache grow.
The brig Baltimore, Capt. Potter, arrived Wednesday
from ST. Marks St Domingo, bringing advces to April
10th. Capt Potter reports that on the Sth ust very
heavy shock of earthquake felt at that place
Several buildings we're thrown down, and considerable
other damage done in different parts Of the town. Up
to the 18th instant several slight shocks had occurred
which 50 alarmed the inhabitants that they abandoned
the houses and slept in the streets. 1t supposed
that large amount of damage sustained in other
parts of the Island The shocks felt board Of
the vessels lying in the harbor causing their masts to
shake violently.
1t is stated that Judge Young, formerly Commissioner
of Patents, has become insane.
The American party in New Orleans have nominated
john I. Monroe for Mayor.
On the arrival of the widow Of the late Hon. Beverly
L. Clark L. s. Minister to Guatemala, at New York last
week her female slave eoped with the colored steward
of the steamer Ariel Mrs. O. compelled to proceed
| South without her.
New Orleans boasts of a beardless because female)
Buebeard This interesting lady was married the Sth
instant 10 her eighth husband She has married every
year since 1882 each year one husband dies but the
| widow loses no time in filling his place.
The Crockett exas) Argus says that within the past
month less than sixty murders have been committed
by the Indians on the frontiers of that State-that six
families were murdered at the same time in cold blood
| in the upper part of McLennan county.
Captain Swazey, of the ship Sylvia, arrived at New
Bedford Mass from the Sandwich Islands, last week,
bringing a Young Islander with him. The story was
nosed abroad among the colored people that the girl
was slave and in short time the former subject OF
Kamahaneha " forcibly carried off in triumph by
a furious company Of blacks headed by white man.
On the first of May to-day the Quadrennal Conference
Cf the Methodist Episcopal Church meets in Buffalo, New
York The delegates will number about three hundred,
representing all the free and three four of the border
slave States The six Bishops of the Church, Mesrs.
Morris of Cincinnati James OF New York. Simpson, OF
Illinois; Ames of Indiana; Baker, Of New Hampshire,
| and Scott, of Delaware, will be present