, 1861-01-03

tcrs ago, went in to his woods, felled he trees,
cut and mauled three hundred and fifty rails
and put them on the fence in ono dayl He is a
good farmer, an ardent lover Of the Union, and
stands ready to use his powerful arm in defence
Of home and the institutions Of his State. Let
the President elect Of the United States hide his
diminished head.
The London Builder says that a spiders web
furnishes better plan fot the laying out Of new
cities than any which has yet been devised by
surveyors and engineers Any one who can
find distinct and complete web, unbroken, will
see how beautifully regular it is and how per-
flctly adapted for the quickest passage from any
one point to another The concentric rings are
not circles, but polygons, the radiating cxquis-
itely regular and straight
Geo W. Young, Of Augusta, who was con.
victed in june, 1858, Of advising and assisting
G. W. L. Burnham in robbing the U. s. mail,
between Augusta and Belfast and was sentenced
to fifteen years imprisonment in the State Prs1n,
has been pardoned by the President Of the
United States.
A plan is started in New Haven to establish
Home for Aged and INDECENT Women. One
gentleman has contributed the handsome sum
Of q. 900, conditional upon the immediate rais-
ing Of $4,000 more.
A man refused $40, 900 in 1857 for a lot in
Chicago, borrowed 100000, and with $2O.OO0
Of his own money built on it the lot and build.
ing together are not worth the borrowed money
now.
/ Miss Georgictta Tucker eloped with negro
barber from Toledo, Ohio, lately, and they were
married at Detroit. The young lady is repre-
scnted as highly accomplished.
The young wife Of wealthy old pawnbrokcr
at Philadelphia tried unsuccessfully, lately, to
/ palm off a spurious infant, borrowed from the
alinshouse, on her husband.
An old soaker in Boston, being found in the
gutter one rainy night, the water making clear
breach over him from head to heels, was asked
BY pasSer-by what he was doing there. "Oh,"
said he, 81 agreed to meet a man here"
! The Hartford Press has sren little girl Of
seven years. who cou'd rep at from memory
1.-THE entire Chicago platform" A useless ac-
mpli'amcnt, now.
A man met boy on horseback crying with
cold. "Why don't you get down and lead the
horse; that's the way to get warm" said the
man. "ifsa b-b-orrowed horse, and Ill ride
him IL freeze"
| Among the curiosities to he seen at the Me-
chanics' Fair In Richmond, Va, Is doll which
has b>cn played with for five generations; a
diamond ring 800 years old; book 224 years
old; and the cradle in which Henry Clay was
rocked.
"IIeroine" is peculiar word. The two first
letters Of it male, the three first female the
four first brave man, and the whole word q
Grave woman.
II IL tho pn;vers,, c,,s,or thot Al, Opcs,s wbo
visit On.en Vjcior;a restrict tho;r vist m three
5,vs '' =
A grnsshopper has bcen brought b New York
from Panama, which measures three sud q half
inches in length, and girls four inches.
.ronnS vas "."Sh. A. The Shsrs In Charlrs,on,
|. S.y Javs s;nce
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The Mel iical Society Of Virginia have appoint
OF that State for charter for q house Of refuge
for inebriates.
Humor is perennial source OF purity and
freshness 10 tns nina eeafs away Ine c"o-
weos u quahnes the nn', r'ch ura1ghts OF sen
uhent ireshens up the sated eIge o' appe-
Ute u nows througn tue who'e ne'hg IKE
oaOo'!ng stream WIN verdure Always green
upon It's banks. M'h3u. hum1r, we are e'thes
not Smo1ns OF aro p'a.ns. l"ur NsnS anu "a
4. yonr Shakespearcs and Dickensons are as
irrigated by It's delicious coolness, that they en-.
dure green and fresh forever
Rv steamboat cxplosion on western river
a ncssencer was thrown nnhur, into the water
and M once struck ont Justify for the shorr.
blowing like porroise the while. lie reached
the bank almost exhausted, and was caught by
a hystander, and drawn out painting. Wen,
old fslloN, said his friend, had hard time,
ehT "Ye-ycs, pre-prctly hard, considerin.