, 1864-04-30
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS ITEMS.

listen with enthusiastic uellgnt 10 ID I'LL
ferent lecturers on philosophy, all teaching
different theories.
Gov. Lctcher said recently in an address
at Canville, Va, that "Stbnewall jackson
was in favor Of conducting the war under
the black flag. and so expressed himself
several days after the secession Of Virginia
proposing to set the example by first carry.
ing that flag in the face of the enemy
Jackson was model " Chistian.'
The London Times thus states the Danish
question: "Her Majestys brother-in-law
and her daughters flther-,n-law have oc.
cup:ed with their forces two provinces
claimed by the father-in-!aw Of the Prince
of Wales.
Quilp says that women will pardon great
deal to their own sex, unless they are guilty
of beauty. When they say they "don I
like the looks of that woman" you may be
pretty certain that men do! QuIlp had bet
ter look out for his hair.
When Abraham divides the land
With JEFF. of sense bercit,
lie says, "I'll wholly take the right
While you go--oyer the left"
The late Duke of Athol was character.
He "lved always in his kilt, employed him
self in hduting and sheep-breeding, ruled
his little territory like King, was beloved
by his clan, and while dying with cancer
in his throat, gave parting hurrah to the
Queen"
Curran's ruling passion was joke. In
his last illness, his physician observing in
the morn ng that he seemed to cough with
more d. .fficuity, he answered, THAT Is rather
surprising, as | have been practising all
night"
The Montreal JVifaess of recent date
says chat French Canadian landowner died
suddenly, to all appearances, and was taken
to the church for internlent As the SER
vice was proceeding, noises were heard
coming from the coffin, the lid was taken of,
and the man was found to be alive. On
the following day he was able to be about.
The Aaeients fed the infants which were
to become their future rulers with tho mar.
row OF lions; but this was rare aud ex.
pcnsiye diet, which, by the discovery Of
Amsricd and the potdto with it, has been
completely superseded in our time.
The Sentinel printing Office, at Youngs-
town, Mahoning county, OHIO, was totally
destroyed in February last, by squad Of
soldiers belonging to the 9Th and 18th D.
vi. The cause Of the destruction was q
difficulty between the soldiers and John
NJ. Webb, the proprietor. The paper was a
Copperhead affair. The Cmsfitatioa dad
UMos, published at fairfield, Iowa, has
also been destroyed by company Of Iowa
soldiers.
A long affidavit, sworn to by Cora Hatch,
the SPIRITUAL lecturer, charges her husband,
DR.. H., with killing three wives by ill-treat-
ment before he married her, nearly killing
by the same prOcess-fraud, swiud-
ling, killing his chiidFen by abortion, rob
'bcry, grossly -imnrorS cuuiuot, asisitery,
aud few other tribes.
The system of running b.oo1hounds in
search Of criminal Is in fal. f.yor IN the
Yorkshire wolds just now. The farmers
ars advertising for bloodhounds in order to
ty If they will be any more successful than
tac police in finding out the East Riding
ineendiaries. p'
Miss Nightingale, whose continued delis
cate state Of health causes her many friends
much uneasiness, has expressed her inten-
ton Of training, ut tho expense Of her fund,
recommended persons u serve as nurses
in COustantinople.
There are Eve great houses now making
paper culliis, aud these make some 3JO.-
OVv weekly, or jointly l,5j0OJO. Assum-
ing the price at IS. per gros, we have
weekly consumption If EZ,5JJ Of these
90. .ars. iF
A cockney angler, Who Il writing his tour
in Scotland in the London FELL, describes
the ruins of Dumbarton castle us being situ-
ated on pretty lake'to the lett Of the raj
way going from EdinLuEg 70 Glasgow.
The Newbern. North Carolina, Times
says, III is remarkable fact, and one WV
Idly illustrating the faithfnlness of the
Union volunteers in North Carolina, that in
the First Regiment there has been but one
deserter, aud he a Northern man by birth,
and not one from the Second"
Parton's life Of Gen. Butler is elabo-
rately reviewed in the London Spec ator.
The writer acknowledges that the book has
entirely changed his opinion OF Gcn. But
ler, aud compares him 10 versatility and
energy, to Frederick the Great.
A French savan, who has experimental on
lockjaw with galvanic battery, says the
patient was enabled to open and shut. his
mouth by the means, but The relief was only
temporary, and the contracfions returned in
spite Of the current, which gradually lost
its power.
Uutil the year 1790 the colliers in Scot
land were slaves for life, transferable with
the coiheries in which they worked; and
il was not till then that, by act Of Pariia-
ment, they were made frcen.en.
AT the last lcvee in Washington a lady
expressed her astonishment to the Presl-
dent at the noise and bnstlc IN the saloon.
He told her with a wink, thut il was quite
natural the " east room should be IN u
ferment.
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