The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1864-11-08

cd out on expiration of term of servicey
There is boy in Quincy, Mass, two
years old, that can call all the letters Of
the alphabet, spell three or four words
and do sum in arithmetic. His namo
is Frank Adams Tirrell.
! The ladies of Chicago have in con.
temptation another Sanitary Fair to be
hell in February next, and preliminary
arrangements for it are now being made.
The daily consumption of lucifer
matches in England is 250,00O, ,000--
more than. eight to every inhabitant.
One firm produces yearly 2,leGOo0'
punches.
An Ohio drafted man who was plac.
ed in the ranks of the l82d Ohio regi-
ment, jumped from the steamer Prima
Donna, into tie Ohio river few days
ago, and was drowned.
One of the city fathers of Pittsburg
was robbed Of s45 900 in New Yofk OH
"Wednesday night, while in company
With n couple of abandoned wretches.
The guilty parties are under arrest.
A Amsnufacturing company has been
formed in Fentonville by number of
the enterprising citizens of that village
for the purpose of en- aging i'm woolenT
manufacture. The capital of the com
pany is $4,000. "a ey
Joseph Lake, fat boy, twelve years
old, and weighing 3s5 pounds, died at
his home in Chichester, N. III. on the
10th, Of typhoid fever. He took cold
while on. an exhibition tour,
~" The medical College property
at Castldtoh, VT, where two thousand
NJ. DIS have been sent out in times
past, has been sold, and will be known
rs medical college no longer. III
A. II. Minor, formerly n clerk of the
Walnut Street House,i Cincinnati, who
absconded in August last, taking with
him $4,000 belonging TO Mr.. s. p.
Burroughs, guest of the house, has
been arrested in Baltimore.
a movement has been set on foot
among the friends Of the late Gen. Bir-
ney, at Philadelphia, to raise fi,nd.fbr
his widow and family; and the BdHStin
states that the subscriptions already
made are SO largeas to render it ecr-,
tain that an ample sdmwiil be obtained.
u" At n family party at the house
of widow Powers, in Princeton, Mass,
recently, there were resent Mrs. Pow.
.ers, aged 3S, her daughter from Leom-
inster, and her grand daughter, great
grand daughter, anil her great, great
grand son, in all five generations.
Mayor Gunther, of New York, has,
suspended Street Inspector Boole,
charging him with malfeasance in of.
fee. Boole has replied to the Mayors
note in sharp and defiant epistle. Hs'
declares bis Intention to take no heed
of the notification, but to continue on
with his duties as heretofore.
A party ofguerillas one day last week
captured the stage coach on its way
from Nashville to Columbia, and rob-
bed the passengers of everything they
had. They also took Government
wagon, loaded with boots, shoes, etc..
appropriated the goods, burnt the wag,
on and shot the mules. -.a
At Washington Park, Providence,
r. T., man, weighing lao pounds, re-
Gently undertook to run around the mile
track in sixteen minutes, dragging a
sulky weighing ninety-five pounds, in
which was seated man weighing ITO
pounds. He accomplished the feat in.
eleven minutes and thirty-seven sec-
onds.
A New York Times correspondent at
st. Johns, G. E., writes that George N.
Sanders, the rebel emissary in Canada,
confdentiaAy told an cid Douglas friend
of his that a series of piratical expedi-
tions were about to be made into the
frontier States which would result in
Buffalo being laid in ashes, Western
New York depopulated, etc., dt
Up to Friday night, 2l of the suspic--
ious persons, supposed to be rebels who
had been prowling about Sandusky for
several days previously, had been afSF'
rested and sent to Johnson's Island.
Three ofthem were recognized by Coles,
who was arrested during the raid that
resulted in the capture of the Philo
Parsons and Island Queen. He recog-
nized them as men he had frequently
seen in Canada. q ~
A mule on board the train for Nash
vile, bound for Chattanooga the other.
day, got its hind legs out of the door Of
the car There being only space Of
some six inches between the car and the
freight platform, the mule was torn
through the door and literally made in.
to mince meat. The body and legs
were Whitfield up fine, and the head
wrcnched from the body.
s Col. Berdan's New Rifle was /.
tried near Utica, n. V, recently. Tho
distance was 1900 yards; target six
feet in diameter, or regulation SIZE Col,
Bcrdan accomplished what is asserted
to be the best shooting on record
Soon after the trial commenced he hit
the sbull's eye" four times in success
sion; then missed it by trifle the fifth
and hit it again the sixth.
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