The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-10-29

recent robbery a once informed him thai third Of
their joint bequest should Be his.
General Sir Fenwick Williams has been appointed
English Governor Of Nova Scotia
An exchange states that police examination into the
domestic arrangements Of George Miller, Of Pttsburs
develops the fact that for years his wife and
the household rather than have trouble the family
Upon which Norwich (Ct paper says-Thero 10 o sim
liar case IN one o. our neighboring towns The product
of the two sisters 10 twenty children The selecmen
once 70 the vigorous patriarch and have
him dealt with, but he warned them that II they did his
whole family consisting then OF fourteen children would
be thrown upon the town for support. This snch
view Of the 10 the town authorities that they
left the happy family 70 work out their salvation.
Ruth Blay was hung at Portsmouth,, NJ H., ninety
seven years ago. for child MURDER and is singular
fact that tho person who caused her is still
alive She was school teacher and Mira Betscy East
man, Of Salisbury, N H., now 103 years old OF
her scholars and still remembers and relates the crcum
stances The teacher absent day, and Mrs. H.,
then girl OF six years, while at play in the schoohouse
saw loose board in the floor which she raised from
motives Of curiosity, and there discovered the remains
OF dead infant She told what she had seen, and an in
vestgaon showed TO be the child Of the teacher who
murdered II 70 conceal its birth. She was tried convict
cd and hung.
Louis Kossuth Governor Of Hungary, in Italy
October HIS going to the great focus OF revolution 10
said have been occasoned by the late manifesto Of the
Emperor Of Austria which is viewed tending 10
cilate the Hungarian people at all hazards
The Nowburyport Mass Herald, of the 10Th, says:-
II is feared that the Oscar Livingston losn the steamer
Atlanta, on the 18th inst, the voyage from New Or
leans 70 New York, was Captain Oscar X Livingston, Of
the United Safes army, belonging to this city He first
enlisted in the Mozarts Forteth New York;, and after
wards orderly sergeant in the Thirty NTH Massa
chusctts regiment Captain Bartletts company and
promoted from that, first TO lieutenant Of volunteers
and finally 70 be captain in coored regiment in New
Oreans-the Eleventh Rhode Island heavy artillery
He English by birth, some thirty three years old
He married a lady from Vermont, who now resides In
this city.
The paper gives the folowing respecting truly
venerable lady :There living at Harvard proba
b.y the oldest New England OF whose birth and
age there authentic record This Is Mrs Rebecca Huse
who born Groton, in 1759-One hundred end six
years ago according TO the record OF the first parish
Of that town. whore the original entry OF her birth at
that date may be seen She has always resided in the
immediate vicinity Of her birth place, removing from
Groton the age Of fifteen to the adjoining town OF
Harvard and into the house she still occupies Her hus
band has long deceased and OF large family OF
children there Is but single daughter living, herself a
venerable lady, with whom she makes her home The
father Of Mrs. Huse served soldier IN the
old Revolution, and uncle was killed in
one of the early battles Of that struggle. This
venerable relic OF bygone age still retains to
remarkable degree Of perfection Of sight and
hearing being but slightly deaf, and is remarkably &C
tive making her fire IN the morning and attending
through the day to large part Of her household duties
Till the present year she has kept and cared for
visitors with gentle courtesy. and appears to delight in
recalling their benefit pleasure scenes and incidents
OF her well remembered experience OF full century
She s humble and devOut Christian, and though to
all appearance she bids fair TO survive yet some years.
is apparently patiently awaiting the final summons 10 her
final and well earned rest.
The Marquis Jules de Bellune, grandson OF Marshal
Victor and formerly Secretary Of Embassy for France at
Rome under the Marquis de Lavaette has entered the
establishment for educating priests at st. Sulpice
M Guyot, the French Vice Consul at Basel, Germany,
shot himself n consequence Of discrepancies in his &C