East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1865-10-04

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The number Of entries In the various depart
mcnts, was .,.ga- ti .lts a.l
Horses -. .............. 49,. ..... ..... 200
Cattle .......-....,..... ...... IS
Sheep, swine and poultry. .................2 ls
Farm implements and their trials.... ....2T7
Fine arts, needework, paintings, sewing ma
chimes, musical instruments, silver-ware,
| jewelry, &c. ......-..-........ $500. 267
Domestic manufactures. ................. 80
Flowers and fruits. 229
Dairy and household manufactures. ........ l2l
Field and garden products ............ Zig
Winter crops. .................. .,..,..... IA
Miscellaneous ................ "
Total. ....................l,7 ISL
SuIcIpE.--ws learn that widow Allen T..
waikley Of Genesee committed suicide yester-
day morning by shooting herself through the
heart W it'll pistol. Insanity alone can account
for the commission Of the terrible act. Her hus-
band died about two years ago, leavinghs widow
and two children In affiuent circumstances A
Coroners Inquest was held, but no explanation
was given TO the sad affair except what Is con-
taiaed in the following letter
There are only two persons in the world beside
myself that know any reason for my doing what
have done. l know IL is awful, but can't en-
dure life any longer. Oh my children and my
| friends. These persons Of whom speak are my
own kin. So help me God speak the truth
now If i ever did in my life
ISABELLA wALKLEY.
The WARD RAPE CASE This case has excited
the greatest interest where the criminal and his
victim are known Ibis community has never
before been shocked blythe commission OF so great
n crime, and II Is universally felt that the fullest
measure Of justire ought to be melted out TO the
bastard who perpetrated the unparalleled outrage
| The examination will be resumed early the
coming week, when the defense will be allowed
TO put in the evidence. In whatever light We
view the affair we can regard II as noting else
than the greatest piece Of villainy perpetra-
cd ia this vicinity, and for the honor IL hum ~ ma
ture we could wish some painting circumstances
might he shown, but In every aspect Il has the
features Of the greatest enorlnity .-Saniiac Jsf.
tersonian.
| Twp California gentlemen recently took trip
/ far enough among the foothills 10 find Indians
industriously employed in reapng rich harvest
/ Of era Shoppers. The male o. giaes drive them
INTO large holes, or pits pre- AIRED to receive
them, while the females guarded the holes aui
pounded the grassboppcrs down. They continued
until they had gathered about two bushels, and
I then ent TO work and cooked them This done,
OF the joined the party Ind ans In the fea', aud
AYERS upon his honor that they were quite as
good as psrched corn, and much better than u
! plate Of shrimps he ate lately at San Francisco.
in fashionable soo'oon ON Montgomery street."
| How will Stevens, Sumner and other radicals
who adhere TO the territorial theory respet ting
the Southern States, relish Mr.. Stewards letter to
Mr. Adams, in which he says: " The United
States controvert and deny the declaration of the
! Vice Chancellor that they are the successors Of
the Rebellion and, ON the contrary, they maintain
that they are now, and during all the time Of the
rebellion have been, just what they were before
| the rebellion began, sovereign State, absolutely
entitled 10 the regulation and control Of all prop
/ nd ner Nj ba al mt -
jcct only to the liabilities of their own Constitu-
tion."
Carpenter who was always prognosticating evil
to himself, was day upon the roof Of n FIVE story
building, upon which rain had fallen. The roof
being slippery, he lost footing, and as he was de-
! scending towards the ewes, he exclaimed, % Just
as told you" Catching however, in the tin
spout, he kicked of his shoes, and regained q
place of safety, from which he thus delivered
himself: " knowed il; there's n pair Of shoes
gene to thunder"
The bridging Of the Hudson river between Al
bany and Greenbush Is now fixed fact. All the
piers are completed and the work the super
structure is progressing rapidly. When compile
ted, ears Of the Western. Hudson River and Har-
lem Railroads will he enabled to form q drec,
connection with those Of the Central trains, and
those loaded with freight, and eventually passen-
ger cars will continue ON to Buffalo and the reat
West without breaking bulk.
Brigham Dung some time since nsked the
King Of the Sandwich Islands to permit him te
send Mormon missionaries 10 the Islands. tt
this the Sandwich Islands Secretary Of State re
plies that the Mormon tenets subversive oil
good government and in violation Of the laws Of
the Kingdom, and that efforts TO establish q colo.
ny Of SAINTS there will not DO tolerated.
The Chicago Journal discoursos, concerning
waterfalls, in the following severe strain,
And we do not know falling stream from the
cataract at Niagara TO tho CATER at Chic ,gt
that tumbes over deceased puss, that is not dis
honored by calling this disgusting bulge, oompos
ed Of somebody's else hair, and her own pin
cushion, that disfgures the hind head Of oul
modern lady, by the graceful name of waterfall
Prentice gets of this; The Southern peopl,
ask that they may not be stripped of their posses
sions and dIsirnnc hised Can't grant your request
replied the radicals hut II you behave yourselves
We won't hang the mass Of you. Papa" saic
Mr.. Browns youngest son, can't go to the cir
Gus !" mo my boy" afTectionately replied Mr.
b., "n you are good boy, will take you TO 50,
your grandmothers grave this afternoon"
The Springfield, Ohio Mere says: A worth,
widow lady named Ellen Butler, residing in tn,
Stickney neighborhood near that city, has los
all her sons--three IN number-by he war, on,
having been killed at Charlottesville, and tn,
other two dying in the service. She has also los
three ncpbcws in the service. She has not now
relative in the world.
The New Orleans Pieayune gives n statemen
Of the occupations Of n number Of rebel officers
One Brigadier is a boss dayman, and three dis
tiDguihed Colonies are engaged in the auctioi
business, in q small why. The lawyer officer
have the hardest time been excluded from tn
United States courts by the test oath.
Boston, several years ago, set out TO erect
handsome and commodious City Hail. TO cost nc
cording TO the estimate of the architect $3.50 0t0
II 10 now completed. aud has just been dedicated
and, ms II now stands, cost ef25, 900 This
wonderfully like the experience OF other cities.
The Secretary Of the State Of Illinois espresso
the opinion that the census Of that State, now be
ing taken, will show population Of three mil
lions This will place Illinois above Ohio, an
; near to Pennsylvania. Her population will onl
, be exceeded by two States, New York and Penn
sylvania.
} They are neither true friends Of the Presidcn
! nor Of the colored people who attempt to excit
dstrust of HIS intentions. lie will do for Oh
freedmen what he believes II s his duty to do nc
what Thadjeus Stevens or benjamin Butler to
. him he must and shall do.-Springfeid Reput
> i,can.
Pithole, the great oil city in Pennsylvania
was thus named In consequence Of m extraordir
0 AIRY pit or cavern that exists about three mil,
: from the city In this pit stones are thrown, b.
they are never heard to strike the bottom. II
= depth has not yet been fathomed.
Mrs Dolly Pendcton who died in Norwicl
: Conn, the other day, at the age Of ninety, WI
4 born, married and died In the same house, an
Q never lived In any other She had sixty-tv
years Of happy married life, and lcavcs ap age
husband, 30