The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1866-05-01

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souiA.
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en- aore-ths hishes rfiag tpova io hate teea
rysb 10 thar seunty
The breaking Il she lnwonss ls gorge shove
she Pals egst Aathaey. las, vess !. described
81 having been leagay grand Abou, s1oo,o0o
vorh sflos. wers swept away and 9 hcr damage
vas ieue
Henry Buatell, q Hihsr. connscecul. sent
into bis cellar lau TUESDAY to cut up soms pola
toes Ger hts COWS. when he stumbled and ELL apon
the knife, which penetrated his heart. causing ia-
staut death
Daring the Jas, two vec1s sigbt hour" bills
have been defeated In the Massachusetts,. New
York and New Jersey Legislatures, lost In Ohio
by disagreement between the two houses on min
Or amendments. and passed n enc house q the
Pennsylvania Legislature.
The Pos, oaioe Department, has placed a letter
box on each horse ear In Philadelphia, With a
wide mouth opening outward so that people Gu
the line Of the road can drop letters in as the
car moves on. the box is euptiei at the Postof
fee.
DR. Lankesicr stated. at recon, inquest 10
London, that intau,ioiic is greatly on the in
crease IN that city The inqucs,s in his district
IN 1868, 1861 aud 1865 we're eighty four, one
hundred, aud one hundred and fourteen respect
lively.
The Quakers, who once were SO plenty in Port
land as to render a day Of fasting aud prayer
necessary to prevent their further increase, have
now dwiadled down to two families. who occas.
ionally hold religious services in their meeting
house On Oak street.
The last bill for slave labor against the United
States was audited in the Treasury Department
nj Washington on Wednesday. II was for the
work Of several slaves belonging to a Charleston
ian in repairing Fort Mouluie ia the early part
Of 1861.
A military commission ia Charleston, which
has been trying certain parties for the murder
ola United States soldier while on guard duty at
Anderson, S. G., has sentenced two men, named
Showers and Kris, to be hung next Friday, aud
the others to Imprisonment for life.
II tragic affair occurred in open court at Hele.
ma, Ark, last!week. William Atnlty was be-
fore the court for horse stealing, aud his wife
was on the stand as a witness, t~estifying to his
having stolen seven horses, when he drew a re.
%'olyer and shot her, the ball entering her bead.
A simple minded Office seeker from Connect
cut CLOSED q recent application 70 the President
With the inquiry whether the breach betwees
the President aud Congress could be rep ired -
The President, on the spur of The moment, replied
by mail that he was not now repairing breeelles
Us much as he was.
The Cincinnati Gazette says that pure "Es-
sence OF Coffee is now made in that city out Of
the cheapest, dirtiest aud nastiest molasses, =
which is boiled until it ropes, cooled in pans and
when hard, broken up and pulyerizod. Ground
rye is then mixed with il. after which II is boxed
up, each box being sold ut eighty cents, and Ia.
belled "Pure Essence of Coffee"
The Montreal Gazette reports that DR.. Shay
to-. 49, - 49, rLr-;-;-~s VIM fviaatcotvi rs MI
tend the cholera patients on the England at HALF
fax, was taken Ill on Monday mol ming and died
Of that disease on Tuesday night. Two oth,r
doctors, Gnrrie aud Gossip, were attacked with
the disease, but have recovered.
A cor oner's jury At Pittsheld has rendered n
verdict Of NAL practice against Prof Greene ofthe
Berkshire Medical College, in the case Of Mrs T.
i. Jones Of Lee, who died while under his pro-
f%esstonal care.
a Committee Of he Chicago Academy d Sci
ences report that they hud trlcbina In the mus
eles Of twenty-eight hogs out Of the one thousand
three hundred and Binety-fOur examined, AMI
they conclude that in the hogs brought to Chica-
60 one in fifty is affected with tgiolinasis, in n
greater or less degree. As q security The Com.
mittee say il is simply necessary to cook the mcat
thoroughly.
Alexander II. Stephens says teat the passage Of
the Civil Rights bill over the veto is a subject for
congratulaiion, because it establishes a definite
line Of policy to which the South must conform,
before 1t can expect recognition.
Gov Jenkins, Of Georgia. puts forth a messag'
announcing that the peace proclamation does not
suspend the martial law, and the people must not
hope for relief from the presence Of troops, until
they have put themselves in an attitude Of
willing assent 10 the enactments Of Congress.
John Forsyth. Of Alabama. admits that the
Civil Rights bill cxtinguisbes the last lingering
yestiges Of State sovereignty, but contends that
as this is what the South battled for and lost she
should be willing to submit to an CELEBRATION Of
the old landmarks, and the placing Of the new.