The colored Tennessean., 1866-03-31
NEWS ITEMS.
The State Senate of Californi


sAssg NEWS ITEMS. -
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THE State Senate of Californi haas
passed a resolution indorsing the action
| of the majority in Congress, as against
that of the President, by vote of 81
to %. = st.,,s .so.-s~
--Ignatius Buchanan, who butchered
| his wife with an ak, at Indianapolis,
several months ago, was sentenced on
Friday to Imprisonment for life.
L. - Mr.. and Mrs. Bourcicault have re-
turned to London from Paris. Mr..
Boucicault has three plays ready for the
| English stage. 1s.e .sas. .-5L.f4tes
Settlers in southwest Missouri are
| preparing to migrate to some other CHI
| mate in consequences of bushwhac ckers.
/ - The fact that the, Commissioner of
Internal Revenue has commenced the
preparation of the old style blanks Is
| considered conclusive that no change
viii be made in the income tax this
| year.
| - The Atlantic Telegraph Company
| have fixed on the, last week in June to
| commence laying their new telegraph
| cable. 1t is expected that the Great
| Eastern will leave Sheerness at thatdate
| with the cable on board. ~f.srr
| - Among the principle creditors who
! have arrested George n. Sanders, In
| London, there appea.s the name of Ar
| thur Rankin, of Windsor, Canada for
| the sum of $4,000. Sanders was still III
custody, and would be heard on the 23d
| inst.
= The eight hour bill has been de-
| feated in the New Jersey Legislature.
- Hon. John j. Ormond, for ten years
sofa I'm nf hn GI4n RI
| of Alabama, died on the Sd inst, at Tus-
| caleosa.
H. B. Durfee was arrested III the
| West Virginia oil regions last week and
| taken to Grand Rapids, Michigan, charg-
| ed with the murder of Harriet Beldon,
| near that place, on the oath of last Oc-
| tober. f ts#
- There is blind lawyer at Stafford,
| New Hampshire, who, In addition to
doing a comfortable law business, car
ries on farm, claim agency and two
stores, in which goods are sold annually
| to the amount of about $4,000.
- The hair of Dick Turner, formerly
| rebel turnkey, now an inmate of Libby
| Prison, has turned white during his
| eleven months incarceration.
| - Henry S. Foote denies that he is the
| author of the Stewart resolution offering
|
| ced series Of papers giving reasons why
| the proposition should be acceptable to
| the South. ...
| - The Canton (Illinois) Register says
| that new cattle disease has made
| its appearance in that State. The ami
mails are perfectly well one day, and die
the next. The Register is informed that
| number have died from it.
| - Two children in Chicago have been
poisoned by putting card photograph
in their mouths. One has died, the other
is very low. il
| A cotton factory has been erected
at Oakland, near San Francisco, capable
of producing one thousand two hundred
and eighty yards of cloth a day.
- Secretary McCulloch has carried on
all his transactions in New York by Is
suing orders to Mr.. Vandyke to pay or
sell gold Or bonds as he desired, Van
dyke chosing his own time and agents.
- The citizens of Buchanan. county,
Missouri, have petitioned the Legisla-
ture to relieve them of the odious name.
and permit them to call their county
| Lyon 4. 9F rl&- I @aI-
- Goethe says we should read q few
lines of good poetry, hear good music,
and, If possible, say a few good words
| every day, in order to neutralize the de-
| basing effects of ordinary. vulgar life.
| "A Miss Martha Thornburg COM
| mitted suicide by drowning herself at
Portland, Kentucky, on Thursday. The
| old story of desertion, starvation, re-
| morse and shame.
President johnson has been elected
| an honorary member of the Manhattan
| Club, one of the principal social and po-
litical clubs of New York city. He has
| accepted the honor, and has also con-
| sented to sit for fun length portrait.
which is to adorn the building In fwhich
| the club meets. .rH8 t.444I
= The death of German veteran who
served under the great Frederick in the
seven years war, is announced. He
| died at the respectable age of one hum
| ared and twenty, at the hamlet of Slaude,
| in Upper Silesia. His name was Lau-
| renee HalacZ.
/ - There is a tax on dogs In Virginia.
| the proceeds of which are, upon satisfac-
tory evidence, to be applied to the pay
| ment of the owners of all sheep killed
| by dogs. .,..r e-4a.... et "a
| - One Of the consequences of the war,
/ and it is rather startling to think Oft, is,
| and will be, the publication of an i'm
mense quantity of more or less rythmic
| al composition, under the guise ofpoetry.
| 1t can't be helped any more than the is
| sue of paper money. Wemay yet get to
the real gold basis, but the prospect is
~ There IS a Beautiful bridal present,
| in the shape of set of jewels, now on
exhibition in New York, which is said
to be worth S75.0001n gold A Spanish
| lady is to be the recipient of it. The jew
els are formed into a. necklace and pair
| of earrings. *<*t@ So"
4 - The Hartford Evening Post says
| "six hundred new voters have already
been admitted in New Haven this spring.
One applicant for admmission read the
| words "deceitfill conveyance" in the
| Constitution, ''delightful conveniences,"
and was at once passed as being able to
| read.
= Operations at the fishing shores on
the lower Potomac have commenced.
Only few herrings and shad have as yet
| been caught; but so far, most unusual
| quantities of catfish have been, drawn
| ashore in the seines at all the landings
| more than ever were seen before.
| - The Rhode Island Democratic Con-
| vention adjourned without making nom
/ nations Tor State officers. They ap-
| pointed a committee, however, to bring
| forward candidates at some future time
/ should it be thought expedient. The
/ Cops. know better than to run man
| against the gallant Burnside. s
1 - The Natchez Courier, because of a
criticism on the management Of the tel
4 egraph office at Natchez, was deprived
of its dispatches. The Democrat, SYM
/ phathizing with the Courier, and in
dorsing ii, declined to-take dispatches
during the exclusion of the Courier.
- The 48th' Ohio regiment has mutt
/. MED, saying that their time of service is
out. Over sixty members are under
arrest. They were arrested by the ne
gro troops who now guard Galveston.
80 Among Americans permanently
resident in Rome, Is Miss Charlotte Cush-
man, the tragedjenae. She is-celebrated
for her skill in horsemanship, and her