The New York herald., 1867-12-07

Charles A. Briggs hung himss0 IN SnoFsnan. Conn.
Immigration 10 pouring Into Navarro county Texas
Bridgeport. coaa. is about 70 have her orphsi
Asylum.
DR.. James NJ Hollywood 10 o. trial in Dsssott TO-
passing counterfeit money.
new impetus has been given 10 whisksy making .ir
Eastern Texas account Of she abundance Of corn.
Mrs. Kate wife OF Major General James 4 hssIey,
dsd suddeny IN Pitsburgr recently, Of heart disease
Major THOMPSON OF the Fourth United States cavalry,
was killed at Fort Mason, Texas. few weeks since.
Hundreds Of barrels or apples have boon sent up the
mississippi river to Minnesota simply 70 pass the winter
Tney will come down again IN the spring
Three hundred forty three buildings have gone up
in st. Paul during the present season. Six Of these
hotelR
Tho Nashville business mon are taxing concerted
action 70 reduce rents from thirty 20 nifty per after
the LIST Of January.
The greatest saving feat on record has been accom-
pIished at winone, Mimi one mil with four gangs,
sawed $4,000 feet in twelve hours.
The annual dinner or the alumni Of Dartmouth Col
lego will be given IN New York. a. Dsmonicos on the
evening Of the 18th instant a
Emigrants are recommended 10 70 TO Texas
OF the cheapness OF pork and the abundance OF
mast, corn and whiskey. Hsa
Lieutenant Hicks twentieth United States infantry,
died Of yellow feyer ut vidalia, La 27th October he
belonged to Ho!lidaysburg, Pa
Messrs. Ward and Broad have contracted % build the
bridge OF the Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad.
crossing the Quinnebaug near Putnam
telegrsphic despatch from London. dated December
u.
1t half ten o'clock on the night OF November 80
Mark Twain, lecturing tho Feejee Islands offered
10 show how the canibas eat their tood II lady
would hand him baby. Tho lecture was mol Illus
trated.
Cotton socks next the skin and wooIen socks outside
OF them represented suro 70 cold feet AZ
night the cotton socks viii be quite dry and the out
side ones damp.
Professor Eugene W. Hilgard, OF tho University Of
Mississippi has been commissioned by the Smithsonian
Institute mako geological reconnaissance OF the
tnouthx of the MigsiasiDp Tech0
Tnroe roncIads the Tennessee, Nashville and osagc
the two former noted Confederate rams sold at
saI ooo The ooss 81 s0o GOO n
money, and the Nashville Sl000,0O
man advertised for wife, and requested each
didate to enclose her carte de risi spirited young
lady wrote tho advertiser in tho following terms
ir do not enclose my CARTE for though thsre 10 sOme
authority for putting cart before horse, know OF
none for putting one before an ass. y sHa
Mr. Waddingtcn resident OF vancouver's Island, rs
in Ottawa to promote the scheme Of opening up COM
munication overland with British Columbia. 1t Is pro-
posed open line of land and water carriage from the
head OF Lake Superior the Pacific Ocean This Il Is
shown be accomplished al moderate expenditure.
Two named Damouth. father and son, OF Albion.
Wright county. Mimi have been arrested charged with
the murder Of Charles r. Stone Stone had been In
thsir employ and whc endeAvorirg 70 settle ns
receiving injuries from tho effects OF which he died.
singular accident befcl girl In tho employ OF Mr.
Fitch Smith, Of Birmingham Conn, one day last week.
In gong down stairs she caught her foot In her hoops
and foil striking her kueo upon ono OF the springs and
cutting through cords and lgamouts above the knee
pan opened tho joint Il is thought that tho wound
will render her cripple for life.
John Clark OF New York. aged about eighteen years.
while visit 70 his uncle, Cortland Fitch. Money
Creek Valley, Minn accidentally shot himself lstey.
Tho accident occurred in setting his gun down by the
SIDE OF q barrel the lock Of the gun u was being
raised having caught In OF the hoops discharged
the contents OF Of the barrels In his neck causing
instant death.
with loss than six hundred Western cattle At Brighton
and Cambridge the demand was more spirited than II
has been for several weeks past but good number OF
beef cattle from Malne Vermont and other New Eng
land states prevented great advance In prices
was anticipated the opening Of tho market
day The supply or good mutton weak Of poor ii
abundant.-BosDm Advertiser Dec. :.
On Friday, after the tram duo New Haven a. 81,
r. NJ. from New York. had passed the junction as th'
Housatonc river. tho engineer heard moaning ans
mans head rising from The cavity Of ono OF th
cattle guards the road He stopped the train anf
rescued shs man. Who The darkness had fallen inte
the hole and had rcmainsd inssnsbIe t aroused by
the noise OF the cars
In tho two cases OF Amelia G. r. Ward versus John A.
Ward, hearing was had In New Haven ON tho 9Th n
sant One suit for dlvorcs She other for the GUS
tody Of infant child. The respondent IL resident Of
New York city. To the plea IN the divorce case the
petitioner domurred and the court sustained ths dsmur
and found the plea insufficient The court remarked
upon making this ruling that the questions arising
under the plea could DO adudcafed 10 trial on its mer
In tho habOas corpus case. the court reserved ~
decia,ou