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24
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July
Year
1847
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Singular Ckmktery. - Miss Catherine Sinclair, in her " Shetland," gives the fullowing strange discovery of a place of burial : " A family who had hired a country residence near Edinburgh, some years ago, and where they had enjoyed many cheerful hours, round the fireside, having occasion once to lift the drawing room hearlh stone, were slartled and shocked lo find immediately undemeath, the gastly speclacle of a skeleton in chains ! - The house had belonged to Chesly, of Dalry, who was hanged for assasinating Lockhart, ofCarnwnrth, the President of the Court of Sessions, and the criminal's own family having stolen !he body f rom the gallows,had privstely buried itthere." The Price op a Ride.- Yesterday a sailor, natenfa vessel at East Boston, per'haps a little disguised with liquor, carne ucross a cow quietly feeding in the streets of thal place, and jumped upon her back. The frightened animal stnrted down the street with its unusual burden, much to the amusement of the spectators. Having reached the end of the street, the sailor jumped off, and with a loud cry of " slarboard your helm !" ierkëd the cow round by the ta'l, jumped on again, and rode back to the original starting place. The owr.er of the cow, upon hearing the facts, was disposed to sue the sailor for damages done to the cow ; but the matter was settled by his paying ten dollars for h is ride. - Boston Traueller. IIarvesting Machine.. - A correspondent, writing from Michigan to the New York Evangelist, says : " A field of sixty acres was harvested in two daysas follows : A machine was drawn into the field by sixteen horses, guided by as many boys as necessary. - On the front of the machine a man was stationed to adjust the forks and circular knives to the hëigth of the wheat which was readily thrown back into the madhine. No more was seen of it, till another man in the rear part of the machine was seen tying up well filled sacks ofpuregrain, in perfect order for the flouring mili. This huge machine harvested and bagged three bushels of the best wlieat in a minute. Liberty or Death. - Á negro woman, a slave to a man named Whitehead, who lives èight or ten miles south of" Lafayetlp, Alabama, fraring asevere whipping, ran away, taking her fuur children wilh her. Gn coming to a smnll creek she attemp'.ed to drown them all, but succeedcd in drowning but three of them ; lhe oldest escaped and returned home. The mother has been committed to jail. A woll knöwn politica] economist says ) " We pay best, lirst, thoso who deslroy us - generáis ; second, those who cheat us - poliüciaris and quacks ; third, l lioso who atriuse us - singe.'s and musicians ; and least oí' al!, those who instruct us' Ice Made by Steam. - Á New York letter in the Philadelphia Inquirersays- The iüea of manufacturing Ice Cream by Steam would be looked upon as absurd, yet it is daily done i this good city of öothatn, whére the iriventors of all sorls of cuiious fhings resort. We have in our midst the American Patent Steam Ice Cream Co., wliicli with an engine of ten horse power, is in full oporalion, manufacturing every description of this much soughl for article in the summer nionths ; from tlie quaíity which is retailed to the newsboys for a cent a glass full,including the use of a spoon, to the costly quality which can be seen on the tables of thfl " upper ten." Shocking Casualty. - We learn by Far's Piovidence Express, that the Poor House in Attleboro', was burnt down bótween twelve and one o'clock la-st night, and that five of the inmates perUhed in the llames. The fire is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary. This is the age of iron ; iron steamboats ; iron coffins ; iron toinbstones ; and now they are actually making iron eradles at Pittsburgh ? The boys rockec in them will doubt'ess be men of iron nenes. Maíne. - Tl;0 Legislature of Maino has passed a law providing for the electionof Representaties to Congress, and county officers, by apluralily votes ; and nlso an amondment of the Constitution providing for the election by a plurality of Governor and members of the State Legislature. This will be subrnitted lo thepeople in September next. - Era, A notorious negro man, named Haywood, who murdered W. Bi Goodgame last fall, was captured last SatUrday week in Gee's Bend, Wilcox county. VVhile his pursuers weid altetnpting to arrest him he shot Mr. Samuel Easley, who died from the wound that evening, and bursted a cap at Mr. James Chambers. He has been lodged in Wilcox jail. Tvvo men have lost their lives in attempt to arrest him, and another, Mr. Patten, was left by him for dead. He is the properiy of J. W. Bridgesof Wilcox. - Mobile Herald and Tribuna 15A inst, A Singular Affair. - A respeetable gentleman of Baltimore, who transacted a mercantile business on the wharf, was taken sick and died, as was supposed a short time since. Being a nalive of an adjoining city, his wifo and friends desired to inter his remains there, and his body was accordingly placed in a coffin and conveyed to that city. When the coffin arrived, it was opened in order to transfer the remains to a more suitable one which had been prepared for final interment. When the lid was removed, the body was found lying on the face, which upon txamination was bruiscd. - A moisturo was jbserved upon the skin, and on a close examination it was found that the vital spark had not yet fled. All the restoratives that the best medical skill could devise, were used, and the man Was actually revived and hved for two days afterwards,bfcfore the "spirit departed unto Him that gave it." No doubt was entertained here of the decease, and the feelings of relatives and friends at such a discovcry, cannot be for one moment imagined. Humane Butcheiív. - Ths Albany butchers, it is said, now administer ether to the animáis to slaughter. The poor )rutes are thus disposed of without the east pain or knowing what ails them. Dor. - Thé Legislatüre of N. H. is entertaining n proposition to bestow upon Thomas W. Dorr the rights end priviegesofa Citizen of that state, in lieu of lis lost citizenship in Rhode Island. A New Source for the Sufi-lyJ of India Rubber. - It 3 stuted that the foresls of Assam, in Britisli India, are caaable of producing India Rubber sufficient io supply ihe demands of the civilized world, and that it has already become an extensive article of export from that irovince. - Eve. Post. While Mrs. Sigourney was addressing President Polk, in Hartford, some thief entered the house and robbed her of lier valuable jewelry. - Essex Banner. More shame to her! - What better could she expect while she was complimenting out of doors the wholesale robber and murderer of the people of Mexico f A SuiiSTITUTE FOR Olí. IN MaCIIINEby. - Experiments are being triëd upon the New Jersey Railroad to tesst he morrits of a substituto for oil on the axlos of the cars. The substitute used is coíd ti-aler. It is applied to the axletree by means ofasmall wheel, armed with buckets, and enclosed within the box tliat confines the end of axlö and contains the water, lts operation is similar to that of Ihe trough of water under the grindstone, and the grenter thé velocity of the wheel, so mnch the more completely is the end of the axle buried in water. The N. Y Po3t says : " After running the car to wliich it is npplied, fifteen miles, for instance, at the high f peed of aswift train, We found the water in the box as cold as when it was put there, the end of the axle was without any perceptible degree cf heat, ond the waler had no more discoloration than might have been caused by dust in the box. Fifteen miles, ran at high speed, was 6uffieient to test ihè experiment, and such were the resulta. The principie upön wliich the patentee bases fhis upplication of cold water is, that the heat or eíectric iníluences formedat the extremities of the axle arè dissipated or conveyed away by the water, just as the attnosphere and the rain convey the electricity of the heavens io the earth. In an economical point of view, the successful applicaliofr of water to machinery as a substitule fr oil will save lo the state of New York annually, as it is estimated, nearly two hundred thousand dollars. The cost of swèeping the streets of New York three times a week, is nearly $200,000 per annum. Tho sweepings sell for $50,000. Gen. Taylor.- It is stated that Gen. Taylor wos in commuiïion wifh the M. E. Church previous to his departure foi Mexico. He las no opportunity of en joying the privileges of the church there but he can "exhort" the Mexicans to peace in his own peculiar way, in which he is certainly very "powerful." - Phi! Sun. Liberalitv. - The verv Rev. Tlieobald Mathew aflbrds refuge lo three hundrec houseless poor in Cork nightly every veok. State op South CarolIN-A vs. Niciiolas, Slave of Wji. Kelly. - The slave was tried before a Court of Magistrates nnd freeholders for "grievously woünding, maiming and bruising Palrick Dur:ovant, a white man." He was found guilly, and sentenced to be hung on the fii-ft Friday in September nex:. Bates of Missouri, the President of the Chicago Convention, said in his parting speech before that body, that he had never seen a railroad. TheCincinnati Horticultural Society have kept a daily register of the number of bushels of strawberies sold in that market. In twenty-six days the number sold was 3572. The largest nu nber on any one day Was 314 bushels. American AuthoiIs and Ënglish Publishers.- As a proof that he ought not to be classed among piratical booksellers, Mr. Bently states ín a letter lo the Times, that he has paid between L14.000 and L15,000 to three American nuthors tilone The Emigrants in Canada. - The Moutreal Püot of the lOth inst. closes an articlc, in which it recounts much destitution and sickness, with the following sad recital : While writing, we have this moment received additional intelligence from a gentleman of resper.tability and high standing, conveying the following starting facts, derived from one conversant with the regular details of the place, and an eye-witness of the scènes described. There are at this moment 48 Nuns sick "rom fatigue, exposure, and the attacks of disease. All the Grey Nuns in attendance, 2 of the Sisters of Charity, 5 Physicinns, and 8 Sludents, now lie sick ; to which glootny and sickening record we mUst add the number of 1,586 persons, of all ages and sexes, lingering on the beds of wretchedness and corruption. without an attendant to affoid a drop of water, or attend to those decent ibrmalities which the sad solemnities of death tequire. The ntelligence further adds, that t!ie living and the dend were mingled in groups tojetlier, and presented a spectacle where death reigned in his inost terrible nfiictions, and where oppressed hurnanity had assembled to pay him tribute. The Philadelphia Bulletin has received a letter from an officer in the army who las but recently arrived at New Orleans ?rom Ven Cruz. He gives a gloomy jicture of the state of the hospital at Vra Cruz and Jalapa. Me states that on the morning he left Vera Cruz, fJune lst,) there were buried fcom the Hospital of that city 48 men ; and of 1800 sick in those h spitals, he did not believe that more than 200 would come out alive. - At Jalapa there was 900 in the hospital.

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