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A large hme-stonfl rolled fr;)in the top of a hül in tíie vii:iiity. of Pittsburg on Monday nftenioon. [o ils dpseent it rushed against a frame school house and instamly kil!d five children, beside-; wounrHng three others, one of whom it is feared ma)' iiot recover. Hydropathy. - The Chronotype relates the fnllowing : " Soon afterth? sertlement of Virginia, the celebrateil Caph John Srniih, during the time he was president of the counci', conducted a party of" men a short distance f rom Jamestown to cut timher. Atnong them were two gentlemen, wlio had been unused to bibor. Whilo they were a' work their hands blislere.i, and Iha pnin of holding iheir a.es was sucii a.s to extort an oath, at almost every Iroke. To put a stop to ihe ïwearing, Capt. S. directed the ofithsench dn y to he numbfired, nnd at niglit seutrnced each man to have n mug of a'er pnnrrd into his sleeve faevery oi:e uttered during tho dny. These ablutions had the desired effb'-t, and it ! was nfierward a rnre thing to luar profanity." Tuk Chaiilkstox Patriot says ihere vas hut onesentence in the City Court on the 24lh uil-, air) tlint was for selling spirits to a Sluve. The rumsller w:is sentenced to two weeks iinprisonment, asd ny a fine of 8100. A WlFK KILLED BT HER HüSBAND. A melancho'y accident occurred near Troy,Pa., on Thursdav niglit oflfist week. SomHtimf in the night, Mrs. Pierce, wife of D . J. B. Pifree, had occasion to go to the winHow of the ehamber in which they were sleeping, leaving Dr. P. a-leep. The raising of the windi.w nwoke him, nnd he nsfnntly seizod his gun, whioh was near his bodsidp, supposing thnt scnie one astrying to break rito the h;iise. - After Mrs. P. had let ilo.vn the windovr, she advanced towaro'a the bed. Dr. P. I called out twice to stop or he should firo ; ' butsheslill odvanccd, and he fired, wlien she was near the muzzle of llie gun - the whole charge of shot entering her brenst, nnd she feil Jead on the floor. He then feli in the bed lor his wife, to teil her he had killed snme one, hen nol finding her, the truth ilashed upon him, tliat he had shot his own wife ! - Elmira Gaz. Breacii of Pbomke. - It may be a saiisfactioi) to all part'es to know that hereafter in Pennsylvania, in ca-.es of this kind, the evidence íf a promise and accoptance must he positivo, und nol inferential, the Suprema Cour: having lately 80 cecided in n case in which the cii-umstances were mot aggraa'ed, and which ought to have ju-tified such an nferei.ee, if anylhingcould. Ladies wili,tiiererore, eee the nece-sity of bringing their lovers np to the point, and make them pop the question directly, otherwise it will pol amount to much. They also must be prepared to say "ye" in nn open, loud voice, as we ques'.ion much whelher fainting away, ihe old manner of acceptance, is now sufiicient. Dr. Estes, in his late work in defence of Southern Slavery, draws a verv insj]ting comparison between the north and the south. He snys that Southern females are uniformly vinuous ; not nn instance of female infidelity i.s to be found : while every southern town is supplied wilh women of easy virtue from the New England States ! The Army Order, just published by the Adjutant General says that the public interest requires that the recruiting service be puskcd with ihe grcalest vigor by every officer employed in it.