Note: "Inst." means "instant", and
refers to the current month.
"Ult." means "ultimo", which means "in
the last month."
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A wag in Detroit has been taking liberties with the reputation of the Pontiac Railroad. He was asked whether he knew of an accident on the road and replied: "Never but once a middle aged gentleman left Pontiac for Detroit and died of an old age at Birmingham--half way!"
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It has been proposed to build a railroad tunnel under the English channel between Dover and Calais, so as to establish a permanent communication between France and England. Several projects have been proposed; among them that of Dr. Payene, who offers to perform the work, if supplied with 140 submarine boats, 1500 sailors and workmen, 4,340,000 cubic feet of material, and 210,000,000 francs. By means of such a tunnel the channel might be crossed in thirty-three minutes.
MARRIED--In Woolwich, Mo., John Earnum, aged 83 and Miss Hannah Williams, aged 63, after a courtship of 40 years.
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"It's a very solemn thing to get married," said Aunt Bethany. "Yes, but it's a great deal more solemn not to be," said her niece.
WAGES IN KANSAS: Printers' wages are $10 per week, or 30 cents per thousand ema; carpenters $2 per day; masons $2; lower class of laborers $1.25 to $1.50. Board, $3 to $5 per week.
July 21, 1855
Bishop Doane of New Jersey, in his address to the female graduating class,
at St. Mary's Hall, Burlington, after alluding to the value of intellectual
accomplishments in woman, observed:
"The highest human graces that a woman ever won have but ensnared her soul
in vanity and sin, and wrought destruction through their attractions, for
the souls of others. And intellectual powers and intellectual gifts,
not subordinated to the providential orderings of God, not chastened and
controlled by His renewing grace, are, at this time, unsexing women and
thrusting on the astonished world a race of monsters, in that Amazonian
crew who clamor, now, for "Woman's Rights," such as no mythology has ever
dreamed of."
August 18, 1855
Counterfeit twenty-five cent pieces are in circulation, bearing date of 1853. They are executed with tolerable neatness but are quite light and brittle, besides being a trifle thinner than the genuine quarters. They will be readily detected by any one in the habit of handling coins.
ANOTHER FREE STATE--Before the next Congress has finished is work, we shall have Minnesota asking for admission into the Union. The late census shows that its population almost comes up to the required number, and that this flourishing Territory already numbers forty-five thousand inhabitants. St. Paul, the capital, has over five thousand inhabitants. Minnesota will, of course, come in as a free State, and thus preserve the balance of power with Kansas, which will probably ask for admission at the same time, as a slave state.--N. Y. Herald.
Baltimore, Sept. 10, 1855
The steamship Benjamin
Franklin which bro't the yellow fever from St. Thomas, is in the river
below this city, but it is supposed she will not be permitted to come up.
There is some excitement at the Point, and threats have been made that
she shall be destroyed if permitted to approach the city.
Richard Perry Miller
of Philadelphia died this morning of yellow fever at the Quarantine Hospital,
below Baltimore. He was returning from Portsmouth, where he had been
acting as an apothecary.
The Relief Committee
left here in the Norfolk boat today to make arrangements for bringing to
this city two hundred orphan children. They will be quartered in
the new House of Refuge now in process of building, and being prepared
for their accommodation. They will reach here on Saturday.
A dispatch from Wildon
says a large number have left Norfolk and Portsmouth for the Camp established
by the authorities of Baltimore at Old Point. A stock of provisions
was left at the encampment on Saturday.
At Portsmouth, Dr. Collins,
President of the Railroad is dead.
The collection in this
city for the relief of the sufferers now reaches nearly $22,000.
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ACCIDENT.--We regret to learn that on last Friday week, Commodore Stewart feel from a wild cherry tree on his farm to the ground, and received some severe but not dangerous injuries. The injuries were both external and internal. He is, however, slowing recovering, and we hope that it will not be long before the gallant old veteran will be on his feet again.
List of Letters remaining
in the Post Office at Belvidere, Warren County, N.J., for the quarter ending
Sept. 30th 1855: Angel & Phelan * Best, Andrew
* Brewster S. & Co. * Byron, M. * Broderick,
John * Brining, Patrick * Collerson, Charles
* Cray, F. D. * Collins, Josiah * Crossen,
Med * Dillon, Peter * Dayton, Sophia *
Emans, Daniel * Farby, John * Gannon, John
* Hoag, Francis I. * Huff, Elizabeth E. *
Hanisong, Plumer, Co. * Irvin, James * Kongho,
John 2 * Kuhl, Geo. * Keniry, Patrick *
Koch, John A. * Kearney, Mary * Loder, Isaac
* Miller, Meriam C. * Morgan, E. D. * Mitchell,
Samuel * Marthe, Peter * McCollough, James
* McLaughin, Dennis * Rowe, James * Rogan,
Peter * Rush, Israel * Stephens, W. *
Smith, James T. * Stiles, John * Sharp, Richard
* Smith, Thomas * Slack, C. M. * Wilson,
Peter 2 * Williams, Mary * Weis, A. M. *
White, Wm. S.
A. B. SEARLES, P. M.
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AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION OF CONNECTICUT.--It is believed that amendment to the Consitution of Connecticut has been carried by popular vote, prohibiting persons from voting who cannot read.
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In another column of our
paper we publish the report of the "Teachers' Institute of Sussex County."
It may be proper to mention that this report was promised to me last week--but
the affiliations of the leading spirits of this conclave favored the Register
instead of us. We take this opportunity to warn Jerseymen against
the wiles of a Mr. Hoagland, known as Superintendent or State Agent.
He intends as he professed, to get the Normal School Law altered, so that
the teachers Instructed at that establishment shall not be compelled to
teach in New Jersey; because he has a daughter, now under its Instruction,
and he says that he thinks its wrong that she should be compelled to teach
in this State at a low salary, when she might obtain better pay in Pennsylvania
or New York. We think otherwise. If persons obtain their education
at the expense of the State they should do the State some service.
The object of a State
Normal School is to supply the State with Jersey teachers, and if that
cannot be done by that means, it had better be abandoned. We are
tired of the tin pedlars and wooden nutmeg venders of New England.
Let us have Jerseymen or none.--Sussex Herald.
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REMEMBER
NEW JERSEY AHEAD.--Among the agricultural wonders of the season, the editor of the Bridgeton Chronicle has seen a potato of the Bermuda species, which was raised near that place, which weighed eight pounds! Its circumference was 2-3/4 feet one way by 1-1/2 feet the other; also an apple, raised in Salem county, weighing one pound five ounces.