Rochester, Monroe, NY

Union & Advertiser

Fri Oct 28, 1859

 

ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS

 

--Among the passengers in the Persia are Moses H. GRINNELL and family, who have been absent about two years, and Madame BODISCO, the widow of the late Russian Minister at Washington.

 

--Dr. HALL reports to Gov. MORGAN that Polly FRISCH, the Batavian murderess, is insane, and her sentence has been consequently commuted to imprisonment for life.

 

--A special dispatch to the N. Y Tribune from Philadelphia says: "E. J. MERRIAM of Boston, who had some connection with the affair at Harper's Ferry, but who escaped before the taking of the Arsenal, has since died of his wounds. He was hurriedly buried in this state by fugitive slaves." How about Gerrit SMITH? Is he dead and "hurriedly buried?"

 

--The N. Y. Herald says:

    Madame Lola MONTEZ recently arrived here from Europe, and is living very quietly in lodgings up town, under the name of Mrs. HELD. Madame la Comtesse has joined the "New Connection Methodists," understood to be the straightest of dissenters; and it is stated that she has come here to disseminate what Mr. CHADBAND would call the "belessed teruth," according to the "New Connection" view of the article.

 

--Yesterday morning in New York the diminutive individual, known as "General Tom THUMB" made his appearance at police headquarters, and stated that he had just arrived from Bridgeport, Conn., where he resides, and that he desired the aid of the New York detectives in tracing a valuable set of harness, which he alleges was stolen from him by his colored servant, one JOHNSON. The General said he had been informed that JOHNSON brought the harness on to the big city, and disposed of it to a livery stable keeper. Detective KING placed himself under the General's orders, and together they proceeded on a tour among the stable keeper.

 

--The Detroit Tribune describes a singular looking vehicle about the size of a hand cart, which was trandled from Canandaigua, N. Y., to Cleveland, O., over 300 miles, by a man sixty five years old, accompanied by his better half. The old man says it took him two days to manufacture this odd contrivance. The "upper works" consisted of a slight frame, made to exactly fit the box or chest in which was stowed the "plunder" of the voyageurs. The "starboard wheel" of the vehicle contained twenty spokes, while the other displayed only one half that number. Hickory bark was made to perform the duty for tires. 

 

--Mrs. LAW, wife of W. J. LAW of Lower Lockport, was yesterday afternoon badly scalded by a kettle of water, and is not expected to live.

 

--The telegraphy yesterday mentioned the suicide in New York of G. W. O. BILLINGS, book-keeper for Tarrant & Co., druggists, and a native of Boston. He swallowed laudanum, and left the following letters addressed to his brother and wife and children:

    Dear James: - A party has threatened to charge me with an infamous crime, of which I swear I am innocent; but it seems to be my fortune to breed nothing but trouble for my friends, and to put an end to this I take this course. The plot is too deep for me to fight, and the hush money is more than I can pay. To you and family I consign my wife and children, never doubting that they will find love and protection. I could not go home to-night, for my resolution was formed when I left you, and was afraid to go for fear they would shake my resolution. I ask the forgiveness of all I cannot write to.

Laft at the store..............................$5.00

Paid hotel......................................    50

Omnibus and laudanum..................    24

In pocket.......................................    26

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Amount received from you..............$6.00

I trust you will forgive me all the trouble I have caused you. I stopped at this house, as I knew it would be impossible to consummate my purpose at home, and it will come easier thus to break it to them.

    Dear Wife and Children:  -- I know this will fill your hearts with grief, but I feel confident that your fortune will be brighter and happier than if I had continued with you. God bless and cherish you, my dear wife and children. Dear Eliza, forgive me, but I have been compelled to do this to avoit bringing what I consider would be a far greater evil upon you. I have done nothing of late years, it seems to me, but to cause trouble to those I loved most. But it has not been intentional, I assure you, and now I can only ask the forgiveness of all. I go with the same fond love to my wife and family which I have always felt for them. I have never experienced anything but kindness from you all, and I hope it may in some measure appease your grief to know that the kindness of you all was the last thought.

 

--The Grand Jury of the New York Court of Oyer and Terminer came into Court yesterday, and presented a number of indictments, among which, it is said, were twenty-one against Lane, the Fulton Bank defaulter.

 

--The piles under London bridge have been driven 300 years, and on examining them in 1845, they were found to be little decayed. They are principally elm. Old Savoy Place, in the city of London, was built 650 years ago, and the wooden piles, consisting of oak, elm, beach and chestnut, were found upon recent examination to be perfectly sound.

 

--An interesting marriage ceremony was witnessed at Church Green, in Boston, on Tuesday, the parties immediately interested being Mr. John W. BEALS, son of James H. BEALS, Esq., of the Boston Post, and Miss Virginia A. SIMMONS, daughter of Geo. SIMMONS, Esq., the proprietor of Oak Hall. The church was thronged with a fashionable audience.

 

--The New York correspondent of the Charleston Courier relates the following incident which occurred at one of the meetings of the respectable Democrats at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, a few nights since. Governor BANKS, of Massachusetts, was stopping at the new hotel. The Democrats held their meeting in one of the public rooms of the establishment, which during the day was used for general purposes. On this occasion a number of Democrats were assembled, the meeting being of a conversational, free and easy style. Between 9 and 10 o'clock Governor BANKS came down stairs to enjoy a cigar. Having lighted his Havana, he very naturally entered the public room, and taking his seat, puffed away most vigorously. He was either unknown or unobserved by those present, for he had not long been there when he discovered that he was in the wrong box; that he was, in fact, attending a Democratic meeting. As soon as he discovered his mistake, he rose and begged pardon of those who appeared to be prominent actors in the meeting, and left the room.

 

--An Oswego county correspondent of the Rome Sentinel writes that on Monday, October 24th, four men were drowned near Port Ontario. Their names were A. J. CHARGO, aged twenty two years; Stephen MANDIGO, aged twenty-one years; William MEACHAM, aged twenty two years; Joseph Y. PAUL, aged thirty one years. Mr. CHARGO leaves a wife and one child. The party had been fishing, and a squall coming up, their boat was capsized.

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TERRIBLE DEATH - The London C. W. Free Press mentions the burial on Wednesday of the remains of Wm. BRADSHAW, a respectable farmer of that vicinity, who died under peculiarly  afflicting circumstances. It appears that during August last, while walking to his home at night-time, a dog came up behind him, and snapped at his leg and bit him, inflicting a wound. On the following day he visited London, when the wound was cauterized. Nothing occurred for several weeks, till in consequence of sensations experienced, Mr. BRADSHAW became convinced that he should die of hydrophobia. Accordingly he made proper dispositions, and had his bed so arranged that he could be strapped on to it. He then appointed four neighbors to take charge of him when the fits came on. On Saturday last he stated his conviction that his end was approaching, and that at 4 o'clock on the following day he should die. And his prediction was verified. At that hour he was seized with fits usual to persons laboring under the fearful disease, and suffered untold tortures, which ended in death.

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A HASTY PLATE OF SOUP - Here is an item in one of the late California papers:

    Last evening Mons. DERBEC, editor of the French paper Eco du Pacilique, was taking his dinner in the Hotel de I'Europe, when Mons. Leopold NOLF, editor of Le Phara, came in, and sitting down to a table a short distance from Mons. DERBEC's, called for a plate of hot soup. The waiter bro't it, and Mons, NOLF, taking the Cayenne pepper pot, nearly emptied it in the soup. Then taking the dish in his hand, and deliberately walking up to Mons. DERBEC, he threw it in that gentleman's face, at the same time exclaiming, "in this way I serve cowards." Mons DERBEC, his eyes bunged up with pepper, and his face dripping with the greasy contents of the soup plate, at once jumped to his feet, and blind as he was, drew a sword from his sword cane, and would doubtless have plunged it into Mons. NOLF'S body, (if he could have seen it) had not several persons seized him and prevented so tragical a termination of the difficulty. Mons. NOLF was also taken charge of by his friends, and the two French editors were separated.

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