Old Boy.
Reading edition
A southern paper advertises a runaway boy, thirty-six years of age!
By a recent telegraphic arrangement, the papers in Albany, Troy, Utica, Syracuse, Auburn, Rochester and Buffalo, are furnished with reports from New York twice a day,—at 2 and 8 P. M.
The Connecticut river is reported to be lower than it has been known within the remembrance of the oldest inhabitants. It is reduced to a mere brook.
A company formed in Boston has commenced operation on a copper mine in Cumberland, R. I. About 4000 lbs. of ore were taken out a few days since, and yields about 20 per cent.
The Hon. Louis McLane gets a salary of $5000 a year—nearly $100 per week—for holding the office of President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railway Company.
An imperial quarter of Indian corn, in 480 pounds, which is equal to eight bushels of sixty pounds each. We suppose some of our readers would like to know about that.
A solution of copper is an excellent wash for purifying sinks, and removing all unpleasant effluvia. Two or three applications will be effectual.
We are informed that the steamer Buffalo is making arrangements for the adoption of Barnum's Safety Apparatus.
Two iron steamboats, of 70 tons each, are to run between Philadelphia and Reading, Pa., carrying freight and passengers.
The editor of the Cincinnati Commercial says that he has a project for connecting the old and new worlds by telegraph.
Twelve hundred and thirty-four miles of magnetic telegraph are reported to be in actual operation in the United States.
An association of capitalists at Worcester county, Mass., are exploring a vein of copper in Greenfield.