A spurious fifty dollar note on the “ Farm
ers’ Bank of Virginia,” was detected yester
day at the Citizens Bank. Vignette, a reaper
lying at the foot of a w beat stack. No bill
of this description (says the Cincinnati Com
mercial) has been issued by this bank.
A large steam boiler in the sugar refinery
Messrs. Foeltscher &. Co., of Sudenburg,
Prussia, exploded on the 30th ult. The
fragments struck thirty-three workmen, four
01 whom were killed on the spot, five died
while being conveyed to the hospital, awl
eigtl dav.
THE WISCONSIN HERALD.
Capt. Babcock, of an Erie canal boat, had
a scutlle with the captiain of a scow, in the
I course of w hich a little son of the scowman
came up with a gun. Babcock seized the
gun and dashed it on the deck, when it went
off and shot Babcock dead.
Another killing affair in New York on
Tuesday evening. Two negroes got to
fighting in the “ Five Points,” and one split
the other’s head open.
The Wise nsin Tribune, of the 19th ult.,
says that a second unsuccessful attempt to
rob the Land Office at Mineral Point, was
there made a few nights previous.
The Prairie du Chien Patriot, says:—“the
dead body of a man was found on Sunday
last, by an Indian, about three miles from
this village. The Indian informed one of
our citizens of the fact yesterday, and to-day
there w ill be a Coroner’s inquest held over
the body.”
Maj. Gaines, (late prisoner in Mexico,)
arrived home in Kentucky on the 15th ult.
