Ua>“The Dubuque Herald says that
“two miles from Floyd a man and
his wife by the name of Conyngham
were killed by the lighting.” They
were in bed, sleeping with their
heads next to the chimney, when the
lighting struck the house and killed
them instantly. Their corpses were
perfect!}’ black from the effects of
the lighting. Their bodies were not
found until about 11 o’clock the next
day, The man's mother, sleeping
up stairs in the same house, was ren
dered insane by the shock, and had
not recovered at last accounts.
MBrForty two “roughs”—Mississi
ppi river raftsmen, who violently
assailed the offcers and crew of the
steamer Dubuque, above Rock Island
lately, causing a terrible fight,
are now prisoners in jail at Rock
Island, Illinois. They killed five
of the steamer’s crew and lost one
of their own number. It was a
bloody affair, for which the raftsmen,
apparently, had no excuse, and they
deserv* the severest punishment.
L'Eco D'ltalia says : “Italy is
no more a mere geographical expression
as Prince Metternich called that clas
sical land at the Congress of Vienna,
nor the land of the dead, as proclaim
ed by the Freneh poet Lamartine.—
Modern Italy is the land of progress,
of commercial enterprise, ofindurtry
in all its, branches, of railways, of
public education, and ot civil as well
as of religious liberty ; a few years
more of peace and internal harmony
and our country will be inferior to
no other among the most favored na
tions of Europe.
f®*There is a lively canvass for
the Presidency of the University of
Michigan, made vacant by the resig
nation of D. Haven. Among the
prominent candidates are Prof.
