AMERICAN EXTRACTS.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 60, 15 December 1871, Page 3

AMERICAN EXTRACTS.

New Fork, November Ist.—A specialdispatch from Washington this evening, says it is asserted on the authority of Senator Pool,-that President Grant has expressed his determination to declare martial law throughout the entire South, in consequence of continued outrages. The Board of Health has declared Charleston and Key West infected ports, on account of the yellow fever, the proclamation to extend till the Bth November. heroism of a little girl at peshtigo. A writer at Peshtigo mentions the case of a little girl, twelve years old, who saved her little sister from death, but who was advised by many to desist from the attempt, lest she herself should perish. She heeded them not, however, but by the most heroic efforts she succeeded in rescuing her little sister from the merciless flames. Her father, her mother, brothers, and other sisters perished by the devouring element. And after the fire had abated somewhat, she worked her way back over hot ashes and burning coals, and dragged the dead bodies of her relatives out into an open space, and then stood watching their charred remains all day and through that long and desolate night that followed. This is child heroism the like of which was never recorded. A SAD INCIDENT. While the performance of “ Don Juan" was progressing at the Academy of Music last evening, Mrs. Seguin received the tidings—wholly unanticipated—of the death of Mrs. Jennie Frodsham, a married daughter, who perished a victim to the consequences of the Chicago disaster. Mrs. Seguin swooned on the receipt of the sad news, and was removed to her dwelling amid a general expression of sympathy. STORY OF A REMARKABLE FAMILY IN THE KENTUCKY MOUNTAINS. About one mile from Jamestown, Russell county, there lives one of the moßt remarkable families in all this commonwealth, and probably in the United States. Mr. James Jeffries, who is now in this city serving upon the petty jury in the United States Court, tells his own story, and says that he was married before he was seventeen years old, his wife being only five days younger than himself. They lived together seven years without children, when his wife gave birth to twins—a boy and a girl. In the fifteen years that followed, nineteen children were born to the happy couple, and each subsequent birth alternating between twins and single births until the fifteen years were accomplished and nineteen children composed the family circle, seven pairs of twins being born during the time. Mr. Jeffries is only 45 years old, and is still youthful in appearance and very stout. His wife never had better health in her life than at present, though she will not weigh a hundred pounds. Her greatest weight at any time was 110 pounds. The boy of the first twins now weighs 165 pounds, the girl 125 pounds. All the boys who have grown have made large men ; the girls are of good size and all the children healthy. But five out of the nineteen have died. Mr. Jeffries has ten brothers, all of whom are large men, and within the families of these eleven brothers there are thirty-seven pairs of twins, making seventy-four twin children, to say nothing of the host of single births. Five of Mr Jeffries’ children are married, and, added to all those singular facts, notwithstanding the absence of silvery locks on his head, he is the grandfather of five children.