At Milton, N. H., last week, a boy named Randall was killed instantly by a gun in the hands of a playmate who did not know that the weapon was loaded. Hon. Albert Rust, of Arkansas, has written a letter against secession and disunion, and against making Lincoln's election an excuse for breaking up the Government. David Swisher, of Pendleton county, Va., was accidentally killed by the falling of a log, on Thursday, the 15th inst. Capt. Andrew Nelson, an experienced ship-master of Charleston, S. C., died at Tampico Mexico, Nov. 3d. Mr. Riston, who was injured in a tannery at Alexandria, Va., a few days ago, died on Thursday. The farm of Isaac Dust, in Jefferson co., Va., was sold a few days ago at sixty dollars per acre. In Baltimore, on Wednesday, a man named Falinstock fell into a vat in which oyster cans were being steamed, and was scalded to death. Dr. Ulmer, an eminent physician, died in Cahaba, Ala., last week.
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