Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1826-06-20

Neseopec levels. and that consequently the Lehish
can be used feeder TO the canal. Some diff
Guilty has arisen TO the location OF the canal in
the vicinity OF Pittsburg. The acting commissio-
ner, MIR. Roberts, has referred ii to the Board of
COMMISSIONER Gen. Bernard Is said 10 have
completed his surveys of the Dele~ are and Chesa.
1peake Canal, 20 have expressed himself pefec,l,
satisfied with ats execution. II il said that il will
be finished within the estimate, and in the summer
OF 1921 The Governor has obtained the loan of
100000 from the Philadelphia Bank, and the Far
mers and Mechanicks' Bank of Philadelphia, at
premium oil ) 5-S,hs per cor 90 2cents for
every 500 stock - Ii should have been stated that
The loan obtained The rate of 1903 dollars 81
l-2 tor every 100 dollars of stock The Duke de
Sake Weimer seems TO have given great sat,sfac-
ton on his late journey through the state. At
Poitsville he had the curiosity 10 descend into sew
eral of the coal mines. He is about to embark a,
n. York for Europe - At Onondago the price of
wheat has risen from 56 10 8 cents per bushe-
Runners are out buying it up at that price DR..
Mease OF Philadelphia states TO re City Councils
that the INST crop OF insects busily engaged in
eating the leaves of The few elm trees n lndepen-
dence Square: he advises an etfectual remedy,
hole to be bored inches deep in the Tree, and fill
ell with Suipher; stopping the hole with piece of
wood Lectures are TO lie delivered in Phil, to
illustrate the moral and religious character of the
principal nations, to be accompanied by 500 pain
tinss magnitied by the arrangement of glasses
WINE OF an excellent quality is said TO be made in
Sirasburg, Lancaster county, and offered for sale
| at Philadelphia AT i ,33 per gallon - person
has arrived at Phil from the interior with $50 rat
tie snakes in cages. They are exhibited in the
same houses with various silk WORMS, in different
stages OF the curious insect. The silk worm ~ al
20 exhibed as spectacle in Baltimore, in its jiffe-
rem stages. Beautiful specimens of silk, made
there by Mir. Blame Piedmon,ese, shown, one
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other 8, neither OF which seems much larger
than ordinary hair The late rains have
revived in appearance the crops OF grain. The
- Upland Union" says, that Mr.. j. tIannum OF
thai county has discovered the Cedar Apple or
kno, to be an infallibIe remedy for the expulsion
OF worms from children One child had more
than 500 worms expelled by the use of it: five o.
theirs affec ed in a similar way The apples
should be eaten mornings in succession, fasting;
if dry, pounded fine and taken in moasses; or eat
them just as they come of from the tree iO7
boats passed The lock on the Schuylkill Navga
ton, opposite 10 Norristown, the week before last.
= The premium of s co. offered by the Proprie-
TORS of the Medical Recorder for the best Essay on
govt, has been awarded 10y Dr. Harishorn of Phi
iadellhia, Dr~ Alacauly of Baltimore, aud DR.
Francis OF New York 10 DR. NJ. Page of Rich
nond, Virginia. 1t will appear, together with
he CONNIE cement OF The transactions of the Me
deal Society of Va. in The No. of the Recor
der a whiriwiud lately passed over the Susque-
hannah few miles below Columbia s, a column
OF water apparently or feet in diameter, which
assembled with violent rushing noise into over
hanging cloud. The upper part of it spread and
assumed a. brocm-like appearance as it approach
ed the cloud; the water being converted into
spray by the violence with which il was carried
upwards. Its general appearance resembled that
oil the usual tc0ter-SpOW OF The sea- A farmer in
Upper Marion township Gu Of his rye on the
18th the earliest harvesting perhap- ever known
In that part of the county, IL the neighbdrhood
oil Milestown, S mile from Philadelphia there has
not fallen drop of rain for 10 weeks: 1t is the
same with regard to spot in Delaware county, IA
miles eastward OF Philadelphia; yet notw,hsiand
ing the great want OF rain, the grain generally
looks as well as the farmer could wish
MARYLAND - An old robbery has jus, been de-
tecred: in February, Mr.. Brookes of Massachu.
sets, was bringing package OF money, more than
SiIoo, from Philadelphia for the Messrs. Cohens
OF Baltimore: In passing through Elkton his trunk
containing the money aud 1920 of his o Sc.
was stolen: No clue was given: each of the notes
belonging TO the Messrs. Cohens wa stamped I" 9th
+ February" a few days since, a merchant, in the
neiehborhood where the robbery was committed.
transmit ed to merchant in Baltimore some OF this
money: suspicion was Immediately excited and i
vesigaiion set foot, The money was traced to
the house Of some free negroes, where $1,000 of
Mr.. Cohens money and some of Mi BIS clothes
were found. The negroes were committed 10 the
Jail OF Cecil county.
DISTRICT OF CoLUMDtA.-- Judge Anderson
will read the Declaration OF Independence, and
Walter Jones, Esq. will pronounce The Grafton.
The Committee have invited the surviving sirners
OF the Declaration, and the Ex Presidents OF the
United States On the 18th inst Judge Crancb
delivered lecture at the City Hall OF Washing on,
Introductory TO his series of law lectures. He gave
a succinc history IF the common law and liberal
view of the course of study bich ought TO he pur-
sued with incidental notices Of the difference be-
tween the professional piactice of the u. s. where
the characters oil counseo ,sdv ocate cony eyancer
solicitor and proctor all united, and that OF Eng
land where they are separate and distinct Sc The
lecture was attended by a number of ladies and
gentlemen, auong whom the President OF the
u. s. The N. InteIlgencei, states that The wings
of the Capitol cost, from their commencement, in
1892, to the PAL Aug. 1912, including their many
al ions, $7SS,07l; that the centre building has
cost $4,000; in all s ,602,07l; that from this
sum, the expense of repairing the wings, after the
Eruption OF the enemy in 1914, is of course exclud
ed; and That the appropriation for the present wear
is 100 900; that it is possible further sppropria-
tons may be required to complete the enclosure
regulate and plant the ground round the Capitol
gate ways Sc that all the disbursements will be
made under the eyes of the Representatives of the
people, and that the expense may be ultimately
reimbursed out of the increased value given to the
u. S. lots in the city.
VIRGINIA. Mr. a. Church has been killed by
Lightning near Ashby's mill on the Shenandoah
river while IN the act of taking horse out of the
stable
Norm CAROLINA Col. j. G. A William
son OF Person county, has been sTponted II s.
Consul at Laguira in S. America The Newb bern
Sentinel states, thai Alligators of very large ,ize