The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1828-03-27

good many years. hir. Pinekney. Mr. Her.
per. and Mr.. Emmett died IN term time. and
whilst laboriously engaged IN professional htisi.
ness. an excessive attention 10 which probah,
contributed TO their sudden dscease
IN L. Daiiy Aduertissr.
Dog Mil Tho Troy Sentinel states that nm
ingenious mechenic, Mr.. Maihia, of thar city.
ha, 10 operation IN kine.st. mil for saving
timer for sashes and window blinds. driven
not by steam power, nor water, nor cattle
power, but BY dog mower -Four dogs belong
10 the establishment. They are worked two
at time for about 10 minutes, then the team
is taken off and a relay vi the two other dogs
but 10 labor They travel on the rircumfe-
renee of the inside OF wheel, about u or 10
feet in diameter, which gives motion 10 the
machinery which drives clrcnlar saw with
great velocity. Itrequires some DAYS aud
someart to break dog in. II is really amusing
10 observe the sagactg OF these animals
They are taught n practical lesson that indus
Try IS necessary To animal welfare The cost
OF keeping four dogs is estimated at only Cd
per day.
When will wonder and Improvement, cea.e.
Stee m, wind and water, must give wav 10 u
new power, 10 be designated, We presume
canine, and The cost of the machine aud out.
ting it in operation must be dog chrap
Newrale From the off 5ial return of the
number of persons committed 10 Nv ate dn-
ring 'hr year 1927 it appears that there we're,
males, =, 673, andfrmales, 725--of " hich nnm-
Der nearly one half nere pnier 81 wears OF
age. Out ofthis number 2li were sentenced
10 death, 81 10 transports ION tor lite, and 737
for seven and fourteen years. of the number
sentenced 10 death only II jeen were exrcu-
ted In the enumeration Of crimes Of which
they were convicted, there appears to he
Is one for murdrt--larceniez. u.ebteakhg,
audhghway robbery, constituting the general
offences.
The .7merican Bibie Society, has Is presses
in operation, and is shortly 10 have four adj.
ditional power presses. all worked by steam,
and equal TO eight common hand presses.
In the course OF next summer four more are
70 be- added, so that there will then he IN all,
what is equal 10 30 or 81 common presses.
Mr. Booth has played Oresies at the French
theatre ia New Orleans, with distinguished, IN
deed with complete srccesS. The first scene
was not entirely satisfactory. but the audience
soon forgot his English pronunciation, and Mr..
B and Madame Clo2el. disputed the palm he
fore French audience. in recitng french
verse
After the curtain dropped, the audience called
for Nh, Booth. and sauted him by long and rei'
Grated applause
Mr.. A Parmanticr, Proprietor of the Horti-
cultural Botanic GaIdcu. Brooklyn Ncw-Yorl>.
has shewn us pot Of red monthly Strawberry
without runners. The plant has p strawberries
on II, If which II are rip. They bad az excel
lent perfume. the plant was intended for the
Horticultural Socetv's meeting last evening.
md WE may expect from the committee so.se
FURTHER notice. " y Statesman.
Sin. TT NAV not he generally known, that
silk folded and put into n press and screwed
down very hard will alter remaining IN II n
few hours he prettilv waf"re1, equal in every
respect TO what IS effest"d by hot pressing.
Trrine's Life Of Cohlin ms The Life of Co.
lnmbus, by Washington irwin, is at ZENITH com
plered and is sid 10 be in press both in En-
gland and in this country. Messrs G. g. e
Carvill will publish il in this CITY early in
March. The author has been, employed for
years on the work, with he most ample ma
terials at hand, aud the best opportunities
for ascertaining the authenticity of every fact
he has related. These advantages. together
with the charm of the AUTHORS stvle and his
power of happy arrangement, will no doubt
make il one Of the most interesting books Of
biography which have appeared in the pre-
sent century We could have wished no bet
ter fortune for the memoirs of the great disco.
yerer of the new world than that they should
be written by him whose works have difrused
the fame Gifts literature in the old.
" Y. Ere. Post.
In the " lions Herald, the Rev Stth Mead.
methodist minister, in Virginia, thus describes
remarkable coloured preacher, who attended
him on his last course around his circuit
" The Rev. John Charlelon is nowiin his 6lst
year, jet black, between and 7 feet in height,
weighing go pounds has short hair incining
to gray. During II years of his life he would
walk thirty miles in a day, and preach three
times. He could not be stopped by tribes
would wade TO his neck through streams of
water. He had taught his dog to swim riv-
elS and brooks, and carry his hymn book aud
bible across, in ms mouth, without getting them
wet.
The Worcester (Ene,) Herald gives an &C
count Of alittie girl, zen months old, having
second tongue, forming under and near the
tip OF the first to which it grows. II is said
that the annals of medicine and surgery fur
nish but one similar instance, and that the
person of a fem lie of color.
Milton, and many other sages, have found
one tongue enough for a woman, ia all con.
science ; as we however, do not belongto
that capiOus class, who wish to close females
lips or give her only halt tongue we con
slider this as an Invaluable Improvement Of
Dame Nature for some ladies by being sup
piled with them, may, by the aid ofboth, TAX
plainly aud inielleibly, whereas. the siguu'
one rattles so, that it is impossible for herself
or any other mortal to understand the DRIFT OF
her discourse.
The marriage of the Young Prince of Mos
iswa Marshal Ney's sony and Mademoiselle La