Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1829-12-28
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Harrison Gray OTIS. esq. ha. been reelected
Mayor OF Boston, without opposition.
| A bill has been introducod into tho Legisa
inre of Tennessee, designed 10 encourage III,
culture OF silk.
| In the Senate of Georgia, bin TO hold IN.
sessions of the Legislature once in two years
instead of annually, "as rejected by MAORI
~ of 10.
| A fire broke out IN Cincinnati on tho 18Th
| inst. About 30 buildings on the east side OF
main street, were Consumed. They were all
OF wood except two.
One hundred Rats are advertised for in the
! Charleston Mercury. This is u new article oI
traffic. What nsal1
A bill to compel Quaksrs, Mora vians, Memo.
| nsts and D0nhards 10 do military duty, or ia
pay fine. has been passed 10y tho Legislature
Of North Carolina. by n small majority.
The adjustment Of a pcrmaHepr peace in
Europe is something like the settlement Of a
| legal suil--of which poet says,
| " Aud now we're all secured by law,
" Tiff tho next brother end haw.'
The population Of London is nearly a million
and haf-about our-eighth Of the whole 20.
puation of the United States.
| John Chairman, u silyersmilb, who had been
charged with setting fire to the town of An.
gusta (Geo.) which caused the extensive con-
! flagrallons IN thai place during the la.I sun.
mer, has been tted and acquitted, il is sand
greatly 10 the satisfaction OF thr citizens.
boy employed in one of the New York
| Lottery Offices suddenly disappeared n Gw
days SINCE, having left tho Office about dark
| with sum OF money "A man has since volun
tarily gone before n magistrate aud stated that
bimseli and another murdered and robbed him
and threw the body into 'he dock The man
snpears to be spnew hat insane but hls story
was believed 10 he true. and he wa, conse.
onenily remanded to prlson 10 await further
deyelopements. -" Conscience makes towards
| OF Us all"
white msn was lately publicly whipped
at the whipping post in Huntsville (Ala.) IN
obedencs TO the sentence Of the lazy for some
petty crime. Such Infamous punishmenis
should be eradcaied from the criminal code
II IS said that nm Assurance Company la,
been formed in Santa Fee, the object of whnh
is to assure tema'e beauty The plan il said
to be as foIlow,: Any woman may estimate
her personal beauty at whatever she pleases,
and assure it al TINT value, paving = proper.
Tomato sum according to the period assured
Tor, &c. The company assures femhle beauty
from the age Of Is TO 80, paying the 0ssuree a
specific sum il her beauty decays or is BY
accident iujured.--Au admirable institution this
for antquaed maidens VINO ara Z cursed with
single bessedness."
The London Morning Chronicle speak, in
| highly complimentary terms Of the Msmoirs
aud Correspondence of that " great and good
man. Thomas Jefferson, The celebrated Pfesi.
dent OF the United States" The trans-stlantic
critics will shortly acknowledge that there can
really be such thing a. an American book,
not altogether unfit for the perusal Of Euro
peens
Perpetual Motion has been Gga:n discorertd
N Philadelphia. II is advertised for eIhibi
ton.
The Ladies are abost TO get Up another Fair
| in Richmond, for the benefit of the Female
Orphan Asylum.
! Clara Fisher, who appears TO be the mos,
attractive Star in the Theairica GALAXY, is on
a tour through the Western States, and will
proceed as far es New Orleans