Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1830-09-03

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city. Some years since. it is stated.
Capt. S. commanded an American ship
bound to Naples with available cargo,
and wac captured in the Mediter, anean
by an Algerine frigate, the crew taken
out. aud a prize master and eight
Turks were put on board, and the ship
ordered for Algiers. Capt. Sheffield
was lett alone with his boy on board the
ship, and watching favorable occasion
ne actually threw the nine AIgerines
overheard, and with his bow carried the
ship in safety to Naples!
"A few days since, in Baltimore, a
child, supposed to be dead, was put in
to coffin; but just as the funeral was
to take place. the body was seen to move
and the child arose and called for her
mother! At the last accounts she was
alive and we'll.
A lady named Gardiner, recently
married, was accidentally shot by her
husband at Harrison Township, Potter
20. Pa. short time since.
The Sultan, it is said, has manifested
bad faith in his transactions with
Russia. The Gar stroops had scarce
ly Quilted Adrianople, when he refused
to fulfil some Of the conditions of the
treaty; at least his agents have driven
the Russian authorities from the coded
territories. Accounts from the Dan.
ube to the beginning of May speak OF
provocation to newwar. The Turk
we should think, will hardly be prepar-
ed for this, as the revolt of the Albani-
ans seems to give him sufficient occu-
patton.
Attempts are making in England to
do away with the monopoly of the
OPorto company, by which the British
are bound to take the worst wines at the
highest prices.-An immense quantity
OF what is called Port wine is manufac-
tured in England.
By an act of Legislature passed April
18th, 1929, (says the N. Y. Journal of
Commerce,) the electors of President
in this State are in future to be chosen
by General Ticket.
The Chillicothe Evening Post says
A mammoth's tooth of an enormous size
was found yesterday, in digging upon
the canal, near this place. On further
examination, we learn that the remains
of full mammoth, supposed to be Of
the very largest size, have been disco
vered.
The twenty-second number Of the
Journal of Health contains an entertain
ing article oil famous quack medicines.
DR.. Solomon's Balm was brandy
The Bethesda water came from Lon
don puddle; the Malta exotic was snuff
and anniseed, &c. sc.
The Albany and Schenectady Rail.
road may now be consideied as fairly
commenced, the ground having been
broken at Schenectady.
Although we are no great admirers
of bets and wagers, yet we should GER
tainly not disapprove of them, if they
are all as useful as CERTAIN bets which
are announced in the French papers.
The whole amount staked on both sides,
is TO be distributed among the poor.
A London paper, giving information
to its readers how to know good Bears
Grease. says if you rub deal box with
it over night it will be converted into
a hair trunk by the morning.
A woman purchasing cups and sau-
GERS not thousand miles from Cam
den, S. G. was asked what color she
would have? "Why l a.'n't particular"
says she, any color that won't show
| dirt"
A hurricane passed over part of Limestone
county Alabama 10Th nit. and on sixty.ive
acres of one mans land seven hundred trees
were Frustrated,
| An emery mine has been discovered near
Wilmington Delaware-it is better than the
imported, we are informed, and will pass in
| to common USE
meeting of people Of color has been held
| in Philadelphia, at which resolutions were
passed approving the establishment of COL
ony in Canada.
The editor of the Cherokee Phenir says :.
No White man has any thing to do in the
management Of our paper. No other person
whether white or red, besides the ostensibie
editor, has written, from the commencement
of the Phoenix, half a column OF matter which
has appeared under the editorial head"
In Wilkesbarre, Pa. John Comstock, aged
TO- has been sentenced to 8 years in the pen
tentiary, for shooting Joseph Quick. They
had quarrelled about setting a fence.
A man named Fitzgerald, lately fell from
| an uDloaded cart in Now York, and the wheel
passed over his head, without endangering
| his life
In recent thunder storm in Philadelphia,
| girl was much frightened at seeing 90 the
lightning run around the iron hoops of the
bucket" with which she was going TO the
well
A French paper contains an account of a
cure for cataract: by continued friction for
| several hours during the day, for period of
| three months, over the eye. Similar instan-
| ces of cure have been related in this coun
try.
Napoleon's travelling carriage has just
performed its last journey. 1t has been sent
from Mentz TO Leipsic where it has been sold
to be broken up.
London, July PIT was currently reported
yesterday IN well informed circles, that the