Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1832-07-19

Adams died; he was IS years, months and
. days old
JnHes .Nadisoa was born in 1856 He
lives at Montpelier, Orange county, Virginia;
was elected President of the United States in
iS0S, at the age Of 81 years. Tie still lives
IN the enjoyment Of good health. at Mont
peher, IN the 10th year of his age.
James Monroe was born in 1858. file liv-
ed IN Louduon county, Virginia; was elected
President of the United States ia 1917, age,l
50; having bat little property. and losing has
atlectIonate wife by death, September esd.
1850. in November of the same year he went
TO New York to spend the winter with his
daughter and son ia law MIR Governor. and
died there on the ath Of July. 1881, at the
age of 10 This as the third President who
has died ON the day of the month .4merieaa
Independence was declared.
John Quincy adams. son Of John Adams.
was born july iitb. 1861. lie lives at Gum
cy, Norfolk county, Massachusetts; was e.
lected President of the United States, 9th
February, 1926, by the House of Represen-
tatives. at the age of 5s years. Mr.. Adams
was Secretary of Legation TO Judge Dana,
minister 10 Russia in 1916. and Secretary of
State of the United States, in 1917; being
called from Russia for that purpose by Pre-
sldent Monroe.
.2adrep Jackson was born in South Caro-
lima, lin 1894. lie hives in Nashville, David.
son county, Tennessee, was elected President
OF the u. States, in 1929, at the age Of Ga.
Queen .4anes FWthing In eagerness TO
'aize an apparent advantage, reason is often
made subservient TO most unreasonable ex.
pectatious. Some years ago an auctioneer,
TO make himself Of notoriety. put to sale what
he called Queen Anne's Farthng, and no.
mlnally sold it for upwards OF five hundred
pounds, which gave him an opportunity to
make an attractive advertisement This in
teIgence reached the remoiest parts Of the
kingdom; and poor man, tenant on the
property Of the Marquis OF Stafford in Suth
eHand, found as he supposed, one Of these
treasures; and, as be thought it much too
valuable to trust to any ordinary conveyance,
he brought it up to London himself travel
ling the greatest part OF the way on foot; but
when he arrived, and it was shown TO Mr.
Taylor Combe Of the British museum, he
was mortifyngly disappointed TO find il
Nuremburgh, with 4neea Anse's head upon
1T, and not worth the farihing il represented.
From the time this puff of the great value of
Queen Anne's farthing appeared in the
newspapers. MIR. Combe, the late keeper of
the coins and medals in the British museum,
paid more than twenty pounds for the post
age of letters addressed to him on that sub
iect Among these WAS one from a private
soldier, who said, if he could only get three
or four hundred pounds for it. 10 buy him
commission, il would be lucky larthing to
him. During the reign of Qaee,l Anne nd
farthings were Gained; bat. just before her
death coinage was contemplated, and sew
eral dies were engraved, and trial pieces
struck of these, there are eight Of different
dies in the British museum; and the one con-
sidered the most rare, is valued collectors at
about two guineas.
My Lord North replying TO some observa-
ton of Colonel Barre, who, like himself was