Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1833-10-17

Courier, that Mr.. Calvin Edison, well
known as the Living Skeleton" died
few days since at his residence in
Randolph, Vt.
Manufacturing.- appears from an
ingenious statement, that there are in
the United States 795 Cotton Mills,
moving capital of $40,714,984, and
manufacturing yearly 77,714,316, lbs.
ofcotton, or 214, 1872 bales. The num-
Der of spindles, 1,246, 900; looms, 3d.
SOC; yards of cloth made, $50, 46l, 900;
hands, females 3S,S27; males 1S,479;
total, 57,406; pounds of starch used,
1,641 ,253; barrels of flour for sizing,
17,245; cords of wood burnt, as, $40;
tons Of coal, 24,402; Charcoal, 9,205
bushels; gallons of oil used, 300,338;
hand weavers, AGO; total dependents,
IL ,626; annual value of cotton manu-
features, 26,000,000; aggregate of
wages paid, $40, 294, 445.
A case an point.-Not long since, a
man at the west was prosecuted for
employing runaway apprentice, and
one hundred dollars recovered, togeth-
er with cost of suit, which, when ad.
ded to the fee paid his lawyer, and his
own personal expenses, amounted, per-
haps, to the comfortable sum of $3.50,
or more.
The usual caution was given, by
advertising the runaway in a newspa-
per. The result is as it should be
ignorance, parsimony, and folly should
be punished.-Sag Harbour Cor.
The Richmond Enquirer gives a
melanchol y account of the marriage
and death of Alfred Street, of the firm
of Sanxay & Street, of that city.
''ln the course ofone day, he was a
bridegroom and corpse In the last
moments of his existence, his betrothed
united her destinies with his, to entitle
her to the privilege of performing the
last offices for her husband. The fol-
lowing paragraphs tell the simple an
mails of one day.
"Married, on Thursday morning,
the 18th instant, by the Rev. Philip
Courtney, Mr.. ALFRED STREET, of
the firm Of Sanxay & Street, of this
! place, to Miss AGLIA, second daughter
of Mr.. Giles Picot, all of Richmond.
'Died, on Thursday evening, the
18th inst, after aingering illness, AL
FRED STREET, in the 9th year of his
age"
A bad more.-The supreme judicial
court of Maine closed its session last
Friday. The case of Harriet Jewett
against Thomas w. O'Brien, for a
breach of promise of marriage, appeal
ed from the court of common pleas,
where verdict was given for the plain
tiff for Sl650, was again tried, and a
verdict given for the plaintiff of Ss17OO.
Eastern pap.
The mate and crew of the British
ship Essex which sailed from New Or
leans on the Odd July for Liverpool,
were picked up near Bermuda, about
the middle of September, by captain
Lawton, of the -, from Newport
bound to Matanzas. When the Essex
was fallen in with, she was burnt
ly to the waters edge. The mate in
formed Capt. l.. that Capt. Vaughan of
the Essex had died few hours before
the discovery Of the fire, and the only
passenger aboard, Mr.. Hobson, lately
engineer on the Pontchartrain Rail
Road, who was lying sick in the cabin,
persisted in the flames. No intimation
was had Of the fire until the mainmast
was burnt off, and the flames burst
through the deck at various points.
The crew could hardly get to their
coats, and saved nothing but what they
had on their backs. Some supposed
that fire was left in the hold bv cigars
or otherwise, in slowing the cargo at
New Orleans, as the deck and sides
were a cinder when discovered: but
wet, termenting cotton might have
produced spontaneous combustion.
Henry Hill, colored man, and a
Revolutionary soldier, died in Chilli
Gothic, on the 18th ul.., aged eighty
years. lie was buried with the honors
OF war--a singular tribute of respect
to the memory of colored man, but
no doubt richly merited in this CASE
Henry, we should infer from a tribu.
tary notice in the Chillicothe Advert
ser, was at the battle of Lexington.
Brandywine, Monmouth, Princeton,
md Yorktown. II