Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1833-05-16
From the Norfolk Herald.


! Counterfeit Trgulia Note "A gentle
man left with US yesterday Ttcenty Dol
lar Note, purporting to be issued at the
: Bank of Virginia at Richmond, signed J.
Brockenbrough, President. w Dan
bridge, Cashier, and payable at the branch
IN Norfolk to Geo. Newton, President;
No 9I6, letter A. dated Richmond, OH
March, 1914. This note he had taken in
his store, believing it TO be genuine, as
well be might, from the excellence of its
execution, but upon presenting it at the
Bank here, 1t was pronounced spurious,
Co,nteffe it.--The Nashville Republican
of the Goth ult says:-We have been
shown hundred dollar note, letter |, on
the u. States Bank payable at the branch
of St Louis, which is so well executed
that the best judges may be deceived; the
only perceptible difference is, that the
counterfeit is quarter Of an inch longer
than genuine note.
FIN Offender taken-A letter has been
received by mercantile house of Baltimore
from a gentleman near Annapolis, which
mentions that a man named John Sewell,
who absconded on the 5tb of Aprilast with
considerable sum of money belonging to
different individuals. was arrested at
Frederick on Tuesday last. He will be
taken to Anne Arundel county to stand
his trial on charge of having forged
recent for $500 in the name of a mercan-
tile firm in that city
! A few evenings since, young man IN
the employment of MIR. r 5 Adams in
this village. by the name of Philo Matson,
actually swallowed a Lining Rat about
inches in length, including tail, on trifl
ing wager of fifty cents. When fairly
slowed inside, Matson remarked, that bis
ratship "tcas lodging about IN his empty
stomach" and instantly gulped down too
quarts of cider, TO set him ahoat The
deluged Jonah kept laundering like any
other "arch fiend ia chaos" I'LL huge
tobacco 9aid rolling INTO she iddIe, pro
we'd an ugly dead fall, TO the "rat in the
gentIemans kitchen" Matson su ffered
no further Inconvenience from this mar
vellons rat determination. The above is
no hoax. but is susceptible OF proof that
would satisfy the most incredulous.
/ Ohio .7tlas.
The Hon. Mr.. Goblet, M. P. makes
the following remarks in recent pub.
LEGATION.
81 have seen the Church of England in
! America, and admired its management
there. There are bishops and there are
clergy. and never knew an instance of
Pensioners giving their parson less than
f4OO per annum; and It is impossible that
! any clergyman can be more respected and
I beloved. Indeed the clergy OF the Church
I OF England IN America command a much
greater share OF obedience than the Cler-
gy in England Now, why should we
not have Church establishment like that
of the Church of England in America
"A nice Speculation.-We have heard
that ''knowing one" recently bespoke all
the wool of certain quality, which he
could find in the market, and then pro
ceeded to several factories to contract for
the delivery to him of quantity of Ian
mel. to be made of the kind of wool, which
he had monopoiized. Tie result is obvi
Gus. The factory agents were obliged to
give humping price for the wool or to
recede from their contracts and pay the
damages. In either case. the man, who
was up to thing or two, was sure to be
the gamer.
Now, we, as well as the Sonthernsrs, ri
dicule and run down all pedlars in Yankee
notions-horn' gun flints, wooden nutmegs
white ash bean seeds, oak leaf cigars, ct
cetera.-because they trick it on a small
scale, we suppose; But the man, who
puts into his pocket half of thousand,
by receptions and false movements-by
creating an unnatural demand and check
ing the natural supply-is not TO be com
pared with "a Connecticut tinpedlar, who
puts OFT his wares, by stale joke, at tire
BILE cost, on old grandames and young
hussies. lie is not to be considered, we
suppose, entirely justified in the eye of
good morals and sound economy.-.Vescb.
Herald.
From The Philadelphia National Gazette.
Honor TO WHOM HONOR is DUE!-The
Pocket Wallet containing near seven hun
dred dollars, which was advertised as lost,
yesterday, was found and returned by
Isaiah Robbins. oyster carter, living in
Queen street, between Second and Third
streets.-The advertiser feels it his duty
to make this public acknowledgment OF
the recovery of the money, and wishes
that the public may patronage an honest
man, in whatever station he may be pIa
ced. SAMUEL GURNEE.
| The Northampton Massachusetts,, Cou-
rier states that party Of German emf
grants passed through that town on Thurs
day of last week, on their way from Bos.
ton to Albany and the far west. "They
had five wagons filled with all the inani-
mate matters and living objects which
constitute an emigrating household, be-
sides thirty. two individuals on foot. con.
| sistlng Of all the intermediate sizes be-