Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1836-06-28

G The Richmond anu Fredericksburg rail road il
now completed and in operation between the lor
mcr city and Chesterfield.
W;1n;naton and Ralcigk Rail Roud.-Wt
learn from the Wilmington Advertiser that tht
Eno;neers have surveyed the route through
Wayusboro' TO Halifax, and aro engaged on the
route through Tarboro'.
The U. s. Bank Of PENNSYLVANIA has establish
Cd an agency in Boston. A meeting in Prov
dence (R. L. Of merchants, at which all tn,
Banks of that city were represented, requested
all agency to be established there.
Volunteers for Texas. 4 Company OF
more than 90 cmigrants with their officers
left Lexington, Ky. on the 2nd June for
Texas. Another company Was to leave
the same place two days afterwards. A.
bout the same time upwards of 200 men
were expected to leave Louisville Ny. for
= the same destination, besides companies
from three of the adjoining counties.
a letter has been published in the Flo
rida papers addressed by Col. White, del
egate in Congress from that territory, to
the President, requesting that Gen Scott
be "reiieyed" from the command in Flori-
-da.
The wandering piper is now piping in
Philadelphia. lie says. his expenses IN IN
the U. States have amounted to S4,24|
and that he gave TO charitable institutions
$3.50.
~ We are happy TO announce that
the injury to the wheat crops in this sec
ton of the country, from the depradations
of the Fly, though considerable, falls far
short of what was expected few weeks
since, and that there is now reason to hope
that tolerablc crop will be made.
Jonesboro' (Teaa.) Rep. $ Jour.
No fewer than 10 new companies were
started in London during the past year; of
these Al are formining purposes, 80 for
the establishment of rail ways, and 43
miscellaneous the capital for the entire
companies amounts to the enormous sum
of fitty-six millions eight hundred and for
ty-fve thousand pounds sterling.
A man attempting to jump from train
OK cars while in motion OH the Worcester
Rail road, fell across the rail and the en-
gine passing over his legs, cut them of
below the kneess.
\ stage, with all the baggage, which
fell through the ice, near Coteau de Lac,
Upper Cnada, last winter, has been recov-
cred. In one ofthe trunks there were
nearly $4,000 belonging to the Montreal
City Bank.
Large Sac -fsh.-A large sized saw-fsh,
the largest ever taken III Our harbor, was
in seine, on Saturday afternoon back OF
Castle Pinckney. 1t measured, in length
including the saw, upwards of IA feet.
Charleston Courier.
Twenty years have transpired since the
State of Indiana was admitted into the
Union. During the time from that to the
present period its population has increased
from 60, 600 to 100000. In 1916 it had
one member Of Congress-it has seven
now. A State law was passed last winter
appropria,ing SlO,0OO,O00, for the con-
struction of canals, railways and Maca.
damized roads which are intended to in
tersect every part Of the State. TIE
routes have been already surveyed and q
portion of the work commenced, and the
Indiana Democrat expresses its conf
dence that all the works contemplated by
the bill, will be commenced and compile
ted.
".1cquittal of Robinson-Judge Edwards
charged the Jury at great length, recapltua
ting the testimony, instrucling the Jury up
on points of law and the inferences to bc
made from the various facts and circum
stances which were developed in the course
Of the trial.
He charged them particularly in reference
to the testimony of the dissolute. females, chc
had giren eridence in the case, directing
them that whencrer the testimony Of Mrs
Townsend, Emma French and Elisabetl
Sahers came in collision acith that Of repnta
6ls Uitnesses, the former should be set ASIDE
and disregarded.
AT halfpast IL o'clock, the jury retired
and in Is minutes thereafter returned into
court with verdict of NOT GUILTY.
The father of Robinson, who was lately
tried and acquitted, in New York, is thu:
described by correspondent of the Phila
delphia Gazette:
'An aged gentleman with coumen
ance intelligent and anxious, admitted
within the bar, was pointed out to me by
my friend as the father Of Robinson
He gazed stedfastly at his young and un
happy son, with feelings such as only ;
parent could appreciate on such an awfii
occasion. "Poor boy!" he repeated OTTER