Cheraw gazette and Pee Dee farmer. [volume] (Cheraw S.C.) 1838-1839, 1839-07-05

The Philadelphia papers state that the ship
Italy, thence for Trieste, has on board two 10.
connective steam engines with all their applian-
ces.
Two gentlemen returned from piscatory
excursion among the trout lakes in Hami'toE
county in four days, with rod and flies, taco
hundred and thirty-one pounds of delicious
trout.
Valuable Emigrants st. Louis 'Bulle-
tin stated hat company of Germans amount
ing to 200, have recently settled in Perry
county, Mo. They are of the Lutheran per.
suaslon IN religion, have library of 10000
volumes. and intend to establish College. )
The Miners Journal announces the discove-
ry Of a mine of Quick silver on the north side
of the Blue mountain, by some gentlemen of
Pottsville. 1t is pronounced by judges to be
ofan excellent quality.
stupenlous project Of internal improve
ment Is broached in the st. Louis papers;
being no less than the connexiLn of Boston
with st. Louis by line of Rail Roads. A
meeting to consider the subject was to have
been held at st. Louis on the Goth instant.
General John Armstrong, formerly Secreta.
ry at War, upwards of 80 years of age, is
now residing with his son, near Govanstown,
in Baltimore county, within few miles OF the
city of Baltimore.-Patriot.
,Slidinp doun Bannisters.-h German lad
| in the Ame lean House, Cincinnati, fell and
! broke his hip, bis arm, and his jaw, while at
| tempting to slide down the banisters of that
house. There was no hope of his surviving.
Mademoisele Rachel, the cele brated French
actress, who has come up from street ballad
girl, is TO be welded to the Duke D'Ossuna,
and becomes Castilian Dutchess, with for.
tune of many millions.
The Grand Jury Of Otsego County, on the
complaint of Mr.. J. Fenimore Coop"r, have
indicted James Watson Webb, of the Courier
and Enquirer, of N. York, Thurlow Weed Of
the Albany Evening Journal and Z. P. Pellet
of the Chenango Telegraph, for libeLous Ian
guage published in their respective newspa.
pers.
About two hundred physicians, druggists,
pill venders and dealers generally in the cur
atiye art, have been arrested at New Orleans
and held to bail for practising medicine, and
selling physic, without the authority OF a
license.
A census of East Boston has just been
taken and the number Of inhabitants amounts
"a seventeen hundred. Five years ago, there
was but a single house on the Island.
Tb express reail is to be honcefortn DIS
continued. from Augusta 8 Nashville, South.
The London Journals say that Ellen Tree
has realised profit of $50 600 during her pre-.
sent theatrical tour in this country.
In the year 1859 the imports of South Caro-.
lima were nearly three times as large as those
of New York. In 1882, those of New York
were nearly forty-seven times as large as those
offs. G.
Gum Elastic for Horseshoes.
A late English paper called the London We.
terinarian, recommends With exc. .ent reasons,
the use of caoutchouc, or gum elastic, as
substitute for iron shoes for horses.
Tn the general appropriation bill, witch has
passed the Senate of Pennsylvania, there, Is an
Item of S3OO,OQ0, for the extension of the Balti.
moee aud Ohio Rail Road towards Pittsburg.
The Indiana Argus oftbe l4th instant staes
ihatE Gen. Stapp, as fund Commissioner, has ne.
goticlated for Indiana loan of $4, ,OOO OO0 to be
appropriated 10 the prosecution Of Internal Im-
provements.
We understand that seventy five men and girls
arrived IN this town last week from Liverpool,
to employed in the factories and Chicopee.
Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
The Me:rimack Company, at Lowell, Mass,
cleared IL per cent. the last six months, OF which
they divided Z per cent. carrying per cent or
$al. 900 to surplus fund.
t ThS Hon. Rltclir Boon, ofIndiana, is said to
have succeeded Gov. Lucas, as Governor of 10.
wa.
Slrawberries.--The New-York Journal OF
Commerce states that 7s one and two horse
wagons, loaded VIII strawberries, came down
the Wechawken Hill to the Hoboken Ferry,
in one night, from the country round Hacken.
sack and the English Neighborhoud Some
of the wagons had more than 700 baskets and
came distance of % miles. Three times
week they leave home in the evening, and are
at the Ferry by sunrise.
The Philadelphia Gazette, says: we regret
to learn, that the health of our esteemed friend
and feIlow-c citizen, Condy Raguet, Esq. has
been more than precarious for several days.
from, as we understand, the rupture Of minor
blood vessel.
The Oldest town in the United States is St.
Augustine, Florida, by more than 40 years.
The Newport lR.I) Mercury, has completed
its Slst year.