Cheraw gazette and Pee Dee farmer. [volume] (Cheraw S.C.) 1838-1839, 1839-09-13

after recent loss BY fro. Eassss has now
returned the same amount
The Wheat Crops Of Michigan 10 estiussed
at 100000 bushels. 5,0o0.000 Of which il
considered surplus.
Ia some parts Of Kentucky Ohio and Indiana
tlters has been q severe drought which has vesy
greatly injured the crops.
The Mackefel Hshcsy which has beon declining
for several years is worse this yeai than ever.
The Rev. Robert Baird has recently sailed { ON
this country for France, Under the auspices OF the
"Forcign Evangelical Society" for the purpose
of cooperating with Protestant Christians IN thai
and other Catholic countries Of Europe in She
work of preaching the Gospel Of Christ.
A fool ofa fellow in New York was lately
throwing boys into the riter out Of sport, and
caught one boy who implored to bo letgo because
he could not swim. The brute, however, threw
hum into tho water, and he was drowned. Ths
murderer was released by magistrate on secu.
rity Of $500!
A storm was experienced along the Atlantic
coast on the 9th and 18th Aug.
DR.. Roget, Psychologist, and author Of one OF
the prize Bridgewater treatises, has taken the
6sld against The Phrenologists. IA popular work
might be written by the same man, or Mr.. Web
ster or Mr.. Adams to prove that the earth is Hat,
and that the sun moves round It every "a hours.
A Dtse ld,o.-The cultivation Of tobacco has
been prohibited in China, on the ground that 1t s
not necessary Of life. An editor in civilized
America calls this barbarian.
The city election, in Charleston, has 70, once
taken place without contest. M'. P'nchney
is reelected Mayor.
Twelve hundred and twenty one German emf.
grants arrived ut Baltimore on the 24th, 25th
md 96i n ,,1$ hos,nd xVov$
It is estimated that tho late seizures Of foreign
goods at Boston. Philadelphia. snd principally
New York for violations Of the revenue laws,
amount to nearly 100000 Of dollars.
A.steamboat chased and caught deer in the
Mississippi the other day. The buck was dressed
and appeared at public dinner on board the boat
next day.
"Why." said physician 10 his intemperate
neighbor, "dont you tako regular Quantity every
day-set down stake, that you will 20 50 far and
no father r. II do," replied the other, .'but
always set It down SO far of, th.t ! get drunk
before get to it.
The average price Of lots at lato sale in the
new city of Austin, TEXAS. was fifteen hundred
dollars-some lots sold at two thousand seven
hundred dollars,
Judge Doty (whig) has been reelected to Con.
gress from Wisconsin Territory, BY majority
over both his competitors.
Coffee and Tea have been substituted for grog
in tho Texian Navy.
There is now growing in Charleston, s. c., a
tree producing the fruit from which the Jujube
paste is made. The tree was brought from the
South Of France FIVE years ago, when It was three
feet high, and has now attained the height OF ~
feet--bearing luxuriantly.
Some English rogues have lately been appre.
hended in Boston, and after conviction, sentenced
to the Penitentiary. A number of keys and 9th.
er implements for getting into houses were found
in their possession. Their operations seem tc
have extended as far South a. Baltimore At least
Gov. Clarke, of Kentucky, ID dead. and Robt
Letcher has been nominated BY the wings as =
candidate for the oficc. =.
Col. John M. Barbour, Of Be.rien county, Mi.
chigan, has harvested one thousand and sixty.
eight acres of wheat. He had eighty men en-
p!oyed 10 gather his crop.
TuscuMDiA, Ala. August Is.
"Collins Bishop, Esq, late Postmaster at this
place, 10 no moro. He came to his death BY q
stab in tho breast, inflicted last evening about
dusk by the hands ofan unknown assassin, AZ hs
was passing from his Office TO his residence"
A runaway slave returned to the Arlington
estate, in this vicinity, few days ago, Of his own
accord. He declares that no has had enough oi
il, and that the North Is not the place il has been
cracked up to be for colcred people. This is the
second instance within few yessa
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