Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-10-03
SUMMARY or NEWS.

Gus with corn through hole in the fence. dividing
iher yards. into his own premises, and nf erw ards
killing and deyouring them.
Dixon, once 'Boiiilo Dixon now 'wa'kington
pSon.' TO decide wager made between Col. W
X Johnson and Henry Thomas. Of $500 undertakes
ON Wodresdiy morning, TO wax from PhiladslpLi
20 Iicnion. aud there tho course. distance
IN all equal TO 60 miles, in ~ consecutive hours,
resting minutes after each hour This will be
the greatest feat ever performed by any pedestrian.
MIR John NJ Hcndriek Of Springfield took TO Bos.
ton over the Western Rail Dad last week twenty
eight tons OF watermelons raised by himself
Ha'sey Coon, who caused the death Of his wife
IN East iaddam, Conn. in April last. by throw ng
nurn'nE coats upon her as she lay drunk upon tbs
hror, has been found guilty OF Mansl,ughter ard
sentenced To 90 years in the State Prison and $500
foe lie is supposed to have murdered his first
wife in The same way, some fourteen months be-
fore.
Col. Johnson has started ON his tour. n. wa,
yericrdsy in Cincinnati A letter from that city
says that he Fifth Street n,arke, IN the morn
| ing, and that he commenced at ore end ard went
through, shakin; tho hand OF ov,ry butcher that
was willing TO have his hand shaken. lie was clad
in Kentucky jean coat and homespun red vest -
That's his usual elecIioneerng sui--LoU JoUR.
FRosr AND BucKwnEAr.-On Friday and Sl.
turday nicn; the frost quite heavy and most
ehectually done FOR tho buckwhcat coop. Il is rs
dead cs door nail. Fortunately. is believed that
most OF the fields sufficiently ti3ened 20 render
the grain Fl, for use. though there are many patches
that will be materially shortened in their yield. Ga
Friday night, ice rs thick as window glass was
made Pull. LEDGER.
CABINET CHAHeEs.-Thc Globe confirms the re
port OF tho resignation of MIR Fuller, second assist
ant Postmaster Genernl aud the appointment in his
stead Of John Adams Bryan. Of Ohio. or course the
latter is Locofoco. The Globe also states: at is
now we believe, reduced to certainty that the hon.
/ Walter Forward isto give way 10 the hon. Caleb
Cushing a, the end Of the present fiscal quarter
the 30lh ns,."-BALr. PAT.
IL is estimated that the tariff bill Just passed vii
give employment TO at least $50. 900 persons, and
the means OF comfortable livelihood 10 about 200.
600.
| In the chart of John Tyler's as laid down in Mr.
towler's treauee, SELF ESTEEM is marked at six,
(nearly the highest number, and indicating there
ioro one OF his most prominent characteristic J
while CoNscIEHrI0usHEss is as low as number B
and psrhrps hntered little at that i-LIScuBURG
VIRc IMAM.
opposite New York, between Americas and II pton,
and was won by the former. The distance was two
mile heats-Time 8 Ii 40.
CRoros WATER DEcIsIoy.-The Cro,on Aque,
duct Commissioners have decided that Hydronis
shall be constructed in the publc streets from W ch
the Croton water may be obtained gratuiiously by
any who wish. Persons Introducing IL into their
houses will be required 10 pay for 1t, W. for two
story house $40, for O three story house Sl2 No
extra charge for baths, or street washing in front.
Mr. lappAn, the l4OcOtOcO senator from Ohio,
made speech the othes day, at Belmont, in that
STATE. In the course of It he sold that, "f the
Wings were victorious, the only left was 10
the sword, gun, and bayonet and, Tor his part, he
did not care how quick It was done." This is the
same ungody old wretch who declared, little
while before his election TO the Senate, that If the
slaves oil Kentucky were 10 rise against their mas
ters, he would put arms in their hands 10 aid them
in the work Of massacre.-L0ts. Jour.
Another VEro.-A fond father the other day,
I Ill a
and fne young lady Of his acquaintance sent him
to her with the following note:
"Dear Madam-Allow me TO present my Bill for
your acceptance"
The lady sent the lad back 10 his father with the
following reply.
D,ar Sir Your Bill is vetoed"
Mr. Charles Walker, Of Burlington, N J, had his
pocket relieved Of S22OU, at the Schenectady DE
pot, Albany, on the 27th ull. IL is papable VIC
lation Of the Resolutions of '9s-9 for any one 10
have that sum IN his pocket these hard times.
Among the wonders a. the Albany Cattle Show
drove Of 2S BIlTil0es from NJ ssouri, the Sy-
racuse Ok, weighing over 1000 lbs and hog weigh.
ing HOO.
The penalty for whipping wife to death in n.
Y. is seven years confinement in the Penitentiary
Commend TO the Corporal in all matters o.
oriho.riphyl One who spells burrows with the oh,
should have the medal, beyond question.
GREAT Yield. II wenty five bushels Of heard
ed white wheat, sown by Capt. Pascha Buford of
Bedford, on 1871 acres. yielded, this season, 6iOI
bushels, gailon--weght 81 lbs to the hushel.
lLynehburg Virgnan.
LARGE BETS Achilles ID Johnson. Esq. Of
this vicinity, brought to town, few days ngo
dozen Turnip Beets Weighing, in the aggregate 1859
lbs. Average weight Isl lbs. The largest beet
weighed ~ and the smallest lOi lbs. A specimen
is at this offce.-Ib.
We learn from the Boston papers that Ellsworth.
the pedestrian. who undertook TO perform tho ex
traordinnry task OF walking one thousand miles in
one thousand successive hour, was in good health
and spirits on Tuesday last. lie has already walk
ed between SIX and seven hundred miles, and will
complete his feat on Wednesday. the 5.h OF Octo-
Der, at o'clock, A NJ.
A man in ST. Petersburg has been sentenced by a
military commission 10 receive COCO lashes, and il
he survives, to be sent to Siberia for ife lie never
will go to Siberia! lie should have been hung or
shot at once. The crime for which this punishment
IS inflicted, was the assassination of Prince
There is no capital punishment in Russia
Col. Johnson of kentucky is to attend coon
skin and hard cider celebration OF the battle q the
Thames, by the Tory Democrats, a: Danville, Pa.
on the 5;h.
Property to the amount OF a million of dollars
is held by an Americans in the Sandwich Islands
One Yankee owns two thousand acres of land un>
der good cultivation. a SNUG little farm we should
think
The import duties At Philadelphia for the second
quarter OF the present year, amounted to 1917, $50.
The Editor Of the Enquirer is still harpng nm the
"Plo." Poor old gentleman he is so completely
horror stricken a. the conduct Of the Wings that he
scarcely knows what he is ebout-and il Is IN con-
slderation OF his p,able situation that we forgive
him for the compliments which he pays u.s. We |
have no! the hear. to quarrel with one whose con-
diton cells for the pity Of the humane and chart |
hble.-GPet. Init
A FAILURE.-The Carlisle Pa. He aid Of the
2lsl says-"We learn from Lancaster, that the |
great Buchanan moe,ing-the call for which was |
signed by seventeen hundred names, copied probi |
bly, from tomb stones-proved TO DO q fiilursl We |
are assured that it could scarcely DO called ward
meeting!
Brc BUsMEss-The Post Master General has
ordered the Post Master at Greenfield, Mass, TO
transfer the advertising Of the list OF letters from
Wing 10 Locoioco paper, in that viagei The
job is worth 1920 por ann.
One Of the most digniod questions we have me,
with for long time, wss that put by the mousing
Captain 10 Mr. Roberts-"flow many CLAW men
are there in the Philadelphia Custom Housel"
IL the Editor OF the Enquirer does no. End nj,
new humbug hue-and cry Of "Repsal" an ugly
customer, We shall be mistaken.
The Grcenvillo S. c. Mountaineer, says-Ws
learn by letters and travellers that Congesiive and
Bilious fevers. OF malignant character, arc very
prevalent in the middle Districts Of this State com
prisng parts Of Abboville, Laurens, Newterty.
Union, York, and others in the same latitude.