Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1845-10-02
Sunauaary of ILGonas.

The northern part Of Orleans county,
New York, was visited on The 20 un. by
a terrific tornado. It's track was 100 rods
wide and seventeen or twenty miles in
length. It's said that large forest trees
were twisted from their trunks and hurled
through the air like feathers; orchards
were Frustrated and many barns and hous-
es were blown down. Some Of the ubIesl
farmers in the county are said TO be ruin
ed, and many have sustained heavy losses.
A report was in circulation that woman
and her child had disappeared.
An enterpsng and thrifty butcher,
who caters for the delicate paates OF the
upper ten thousand" has built a large
and elegant house on Broadway, New
York, a little below Union Square, which
he occupies himselfln somewhate novel
way. The front part of the first story is
a dainty meat shop, with a.reading room
opening out of 1t handsomely fitted up
with easy chairs, sofas and mirrors, all
for the accommodation Of his customers.
REsURREcTIoNIsTs They aad some.
thing OF time at Buffalo, last week, the
result of information conveyed TO the pol.
ice that certain parties were carrying
on large business in the exhumsiion
and expectation of dead bodies. Proceed
ing TO house in Main street, the officers
found four bodies packed in barrels, and
arrested two sol disant doctors, named
Waterman and llovey, strangers in the
place, and cooper, calling himself Smith,
who subsequently made clean breast of
all he knew on,he subject. The substance
Of il was that Waterman hired him to as
slst in digging up the bodies, and that
they were intended for some institution
in Ohio. They put the bodies in casks,
with pickle, and were to forward them by
way Of Canada.-N y. Commercial.
A CHRISTIAN GOVERNOR IN PERsIA.-
A letter from the Rev. Mr.. Perkins to the
N. York Observer communicates the in.
ter sting fact that the Persian Government
has conceded to the oppressed Nesiorinns
Il Christian Governor. This IS Certainly
a remarkable circumstance. and must
prove in a high degree gratifying to the
Christian world. David Khan, Georgi.
an by birth, but Tor many years Persian
subject, and holding the rank Of Rriga.
der General in the Shah's army, is the
individual appointed.
ARREST OF A FUGITIvE.-On the ODD
ult., man named Hunter Hill was ares
ted on board the schooner Far, wing at
Rawson's Wharf, Brooklyn, my. char.
ged with having assassinatrd Major Rob
ert K. Smith, of Suffolk, NansemonG coun.
~, Va, and then fleeing TO New York
city.
CONNECTICUT. The last Legislature
adopted such measures, that hereafter cleo.
tions will be decided by pluralities, not
majoritIes. THIS viii put an end 10 the
importance of third parties.
A YooTHFUL DIVINE. - The Liverpool
papers state that youth only IL years
of age IS preaching IN that city, and that
he shamcs many of the Oxford aud Cam
bridge men in holy orders, by the power
Of eloquence be possesses.
1t is rumored ard believed that hon.
John G. Calhoun will be elected Senator
to Congress al the next meeting Of the
Legislature Of South Carolina.
A SUBSTITUTE FOR CoFFEE.--A letter
from gentleman 70 the Hon. II, l. Els
worth, Washington, says the ripe Sc IS Of
the plant okra, much used IN soup, &c,
burned and used as coffee, cannot be dis
tinguished from 1t, even the best Java
The seeds are sown an inch deep n drils,
four feet apart, IN May, and cultivated
ike corn or peas. II yields abundantly,
aud is very healthy. Mr.. L. has seeds.
DRUNKARD FoRBID TO MARRY.--The
Government of Valdez, IN Germany,
has prohibited the issuing of marriage
license to persons Of Incorporate habits.
Just ana humane.
MoRTUARY CHAMBER.-ln order to
guard ugains, premature inlerments there
IS attached to most Of the cemeteries ~
Germany hail where the dead remain
some time before being committed 20 the
ground. In this hall the body neatly at.
tired IS laid upon couch--beloCe the lips
is placed a mirror which the slightest
breath would cloud, and between the fin
gers string, which on the slightest move.
ment, causes a bell N lae department Of
the keeper to ring. This hall is visited
night and day hourly by vigilant inspec-
tors, and il is stated, that not year pas
ses that the bell is not rung by enc Of tho
supposed corpses. Similar precautions
should be adopted in every burial place in
America. lndisputable facts conolusively
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