Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1845-04-24
Nowso Politics. &c.

Nowso Politics. &C.
CHICKEN STATISTICS. According to
Button, hen properly fed and attended,
will produce in one year upwards OF $50
eggs, besides rearing two broods of chick
ems. Mr.. Mount, Of England, says that
well fed hen will produce from 10 TO
IT'S eggs in year. According to the
latter statement, one hundred hens would
yield in one year $4,000 eggs, and from
one thousand 10 twelve hundred chickens.
We find it stated in an agricultural work,
that an importation has recently been
made from Holland, Of kind of hens,
called everlasting hens. They are small,
lay every day, and their eggs are less ID
size, and not so nutritious or substantial
as those of the common hen. Such a
consequence seems obviously unavoida-
Bile. There is kind OF hens called the
Boobies" which are more than three
times the common size--soms Of them
weighing 10 lbs., and another kind called
the "Bucks County Hens" They are
prolific layers, and produce eggs weigh.
iEg over three and haif ounces, and
measuring three inches 10 circumference.
GEN. JACKSON. Isaac Hill, Of New
Hampshire, who has lately been on Wis
it to Gen. Jackson. gives thu following
account of the present cond ton Of that
old patriot:
81 found Gen. Jackson better in health
than expected; yet SO weak, fix were
any other man, could scarcely suppose
he would live a week. For the last four
months he has not attempted to take his
customary meals with the family. He
sits through the day IN we'll constructed
easy chair, with his writing materials his
miniature bible and hymn book before
him. To him are brought as soon as the
mail arrives, the newspapers; and during
the four days tarrled al the Hermitage,
his first inquiry was for the daily Wash.
layton newspapers and the letters bear
ing the post. mark of the capital. His
complaint is pulmonary; one lobe Of the
lungs he believes to be entirely consum-
ed. This condition is shown by the
shortnesS of breath, which almost entire.
Is precud~s The benefit Of personal exer-
else. W hen he moves it is so quietly as
to produce no disturbance. His feet and
ankles are swollen from continued sitting
and he finds a substitute for sau,ary ex.
ercise only in the bathing Of his limbs ev.
cry evening in those emoien,s calculated
| to produce healthy action Of the skim
W eak as he is, he shaves with his own
hand, aud combs and adjusts the ample
gray hair which continues to add to the
dignity Of his appearance"
Among the various means Of attaining
sud lien wealth ia this county, the discov-
cry Of "a popular patent" medicine has
often proved sjngularly successful. A
letter from New York, published in the
Charleston Courier, cites various exam.
plies IN pc mt:
BRANpRErn, with his pills. has risea
| form poor man to be a man OF extensive
fortune. He has now al Sing Sing three
story factory for grinding his medicines.
Aloes are cated into It by tie ton, and
whole cargoes ofthe pills are despatched to
every part of the Union, and down every
body's throat. He has expended thirty
| fue thousand dollars in a single year Tor
advertising. CoMSrocK began with no.
thing, but by crowdlng his patent medl-
cines, has been able TO purchase one of
/ the first houses IN Union Place, and gives
magnificent sofees, suppers, &c. MOI
IFAr, adding bitlers to his pills, hiss run up
handsome fortune Of ueatly $500 600.
SHERMAN, taking the lozeuges Inc, has
emerged from his little shop in Nassau
street, into buyer Of lots ard houses by
the wholesale. need not mention
SWAIN, of Philadelphia, who, by pouring
his panacea into peoples stomachs, can
afford 10 buy single pearl head-band fol
his daughter worth 500, Oo0-so prove
that we are a pill eating and bitter drink.
ing people. Your literary man will starve
in his garnet, while your pill maker will
emerge from his garret into palace.
Mr.. Fralinghuysen sad, before the
election, II would rather retain the posi-
ton now hold in this Sunday School,
nv Young friends, than be chosen Vice
President Of the United States"
And Henry Clay spoke, IN the Senate,
{ that other sentiment-one OF the nobest
ever uttered by man 81 had rather DC
right than be President.
A LARGE 1AT.--A Halter in New
York has had an immense hat manuiac-
tured, which he carts about the streets
,LIth a knnA II ,n,nsic made of II. IL IL o