Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1845-04-24
A THRILLING scRSr.--In frankfort,

some business with young physician OF
that town. Calling al his house, he was
informed that the doctor had gone out but
would soon return. He concluded 10
wait, and 20 pass the time more ngreea.
bly,, as he thought, went into the young
physician studio, aud there he found
student, with scalpel in hand, in the act
OF dissectiDg dead body. He started
back at tIrst view, as people generally do
when suddenly coming into the presence
of the dead. Recovering from his sur
prise, he stepped towards the corpse
which the student was cutting, and found
the dead body to be that OF his wife, bur-
led three days before His feelings may
/ be imagined, but cannot be described
| The husband Immediately took legal
measures against both student and doc
tor. They were examined and bound
over TO answer for the crime OF carrying
away aud dlssecting dead bodies.
NEWSPAPER DrBrs. The conduct OF
some men who call themselves honorable,
ia regard 10 debts of this description, is
infamous. Means are sometimes resoned
TO for evading their payment which are
shameful. Whea man, after regularly
receiving the paper FOR years, pleads that
he only intended TO take it for one year,
and viii not pay for longer tine, aad
when another avals hia:self Of the statue
of limitations, in bar OF just claim, we
feel disposed to gazette these bankrupts
in integrity and expose them to the score
OF honest people. Taere is no m ney
more hardly earned than the Subscriptions
TO newspapers, and il is shame Tor any
man, who is able, to hesitate to discharge
his account whea demanded. - RaisigA
Register.
j A YANKEE GovERNoR.---Gov: Briggs.
Of Massachusetts, lsays the New York
| True San) is hale, fresh looking man,
Of some five and forty years, whose col
laaess neck and leather string brogans
would mark him in a crowd any where.
| He has a light blue eve and well formed
mouth, the corners Of which indicate a
strong love Of fun--a striking trait in his
character. No man enjoys joke better
and nobody tells better story than he.
Like most good story tellers, be posses.
SEES fine powers Of Rtmcry. We have
seen him keep room full Of persons con-
vulsed with laughter by iae hour togeth-
er, wita bis admirable mimicry OF the last
nights of Congress. In his public address.
SEES however, this humorous vein of his
mind is scarcely apparent at all; ond from
being in social hfe one of the most jovial
OF men, he IS in his public character one
of the most serioas and digni6ed. Gov.
Briggs i, entirely a selfmade man. He
says of hinase'f that he received his d.
ploma in a blacksmith shop, aud il is
evden, that he has been forging his for
tune by hard work ON liie's anvil ever
since.
ANCIENT CONS. ~ great treasure has
lately been discovered in Scotland, cacu-
lated 10 excite tho cupldity of antiquari.
ans. The Edinburgh HatneSs Of late
date stetes that poughman whilst az
worS OBJ the farm OF Phliphaugh, near
Seiklrk, came upon bag OF silver coins,
bured bout nine inches below the surface,
which are described as follows: There
are about 300 COINS, all dated in 1900,
and 30 tho beginning Of 1000. Most Of
them are rather larger than FIVE shilling
piece. and vary in size down to about a
sinking /; many oil The reigus of Elizabeth.
James and Charles. The larger ones
are chiefly Austrian. French and Spanish,
and several not legible. As the bag con.
, taiuiGg them was found on ground that
, had never been ploughed before, and near
. to where the battle took place on Philip.
! haugh, between Montrose and Leslie in
. 1916, il is conjectsred. says the Witness,
that this money was attended for Mon
, lrose's troops, and concealed or thrown
! away at the defeat Of Moutrose. as men.
toned by Sir Walter Scott, in his notes
: 10 the song ofthe Battle OF Philphaogh.'
, IN his Border Minstresly.
DEATH OF TUE OLDEST MAN IN YER
MoNr.--On the 2lst ult. Mr.. Benjamin
Bushe died al Greensborough. at the ex-
traordlnary age OF one hundred and fifteen
years. He was a native oil Old Swanzew,
r Mass. and formerly resided is this town.
S We have no account OF any person in
e Vermont attaining beyond 100 years oil
e sge.--V. Watchmaa.
+ "The London Times" circulation
{ reaches over 10000 cop es daily. One
, OF them contained ll40 advertisements.
, ihe duty on which TO government umoun-
ted to 500, and the price to the propde.
tors $500.
The Governor of Maryland has ap-
pointed George L. Richardson, ESQ,
Attorney General OF that State, in the
room of Josiah Bailey, Esq, resigned.
II is said that Mr.. Calhoun is about 10
publish work on the political men and
measures of his day.
CANAL VS.. RArLKoAD.-Last year
irom louisville l0,695 tons Of coal vent
down by The canal, and 93,Ss3 tons by
railroad. Old Col. Stevens Of Hobuken
said an 1919 That Railroads would carry
ten times the produce that canals would
accommodate.
HEssIAN FLY IN THE WHARF.-The
Milledgevlle {Ga.) Journal of the 25t1