Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1846-10-01
News OF the Day.

mile, in one thousand successive quarters OF
an hour. This feat Is considered to be more
difficult Of accomplishment, than that Of walk
ing one thousand miles in one thousand hours.
DIsTEMpER AMONG THE PoULTRY.--The
Star (Blooklyn) says that singular disease
has broken out among the poultry at South
Hampstead, destroying great numbers. The
poor chickens huddle together and die simulla-
neously by scores.
YEAS AND NAYs.-We learn from the Jour
nal Of Congress that the yeas and nays at the
late session were called 500 times. This is
equal TO about three hundred hours, or sixty
working days for Congress, and at s. per day
for 22i members Of the House, the expense to
the nation was over one hundred thousand dol
lars.
II is said that the result or certain expert
ments at Portsmouth eng has been to show
that cannon ball will go clear through an
iron vessel, and that orders have been given
by the Admiralty TO suspend the building VI all
such vessels for the navy.
New USE FOR PoTAToEs.-A French man.
ufacturer has succeeded, (afier years labor)
in producing excellent paper and paste board,
from substance separated from the potato
The process is secret.
HYMEN Busy AT LowELL.---No less than POI
female operatives have been married in Low
ell during the past year.
Major General TAYLOR has been elected a
member Of the New York State Society Of the
Cincinnati. 1t is an honor but seldom granted
and rs therefore the more valuable.
NAVIGATION OF THE CoLuMBA--The Lon
don Times, in review Of the course Of MIR.
Polk on the Oregon question--which, by the
way, is any thing but complimentary 10 that
nctionary--contends that the free navigation
of the Columbia has been yielded TO the Hud-
son Bay Company by the treaty, not, as the
Union contends, for term Of years, but in
perpetuity. 1.-The Hudson Bay Company
(the Times says,) is permanent corporation,
nearly two centuries old; and the navigation
of the Columbia is secured to it, and TO all
British subjects trading with il, in perpetuity !"
II will be seen, therefore, that the treaty con-
tains the germ ofanother controversy.-Rich
Wig.
A WHoPpER-TheO Ohio State Journal says
that there is woman lila Pickaway county,
Ohio, who weighs AGA pounds! She cannot
dispose of herself in less than Two chairs, and
would fill three pretty we'll She usually
sleeps ia large chair that she had made for
that purpose, not being able TO sleep in bed.
Too YOUNG TO MAgRY-A lad of 70 mar
ried a little girl of72, IN Worcester, on the 10th
inst. Where Were there mothers and fathers,
that such carvings on were allowed
MAGsIFicENr WINpows-The great Dry
Good Store OF Mr.. STEWART, in Broadway
New York, has, in front, two windows, each
consisting OF single plate of glass, six feet
broad, by eleven feet two inches high. There
are windows of four panes OF massive plate,
in frames OF iron. Everything is on scale OF
equal magnificenUe.
New AND VALUABLE DIscovERY.-Catch a
rat in wire trap, keep him until night. Then
procure preparation Of phosphorus in OIL
Apply il all over the rat. except his head, and
turn him loose into his hole. Such scamper-
ing and getting out of the house as occurs. as
his phosphurescent majesty pursues his alarm
cd friends who he is anxious TO overtake, afford
certainly a security against the return Of the
depredaiors Tor long season. Try II, We who
doubt.
NATURAL CURIosiTy.-Among the curiosi-
ties at the late New York State Fair, wee
three fine calves by one cow, native, who
are each marked with the same spots in every
particular, even 10 a minute white spot on the
head, behind the ears.
A soldier by the name of RIsG, by birth
from the old Granite State, New Hampshire, J
was among others of the same regiment Ohe
Sd infantry advancing TO 60 his best in the
action, when he came to the rear Of the ar,ille
nv that Capt MAY was changing on. Some OF
III hot fha n
touched the quick match with his port-fire,
when RING ran up and pulled the match from
the cannon before it had burnt to the powder.
This gallant feat was performed in sight of a
thousand Mexicans; and, in so doing, i; is
estimated be saved at leas; fifty lives, as Capt.
NAYS squadron was within one hundred and
fifty yards Of the mouth Of the cannon at the
time. The cannon was loaded with grape
shot
New KIND OF BUsTIE.-Mrs STRurz's
work domestic Residence in Switzerland"
has the following sentence: Sin order TO ease
the labor of milking the cows, the maids sit on
little low stools, which they carry about with
them, ready strapped TO their persons. produ-
cling an effect more characteristic than poeti-
CAL"
A Young man, having attended a silent
Quaker meeting, was asked by one of the
Friends, 'How did'st thou like the meeting?'
To which he pettishly replied, Like lt?--
Why can see no sense in 1t; to go and SIT
for whole hour together without speaking a
word. 1t is enough to kill the devil" Yea,
my friend" replied the Quaker, 'that is just
what we want"
No PAY-No PApER.--The editor Of the
Western Citizen (Chicago,) weekly paper,
suspends the publication when the money
does not come In We find the following no.
tice in the last ssue:-"After one weeks sus-
pension we resume our publication. The is
sue offs paper next week will depend upon
the amount Of money received during the pre-
sent week. We repeat, We cannot go any
more into debt"
SOMETHING FOR OLp BAcnELoRs..-"Ihe
three most beautiful words in the English
Language are Mother, Home and Heaven"
The above was cut from an exchange paper.
A young married man, at our elbow. says that
all the beauty and happiness connected with
the above three words, are associated with the
single word WIFE.
LosGEvIrY IN HORSES The Marquis OF
Rarnecoix has Just lost an Arab mare. by
death which was sixty three years old, but
(which IF course had long been useless, MIR.