The national whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1847, 1847-05-27
CITY ITEMS.

PUFF-PUFF, PuTF .-Ho We who love
the weed, who love TO see the curling smoke
just above your eyebrows, go to the depot on
the Avenue advertised in another column.
There you will find all sorts Of prime segars
from the Norma up to Isabella. And snuff
too oh, but he's up 10 the best snuff. And
his mouth pieces are done up with perfect su.
gar-so say those who indulge in these bonnes
bouches. Try, we say, this store and you'll be
sure to try it again.
Cows, Cows, Cows.-If there is pest
in this city, it is the cows, il is the cows,-but
poor things, they are always halfstarved. and
their owners are too stihgy to provide for their
wants. They 60 about and congregate near
where they can see a lot of green grass and
then set up such lowing as to shock the
nerves of tie whole neighborhood. This hap
pens not only in the day but in the silent shades
Of the night TO the annoyance Of all peaceable
honest and compromising people, while the
cow-neglecting folks sleep under the believing
of their starving beasts as though they neither
had ears or consciences, which last we sus
pect is the case. Why does not the council
make law to forbid the running at large Of
cows? They ought to do it al once if they
and lowing cows and any regard for peoples
rest and comfort.
i MARKETS, &c.-Prices of eatables are
beginning to find something like level with
peoples pockets, but they are yet too far above
the purses Of the laboring poor who make up
1 the mass Of society. Here are some them Of:
Beef 8 to IL cents pound; veal the same
lamb and mutton 8to 10 cents pound chick
ems, very scarce, from lS to 81 cents piece.
Wheat bread 5 cents for Is ounces rye bread
the same; corn meal 81 to 81 Is per bushe
Of 48 pounds; potatoes 81 to so cents peck
peas 81 cents peck strawberries rs TO 81
cents a quart early York cabbages IL cents
a head and small at that. Every thing else in
this proportion. Pork and lard is l2 cents 8
pound, and this swine growing region TOO
Wella-day--these prices can't always contin
ue. There's some comfort in that, even, if we
Gtarve in The interim. We had almost forgot
to say that butter is now from IS TO 81 cents
/ ADAMS & Co.'S ExPREss.-See advertise
ment in another column for particulars of re-
moval of this useful and go-ahead concern to
their new and spacious Office on the Avenue
between Cd and Sd streets. We are ready to
/ pit this establishment against any in the coun-
try for speed, prompli,ude and readiness 10
oblige. If we had the naming Of il we would
call it the Ph@ton Express from its swiflness
and punctuality. The intelligent and obliging
agent is always on hand TO accommodate the
public. May his shadow never grow less, aid
may the >silrer achcels of fortune continue to
clink in his ear until he is stated with their mu.
sic
Circuit Court. Mr. Bradley concluded his
argument, in the case of Sickle and Cook VS..
Alexandria, Georgetown, and Washington
Steam Packet Company, yesterday afternoon.
The jury did not agree on a verdict until this
morning when they found for the plaintiff
$500, with interest from the ninth of Novem-
Der lS45.
John G. Hardness survivor of Alexander
Shepherd vs.. B. F. Middleton. This is an ac-
ton on building contract. The plaintiff
erected a building for defendant, for which. the
contract stipulated, he should receive such sum
as should be deemed just by competent re-
ferees. The plaintiff received in part payment
house valued at $4,000 and $1,000 in cash, but
claims an additional allowance which claim the
defendant ressts. James M. Carlisle and HI.
H. Dent for plaintiff; Joseph H. Bradley and