Monongalia mirror. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1855, 1852-08-21
THE World in a Nutshell.

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~ Cassius NJ. Clay continues very
sick at Whitehall, Ky.
E1y' There arc q 900 miles Of Tel
cgnph in the United States.
EV Packages arc already arriving
at New York for the Worlds fair.
E.Y GAINESVILLE, O., has been visited
by the Cholera but few deaths.
Maryville, California, hast a pop
ulation $500, and only 243 females.
.g ThcStaunton Temperance Con-
vcntion adopted the Maine Law plat
form.
u AT Rochester, on Saturday last.
there were 13 Cholera cases and s
deaths.
70 The number ofimmigrants who
arrived in New York in July was
15l,S0l.
~ California will raise more bar
ley this year than any other state in
the Union.
D BY tho assessors report thcro
were in Kentucky, in last January.
ssO,793 hogs.
- Mrs. Gen. Taylor died at East
Pascagoula, La, on Saturday night,
the l4th inst.
~ A mob in Cincinnati recently
attacked a Powder Magazine, Destroy
ing $4,000 worth Of powder.
70 Robert Rantoul, member of
Congress from Massachusetts, died in
Washington on tho Sth inst.
IL Louis Napoleon is having his
bust placed in the public markets of
Paris, with imposing ceremonies.
70 There is letter in the Bali.
more P. o., addressed to "AIodcsty."
There being no claimant it has been
advertised.
E:Y The steamer City of Glasgow
sailed from Philadelphia on the 18th
inst, with 300 passengers and $4,000
for Liverpool.
70 Hon. John ]. Crittendcn is to
dclivera discourse in Louisville, Kv.,
on the life, character and public ser
vices of Henry Clay. -
70 Tho Queen Of Spain attended
e Bull.fght on the ,l,h ult., IL. which
fourteen bulls were killed. She must
posses refined taste.
~ Matthew Graves, orNTryland.
recently walked 2s miles to procure
liccnsc'to marry his fifth wife. He is
only seventy years ofage.
!V"I have turned many wo-
mans head" boaslcd young noble.
man Of France !" yes" replied
Tallcyand, away from you"
u 4 young physician asked per.
mission OF lady t" Hiss her, she re-
piled, "No, sir. never like to have
a doctors bill thrust in my face"
~ There arc. in Liberia, 1000
communicants inthe Christian church.
cs, more than 1900 children in Sun.
day Schools, and l,2oo in day schools.
l% The number of letters deliver
cd weekly in England, under the pen.
ny postage system is six millions be.
fore the average was not over three
millions.
S" What ire You looking after
my DEAR" said a very aacc,io,atc mo-
,hcr to her only daughter, who ro-
piled, Looking after son-in.law for
father"
E:5 Atlhe close Of 1851. the length
ofrailroad in England was $500 miles;
persons employed on the railroads,
LOG, sol; capital Of the companies,
S2l0,270,7l6.
Ia Stephen Dicks, living in Clarks-
burg, Va, heard the original Dccla-
ration Of Independence read from the
State House steps in Philadelphia in
l77G, being then II years old.
II a man popping his head into
tailor's shop window cxclaimed,-
What o'clockis it by your lapboard!'
upon which the tailor took him q rap
over tile head with it, saying, cit has
Just struck one"
gY Mrs. Partington, in illustration
of,hc proverb that "a soft word turn
eth away wrath,' says that "t is hot
ter to speak paragorical of person
than to he all the time ilinging cpl
taps ut him; for no good never comes
to nobody tha, never speaks no good
of no one.
EsP Since the commencement of
the year, New York city has cxpcnd.
ed, for the alms.housc, 100000;
cleaning streets, $lj9,sll l6; lamps
and gas $l67902 80; public salaries
Sl29,S66 IS; police S353,753 3s;
public printing, $l3,955 IS; fire dc.
partmcnt, SOL ,G2G 81.
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