Monongalia mirror. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1855, 1853-04-23
ALL SORTS OF ITEMS.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
now ship daily 200 tons oI
freight eastward from Wheeling.


i, freight eastward from Wheeling.
ii The scholar who fell into a reve,
:. ie' last week, was Immediately take
d out, and it is said will reeover.
. . The Congressional and other elec
y tions in the State of Virginia, will tax
place on the 26th Of May, that beinI
the fourth Thursday of the month.
Ifyou don't wish to get angry. nev
er argue with blockhead. Rcmcm
= ber, the duller the razor the more yo,
+. cut yourself.
!. ! There has been some large auction
sales of real-estate in New Orleans a
fully IS per cent. in advance on tn
prices obtained last year.
+ When ever you see man spending
histime lounging about the streets talk
ing politics, you need not expect tha
he has any money to lend.
The President, by and with the ad-
vice and consent Of the Senate, has ap.
pointed the celebrated Kit Carson to ar
indian Agency in and for New Mexico
Iii is stated that the President of the
Virginia and Tennessee Railroad has
recently received an order from Eng
land for two hundred tons Rockbridge
Pig Iron! This is somewhat rever-
sing the order of trade.
"Would yon like to subscribe for
Dickens Household Words 7" inqui-
! red a sombre magazine agent
Household words have played the
dickens with me long enough" !" was
the feeling reply. The agent abscon-
ded.
Rev. Samuel R. Griffith, who was
tried before the NJ. E. Conference,
which sat at Hagerstown, Maryland,
charged with breach of promise of
marriage, was expelled from the Con-
ference aud communicated from
the Church.
Somebody said that the illustrious
Barnum had the consumption and was
seriously i'll. He very promptly de-
MES the statement and says that, ex-
cept most voracious appetite, he has
no consumption at all nor never had,
s95 tspdde Aot ha -hef 'Orsw.ns faarr
own trumpet"
Rev. Dr.. Wayiand, president Of
Brown University, has been examining
the table tipping experiments, usually
attributed to electricity or spirits. He
decides that :: is moi electricity, but
thinks il is governed BY some heretofore
undiscovered law oi nature.
Speaking of Mr.. Fillmore and his
administration, tho Alabama Tribune,
an able Democratic print, says
awe feel for him much respect, with
out warmth, and are glad to write on
The last week Of his administration the
best compliment we know ot-that he
he has done nothing for himself but
all for the duties he was entrusted with"
There are among the colored peo.
ple Of Philadelphia. nineteen places
Of worship; of which nine are Mclho'
dist, FIVE Baptist, three Presbyterian,
and two Episcopal
The aggregate cost ofthe churches
of the colored people in Philadelphia,
has been probably seventy-fve or
hundred thousand dollars. This has
been mostly contributed by themselves
and their white brethren have shown
very little disposition to assist them.
MI. King, as Vice President Of the
United States. took the cath Of Office,
administered by the Hon. WI. shar-
kew, United States Consul at Havana,
at The plantation of Mr.. Chautrande,
,riadne,) near Matanzas, on the Oath
MIR At l2 o'clock. There were pres
ent at the ceremony The Hoa. George
W. Jones, mcmbc.' OF the House from
Tennessee, several American gentle.
men from Havana, and G few Span
iards and Creoles, in all about Is per.
sons. Mr.. Kings health las not i'm
proved, andhc will coon return to the
United States. He would probably
!haye improved had he submit on.
liz to the ameliora,a,g influences of,he
climate, aoitlout sub lection to the Gu
gar.lousc steam baths.
A SERMON MANurAcToRY:-ln In Eng
land, some persons are constantly en-
ploy,d in writing sermons to sell ts
clersymen. The following advertise.
ment appeared in late number OF 'oh'
Bull:
Many young ministers, from the pa
rochial business, and from inexperienc'
,, in composition, being sometimes obl'ge'
very much against their inclination, AM
to tie serious injury Of the ministry, T.
copy sermons from books, the ADVERT
ser, an experienced clergyman engage
to supply original sermons, ofgood com
,osition. decided Evangelical doctrin