Monongalia mirror. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1855, 1853-07-23
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7 ~ On tho Island Of Martha's
Vineyard there has not been q crimi-
nal case in any of its courts for eigh-
teen years /! couple another fact with
that: during the time not glass of
liquor has been sold on the Island.
Mr.. Michael Price, of Harper's Fer
ny, has been appointed route agent
on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,
vice A. G. Stabler, removed.
The Chinese dramatic company
which recently performed in the cit
les is now at New York in great dis.
tress, the speculation having proved
o losing one.
If a man during fifty years chews
every day two inches of solid plug.
it will amount at tho end of the half
century to 6,366 feet, OR mile and
quarter of solid tobacco, half an
inch thick and two inches broad.
A bear weighing FIVE hundred
pounds gross, was killed in Hamp-
shire county q few days ago, by Mr..
Francis c. Murphy. Its hind foot
weighed one pound and fourteen oun-
ces-and measured in length 10 in
ches. %f.t tn.
Throughout the whole Of Virgin
ia, where internal improvement have
penetrated. there has been a great
advance in the price of lands. In
many counties, particularly in the
West, the advance has been from so
to 100 per cent.
The average yield Of tea is about
one hundred and twenty pounds to
the acre. The average cost of pro.
ducing pound of tea is seventeen
cents. -
In Somerse,shire England boy
under ten years old has been commit
ted for wilfal murder, by pushing a.
mother child into river.
A quick workman can make thirty
flour barrels day. A single barrel
has been made in seven minutes aud
q half.
A lad, or girl of fifteen years of
age, may be bought in the interior of
Africa for four yards of Manchester
cotton: value,sixpence. 7a
We overheard the following ftag-
ment of conversation, the other day,
on board the Alida:-"I met Lord
Ellesmere and his party at Niagara,
the other day. Iknew the ladies were
persons Of distinction the moment l
saw them, because they wore no jew
elry. nor any other ornament whatev-
er!" -e5g !''-
Strawberry baskets arc worth half
q cent each. The quantity Of straw
berries sold in New York, this sea-
son, is estimated by the Herald to
have been two millions and quarter
baskets, or three hundred thousand
quarts. The money expended in
Strawberries this year was about one
hundred and twenty thousand dollars.
Ridicule is more potent than prisons.
To check duelling, nothing more is ne
cessary than to make the survivor drive
night-soil cart Tor the next six months.
A novel dental operation was perform.
ed a, Allentown, Penn, by two Of the
resident physicians one day last week.
Il was the extraction Of thee fangs from
the mouth of q large raltlesnake. Before
commencing the extraction, chloroiorm
was administered until the snake was
wrapped in slumber, when the teeth were
drawn without difficulty.
On Monday spirited debate took place
in the New York Legislature on the Maine
liquor law bill, which was finally refused
third reading. The Legislature adjourn
ed yesterday sine die. -.
The Declaration of Independence was
written in the parlor on the second floor Of
the brick house at the north west corner
Of Market and Seventh streets, Phlladel.
phia. So says Mr.. Jefferson, its immortal
author, in letter of his lately published,
The house once occupied by VIM. Penn
is still standing in Philadelphia.
b Gold Attachcd.-A lump Of gold
said to be worth $4,000, the arrival Of
which at Trenton, IN. J.) recently crea:
ated some little sensation, was attached
in tina, city on Friday for board bill Of
thirty dollars.
A Floating Liquor Shop.-The Boston
Transcript states that a slooP, with a
house upon it, has been anchored between
Apple and Deer Island, for the purpose Of
supplying parties up and down the harbor
with spirituous liquors. This is the lat
est continuance TO evade the new liquor
law. s3iV 5000.
A band Of s,rolling Gipsies were at
Washington Pa. at the last dates, telling
fortunes. selling their. willow baskets, ira.
ding, sc. They are better dressed and
have better vehicles and horses than or.
binary. According TO their own account
they cmigra.ed from Lancashire, Eng
land. 7er tla