Monongalia mirror. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1855, 1854-06-03
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Judge Rogers, of Boston, on Saturday
decided that it was criminal to steal UNI
brellas. .sa
Nearly every independent press il
Kentucky is out against John ]. Crilten'
den for volunteering in defence of Ward
No less than 262 persons were killed
and 624 wounded, by railroad accidents
in the United States, during the year o.
1853. .s.i u
!. The summer days are coming on the
brightest of the year, and awful bawls fol
summer shawls, and linnen coats We hear
Don't leave your friction matches ouI
loose over night, for the mice come out &c
comb their hair with them, and may SCI
the house on fire.
Every Family ought to have news
paper, il is what they owe to their children
lifnothing else. Who wishes his children
to grow up. in ignorance in order TO save
the price ofa newspaper?
In the counties of Virginia bordering
upon the Potomac and Rappahannock, the
wheat crop never loked more promising
than at present. ..,..r-r
The census of 1850 shows that in
Pennsylvania there is one clergymen to
every $50; one lawyer to every 924, and
one physician to every 52s inhabitants.
Our boy William, who believes that
England and France will eventually be-
tray Turkey, says that they are "stuffing''
Turkey, that they may have good feast
off of it when prepared.
A man who hired himself out to the
sheriff Of Franklin Parish, La, 10 olficiate
as hangman, was seized by mob, beaten.
kicked, tarred and feathered, besides be-
ing relieved Of an ear.
a solution Of iodine is reported by NJ.
Bernard, of the Academy Of Science Of
Paris to be an antidote 10 the venom of
the bite or sting Of serpents.
There are now residing in San Fran.
cisco near 1900 colored persons, who
own property to the amount of $l,000,-
900. Generally speaking, they are civil
and industrious. ef''z i
Recent letters. from Tahiti state that
drunkenness and debancheFy now reign
in that once beautiful island, upon which
the French forced their priests and BRAN
dy at the cannon's mouth. l9a'
Astonisling.-It is really wonderful
how we can have-even in summer-any
calm days in Gotham. where SO many are
constantly engaged in 'Taising the wind"
Judge Morris, of the Supreme Court,
who presided at the rumsellers' meeting
in Metropolitan Hall, some time since is
said to be dangerously i'll with an affection
of the heart. t
An Hiberian applying for licence was
asked by the sapient Alderman ifhe pos
sesspl q good moral character. "Faith,
yer honor, ,"repies the apPlicant,"1 don't
see The necessity for good moral charac-
ter 10 sell rum"
Mr.. Benjamin Snow, while driving on
the Fourth Avenue at an excessive rate,
ran over a girl ~ years old, named Irene
Winchell, injuring her severely, for
which she recovered damages, on Tuesday
last, to the amount of$4, 900.
Which is the most dangerous, the con-
tents ofa gun barrel, or the contents of
the whisky barrel! Referred to the
Bungtown Debating Society.
Soap for Mouse Hozes.-A lump of
hard soap is the best thing to stopa mouse,
rat cockroach or ant hole. Dirty brutes
of all kinds have an antipathy for soap.
Judge Thompson, of the Marine Court,
has decided that hackney coaches enga-
ged in the conveyance of passengers are
liable for the loss Of baggage belonging to
such passengers.
A wealthy farmer, aged 10, residing
near Pittsburgh, Pa, has been ordered to
pay S1,5oo to young lady for breach
Of marriage promise.
Nev TTtlch Mission.-The Western
Christian Advocate announces the COM
mencement, by the Methodists of the
Wyoming Conference, of a new mis-.
sion for the WEIGH population in Car.
bondale, Pa.
We learn from the Providence Post
that Rev. Uriah Clark, well known as a
Universalist clergyman in that city, has
dissolved bis connection with that denom-
ination, and become preacher ofmodern
spiritualism.
We learn that forty-four persons were
admitted TO the First Reformed Pres.
byterian Church Pittsburgh THE Rev.
John Douglas's) at communion held
on last Sabbath the 18th inst, making
one hundred and seven during the year.
| II is rather remarkable that one hun.