Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1854-09-02
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New York Haven Register. that all Tie
members Of Congress from Missouri who
voted for the Nebraska bill al the recen
session of Congress, and who we've canui'
dates for re-eection--viz John >
Phelps. democrat, and Oliver, Lndiey'
and Miller, WhIgs-haye been success
full: while Thomas II. Benton. the only
member who voted against It, has bee"
totally defeated.
4 Novel PArExT.-We see il stated
that John NJ. Weare, OF Seabrook' n
IT,. has recently obtained a patent tor
holding cows tails during the operation
Of milking. The machine Is fastened to
one of tie animals ham strings, and the
tale is compressed. Mr.. Neare politely
STYLES his discovery the "miikcr's Protec-
tor"
DEsERTEp.-The body of an infant a
bout two years old was found wrapped mp
in a piece of flannel, lying upon the grass
plat in front of No. Charles street, New
York, on Friday morning. The lille III
nocent was duly cared for.
AFARMING IrEM.-Mr. James Gather,
of Hogc Creek, Frederick County, re-
Gently gathered from lIlde more than 30
acres of meadow, 76 bushels of timothy
seed, which brought him S2,75 per bush
ell This was an important saving. says
the Winchester Eirginian, and will atone,
TO some extent, for the failure of the corn
crop. When put through a threshlng
machine, but little injury, we are told, Is
done to the hay, while much seed may be
saved.
The wheat crop of Wisconsin is repor-
ted TO be abundant. The granaries OF the
farmers were never filled more PlentIiulIy,
The Mark Lane Gazette Of the goth
ult., states that the wheat crop in Spain
! Portugal and Italy Is excellent in HoI-
land and Germany, probably good, hut not
secured; and that the advices from the BAL
tic were favorable--the old stock, how
ever, exhausted.
The Nebraska orators in Indiana have
"a hard road TO travel" A democratic
candidate for Congress, recently made
speech To three or four hundred people.
After he had finished, vote was taken
on the Nebraska bill, and only one soil
lary individual voted IN It's favor.
The cars on the Menasses Gap Rail
road are expected to run to Front Royal
by the 18th inst.
At recent sale of slaves in Worcester
county, Md, an old woman, so years of
age, sold for 80 cents.
Marcelus A. Galaher, formerly OF
Charleslown, has been changed to a first
class cIerkship in the Sixth Auditors
Office, Washington, vice }. ChesIey Bro
naugh, transferred to the first Auditors
office.
The vote for Bragg, the Democratic
candidate for Governor in North Carolina
is $4,000, that OF Dockery, the whig can
didate, 10000. Bragg's majority $500.
A well informed New York editor esti-
mates the loss sustained by the perva-
ding drought, in that State, al twenty mil-'
lions of dollars, and IN the whole United
States at one hundred millions.
SERIOUSLY ILL.-We learn that Col.
Bissell, Of Illinois, Chairman of the Com
mirtee on Military Affairs in the last
House of Representatives, is lying dam
geronsIy i'll at Berkeley Springs, Va,
General Shields and other friends were III
attendance upon him.
VINO WOULDN'T BE A FATHER-Tbe
Utica Telegraph, OF Thursday evening,
contains the following brief but ominous
paragraph:
"Ha ! hal! ha -! It's a girl !"
The real estate of Jonathan Roland, de-
ceased, situated near the College Of st.
James, in Washington County, Md, and
containing 1917 acres, was sold last week
for $50 per acre, to Mr.. Joseph Gehr, Of
Berkeley County, Va.
The National IntelIigencer, speaking
of the resolutions recently passed at the
Virginia State Temperance Convention
says, it is creditabIe to the OLD Dominion
that the vice of incompetence has been
greatly diminished within the last ten
years but any body who knows any hing
of the character Of Virginia people must
/ be convinced that they will never be tenn
perale on compuLslon,
Great Fire at Troy.
A fire broke out at one O'Clock yesier-
day, and spread with irresistible fury ov-
er space equal 10 about eight blocks,
consuming, probably, not less than TWO