Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-10-02
VOL. NO 49.


region Of Neuvitas, lat high prces,say from eighty
five dollars for hens Of legitimate fame IL as high
as one hundred and thirty six dollars for cocks Of
good blood
REArERs. Some idea of the progress Of agricul-
tnrc in the United States may be gained from the
fnot that upwards of fifteen thousand renpine ma
chimes have been manufactured and sold in this
country, during the present year. The cost oil
these amounts to about two aud half millions oi
dollars.
FINE SrooK-ltis stated that at the late Agri-
cultural Fair in Ohio $4,000 were offered and re-
fused for one of the bulls exhibited Another was
held Mt $4,000 and two others nt $1,000 each.-
Tho owner Of COW also refused nm offer of $ls0O
There eleven imported bulls exhibited, the
aggregate value of which amounted to S25,200,&
ten cows valued at Sl2,40o
A GuANo COMPANY has been formed in New
York, with capital of 5l0,000OO0. They pro
fess to wn an ieand in the Pacific, covered with
a deposit of over two hundred million tons of am
noniatcd guano, and TO have despatched ship
with men to take possession Of it. They further
sny they expect 10 sell the first year 100000 tons,
Mt $50 tom out of which they will realize profit
of s2. 400 900. These expectations, however. are
vet to be realized.
pERnous JUMP. VIM. Gossman,a German bur
rlnr in New York robbed a house of 5000 worth Of
iewelry, on Sunday night, aud being alarmed by
Tho inmates jumped out Of the third story window
The rolce found him under tho window, with his
leg badly fractured, md took him to the hospital,
where the broken limb was ampuinted.
NEW ENGLANp's DEAp.-From the Boston
Courier we leurn TINT the trustees of Mount Au-
barn Cemetery hnvo made contracts with dsfin-
enishcd artists for the execution Of four monu
mental statues Illustrative Of the history of Mas
snchnsetts to be placed in the chapel now in pro-
cess of re construction in the Cemetery. They
will represent Governor Winthrop, James Otis.
John Adams nnd Judge Story. The statue of
Winthrop will be by Richard Greenough, and the
model of it already made represents sitting fig
nre in the costume of the colonial times, with
hands folded on the churter and brond seal which
rest across the knee. The attitude and express
sion nro described M grave, dignihed, and almost
devotional; most appropriate department The
statue Of John Adams is already exccuted that
of james Otis will be by Thomas Crawford, and
TINT Of Judge Story by his son, VIM. W. Story.
Adams aud Otis being magsteral personages
will be represented sitting
AYANREG QuEEN"-in our Tuesdays paper,
says the Charleston Courier, we copied an article
with this hending, which contains some errors Of
fact and statements likely to give rise to erron-
eous inferenoes. LUCIEN MuRAT is the Prince
most likely to become King of Naples but he Is
mol tho Florida planter. His brother AoHILLE
resided and died there soma years ago. Madame
AenIlE il ut present in the vicinity Of iallahas-
sec, and is Virginia lady The Princess Lu-
! CHEN MuRA1, who was alluded to as The Yankee
| Queen" il also an American. She. however,
comes not from Yankee Land,nor the Everglades
of Florida, but from own city of Charleston,
| Should she become Queen of Naples, we are as
sured she would grace the position. and COM
mand the same respect and admiration which is
now accorded her in Paris, as the Princess MU-
/ RAT.