Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1855-06-23
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President i,irrmed 4 gentleman this even
ing, that Wilson, Commissioner Of the
General Len Office, Clayton, Second
Auditor, together with 100 clerks, were
10 be decaplated as fast as they can find
persons to take their places.
Ex-PREsIDENr FILLMoRE N ENGLAND.
We notice that some OF the English pa
pers have taken occasion, on Mr.. Fill
more's arrival in England, To Gcnouncc
him because he signed the fugitive slave
bill, and otherwise manifested his deter
minaton 10 enforce the provisions Of The
constitution, while lie was President of the
United States. Their strong anli-slavery
feeling blinds them to the courtesy due TO
stranger.
Still Coming. The Pitsburg Chronicle
says, great quantities Of wheat, flour, corr,
bran, &c, were deposited al our wharf this
morning by the incoming boats. The nea.
approach of harvest does not seem TO stop
the expectation from the granaries of the
West. This is well considered, for the days
of exhorbilant prices are about 10 close and
whoever finds himself with any consider
able quantity on hand week hence, may
expect to lose money.
SLAUGHTER OF LIVE STOCKTON the
Central Ohio Railroad, few nights ago,
the train run into a flock of sheep, killing
% or 30; soon after it came in contact
with drove of hogs and a flock of geese,
making considerable havoc among them,
and then ended It's mishaPs by running
over and killing two COWS, which threw
the locomotive and one car from the track. !
FATAL ACclDENT.--On Sunday morn
ing last, Mr. Henry Swgart, conductor !
on one of the tonnage trains on the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad, was thrown from
his train near the North Mountain depot,
and Instantly killed by two wheels of an
engine passing over his body. Mr.. Swi-
CART leaves large family. He was
worthy citizen. good officer, devoted to-
the interests of the company. and highly
esteemed by all who knew him.
A Horse of MIR. Lyman b. Brlttcu trot- :
ted in harness yesterday, At the Cam Y
bridge Park, the distance of sixteen miles Il
in ffty-cighl minutes and fifty seconds, !;
thereby winning a bet of $4,000. The
horse carried with him weight OF Ala
lbs, and accomplished his task with APP
parent ease.--B0StOn Journal. I
Ii is reported that the small pox is XII Il
ling off the Ossage Indians to an alarming /
extent-During the space OF two weeks, {
near two hundred died. When taken
with the disease they Immediately get IN
to the water and there lie until death ends
their lives.
The recent raiAs visited South and {
North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and t
Louisiana, Virginia, Maryland, PennSyl-
vania, New York, ard most Of the Nor
thern States lasting i'll most cases from
one to two and three days, falling steadily /
and saturating the earth abundanIly. ,
Too late for The Baby Sho,c.--The
wife Of VIM. Oimstead, OF Bloomfield,
Monroe county, Ohio, on the 81 INST,
presented her husband with three fine
children--one boy and two girls. One
has a white head, one black head, and
the other red head. All in health.
The New York Tribune says, we hear
that the Germans in the sixteenth ward IN
Brooklyn are forming military organl-
cation for the purpose of armed resistance
to'the Pfohibilory Liquor Law, which
takes effect, as our readers know, Oh the
Fourth OF July.
1t is stated by the Mayor Of Brooklyn,
n. Y, tina, over three hundred wives
have called upon him since the LIST Janu-
airy of the present year, TO complain OF
their drunken husbands, who squandered
all their money in rum, and lett them
without the means OF support.
The 22nd Of February, 1856, ii is SAID,
was fixed upon by the Philadelphia Con-
vcntion as the day, and PhiladeIph!a as
the place, for the meeting OF the hnoW
Nothing National Convention TO nominate
candidates for President and Vice PresI-
dent.
The unmarried lady who exhibits the
hest sDecimen of Craftsmanship al the next
Crawford County Fair, is 10 receive
beautiful silk dress from the young men
of Conneau,ville, Ohio.
The Halifax county Peoples Advocate
saws that in the northern part OF that coun-
ty there is a great scarcity OF breadstutts,
and many poor families are entirely With
out it,
The Mohawk IN, " Courier states
that on the 10Th uIt., Mrs. Hill, OF the
Herkimer County poor house, was deIlv-
cred of female child, with two heads OF
LARGE sige-=nne 'norn,sl sIhl HE other alb /
normal. This unnatural being lived, at ,
ter lis birth, about two housekeeping
nearly fifteen pounds.