Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-02-19

Nest was invited to take game of poker, but he
refused, saying, mo, thankee; played poker
all one summer. and had 10 wear nankeen pants
all tho next winter, | have had no taste for that
amusement SINCE"
A CONVENTION or RAILROAD EsalNEERs.-A
grand national mass convention of railroad engi-
neers is to be held in New York on the 22d of
February. John Van Buren, is to be the orator
of the occasion. The precise objects of the con-
yentlon have not transpred
PSYCHOLOGICAL PnENoMENoN.- are
said to be living in the small village of Leyton,
Mass., four persons of tho name of John Swan.
not ut all related and all with wooden legs al
though NOT one hns been III the army or navy.
lHE DHto WHEAT tRor.--The Drumbull De
moerat remarks TINT the farmers in that region
OF country say that the wheat crop sowed last fall
looks exceedingly well ut the present time, and
the prospect OF n good crop is very fattering.
MICHIuAN.-1he House of Representatives.
by vote of Is to II has passed ian act to pro.
hibit the use OF common jas and other build
ngs in the several counties Of that State for the
detention of persons claimed as fugitive slaves"
JUDGE LoRINa.-Srong efforts are making in
Boston to induce tho Legislature TO turn Judge
Loring out of office, for aiding in sending Burns
the fugitive slave, bnek TO Virginia.
one of the Texas papers remarks, that ,.at the
recent sitting at the Court ut San Antonio, l3
gentlemen were assigned places in the penitentia-
ry.'
Sausages made of ed flannel boot iaeks md the
hind quarters OF nightmare, nre good for-thase
who like 'em. but never did fancy EN-.
The North Carolina Legislature has wisely re-
ieeted proposition to mako railroad stock tho
basis, in part, of the capital bank.
Mrs Frances Anne kemble is reading Shak-
spcnre in Liverpool. She has Just returned from
u successful tour in Ireland.
Hickory nut oil, considered equal to the best
lard sperm oil for bnrning md machinery,is now
manufactured at Dayton, Ohio
Tho Rochester IN. " American says the buds
oi the peah trees in that vicinity have not been
injured in the least by the cold weather
The wings of Kentucky have resolved not to
hold n State Convention to nominate a candidate
for Governor.
1t. "Alyarado" Hunter II is said, is about to
join the Kinney expedition.
The ". =. BANK.-1 he trustees of the t. s.
Bank announce that no claims against that In
sttution will be received after the 10th of April
neat, aud that they will proceed to make u final
dividend to the creditors.
FouR LANGUAGES IN ONE SrATE-They must
have motley set of people up in Wisconsin, as
the Legislature has ordered tho publication of
somo 10000 copies OF public documents in Ger
man, Danish, Dateh and Welsh
james Russell Lowell, the poet, has been cleo
ted to succeed Prof Longfellow in Harvard Col
lego. as Professor ofmodern languages and bellies
lettres.
Two YEARS lMMIGRArIoN.--Th total number
of immigrants arrived at New York during the
last two years is said TO be 60i 16s, of whom more
than one third were Germans.
Tho story that the passengers on the .'snowed
up trains in Illinois. were compelled to eat dogs
Is contradicted.
Thomas +. Meagher, who is now in New Or
leans, has resolved, it is said, to deliver no more
public lectures.