Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1856-05-31
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The coIored know.nothIngs OF o''''
70 " DAYS since, called aS'ate C'nven-
,ior 70 he held al Columbus, on HE @''H
If Nav Thei. wire brethren, mol TO
he ou,done in patriotic Iabors have calico
theirs for the 27Ih of May, TWO days 10
advance.
Cumberland, Md, May IA the
election here to-day, the Americans eiec-
ted Joseph fl. Tucker, Esq, Mayor and
majority of the Council
AT Elkton, Md, on the 9Th inst the
Democratic town commissioners were
elected by small majority
indianapolis, Ind, May 6.-Al the
Municipal election held IN this CITY to-day
the entire democratic ticket was elected
The Hagelslown Herald SAYS that
number of counterfeit s. notes on the
Frederick County Bank have been pre-
scented in several places in that place. Il
saws they are badly executed, and may %
easily detected. .
The Democratic Safe Contention OF
MARYLAND adopted resolutions approving
the administration of Pierce, anu expires
sing its preference for Buchanan Tor the
next Presidency.
In the three small states which last vo-
ted, New Hampshire, Connecticut anu
Rhode Island. the aggregate Democratic
gain is over Twenty Thousand.
The Stanton Vindicalor recommends
Judge John W. Brockenborough, OF Lex
lnglon. for the Democratic nomination to
the Vice Presidency.
A tea service Of silve:, costing $3.50,
has been prepared by the Portsmouth,,
va. y friends of DR.. Joseph n. School
field, of that city, commemorative of "hls
distinguished service during the pestilence
of 1855"
Santa Anna, the ex-Diclator OF Mexico,
is living in great style at Tabaco' four
miles from Carthagena, in New Granada,
South America. lie is said TO be worth
S4,000.0O0.
Il Niger for MayOr.--The Know
Norhings and Republicans in Milwaukee,
ran Jesse Epps, big buck niger for
Mayor. he received their entire vote
1853. all told - Shield E. Banner.
A colored lady in Arkansas recently
gave birth to four little darkies--lhree
girls and one boy. The whole weighed
twenty eight pounds. Al the last ac-
counts, the mother was better than "couId
be expected" anG the lilllc woolly heads
were as lively as crlckeIs.
A person on the Philip Brown farm In
Kingston, n. H., found embedded Lear a
well, thirrv.nine black snakes, fifty-nine
adders, and one striped snake. Their
combined length was abouIfour hundred
eet.
One thousand and ninety-eigh, per
sons were suffering Imprisonment for debt,
in August last, IN Great Britain, 1t will
probably soon be abolished.
The ruling rates for money, on good
security, in Nebraska Territory, are from
3 to I per cehI per month.
A CITY editor says that man in New
York got himself into trouble by marrying
two wives. A western editor assures his
contemporary hata good many men in Mi
chigan have done The same ing by mar
rying only one.
Mr.. Paul Kenney, residing in Harrison
county, Kentucky, near Cynthiana, on a
Weakening one morning last week, found
that his stock had increased during the
night, eighteen male colts, six calves and
six negro children; the total value OF
which is $1,000 dollars. Rather prolific
place tina, Harrison County.
The Loudoun Mirror says The
heirs of Mrs. Martha +. Garter, deceased,
al public auction, on the Cd inst, sold
( eir farm, near MiGdIeburg, in LOudoun
An,v, containing 1871 acres, TO +. II.
any, for s63,l23 cents per acre.
Dne house in Boston has upwards Of
as 900 bushels of oysters on their beds IN
the Mystic river iattening for the fall trade.
"Snlgglefrrz, will you have some OF
the butter ?" Thank you, marin; | be-
long to the temperance society, and can't
take anything strong"
At Boston, beef, which las, year brought
sIl per hundred, is now selling al $50,
and potatoes are only 40 cts, a bus hel.
The largest water wheel in the world
is al Troy, n. Y. Its power is equal to
one thousand horses. 1t drives machine
ry which works up annually 10000 tons
Of iron into horse shoes, spikes. nails, &c.
A child, about two and half years old,
belonging TO Mr.. Young, Of Black Rock,
died few days since, in consequence Of
having eaten the tips Of quantity Of fric-
lion matches.
One hundred and ninety-six negroes
uers sold in GRAVEYARD County ia last