Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1856-07-26
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The new election in the district Of Hon.
p. S, Brooks, of South Carolina, takes
place on the 29lh inst,
New wheat is selling at Louisville at
81, and at St. Louis at SIPS a bushe.
RetrOceSsiOn.--In the Senate of the
Uuiled States a bill was reported to retro
cede Georgetown to Mary land.
The whole amount Of tolls over the EN-
tire line of The Chesapeake and Ohio Ca
nal for the month of June, is sci ,870,74.
Do not forget that about the last Of Ju-
~, or first of August, is the most favoEa-
bic time TO sow rurnip seed. The soil for
turnps should b. moist, rich and mellow.
Put in good crop.
Lydia Maria Child, well known in
American literature as tale writer OF
much merit, died recently in Paris. She
was descendant of the illustrlous Lee
family OF Virginia.
Mai. Thomas J. Jackson, Professor of
Philosophy in the Virginia Military In
sttute, has gone TO Europe.
The cars on the Central Railroad now
run to Mllboro', 40 miles west of SIaun-
ton and 1T miles from Richmond.
SAN FRANcIsCo.-During the last sew
en- years fourteen hundred murders, it is
said, have been Perpetraed IN and about
San Francisco, and the city itself has been
burned down SeUen lines.
BrutaHiy,--A man named Justin Ford
beat his vile to death with horse whip,
near Lynchburg, Va, on Thursday last.
The taking of the quinquennial census
in Paris has terminated, and it appears
from it that the population, including the
soldiers, the sick in the hospitals, and the
occupants Of the prisons, exceeds 1900
600 souls within the oc,rol walls, and |, ;
100000 within the Notifications.
Van Amburg & Co.'S canvass was near
Iy destroyed in Meadvlle. Some of the
boys voted the concern humbug, and
sprinkled The canvass with yltriol, wiz
caused it to fall to pieces.
The GAINESVILLE (Ohio) Courier give
I hauering account of the receipts of the
Central Ohio Railroad They amounted
to $52,22O for June, $4,000 for May
and s45, 900 Tor April.
Professor Mahan of West Point, who
was excluded from Queen Vctoria's lie
wee, for not appearing in a court dress, /:
a Nirginan, ant a native Of Princess An
ne County. He is one the ablest mathe
malicians in the county. The dress il
which he presented himself was the usua
military one.
On Friday last Mr.. Gabriel r. Gray
left Petersburg to attend a Pic Mic, an(
when returning his horse became unman
ageabe and threw him against tree AM
died lmmediatey.--Hardy Wig.
The Banks of Tirginia.-The July
dividends of sc are generally larger thar
last year. The Bank of the Valley ant
Monticello Bank divide ) per cent TIT
:. Farmers, Virginia, Berkeley and Rock
ngham, four and the Winchester AM
Fairmonl, three.
Fifth LircS Lost.---The steamer North
ern Indiana was burnt on the Lakes, nea
Deuoit, on the l7th inst, and fifty of he
passengers and crew were either drowned
or burnt to death. The fire originated il
the woodwork around the chimney, AM
in fiftv minutes the boat was burnt 10 TIT
waters edge.
Earfhguqke.--On Monday afternoon
at twenty minutes before ? o'clock, vi
bralion of the earth was felt in Richmond
Va. sufficiently powerful TO shake TIT
buildings. 1t had a rumbling sound. no
unlike distant thunder. The general be
lief was that it was an earthquake on
small scale.
Madame Rumor SAYS that John Var
Buren.--Prince Longshanks, as the New
York Herald used to style him--is abou
10 marry the only daughter of the late Sen
ator McDuffie, of South Carolina. Per
haps this is the cause of the sudden har
dening Of Prince Johns shell. He was
not long s,nce, The softesl kind Of "Sof
Shell )" but he is now the hardest kind o
"Hard She'll"