Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-06-12
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UNPRECEDENTED PRIcEs-TaE HIeHEsr Yrr.-Three
hogsheads of tobacco, belonging to Mr.. J. B. Lemon
of Botetourt, sold yesterday at Martins Ware
house, by Geo. Steptoe, at the enormous average of
,ixrY-FouR DOLLARS AND sIsErY-osE CENTS per hum
dred-the best one bringing the unprecedented price
ZONE HUNDRED AND FlFTY-0NE DOLLARS per
hundred. What market can approach these figures ?
Not onei Lynchburg is triumphant" Big Rich
mond' and Little Petersburg beaten out of sight
completely anquished-Steptoe is gorfed-Nr
Lemon gratifed, aud the whole world aud the rest
Of mankind disanced The two best hogsheads
were bought by Messrs. T. c. s Ferguson & Co. and
the other by Messrs Crumpon Il Payne for their fine
brands. Send on your tobacco We planters Of the
Underwater region-the Piedmont county the Valley
and the Old North State-send your crops right here
to Lynchburg if YOU want to get the very tip top of
III market We have Commission Merchants who
know how to get it, and Manufacturers willing and
able to give it. Three cheers for them.
TuEoDosA ERNEST; or, the HRRoIyE of FAirH-
Graves. Marks & Rutland Nashville Tenn Lang
horne a Walkup Lynchburg.
This is book the subject of Baptism got
ten up in narrative style After ten nights study
ofthe Bible with reference to that subject the he
rome is baptised by 1t is written in easy
and pleasant style has large amount of scriptural
reference and evidence, and will doubt be found
interesting and useful to the investigator of the one
ton discussed. 1t can be had of Langhorne & Walk
up
TIE AMP-LIGHTER-A New York "Iamp-Lipht-
err awoke one morning and found himself dstin-
guished as the hero of a book. An exploit ola
Lynchburg Lamp-Lghter Sunday night entities him
to, at least, being made the subject of paragraph
Just about the time the last lingering church goer
had CROPPED his way home through impenerable dark
ness on that night, the street lamps were brilliantly
Misunderstanding cheerful rays around on night
walkers and foot-pads who prefer darkness rather
than light, because their deeds evil. few more
such exploits and we will make hero out ola
Lynchburg Lamp-Lighter.
THE FOURTH OF JuLy.-Extensive arrangements
are making to celebrate the approaching national
anniversary in many places Does Lynohburg in
tend to vary from her usual course of mastery in
activity" that occasion? If so, it is time she was
up and doing The Mount Vernon Association ought
10 turn the day to good account here in some way.
SHOOTING A WoMAN-- Cochran was examined
before the Mayor yesterday for maliciously shooting
woman of bad repute living in this city. The shots
took effect in several places but not supposed to
be dangerous. The accused sent on to further
trial, and bailed in the sum of two hundred dollars.
Messrs. Tribe & Rudd appeared for the defence.
THAT MUD-HoLE.-There is very Payne-tM,
Sca(u)ry and m-Christian looking mud-hole at the
intersection of Main street and lst Alley. We hope
the street committee will Seay that is Speedily
died. 1t looks entirely too countryfed for the Main
street of great city-to say nothing of its inconvc-
nlence.
KANSAS meetings becoming very fashionable in
Southern cities. Can't we get up one here? Lynch
burg is as much interested in the ascendency of
Southern institutions in Kansas any other place is,
and it but right that she should make demon
stration in regard to the matter The South has had
to resort to "Ad Societies in selt-defence North
crn Emigration Societies pouring their thousands
of abolition wooden-nutmeg yankees into Kansas to
exclude slavery from its soil, and the South must
meet them with their own weapons-"fght the dew
il with fire." orhnaticism and wrong will triumph.
Immediate action is necessary the part of the
South-men and money needed--and we see no
why Lynchburg should be supine and mac
tive when other cities and county-towns
moving
OUR DEMOCRATIC friends intend to I" play harp
of thousand strings" tonight, in laudation of the
B. B. ticket. Ifpermitted, will go and listen to
the music.
SOME CALF See Mr.. Crouses notice of calf from
the Southwest, only eleven months old and weigh
ing four hundred and serenty-taco pounds nett That
is calf hard to beat in weight certainly; but when
done up not hard to masticate, we guess, as
something of the Sort though wee bit lighter,
which Lynchburg produce any day. On that
don't give it up The Southwest must
try again.
SourH-sDE RAnnoAp-The following is COM
parave statement of the receipts of the South-Side
Railroad for May, 1855, and 1856
City Point Branch 1856. 1855.
Passengers and mail S 535 90 5 538 10
Freight 1922 43 1853 40
South-Siae.
Passengers and mail $3.50 50 1856 Sc
Freight 1883 SO 1925 80
S30,426 IS 1871 90
Increase in May 1856, Sll,245 65
VIRGINIA SToCKs-It will be seen by our telegraph