Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1857-08-01
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George w. Clutter, Esq, First Audi.
tor of the State of Virginia, died on Thurs.
day last, in Preston county, whittier he
had gone for the benefit of his health.
Call Accepted.--We learn that Rev. F.
M. Whillle of Berryville, Clarke county,
has accepted the call or invitation recently
rendered him from Louisville, Kentucky,
and will leave for his new field of labor
early in October.
Johnson Barbour, Esq, of Orange Co.,
Va, expects 10 realize off his farm this
harvest ten thousand bushels of wheat.
TO measure corn in the crib, multiply
the length, breadth and height together, in
feet, multiply this product by 4. strike off
the right figure, and the result will be
shelled bushels.
The Courier de Havre states that no
fly will enter a room in which wreath
of walnut leave has been hung up. The
experiment is worth trying.
Flour COntract- The Louisville Ky.)
Courier of Thursday last states that a
contract has been made TO deliver 900
barrels Of Flour in that city next March
for 81, so per barrel.
Queen Victoria has dismissed her old
family physician, DR.. Locock for tatling.
The Queen said, TO be sure she did tell
Prince Albert that his habit of sleeping
between the blankets was vulgar, dirty
Dutch practice but she did not care to
have it told abroad. So the DR.. loses his
$4,000 year because he could not hold
his tongue.
Three persons have died this year from
bites of black spiders. A sure preventive
against harm is found in chewing catnip,
and binding it (bruisedD upon the part af-
fected.
Ten dollar counterfeit, notes on the
Northwestern Bank of Virginia, at Wheel
! ing, are floating about. Vignelte Of q
large 10 in the centre oil the note.
| Chance for a Doctor TO MIKE 800.
The Massachusetts Medical Society Of
lers a prize OF 500 for the best dsscria-
ton on the following theme ITO what
affection Of the lungs does bronchitis give
origin ~ The dissertation must be sent,
postpaid, to Benz E. Getting, Roxbury,
Mass, on or before April 10, 1858.
old Santa .Anna Speaks.-A despatch
from New York informs us that the Her.
Il, ,,,I1,yl,pc tho n A
to his pariizans in Cuba and Mexico de
nounclng Comoniort's Government, and
declaring that Mexico must pass through
another bloody revolution before tranquil
iiy will be restored.
! The President we hear, designs leaving
Washington for Bedford Springs in few
DAYS, 10 be absent from the seat Of gov
eminent for, perhaps, ten days. He will
be accompanied by his niece, Miss Lane,
and Miss Black, the accomplished daugh-
ter of the Attorney General.-Washing-
ton Star.
A letter from New York says eli
will rejoice many families TO hear that the
price OF sugars is rapidly declining in this
market Yesterday sales were made al
loss 10 speculators OF $50 per hogshead
Several large Spectators have already
lost quite heavily"
Robbery in the Counfry.--The Fred
erick Herald states that the house of Mr.
John Hargeu, on the Harper's Ferry
Ridge road, about five miles from Fred.
erick, was broken open on Tuesday nigh
las, and robbed of 1896 in money, and ;
valuable gold watch and chain.
Lord Napier, Minister of England &c
this country, has taken up his residence
for the summer, near Froslburg, AlIega
ny county, Md.
.4nOiher U'onder at RochcSfcr.-A
man is swallowing stones, weighing two
ounces, for two cents piece, He swal
lows fifty day. The Union says there
is no humbug abOu, il, but that he actual
iy does it.
At Richmond, Va, on Saturday, new
wheat sold al 81 65 for prime red, and 81 !,
IS for pr me white.
/ New -four, branded "extra -four" is re-
failing in Fredericksburg, Va, al S9,5C
per barrel.