Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1857-09-19
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following calculation :--"SuPpose maj
drinks four glasses of liquor day, al hv'
cents glass, in a week he spends 81 40
and in a year $3.50. This will buy th'
following articles Four barrels of -four
say $24; four pair of boots, say SIS; forty
pounds Of tutter $40; one hundred pounds
of beef, 50; new hat 81; a new sabI
vest,S4; bonnet for wife, SIS; sugar plum:
( for children so cenls-total $3.50.
SALE OF SrocK.-A great sale ofblood
ed stock, imported from England, Scot
land, and Ireland in July last, took place
at Springfield, Illinois, on the 9Th o
August The cost OF the stock was S32,'
600 and it brought at the sale $4,000, oil
a profit of Sll 900.
R1oTING IN BALTMoRE.-A very serl'
Gus riot took place in Baltimore on Sat
urday night last between two or three fire
companies. Several persons were shot,
some Of whom are not expected 10 recover.
AGRICULTURAL ADDRESS,. Mortimer
Kilgour, Esq, has accepted an invitation
TO deliver the annual address before tie
Washington county (Md.) Agricultural
and Mechanical Association at their an.
nual meeting on the 18th Of October.
DEATH OF MEMBER OF CoNGREss.-
Hon. James Lockhart, member elect of
the Thirty-Fifh Congress from the Ev-
arsviIIe Qndiana) District, died at Evans
vile on Monday last.
CHINESE SUGAR CANE.-The Mont
gomerv (Ala.) Mail says that the Chinese
sugar cane degenerales about the third
wear into broom-corn. 1t declares that it
knows this TO be the case in at least Two
instances. Persons having fields OF cane
growing would do well before buying ma
chinery to grind it up to make sugar or
molasses, to examine their fields, and see
if they can discover any similarity be-
tween it and broom-cOrn, and whether II
contains the saccharine juice.
EXECUTIVE APPoINTMENT.-Mr. VI.
E. Price, Mail Agent on the Baltimore d
Ohio Railroad, between Baltimore and
Cumberland, having been promoted, Mr..
VIM. II. Moore, Of ilarper's Ferry, has
been appointed in his place.
The municipal election held al Leaven-
worth, Kansas, on Monday, resulted in
The election of the free State ticket by
two hundred and sixty majority. The
Constitution Convention convened al
Leavenworlh on the 7Ih inst.
1t is stated that Mr.. Nicholas Wells
raised this season. on his farm at "Win-
chester Bouom," on the Ohio river, i'll
Tyler county, Va, 900 bushels good
prime white wheat. A portion OF the
land on which the wheat grew was meas
ured, and the yield averaged fraction o.
YER forty bushels TO the acre.
Wheat is selling at Salem, N. c., at
65 cents per bushel.
The Galcna lIIl.) Courier says, Pola-
toes are now selling IN this city for TWEEN
~ cents per busheI.
Mormon THREArs.--New York, Sept.
l4.-Advices from Utah says that Brig
ham Young threatens war and sePara-
ton from the Union The moment the Gov.
eminent troops enter the Territory.
Mr.. George Cushwa, highly respect
able ciuzen Of Clearspring, Md, died on
Tuesday evening last.
A Tournament and Pic Mic will take
place at Bedngton Sulphur Spring,
Berkeley county, on Thursday 2iIh inst.
The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows,
composed Of representatives from all the
Lodges in the Uniled States and Terrific
ries, will hold their annual session in Bal
limore on the 2lst INST The deIlbera-
lions, as usual, it is expected, will occu-
py seven or eight days.
Isaac N. Robertson. who lived in Char
Ioue county, Va, died on the 22d ult.,
and left will emancipating about 70
slaves, and dividing his real estate and
other property among them. Provision
is made in the will for their removal to
Liberia.
VERMONT Observation-Disclosures
er (Rep) has been elected Governor over
Fries DEM by vote of 26.675 to a.
OLA. The Senate is entirely Republican,
and the House has Republican majority
of $50.
The body of a man named McCabe was
found in the Canal, al Weyerton, on The
2nd inst.
The MAINE ELEcTION.--Portland, Sept.
l5.-One hundred and seventy-fve towns
give Merrill, the Republican cadldale for
Governor SO, 900 votes; and Smith, Dem
ocraD $4,000. The net Republican loss
is over 5000 votes.
There is distress amongst the farmers
of Rockingham. The Register state that
"the great fear now is, not that we shall
not have corn enough but that we shall
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