Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1857-02-21
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lue heiilpliIS anu NhaiiSo'o' :,
last week. The bride was a "wldow
aged sixteen years.
The Mechanics Institute Fair in
Washington, is TO be opened on The ID
of March. 1t will be the greatest exhlbl-
ton of the kind ever seen in Washington.
What Railroad es.---Land, near
the city of s.. Joseph, Mo-, is selling at
$500 per acre. This high price is owing
entire Y to the fact that they have Rail
road. The same land, before the Ioca-
ton of the road, sold at about $50 or 500
per acre.
A Successful Hnter.---Mr. John b,
Stanley, an intelligent and wealthy plan
ter, residing near Newnasvile, East Flor
ida is probably, the mos; successful hun
Ter in the State. Besides his almost daily
presence on his plantation during the last
twenty-five years, lie has killed al least
ten thousand deer, one hundred wolves,
sixty panthers, and twelve bears.
A Surgical Operation.--.The Boons-
boro' Odd Fellow says, that DR.. o. j..
Smith, of that place, recently removed a
very large tumor from under the shoulder
of Mr.. George Eavy, Of Ogle County
Illinois, formerly of Ibis County. The
tumor weighed one pound and TWO oun-
ces. The patient is doing well.
1t has been decided by Western court
that a clergyman may marry himself
This is fee saving process at all events
The citizens of the town Of Washing
ton, Vermont, must be an intelligent SET
Less than 300 voters take 449 newspa-
pers.
DR.. Kidwell again positively declines
being candidate for reelection to the
House of Representatives from The Tenth
Congressional District.
The National Theatre at Washington
City was destroyed by fire on Friday al
,ernoon last. Nothing remains bat the
bare walls.
The Episcopal Convention is TO be
held in Petersburg, thes2Oth Of May, and
the Baptist General Convention, in Rich
mOnG, on the 81 ct June.
A girl in Jackson, Miss, recently gave
birth 10 boy with black face and white
hair.
Hon. A. J. Donelson, who was can
didale for the Vice Presidency, was rob
bed on the 9Th inst, on the steamboat
Daniel Boone, from Nashville, of draft
on New Orleans of four thousand dollars
and gold watch.
Gales Sealon, Esq, for number of
years EDITOR and proprietor of the Raleigh
IN. C.l Register, died in Washington.
The deceased was nephew Of Col. Sea
ton, Of the National lnteIigencer, and a
gentleman highly and deservedly esteem
ed in all the relations OF life.
Thirlv-fve tons Of silver left Pittsburg
few days ago en- route for the PhiIadeI-
phia mint. 1t came from St. Louis in
the care Of the Adams Express Company
The total value Of the ,hirty-6ve tons is
upwards of 81, 100000. 1t is the form
Of bars, from eighteen TO two feet long.
"Uomen's Rights" "A mother and
four daughters, who all reside in North
ampton, Mass, have had seventeen hus-
bands amongst them. The mother had
4 ; one daughter ; and the other three
daughters each.
DAMAGEs.--.A lady named PurnelI has
recovered from the Richmond and Pits
burg railroad company S4,l59 damages
for injuries sustained by herself on the
road So, 4OS for injuries TO her son, and
5000 for the loss of servant, who was
killed.
The Congressional COnuentiOn.--At
meeting in Berkeley County, on Mon
day, the 10th inst, resolution was
adopted recommending Martinsburg as the
place for holding the Democratic Co"gres-
sional Convention, and suggesting the
7,h day Of March as the proper time for
it to assemble.
Wood was selling in Cincinnati last
week al fourteen dollars cord, and no
coal TO be had.
There is negro woman in Virginia
who has no ears, and yet can hear dis
linclly by opening her mouth.
The accounts about Walkers position
in Nicaragua, still continue contradictory
---some representing him as "hemmed
in" and others, as in full feather" and
likely 10 obtain possession of the coun-
try.
CoUNTERFRIT.-Tber is counterfeit
ten dollar note in circulation on the Cen
trail Bank OF Virginia, which is SO well
executed that most any person unaccus-
toned to the detection Of counterfeit mo-
ney, would take it, notwithstanding the
fact tina, the plate is different from the
genuine one.
A TALL SToRY.-At North Bond.