Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1857-08-22
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|. d. q. +. held lis annual session III
HAMPTON, Va. on Wednesday last, al
which pr. A. L. Peters, of Halif4x coun-
tv. as elected Grand Chief Patriarch; J.
r. Ramona, of Norfolk, Gsend Senior
Warden; Major Israel Robinson, of Mar
linsburg, Grand Scribe, and jules GcrsI,
of Danville, Grand Treasurer.
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.
A MoRMoH IN TRoVBLE.--Last week a
disciple of Bri.ham Young attempted
t, preach the Mormon doctrine in Smythe
county. Va, and though warned by the
citizens, refused 10 desst. He was ac-
corGiugy seized, Jared and Ieathered, al
Ter which he made a rapid exit.
President Buchanan has sent check
for $50 to the ladies Of the Mount Vernon
Association, to aid IN the purchase of the
Hone and Grave of Washington" Sew
eral other denominations are acknoTIedg-
ed.
From a report published in the Clip
per, we learn that there are eight thousand
Odd Fellows in Baltimore city alone.
Gnls, If you want husbands 60 to Iowa
There are thirty-four thousand mascullnes
in that State unprovidel Tor. What a
field for girls aspiring to become wives.
Loud complaints are heard all over the
country about drugged whiskey-polson-
ed with strychnine or some other horrible
substance.
A negro man, said TO be an excellent
farm hand, was sold in Berryville on Mon
day week, at public auction, for $1,000
cash
The venerable Judge Mount, of George
town, died last Saturday morning at s.
O'Clock, being 81 years of age. He fill
led the office of clerk to the corporation
of Georgetown for sixty-ive years, and
TO the levy court of the District OF Colum-
bia for over fiIly-live.
Governor Lyon has appointed DR..
Charles Macgill, Major General of the 2d,
9Th and llth brlgades of the Mary land
Militia, composed of the brgades from
Washington, Frederick and
Baltimore counties.
WHEAT FOR SALE.-The Knoxville
TENN Wing is confident that East Ten
aessee will be able to sell 100000
bushels Of wheat the presen season.
Rec. Septimus Tustin.-At the an,
nuaI meeting Of the Board Of Trustees OF
Lafayette College, held at Easton, Pa,
On Tuesday week, the Rev. Sepllmus
Tustin, d. D., late of Washington city,
was unanimously elected president of the
board for the constitutional term OF two
years.
Some three hundred persons were gath
cred on The banks of the Potomac,a Cum
berland, Md. on the 4lh ut., by a post
er which stated that Prof. CuIeX would
walk on the water. After a while, II was
whispered around that Cuier was the
Latin word for MoSqujto, when the truth
flashed upon The crowd that they had all
been ''soid."
Rev. Samuel II. Brown, popular
minister of the Presbyterian Church. dIed
in Green5rier county, Va. ,on the Isl inst.
WELL SAIp.-rhe gentleman now ed
ring the Richmond Wing, pro tenn, in
his sa!u;atory says: "hogic needs no
temper 10 polish lis edge, and facts derive
no moral force from personal invectlves.'
ST. JOINS, n. F.. August 1.-THE
Telegraph Corpany's ST am Victoria
left this port yesterday, Tor the east and
will cruise oil Firmly Bay until the arri-
val Of the teIegraphlc,cabIe fleet, which
will, doubtless, reach that point on OF a
bout Thursday or Friday nexl.
Mr.. ST. George fuckers Poetical Adj
dress, delivered at Washinton College, Is
a performance every way creditabie. The
lines referring 10 Hugh Miller, the Scotch
GeoIogist, are very beautiful. The poem
lis published in the Southern Literary
Messenger, Richmond.
A number Of counterfeit So bills on the
York Bank, Penn, are in circulation at
Harrisburg. They are said to be well ex-
ecuted, and deceive even experienced
Judges of bank paper.
The Educational Convention will meet
in Richmond on the 25;h inst. Teachers
and the friends of Education throughout
the State are invited 10 attend.
Beautiful and appropriately is a
greed that the first message by the sub
marine telegraph, across the Atlantic, shall
pass between the President of the United
States and the QueeU Of Great Britain, the
words the opening sentence Of the "Glo-
ria IN Erce}Sis Glory be to God on
high, and on earth peace, good will to-
wards men,"