Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-01-08

ponement OF concert by Professor Boiling.
Icr-rhe streets are filled during the veong day
with files OF wagons and carts piled high with thick
ice four or five inches thick. From present appear
ances shall not he compelled to call upon our
Yankee friends to keep cool during the next sum
mer.
PRkscRIPTloN FOR a CoLD--ln an old black-etter
volume, published about 1870, we find the following
quaint and curious prescription which we recommend
to such of our readers are laborug under stress
of the present wethcr
Putte YOU icette in hot water,
As high as your thghes
Wrap your head up in tlannelle,
As lowe us your eyes.
Take quart ofrum'd gruelle,
When in bedle, dose
With n number toure dppe
Nclle tallowe your nose.
We dare say the prescription is good but what
curious ".eette people must have had III l43o.
DR. Robert Campbell, lately resident of Henry
county died at lis mothers residence in Bedford on
Sunday last Dr. Campbell was II cultivated and
polished gentleman, and rs physician ranked among
the most talented and promising of the State. He
had been hut recently married and leaves behind him
a wide Gree of friends and admirers who will mourn
his loss scarcely less than his bereaved widow
TnE Rfcrxr CoL1lsIoX.-Mr Timbcrlake, the for
mer Superintendent ofthe Central Railroad addresses
a letter to the Wing, the material portion of which
we COPY below. Let the Investigation 60 on.
Mr., I. says;
investigation of all the facts by the proper anhor-
ties; and upon the result Of such invest CATION am
entirely willing to rely tor my own vindicaton.
- In the meantime, ask suspension of Judgment
by the public at large, well as all parties particn
larlv Interested Let every body wait until the facts
are fully cieitel and automatically certified. am
entirely confident that have the evidence nor IN my
possession TO show that am wholly blameess, and
that Col. Fonames publication does me the groSsest
injustice, in almost every particular This evidence,
along with az the the facts that can he brought out
by the Investigation that shall demand in justice to
ali parties concerned. shall be given to the public at
the proper time. will not now attempt to eriminate
or recrimina.e shall demand aud wait for fall
Investigations aud then let the Judgment OF the public
fall where public censure is mcrted.
Very respectfully, YOUR obi scrrt
JOHN IL. TlMBERLAkE.
A New STAR Is THE LITERARY CmcLns.-We have
been advised OF Il new romance, from the pen OF
Young lady of Dinwiddie, which she threatens to ''set
at large ia the coming Spring. Miss -- is II young
lady of great personal beauty and wields the goose
Quill with much NiyHcity and ease. Her society was
much con. ted at the White Sulphur Springs last
summer, and she was described in of the "per-
sona letters from that retreat "sl lph-hke; more
of heaven than eIrth whose voice was spell to the
listener and whose every movement Il grace, which
creature, we are told, has been engaged upon her
novel sihee the appearance Of tat pliment i'll the
newspapers and the plot is laid in the mountains and
amongst the feshiuuabes who resort there. ltisthe
intention OF the auhorcsS first to present the romance
TO n literary magazine; it rejected there, she will Of
Ter il to a publishers and If il meets with the same
fate there she intends publishing it at her own eX
pense -hayng just the spirit and the dimes to stand
at her shoulder
This desperate resolve to he an author at any cost
/. al, l,Il ria nfI ttb
lie Opinion il She breaks her neck in the event, can
be laid Mt no other door than the consequences of
plunge into sulphur and fashionable socety--of be-
ING made the easy victim OF a frivolous thinner ana
fulsome hattery and the odafatee OF coXcomoS and
fine ladies obvious of her beauty. She may meet the
fote of many an intelligent AMI beautiful woman be-
fore her who has sacrificed good sense and good
name in society to the butcher block of the public
-Patersb'g Erpress
AyorurR FASHIONABLE AnoMISArloN.--The Lon
don Lancet states that the Of the drug heiadonna
ns practsed in Oriental haremS to give hr'lianey to
the eve is unblushingly advertised aud provided for
Inv the caterers of fashion The effect of this power
f and deadly drug upon the eye, Is TO contract the
iris and enlarge the pupil intentying its brilIianey
and rapidly destroying the organ.
fla man or woman either wishes to realize the
fall power of personal beauty it must be 10y cherish
inc noble hopes aud purposes-by having something
70 live fer which is worthy Of hHmanity-and which
hy eypandiae the capacities Of the soul, gives eNpan-
sion and symmetry to the holy With contains it
Pr?C iPhdT1.
The New Orleans Delta says; "The assassination
Of citizens his now become SO common that report
crs for the daily papers scarcely deem them worth an
item
PArnfcx County A correspondent writing from
Patrick county under date the 2d inst, says The
ground is covered with snow six inches deep aud
there is a good prospect for more. The yPhoid
fever is prevailing here and proving quite fatal We
have lost two of our citizens in as many weekS-ooth
Young men. n-Rjcd. Hhi}.
A CrRTIyloArR-One of the certificates OF death,
written by "phy sician OF large practice received at
the City Inspectors reads rs follows; MRS karoyhe
Johnsons sdawther aged five months and ate days
died with defshency of life to-day under my atten
dence.n
A sbrewd little fellow who had just begun 10 read
latin astonishcd his master by the following trans
lation: "vir man: GIN a trap. Virgin, man
trap"
The prison is shut night and day, yet it is always
full the temples always open, and yet YOU ma no
in them.-Chiaese Proeffb.
five wish children to revere high tlines-things
simple. and lovely, aud of good repcrt-we must set
them the example.
MARRIED,
On Wednesday, the oath inst, at the 81 Louis oa-
thedral by the Rev J. n Perche NELViL ootLf' SON
of the Hon. P. Soulc, to Miss ANGLE DE SENTiMA-
NAT.
DIED,