Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1858-08-07
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stumping his district, recently got helated
and asked To stay all nj ght at a roadside
cabin but the owner thought they look
ed like horse thieves, and told them to
move on.
Fifty fat men of Mansfield, Ohio, had
parade on the 5,h. The lightest in the
company weighed 200 pounds. The
captain was estimated at 26S pounds, the
heaviest man in the crowd weighed 335.
and the next 900 pounds.
Daniel Webs,er's father made cradle
for little Dan out of a pine log with an axe
and auger and Lewis Cass was rocked
by his slaid mother in second hand su-
gar trough.
THE FIREMEN's PROCEssIoN.--Th
: grand procession Of the Firemen OF ha'
gerstown will take place OIL Friday the
10Th of September next. and not Saturday
The lllh, as previously stated.
Filibuster Walker has raised couple
thousand dollars and enlisted thirty men
al Columbus, Miss, for another descent
on Nicaragua about the lst Of September.
Laborers in Chicago are getting only
rs cts. per day this season, and hundreds
of men are out Of employment.
The exhibition of the Loudoun (Va.)
Agricultural Society will be held near
Leesburg, on the 10Th and 2O'h oil Oc'o-
Der next.
OpoRlFERous,--Some wag writing from
Cairo. H., since the subsidng OF the
flood, saws there are now in that city 452
distinct and different smells, and SeUeraf
yards get TO hear from.
The Dignitaries Of the Land.--Ex.
Presiden, Tyler is in Norfolk, Va, ex-
President Van Buren remains at his home
in Undertook, ex-President Fillmore is
a, Niagara Falls, ex.President Pierce is
in Europe. and President Buchanan is at
Bedford Springs.
We learn tina, a valuable slave the prop
erty of John r. Flagg. Esq. of this
county, Was found dead in the field on
Friday last.
If you see a wife carefully footing her
husbands stockings, you may conclude
that he will not find it Difficult. TO foot her
bills.
President Buchanan has recognized
George Porter, as Turkish Consul for
Baltimore and Washington.
VIM. Taylor, Esq, Of Montgomery,
Ala, offers reward of $4,000 Tor the
apprehension Of the murdere! o! his son,
Abner G. Taylor.
There are now five hundred thousand
persons in Canada without employment,
and without money.
Josiah Hedges, who was born in Berk'
eley county, Va, in l778, died IN Seneca
County, Ohio, last week.
DECLINES. james Barbour, of Gull
pepper county, Va, declines allowing the
use Of his name in connection with the
Governorship, thinking that the West Isl
entitled to furnish the next.
1, is reported tina, l.. Z. Randall Esq,
the Railroad Agen, at MaTtinsbnrg, Is to-
take The agency at Piedmont, vice II. U.
Davis resigned; and w. l.. Gorlon, ESD
of Mt. Glare depot, to be agent at Mar
tinsourg.
/, is again stated that Spain is prrpara
inc an expedition Of 10000 men against
Mexico. |! true. Uncle Sam will have
something TO say in the matter.
A Western editor announces that his
better half had the previous day presented
him with "twcl(lh little esponslblIIly,
and Immediately below makes the follow
ing appeal, which we hope was daily re-
sponded to :--"More subscribers wanted
a, this office
In order TO prevent the influx Of SO
many visitors TO the Virginia PenIennary'
the Governor has established an admission
lee of 20 cents for adults.
A three-cent customer who persisted,
though warned several times by the post
master of the place, in using postage
stamps second time, has been arrested
a, Eallville, Ill. The penalty OF this OIL
| fence is a fine Of $50.
VIM. Graft, at Wareham, Va, has been
sentenced 10 six months Imprisonment at
hard labor for kissing an old maid against
her will,
For FRAZER RIVERA ship 1000
tons burthen, has been chartered at Nor
folk, Va, to take passengers 10 Frazer
river, and will sail on the 18th inst.
In Virginia a man sent 10 The Peniten
tiary the third time is never allowed to
quit the institution. A man named
Blankenship recently sent there, finds
himself in this predicament. 1t was his
third offence and he will be kept there
for life.
A TEAM OF PIGs.--Gov. Cumming