Kanawha Valley star. [volume] (Charleston, Va. [W. Va.]) 1856-1861, 1858-07-20
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men were beaten BY men, Among them
Wasa woman Of bad character, who dog
Iged steamboat captain and his wife. IN
81 the captain horsewhlpped her. He
was arrested and discharged after paying
asmall fine. One Jenny DAILY. an Irish
man, threw his cousin into the Miami
Canal out Of jealousy About three hun
| dred lahors and rowdies got up prize
fight near Cincinnati. but one Of the men
would not fight His partlzans were
about to beat him. when the police came
| up and arrested the ring leaders. AL
this with the thermometer at 95.
/ Two little boys at Red Mills, Ky,
sons Of VIM. Wood, Esq. were struck by
lightning on Saturday last. One was
killed. the other it is thought will recover.
The New Orleans Bee thinks that is it
IS much later in the season now than the
time when epidemic diseases usually ap-
pear in that city, there is reasonable
hops Of passing 9 healthy summer.
At Detroit. a mother and daughter,
Christine McCarty and Anne Brown,
have been arrested for poisoning pedlar
named Johnston, whose paramour one of
them was. :. II
+. B. Devices, clerk III the Philadel-
lphia post-ofioe, has been arrested for
stealing letters. i Is as
/ New wheat is selling at Portsmouth,
IVA, at 81 lat Cincinnati. for 81, and at
Rayenswood for 60@70 cts.
Six persons broke out of the Jail al
Bloomington. III, 1on Sunday night last,
and made good theifescape. !.
At the late state BALLOT the English
Queen, the Marquis Of Westminster, the
richest man infEngland, wore four SPLEEN
/ did jewels, among which was the famous
diamond valued al $3.50, 900. in the hilt
.of his sword.
|. Maj. VIM. Jones. of Campbell county,
Va, breathed his last on The Sd Of july,
within six hours of-his 18th birthday.
On the 54th inst, the house. Of VIM.
Woods Esq, On Catawba, in Roanoke
county Va, was discovered by the SER
wants when the family were asleep, to be
on fire. Loss estimated at about $4,000.
The entire buildings, such as dwellings,,
smoke houses and cabins were consumed.
Nearly all the furniture waslsaved. The
building was supposed to have taken fire
from cooking stove. There was no IN
surance upon the property.
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We learn from the shepherdstown
Register that q stranger whose name that
paper withholds. was ridden on arail,
Educked in pond, and driven away from
that town, Oh Monday night, the s8th
aislt, ''for improper and suspicious CON
fduct in regard to8a certain species of
property about which The public mind. is
peculiarly sensitive af this time which,
We infer, allades To tampering with SLAVES.
Mr.. Brakeman committed suicide at
the White Sulphur Virginia Springs.
last Saturdaysby taking laudnuni The
Doctors were, unable % force any anti
dote upon him. II e.
r. A Kansas correspondent of the St.
Louis Democrat says that "afairs in Kan
! sas are becoming quiet. and that men Of
both parties are beginning 70 see that 1.-THE
supremacy Of tile lazy is better than every
man being his arenger. This the best
news we have had from Kansas for q long
time.
On the night Of the Sd inst, in New
Orleans, twoyoung gentlemen, escorting
young ladies' on Carondelet Street, New
Orleans. saw an alligator, seven feet long,
crawling along the gutter. They killed
him with crombars, after q long fight, I'M
which one Of the men got severe bloK
across tie back from the animals tail.
Gov. Cumming testifes to havingob.
served a. wagon on the road from Salt
Lake City to PROVO, which was drawn
by pigs harnessed to the tongue by an
Ingenious combination Of straps and
cords. In il was seated fat man, who
excited his team even into a trot, by the
aid Of ) blacksnake whip. N,
Foe II. IS. SEsAToR.-Wm. Gilmore
Simms, the novelist and poet, lis named
lfor United States Senator from South
Carolina.
The London Times received by the
last arrival, makes q prominent an
announcement of Che fact that il is now
Iprinted on one Of HOES American ten
Ecylinder presses. Thus the heart and
FOUL ofthc British nation finds expression
through the medium of a !. Yankee no
ton
WHEAr CaoP N q IRGikIA.-Ha =
crop Of inferior wheat is reported in Car
oline county. The, same from Stafford.
LII King George, Westrn oreland, and the
Newbefn Neck counties generally, the
accounts are gloomy. III Fairfax and
Prince William, and Loudoun, there is 9
better yield than il. was thought there
would be-but still some damage. In
| the Valley counties, generally pm averge
crop-in soma Of them still better. AL
Mrs. Susan Page the Wealthiest per-
son in Clarke county, Nap died on the
Sd inst.
DARK NoBLEMES. Three young noble.
men from Senegal, ofthe brightest ebony
tint, have arrived in Paris from that
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