Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1859-05-14
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A. Proctor. for some days past. On Sun
day last fifteen persons connected them
selves with the Church.
An unsuccessful attempt was made 10
enter the bank al Weston Lewis county,
Va. on THURSDAY night last.
The ladies Of South Carolina have rails
ed $4,000 towards erecting monument
in memory OF John G.. Calhoun.
An additional naval force will be sent
to the Gulf Of Mexico after the return OF
The Paraguay expedition.
It's stated that the Joint worm has ap-
peared in The wheat in the Piedmont ser.
lion of Virginia.
The inspectors retun Of Salt made al
the Kanswha, Va, Salines, for the quar-
ter ending April lsl, shows that SS.963
bushels were made.
The latest style Of hoop-skirt, is the
djusting, double-back action hustle,
e,ruscan lace expansion, iiiccolomini al
tachment gossamer understandable.
The lottery dealers in Louisville, KY,
were badly swndled, few days since,
by stranger, who managed 10 clutch sew
eral prizes by ingeniously passing on bis
tickets the drawn numbers.
The annual Episcopal Convention, Of
the diocese of Virginia, takes place on the
18Th inst, al Norfolk.
The Cincinnati Gazette SAYS that g.
$50 adventures have passed through that
,i,y this season, by river alone, for Pixies
Peak.
Dickens receives for his story ill the
New York Ledger $4,000 cash.
AN EQUINE V1CTIM.-Among the prop
er,y destroyed by the explosion on board
the steamer Contra Costa. at San Fran
cisco, was the weil-known stallion Com
modore.' valued a, So 600. The poor
animal had both eyes scalded out.
At,he Charity Ball of the Sons Of Nal,
Ia a, the Front Street Theatre, Baltimore,
on Monday night, the receipts were
$4,000.
A number Of ripe watermelons were
shipped from Charleston last week to-
New York.
EXTENSIVE FRE.-rAe fire at Rich
mond, Va, on Wednesday, resulted IN
The destruction Of eight extensive estab'
ishmen,s in consequence Of which one
hundred men were thrown out of employ
ment. Among the sufferers are Messrs.
Green e. Allen, Simms q Plummer.
Mercer & Hill, Lau & Shuman. S. Y.
Landrum, Daniel Aagerty, J. V. Craw-
ford. VIM. F. Smms, John II. Rogers
and Geo. S. Lownes & Co.
The Westminster Sentinel Of last week
notices the loss through The Post Office oil
a letter containing S35 in notes and a.
check for 81, 500, mailed at that place
about fortnight ago, by Judge Madison
Nelson TO the address Of his wife in Fred
erick.
No MORE New RoUTEs,-A telegraph
ic despatch states that The Postmaster
General will open no new routes under
the post route bill of 1858, in Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Geor-
gia. and Florida but will continue The ser
vice on all the old routes,' contracts for
which were recently awarded.
REDsKIN OBJEcTIoNs.-The Kiowa H.
dams in the Santa Fe mail-roule Nave re-
-nsed to permit the erection OF maIl-sla-
ions within their territory. and force o.
U. s. troops has been demanded by The
to protect their operations.
A London paper says :.-"There are
over 500 workmcn now employed on
board The Great Eastern, and she will he
by August"
There are now three Americans in the
University Of Cambridge, England. Two
Of them are Boslonians, and The third is |
from Virginia.
AT one Of the express offices in Third
street, Cincinnati, there is small iron
safe, still in use, which lay al the bottom
Of Lake Erie, containing $4,000 in gold,
for six years. The safe belonged To an
express company at the time. was on a.
steamer, that flew up and sunk, and was
raised by diving,beII after the lapse Of
tine mentioned. 4
CAPTURE OF A GREAT Cry IN CHINA.
The Chinese correspondent o! the Jour
nal of Commerce states that the rebels
have taken the grea, Hankow. eight hun
hred miles up the Yang.sse Hang, which
Lord Eigin recently visiied, and which
the Able II nc estimated 10 contain pop
ulaiion of three millions. The rebels
still hold the city of Nankin, and an i'm
mense territory above it. Sill il is not
believed they vii ultimately be success
lG IN their great ohiec!-ndependence.