The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-04-26
,SEIHNaRY or NEWS.

w take the l0ll0WlHg from tle " IT.
chester NeUs, of Goth inst:
The severe weather, il is thought, has
3njured,materlaly, ifnotte totally destroyed
she peaches in this section CT the Valley
FAIR-The ladies Of the Kent Street
'PresbvteriaN Church viii hold a fail
about the 1st Of June. They are now in
dustrionslN engaged in making prepara.
tions for it. They ask their friends tc
bear them ia mind and prepare for it.
CATHOLIC CHuRcu-Wc are Informed
by member ofthis church that arrange
ments are being made to erect d suitable
eaifiee for the Catholic Congregation of
this place. 1t is hoped that the work
will be commenced as soon as the wealth
er permits. As their former place of
worship was destroyed By the operations
of the War, it should be strong incentive
to sister ehurehes-espeeially in Mary
land and the North-to help literally in
re-estabIishing their ee-laborers i'll q
place Of worship. The peoole here will
of course give to the extent Of their abil
ity-but the bulk Of the expense must
be betrayed by other congregations.
The pachiaqAam Register reports sew
eral cases of hydrophchia among stock
in that Beighborheod.
The Stanton Iindicator says thewheat
crop will not be any thing like an ave-
rage enc in this section, though in the
last few days it IS looking better than
could have been expected. Preparations
have been made 10 plant largely Of corn
and large crop OF oats has been put out.
Cairo Is said to be flooded with counter
felt ole dollar greenbaclxs. Cairo has
hnaD si7ii.4rt To iia0I- from hon. f,,
Dr. Joseph G. Hall, one of the Oldest
citizens Of fernando. Miss, died in
that place recently. He was in his 18th
year.
An argument for homepaths Like
cures like. Sulphur comes from Nesu-
vius; therefore II is good for eruptions.
William j. Whittier was killed near
Trenton, Mississippi, recently, by the
machinery of a steam saW-mill, in Which
he was caught. His body was terribly
mangfed, and he died in few minutes.
The negroes Of Raleigh have resolved,
IN meeting, not to import Yankee
doctor, but 70 patronize the Raleigh
physicians as long as they make no dis
tinction of color.
The London biographies claim to
have eontrived printing telegraph, by
which, with enc wire, three hundred
words minute can be printed.
The French Prince Imperial speaks
English nearly as well as he does his
own language. The remarkable part of
it is that he could do it before he was a
year old.
AUber, the great composer, is fond of
horses and dissipation in his old age.
Mrs. Sigourney's house in Hartford
was sold for $4,000.
Private Doran killed man named
Morris, charged with counterfeiting, and
who was trying to escape at Columbia,
South Carolina, recently.
Mr.. Griffith, of the "Crater Farm"
near Petersburg, shot a " blaclSbifd"
Thursday morning, who was digging up
his place to get bullets, and would not
go away.
The famous Kentucky Devil, has been
lassoed and put in prison. Now let Ten
nessee lassO and cage BroWnlow, and
the two States will be even.
1t is sad truth, and one to be needed,
that the women who to-day ordain the
prevailing mode in Paris, are not the
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tate.
The University of Louisiana has con-
ferred upon the Hon. Randall Hunt ,one
of the Senators of the United States
elect from Louisiana the degree of
l.. l.. d.
Thomas Thornton, the reporter who
wrote the summary of the proceedings
OF tho House of Commons for the London
Times for forty years, is just dead.
In Cincinnati the other day lady
broke her ankle by a fall caused by put
ting her foot through the crinoline of
another lady who was walking in the
opposite direction.
M. About says of AN avaricious man.
that it had been proved that after
having kindled his fire, he stuck a cork
in the end of his bellows to save the
little wind that was left in them''
A giant porker has been raised in
HEREFORD county, North Carolina, which
is nine feet long and weighs over sixteen
hundred pounds, without trichin@.