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I'm. & ". W. b. GALLAHER, Editors.
Charlesto,on, Jefferson County, Vest Va.
Nay Il, 1858.

Vanderbilt has retired from the p!esi-
dency of his three roads and gone to
Europe.
Wm. Carl Brown, the Washington artist,
will sketch this summer in this beautiful
Shenandoah Valley.
An aged lady of Sharpsburg, Maryland,
has given $500 to rebuild the local NJ. E.
church.
Yson Pike of this State has got a land
Office promotion from fourteen to sixteen
hundred dollars.
Mrs. Frances Eclla BeauchamP Of Den
ton, Maryland, is acquitted Of the charge Of
poisoning her husband
Gov. Boynton of Georgia was married last
week to Miss 5. T. Harris at the residence
of the brides mother in Walton county.
The Augusta county porcelain works
near the S. V. R, r. are to be worked by &
company with S75 OOo capital.
William Demint, the first male white
child born in Louisville, Ky, died last week
aged 100 years. He served in the war Of
1872.
Ned Breoman and Chas. Gallaher, sus-
pected of connivance in the Rodemer's (W.
Va postoiiice robbery, are held at Cum
berland for the grand jury.
Con ,-essman Phil b. Thompson, Jr., Of
Kentucky, who killed Walter II. Davis is
indicted for murder. Senator VOORHEES,
and Congressman J. S. c. Blackburn and
others are counsel for the defense.
The steamship Grappler was burned last
week oil coast California. Her passengers
were mostly Cinnamon whose frantic
behavior impeded saving the ship and
ultimately swamped the boats. 60 lives
lost.
The growth Of telegraph business in Eng
land since the state has acquired control Of
the lines is said to have been enormous.
The number Of messages per week have
grown from 10000 to GO3OOO
The Roman Catholic cathedral in Hart
ford. the largest church in Connecticut Is,
before completion, threatening to tumble,
and viii probably have to be rebuilt. over
5000, 900 have been spent on it,
The King of Bavaria has appointed a
niece of the late Richard Wagner to be
" ROYAL Professor of the School of Music," "
this being the first appointment Of the kind
which has ever been given in Germany to
alady.
Holm-e OHoy Paulding, assistant surgeon
Us. A. is dead aged 81 lie was son Of
Commander Leonard Taulding, Us. y,
who died at Panama while in command Of
the L. s. steamer Wateree; 4 greatgrand-
son of Paulding, one of the three captors Of
Andre, and a grand-nephew Of Admiral
Hiram Paulding, Us. y.
A Turin jeweller has made tiny boat
formed of a single pearl, which shape It as
sumes in swell and concaviy. It's sail Is of
beaten gold, studded with diamonds, and
he bin nacle light at is Prov is perfect
ruby. An emerald serves as its rudder, and
It's stand il a slab Of ivory. 1t weighs less
than half an ounce. is price is 5000.
Jonathan Reid, of Laurens, S. c., lately
deceased. left thirty bales of cotton he had
held for higher prices since '6S when some
one offered him thirty cents a pound. HIS
administrator sold 'em at eight cents. Time
wasn't money in this case. Some Of the
bows at the Academy having mathemati-
cal turn of mind can find entertainmentthat
will beat base ball two to one by figuring
ont the amount Of wisdom in dollars and
cents absent in the foregoing instance OF
dealing in futures. The average weight Of
q bale Of cotton is 45O pounds. And also
approximate as nearly as is possible with
figures that cannotlie the number Of men at
the presentday who would be minus shirts
and women without gowns, if all cotton
producers had followed the example Of the
deceased in holding their crops for highe'
prices and had realized an advance IN pro
portion to the loss above incurred.