Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1819-08-25
was on Tue Church Hill, in the house Of lis

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A stream Of lightning struck the gable end
OF the house, on the side he was standing,
passed almost in direct line down the wall
and struck him as he was standing. il is
it is supposed, with mis- head reclining a.
gainst the window frame. He was Instant
ly seized with strong convulsions and expi-
red in about twenty minutes.
lady, perhaps sister OF the deceased,
was above stairs, seated at the window,
and Immediately over his head. She did
not touch the side of the house to which
circumstance her preservation has been at
tributed; but the shock was so great as to
drive her several feet from her seat to the
middle of the room. The only injury which
she experienced, was certain numbness
of the bod, and the limbs, which were in
clined towards the window.
Mr. Aliens brother was in the same room
with him, on the opposite sine-he felt the
shock, but received little or no injury-like
the lady above, he was in no contact with
the side of the house
From the .Nev York Daily .AdueDtiser.
Whilst every body complains of hot
summer, and hard times, there is good
degree of variety to be found in the general
stale OF things in our country. For exam
pie
IN AGRICULTURE.
The former harvest, as far as we have
heard throughout the country. has been a.
bundant, excellent, and gathered in finer
condition, than was almost ever known
With regard to bread, we have every rea-
son to be thankiul-we shall have It in
plenty, and OF quality that must satisfy
the most scrupulous md delicate appetite.
Hay in some places is cut short by the
backward spring, in others the CROP was
large, and in all il was made in the hest
manner. and the quality is very superior.
In some parts of the country the drought
began early, and has been very SEVERE
50 much so. that The face of the earth has
for weeks presented the most parched and
dreary aspect. In this respect, the coun-
try has been unusually chequered and d.
versGed. The rain that has occurred has
fallen in showers-in some small tracts the
earth has been deIuged, in Others, hard by,
the drought has been almost uninterrupted.
Many Of the showers have been very ex-
traordinary. In one instance, one If the
large rivers was raised more than seven
feet by shower near its banks.
The latter harvest" will be good in
some places and in others nearly destroyed
The Summer feed for cattle has been in
many places entirely burnt up by The
drought-so much so, that the farmers have
been under The necessity of feeding their
cattle from the barn. There mas been an
unusual quantity of thunder and lightning
in the country this season, ana great deal
vi hdhdSc pJ ihC id'tCl'
In Trade, there has been more monoto-
ny-times have been literally dull, the
banks have been embarrassed, their paper.
OF course, deprecated, many of them, as
our countrymen say, have "pulted in the
string" declining to pay for the present,
and promising no great for The future. l he
state of things is not, however, without its
use. Finding an absolute necessity for
change, men, and romen too, have grown
more economical-they expend less, and
will find the benefit, of the new sy stem in
a saving OF the comforts OF competence and
In Manufactures. great effort is making
in some parts of the country, particularly
in Pennsy lvania, to revive them, as the on
ly remedy within our reach Tor the gene
raj maladies. 1t is probably intended that
this subject shall be pushed at the next
session of Congress.
In Politics. in many parts Of the country
there is dead calm, in others small local
and in lew of the large
states, warm and animated struggle 10
brewing for the state soOereigmy-just e.
nough to supply newspapers with fresh
matter of the same SORT from day to day and
from time to time, and to prevent that to-
tai, and absolute stagnation of feeling,
which is supposed BY some visionary poll.
ticians to be omnibus Of public danger, and
public ruin.
In short, what with charitable institutions,
Saving Banks, Agricultural Societies, Emf.
grafton Societies. and Manufacturing Asso.