Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1829-11-28

zen of this state. He intends set ling on
farm in Fayette county, in January next
with view TO become cul',a'or OF The SOIL.
We welcome this much abused and prosecuted
man, and his amiable family TO our stare; and
hall be proud to number him as on- OF the
freemen Of Ohio. S'ofo 5ozshe'
The brig Francis, Of New York. ON entering
Cadiz after il was DECLARED fee port, was
charged three hundred dollars tonnage cu'y, &c
At Gibraltar the same accommodation might
/ be obtained for about seven dollars.-h Com.
M. O. II. w S,ull, the faithful and excel
len, Pos master Of Hagerstown, Md. has been
removed from nfice, and Mr.. Howard kenne-
dy appointed in his place.
Mr.. John Gwynn. Of Londonderry, Ireland,
lately deceased. bequea,hed $4,000 tor The
establishment of school "for the education,
clothing, boarding, and appr~n'ieing OF male
children in the city, and prescribed adjacent
district, without regard to religious distine-
TONS" The sum is vast considering the cheap.
ness Of education and living in that part Of
| ireland.
A physicians saddlrbags were lately stolen
from his horse in the town Of Bangor, (Maine)
| containing sundry boluses. &c. IL taken, the
rogue should he made to expiate The crime oy
swallowing his prize.
Grea, soIieiude has begun to he felt. con-
corning the fate Of the United States Ship
Hornet. She has not been seen, nor heard OF
since the 10Th Of September.
Cross EYEs.-A DR.. D. c Devine Of Char,
lesion, S c. adverrises that he has discovered
a complete cure for the deformi'y. called
cross eyes" Charges for cure vary from
~ 10 Sloo.
The Charleston Courier says: "A friend has
presented US with sample OF Loaf sugar, ma
nufactnred in France, from the beet root. In
favor, il canuo, be distinguished from sugar
made from oane; but being much lighter. pro-
| badly il may not 20 so far in the uses TO which
il may be applied II is beautiful sample,
perfectly crys,sIizsd, and purely white In ap'
pearance it is much superior to any double re,
fined sugar from cane"
FREKzse QuieksILvER.-H Is stated ny
Professor Hansteen. that during his tour in ST.
beria, in the month Of January last, finding the
mercury In Two thermometers becoming LTD,
| he determined to expose a quantity of, 10 The
full rffee IS OF the air. Accordingly a, night he
poured 3lbs. into basin, and set il out. The
mex, morning bef,re half past O'clock. il was
frozen into a compact hard mass, which he
| could not loosen with his knife from the bot
tom Of the basin! He cut il like lead; anG, al
thirst, as the Knife came ou' OF warm room, the
| mercury was still rather fluid where it was Gu!
A bon mot from Botany Bay NAV be consi-
dpred a novelty, and VIZ extract the following |:
"An sGi,ion Of b iley's Dictionary having been,
some time since put up a. an auction, ,ht ven
due master observed that l! was a ne,o Bailey
am glad Of that with all my heart replied
bidder, for most Of US have had enough Of
the Old Bailey"
We a,e happy TO hear that the Indian wild
ows are nv no means The fools they were, and
that the fashion Of burning is "going out" in
those paris We can tell our readers if they
have no, already discovered il. that our wild
owl. wives, and maids are taking 20 short pet
,icoats at a surprising rate; their skirts are
none OF them ANGLE dee and il the curiailment
goes on for another fortnight ss it has begun,
il will be impossible TO imagine the Ne Plus w.
ira; but il iss very pretty fashion when the feet
are pretty.-John Bull
We find in the Gazette de France this notice
Of singular thief and murderer
man who was hanged some time ago in
Calcutta who was greal swimmer, and would
re main very long under waer. Relying on
these qualities, he would e., into the paIisaded
enclosure where the India women bsthe, he
would selze upon some one among them un.
srcn BY the o. hefs, drown her ana take her Jew
els, which even in bathing an India woman
does not leave off-the others seeing their com
panion disappear, supposes her carried of BY
crocodile.
The ridiculous Spanish custom prevails still
IT, Colombo Of Offering visitor any thing he
NAV sdmire in the house Mr.. Cade and
myself were much amused one morning 81 re-
ceiving printed card from tho Under Secrets-
ry f,r Foreign Affairs, with the following No.
tic-: Senior dr. --- has The honor Of Offer
Ing for your disposal li'l' girl, which she has
brought INTO the void" Having hall dozen
Of my own in England, declined the polite OF.
fer Of receiving The new bora babe
Hnmilkon's Colombia.
One Of the newspapers says that pigeon
has been known 10 live Two days after being
deprived Of the 6,ain, and the upper par, of the
spinal marrow. We have known several fea'
,herless blpedb who had lived through long
i;Ce liter The farmer de priyation