Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-08-01
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The Boston Mercantile journal accuses TIC
Philadelphians of a plagiarism in having open
ed Hotel which they call the fremont House
If we were the Bostonians we would pay OH
this poaching by opening Fair Mount Water
arorks, which they would be sure to improve
upon, as they do on every thing in Boston;
though they might find it troublesome to coun-
terfeit the Schuylkill.
Perpetual Motion-Another Cdse.-A Wheel
ing Editor says, that there is somebody in that
town exhibiting machine which he (the edl-
| tori thinks as far as he can judge, is the real
perpetual motion. We are rather OF the opln-
ion that the worthy editor will find that it is
perpetual motion only pro tempore.
| The New Bedford Gazette having stated il as
remarkable circumstance, that fifty horses
| died by heat in January last on the Citizens
Stage Coach line, while not one had died du-
| ring the excessive heat of the present Summer;
the Boston Post expresses the opinion, that there
! is nothing very extraordinary about it-for, says
the editor, the heat by which the fifty horses
persisted last winter was caused by the burning
of large barn where the horses were stabbed,
and We have had no heat this Summer equal to
that. The editor of the Post HASN'T been in
New York during the past week, or he would
have some hesitation in deciding that point too
positively.
The Lowell Journal mentions that couple of
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Boston and Lowell Rail Road, one of which is
called "David Crockett" This is undoubted-
ly an excellent name for a steam carriage, and
we have no question that II will "go ahead"
like fury. Davy is travelling towards immorta-
lily with awful velocity itmust be confessed, and
whether he or Jack Downing will go into sober
history as a real parsonage, and which of them
as merely imaginary creation, 1t Impossible at
this moment to say. The hint on this subject,
which we extracted yesterday from the Alex
andria Gazette, is well given and We commend
il to the attention of those who are pettng the
two prodigies with so much unwearied pertina-
city A tolerably good joke grows fiat upon the
fifteen hundreth repetition.
Lightning for tie Pcies.-We perceive by the
Boston papers, that the feeling in favor of the
expatriated Poles is becoming electrical in that
city Dr. King announces that he should deli
yer lecture on lightning for their benefit at
Chauncy Hall, and we hope, for the sake of the
exiles, that bis phenomena succeeded in attdct-
inc large audience. The Doctors never ham
died more benevolent lightning.
Capt Alden Partridge, formerly of West
Point and afterwards of the Military Academy
at Middletown, Conn, is in nomination for Cons
gress from district in Vermont. The Captain,
we believe, is an out-and-outer for Gen. Jack
son and the experiment"
The Massachusetts folk about Boston CONT
nue. to drive steady business in the suicide
line. We havnt kept up with all the late cases,
but the two last we notice in paper received
yesterday morning and here they are: a man
named Ruggles, at work for Mr.Elijah Hubbard,
in South Dedham, on Tuesday last hung him
self in his employers barn. On Friday morn
ing man named Jesse Goodenough, bad enough
we are sure,) was found hanging to a tree in
small copse of wood at Roxbury. Verdict
death by hanging himself in temporary fit of
insanity-N y COur.