Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-09-25
ALEXANDRIA,:
THURSDAY MORNING, SEPT. as, 1884.
SUMMARY OF NEWS.


diately.
Accounts from Louisiana and Mississippi
state that the sugar crop is uncommonly pro-
missing this year. but that cotton has peeh soi"e'
what injured by late heavy rains.
The Steamboat VIM. Gibbons OF New orh
does not go South, as she can get no passengers
who are willing to risk eleven days quarantine
at Charleston. She offered to clear from Am
boy in Jersey, but they did not like to venture.
The Siamese Twins are now at Culpepef
Court House.
Mr. Campbell has received $4,000 for his copy
right of the life of Mrs. Siddons, and Allan Gun
ningham $4,000 for his life Of Burns.
The Stanton Spectator states that thlrty-se-
ven bills of indictment were found against per-
sons for perjury, and forgery, at the late session
of the Federal Court at Carksburg. These Oh
fences were all connected with frauds under
the pension laws
From an enquiry made by Messrs TopIift, OF
CITY Hall News Room, Boston, it is ascertalned
that the number of vessels which have registers,
now living at the Boston wharves unemployed,
is l52. viz: 81 ships and barks, amounting to
2l,4l3 tons; II brigs, 1881 tons, and 20 schoo-
ners, 2O92 tons: total of tonnage unemployed,
81, O36 tons. This, it is to be observed does not
include considerable number of large vessels
which have coastng licenses.
The Yellow Fever has prevailed on board the
United States schooner Grampus. now at ZEN
sacola. A letter says: % Two Of the officers
were first attacked, and then ii spread among
the men, five or six Of whom were taken down
with it every day, until it went through nearly
the whole crew; only about dozen men and
five officers, including the Doctor and Purser,
having escaped"
The Richmond Compiler says: The arrival
oftwenty-fve gamblers on Saturday was imme-
diately made known TO the Ant-Gambling So
ciety. They have come on, as we learn, to
make the necessary arrangements for the regu-
lar semi annual campaign during the races"
The Mayor of Quebec recently stated at
public meeting, that the Cholera had carried
of from fourteen to fifteen hundred residents
of that city during the present year.
That the people Of Pennsylvania are in ear
nest in reference to the attainment OF the lmpor-
tant object Of connecting their great State Ca
nal with the Chesapeake Bay, there can be no
doubt
The Wheeling Times states that 1876 tons ofpro'
duce were forwarded from that town to Balti-
more, by wagons, during the previous week
1t would seem that in the march Of intempe-
rance Great Britain has reached point beyond
even that which we have attained in the United
States.
Judge Baird was assaulted in the street in
Uniontown, Fayette county, Pa. one day last week
in his way from the Court House to his cham
Der by a party in a cause, against whom the
Court had charged the Jury unfavorably, and
several blows were inflicted before the assaant
could be arrested
Among the distinguished strangers at Paris
who were honorcd with seats at the opening of
the Chamber OF Deputies by the liking of the
French" and at the ceremonies Of the recep-
ton ofhis Majesty land the delivery of his speech,
we notice the name of"the Hon. Joseph w. White,
Of The american Congress-"
Two pharmaceutists Of Paris have discover
ed new method Of embaming the human bo-
dy, which is capable of so great a degree of
perfection as to preserve entire the traits Of
countenance with all the integrity and freshness
they exhibited during life
The Woolen Mill belonging to the Salmon
Falls Company, n. II. it is well known, was con-
sumed by fire few weeks ago, and althoughit
was insured, nearly enough to have erected
new Mill, and to have filled it with Machinery,
yet the owners have determined wholly to aban-
don the business.
In the town Of Durham, Comm containing
population of something like 1900 inhabitants,
not death has occurred since the commence
ment of the present year, embracing period Of
about eight months.
An action of SANDER, brought by Laura Howe
against Benjamin Perry, was tried before the
Supreme Court at Greenfield, Mass. last week
The defendant is a widow, about twenty three
years Of age, of an unblemished and unsuspect-
ed character. The defendant had charged her
with the most infamous conduct. The words
were fully proven, and proved to have been
spoken under circumstances indicating great
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