The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-06-17
THE DAILY UNION

m Each bundle about one hundred small trees
ana u van take fifty thousand Of these bundles TO
plete the work 1t is said the willows viii sprout and
grow, roofing firmly together thereby forming living
supeisuueture which will last for ages without the
tendency 70 decay Docks like these occur very frequently
on the banks of the Rhine in Germany.
The spire of the Old North Church at Portsmouth New
Hampshire has been taken down to room for one OF
modern style The builders name was found marked on
the KING post and yane-Joseph Libby, l730-and its
downfall was witnessed by Richard Fitzgerald constant
worshpper in the church since 774 period Of eighty
years.
ANY PORT IN sroRA.-ln Ballymena Ireland during
very heavy shower in that neghborhood and whilst peo-
pie We're eonusedy running hther and ther for shelter
awren took refuge in young gentlemans moustache-
evidently installing his mouth for the aperture into its own
| nest
APPRENTICES NOT pRoPERrYThe Court Of Queens Bench
has LATELY decided that where master has covenanted
instruct his apprentice in any trade and by selling his
business incapactaes himself from mparng the promised
Instruction. he by that act of ITSELF violates his covenant
and that he could not justify himself by the fact tina. he
had made arrangements by which his apprentice might be
instructed by the party to whom the business trans
crred 1t is, in the United States considered to be the
better opinion that apprentice cannot under ordinary
circumstances be assigned. But in Pennsylvania by stat
ute an apprentice may be assigned with his own and his
guardians assent And by statute of New York. foreigners
binding themselves to masters in this country may be as
signed by the MASTER by instrument writing endorsed
on the original contract and duly approved by
peen magistrate. BY the supreme court of New York
state 100, an assignment of an apprentice may although
not binding the apprentice be valid between the masters
as covenant for the services of the apprentice
Out of London there but daily paper In the whole
OF England There are seventy-fve boroughs in England
returning members Parliament in not one of which
newspaper is published
Mississippi paper announces that in Il race between
two 'crack boats had in three lenqths ahead Of
the other, in a distance of $50 miles,
Miss Malnda NJ Ball teacher in one of the public
schools in Troy has been discharged by the board of edu
cation, on the ground that she believer in the
spiritual rappings,' and attended the "circlcs."
Grand the well-sinker who rescued from the well
of Ecuy after being buried in up to the arms for nine
teen days died aterward The gangrene had already
reached higher than the place at which his foot ampu-
tated.
lump Of gold weighing l,4s5 pennyweights and worth
81 4lo TO- has been taken from the Mccormick mine Co
lumbia county, Georgia. after two weeks labor 1t ex
aced nearly from the surface of the earth from vein of
great depth and richness.
AT q social party, one evening, the question was put
up-"What is religon2" Religion" replied Of the
party, "s insurance against fire in the world for
which honesty is the best policy"
There was suit decided few days ago in the Charles
town IVA circuit court before Judge Summers for the val
OF coal that had been used for the purpose of manuc
turing salt and the jury decided it to be worth cent
per bushel in the mines which brought the land up the
neat sum of eight hundred and sixy-egh dollars per acre
The true value of our coal lands says the Charestown Re
publican) is just beginning to be appreciated
FUGTuyE-sLAyE HUNBuG.-The Manchester Union Demo-
crat says;
desperate attempt made 10 get up fugitiveslave
in this city last Sunday There negro barber
here named Moore who claimed TO be- fugitive slave
rumor started early Sunday Neutrality-suspicious. any
reasonable basis so far learnthat his former
master was in pursuit Of him. subscription set on
foot once and Moore started off for Canada We under
stand this Is not the first time he has raised the wind in
this way"
This doubtless got up for political eiico-to aid
the piebad allied army in their effort, to get up excite
ment upon the subject of slavery,
NsW Hampshire Daily Pariot