The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-08-26
G 4 N ERAL WIS.

county burned to the ground on Sunday night 18th
inst Il built Of logs and located in Centreye There
were Al the time confined in the Jail four persons three Of
whom awaiting trial for the terrible murder of Esta
brook. The other was confined q charge of burglary
and larceny and supposed be one Of the convcs who
escaped nom the Lenawa county Jail in June last He set
hrs TO the building he had repeatedly declared that be
would never be brought TO trial While the fire was de-
stroying the building be admitted that he fired it, The
Alo In the hurry and confusion Of attempting extract
the prisoners and at the time provide for them ST.
cure reception lost the key and the three murderers were
only released by choppng way their cellswhile the
wretch who set the building fire was burned death be-
fore be could be reached His our informant could
not rccollect--DeiroR Tribune
CHOLERA Oh snrsoARp.-The shin Delaware Csp,sip
Paitsn at New York from Havre lost eighteen passengers
by cholera between the 9th and 18th inst also died John
Brown, seaman native Of Russia During the last FIVE
days new eases had occurred.
FrederkA Bremen the amiAble and talented Swedish an
hofea has given publicity proposal for the reestab-
hent and maintenance Of universal peace through the
agency q whole worlds womans alliance She suggests
that all the charitable associations Of women at present in
existence should unite for this purpose and strengthen and
extend their activity by joint exertion and the conscious
Of a mutual aim
PeAcldeAers now consider themselves as nearly in the
midst OF The business season. it is well known that the
late fruit pretty much killed off yet there is an extreme
y scanty supply in the market falling even short of pre-
vious expectation Baskets retail from 81 so to So Last
year the kind Of fruit selling here at from so cents
70 81 80 per basket-Nspark Mercury.
Mrs Sarah Zenor Lard exhibited yesterday to few Of
hs friends In this city silk dress which was made in
Graham township in this county The worms were fed on
the leaves Of mulberry tree growing in that township
This specimen Of home industry, enterprise and produc-
ton will be exhibited the agricultural fairs to be held in
this city and ai North Madison this fall We can almost
insure Mrs. Lard premium handsomer silk dress has
seldom been in Madison.--Mad Com
Hon Thomas Clayton, formerly member of the House
of Representatives and afterwards United States senator
from Delaware and at time chief justice of the superior
court Of that State died Newcastle Monday last in
the nth year of his age.
Fires in the northern forests doing immense damage
Near Albany y several very extensive raging
and the atmosphere Of the city is rendered hazy with the
smoke But the greatest conhagration is the Green
Mountains, Arlington and Sunderland, Vermont,
which in the Of five days has travelled in
direct line six miles spreading with fearful rapidy,
and presenting at night sublime spectacle Looking up
from the valleys the eye survey single glance
than two miles Of lurid fame and the fire leaps from
tree 10 tree sweeping upward and onward nothing be
magnificent At the las, accounts several large and
valuable saw-ms threatened and the fire travels SO
fast that nothing but great stop its progress
The telegraph reports that terrible FIRE is also raging in
Maine
The Saginaw Mich Enterprise relates story of an In
dian woman who was killed by lynx in Tuscaloosa
county. She had gone out from camp distance to
bring in venison which Indian had dressed and
hung up when, returning with the meat her shoulder,
the ferocous beast spang her back and though she
threw the venson far from her she could in order to
divert the attention Of the lynx it did not leave her until
it had destroyed her life.
German national fair opened last month at Mu-
MICH Bavaria in handsome crystal palace Among the
things exhibition Crawfords statues of Patrick
Henry and Thomas Jefferson which attract little admit
ration.
Madame Cabel, the ntely-dscovered French operate
star has just signed engagement for five years with the
manager of the Opera Comique and Theatre Lyrque united
She TO have 10000 francs year, and three months leave
of absence The first year she belongs to the Theatre
Lyrique and afterwards to the Opera Comique
There IS yellow-fever deaths in the charity hos
pita New Orleans for the FIVE days ending the 18th inst
The admissions averaged about 10 per day
The New Bedford Standard says We are informed that
young grampus whale about 10 feet in length and weigh
ing 200 pounds, captured last week by Mr. Samuel
Spooner, of this city, between Cutyhunk and Gay Head
Hon. Daniel E. Huger died at Sullivans Island, oppo-
site Charleston Monday, aged rs years. The deceased
distinguished citizen Of South Carolina having been
member Of both branches Of the legislature, judge and
finally senator of the United States in 1912
SHOCKING AooIpEST--On Saturday morning
the Pitsburg train Short conductor leaving Cum
minsvle they into horse attached light grocery
wagon, breaking the wagon into thousand pieces and
killing the horse instantly The boys who in the
jumped up and were in the net OF getting out when
the collision occurred. One of them, named Philip Dutch
man. torn into hundred pieces His arms and legs
found scattered in different directions His heart
found suspended a limb OF tree about twenty feet
from the of the accident The other young man also
German and whose name did not learn, thrown
to side of the road and injured badly that he died
in few minutes.
The train stopped and conductor shor, and the pas
senges ran back to assist those who injured The
pieces of Philips body collected and with tina other
body placed in box and placed In the vault Of the
Western Cemetery, near by Cincinnati 6asts, Monday
There are sixteen ships now building at East Boston.
The Jail in jefferson county Virginia Is 10 let being
without single tenant AT present
Hon John r. Thompson, United States senator fUm New
Jersey sailed for Europe wednesday IN the steamer
Arabia
The wings procuring endorsements Of their congress
from free-soers, Charles Sumner has written his
name the back Of Mr. Eliot
CRIME IN ST. Louu-The 81 Louis Republican Of the
10th inst says there has not been night within hs asi
week when the dagger has not drank ihs blood o. is c
Office NIGHTS hean ths