The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-09-20

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The Pitsburg Gazette noticing the appearance of cholera
in that city says that majority of the victims died after
sickness varying from six TO ten hours Many Ger
mans, who had been but short time in the country.
The night express train the Charleston and Augusta
railroad into calvert about three o'clock We'd
nesday morning, when within eight miles of Augusta
causing serious, if not fatal, injury to the engineer
Mr. Robinson. One of the fremen slightly injured.
Two of the freight demolished
An accident occurred the Virginia and Tennessee
railroad Wednesday last the Big Spring depot
which resulted in the death of man. the injury (per
haps ft of another and the destruction Of engine
The killed negro, the fireman, and the in
jured the conductor, Mr. Conner.
The wife of the captain Of canal boat fell into the
New York canal on Sunday evening last Her husband
jumped in after her with his overcoat As he neared
shore finding himself exhausted he thrust her forward
SO that she saved but he sank and was drowned His
name Johnson and he belonged in Waterford.
sAruRN-Ths beautiful object with its multiple rings
equatorial BELTS and octave of satellites visible in
the quarter Of the heavens after ten o'clock D. m
any clear evening The telescope exhibits the eye its
southern pole just grazing the main division between the
brighter rings while its north pole is concealed behind the
opposite section of its circular attendant 1t is not far
from annriar earrasiaA, Every evening it
rises about four minutes earlier-4Al6any Journal
statement of the profits of the Hamburg gambling
banks shows them average forty per the capital
subscribed in shares This justly observed by Baden
Journal is the commentary that be given upon
the runous nature of these splendid hefory per cent
profit after paying all expenses
The amount Of the wealth of Sebasopol is computed to
be f200oOOoO The Notifications have less than
m and vnI cto aofn
digious value
CAI,7oRSIA WHEAT riELD--As specimen Of what can
be done the soil of California the editor Of the Sacra
mento Union mentions that he had field of wheat of
six hundred growing in Yolo county, part of which
he thought would harvest seventy five bushels the acre.
and that had been measured off and eaped The
owner threshed and weighed it. The weight thirty
thousand and four pounds which, sixty pounds to the
bushe gives sirysir and tacohds bushels of wheat
the acre and other parts would furnish greater yield
E,RrmquAKE IN GuArExALa--A letter from Guatemala
dated August I'd, says;
For few weeks past we have been seriously and fire.
quenty disturbed by earthquakes and since the 18th Of
July when the first felt till this hour there have
than fifty shakes all Of them horizontal and gene
rally in direction from northeast to southwest Since
the 1880 there has been nothing to with this
and owing to the recent ruin of the sister city of San Sal
vador people here have become exceedingly frightened
families had fled to neighboring villages slept
in their large courtyards in the open air, the differ
ent Several churches have been seriously
injured and from the church Of San Augustine the Noues
4o removed to another church. for fear serious
accident might happen to the decayed building Most Of
the shakes were felt in the time, and during pretty
strong northern breeze"
The Journal of Commerce says that three thousand dol
lars have been forwarded by New York merchants aid
the sufferers in Savannah.
Forest fires New York State have destroyed in three
weeks 100000 daars' worth of timber.
Believing tho prncpa
prizes at the Havana lottery, drawn the LIST inst
0o7, 100000; $685. $4,000; $780, $4,000; 1885,
$4,000 lo5O9, 1880, and $780, $4,000 each; and L.
49, 3O4o 9579 1902, 2l,62s 22,577 2335 2sO69 and
2s222, $1,000 each.
meeting of the trustees of the University Of
Mississippi the following gentlemen elected profess
sorshps in that institution:
VIM r. StesrRg, professor of governmental science and
Fdk A. p Barnard professor of mathematics astrono-
my, and civil engineering.
DR.. Francis Mettaver professor Of chemistry and na
raj philosophy.
DARTMOUTH OoLLKsE--Sixy-fve students have entered
the freshman fifteen the sophomore and three the junior
classes, at Hanover
Jack Frost paid visit to several of the in ST.
Lawrence county On. W on Sunday night
Mrs Harriet Leavenworh widow of the late Cen Henry
Leavenworth, United States army died at Barryown, Del
aware on the 7th lass
GEN. GAINEs-It may not be generally known that
within the precincts of the Old Cemetery of this city repose
the remains Of the gallant veteran whose heads this
article Within small lot, enclosed within wall Of
brick, the centre of the cemetery covered with
fiat not inch above the surrounding EARTH
without inscription of any kind mark the tomb of
distinguished in the military annals of the
try, lies the body of Gen. Edmund Pendleton Gaines
Mobile Register
NATIVE wEEs--Thc region about Cincinnati has be-
native wines produced there principally from the Catawba
grape brief description of the process wine manu-
cture carried in that vicinity although to
ALL will be read with interest by many of our readers
The vines planted about twenty -four hundred the
and trained upon stakes and kept closely trimmed
in order that they may bear the abundantly The
grapes gathered when fully ripe and crushed in cider
mill The crushed grapes digniGed with the appea
ton OF cheese and the Juice which has been pressed from
them 10 called must About three gallons of juice may be
obtained from bushel of grapes The juice after being
crushed from the grape conveyed into large receiving
tub and is then stored away ~ ceau casks.
The must is sometimes subjected to second and even
third PRESSURE but the juice which thus obtained is of
inferior kind and is used in the manufacture of the
best quality Of wines. The casks into which the wine is
poured filed up within five six inches Of the bung
put loosely In three weeks the fermentation ceases
and the casks then filed to the top and frightened The
casks in which the wine stored sometimes of su
ccn dimensions TO hold from FIVE hundred to two thou
sand gallons,