The daily union., 1854-11-10

the habit OF beating her On the day question he bea
er severely soon after she confined in twelve
hours death ended her suerings An inquest was held on
the body She presented horrible appearance having
wounds bruises and marks of extreme violence upon ali
parts OF her person Her husband addicted to drink
Il ing.
II SALE Oh THE PARKER VEIN srEAMsHips-The steamships
belonging 10 The Parker Vein Company sold in New
! YORK, on wednesday last at the following prices
Locust Point, $4,000; Thomas Swami $I35oo; West
s nn r9sL 9lSocoi Mount Savage Sloooo Jackson s7-
300 Georges Greek, $4,000 Piedmont $4,000; Caedo-
mia, $4,000 Parker Vein, $i25ooH
The CANADA TRAGEDY.-We learn from the Detroit In
quer mat ory-two persons have died of those who were
injured by the collision the Great Western railroad The
remainder are doing well.
DEATH OF A cLEaGyMAs-Rev Mr. White an Episcopal
clergyman of Savannah died at Petersburg Virginia ON
Monday, OF consumption. He had just returned from Eu
rope
kAVAGEs OF oHoLERA.-lt is estimated that since the
year 1917 the cholera has swept off fifty millions of the
worlds inhabitants
lIh OYSTER rAscA New York letter-writer says nThe
foolish excitement about poisoned oysters has subsidized en-
trey One OF the largest dealers town told me that he
had sold of the article last week than he had done
| previously in two MONTHS
DESTRUCTIVE sroRM-A correspondent of the Nacog-
doche Texas Chronicle says Jasper has been yed
by an auumnal equnociial Storm and estimates the dam
ages and losses of the planting community fifty thou
sand dollars
STILL IN UsE.The whipping-post is still in use in Gov
ington, Kentucky Lawrence Hunt publicly whipped in
that place last week for stealing caps
SUIcnn pREsIpESr--A despatch from
Cincinnati dated November g. says:
Frederick Gedge the acting president of the Covngton
ana Lexington Railroad Company committed suicide to-
day by throwing himself across the track Of that road
the time Of the passing Of train His head was severed
from his body The miserable man had been nearly de-
mented since the return of bills from New York drawn
against the bonds of the company and supposed TO have
been sold in New York, and which he with th- ,he
directors, was an endorser. ~
SMOKING AT FuNsGnALs--The New York Express saws ::
at funeral is very spectacle in New
York We often long files of persons with cigars in
their mouths following hearse"
sERES Forrest the ragedian, received an inn
promptu seenade Monday evening after the perform
at the Boston Theatre at his the Winthrop
House Several hundred persons were present
The STEAMSHIP sADE4-A letter from Key West states
that the steamship Isabel will probably be again taken
New York for repairs.
A roR DEBr.-The town Of Petersburg the
former county seat OF avaca county, Texas was sold by
the sheriff Of that county short time since for debt The
property went remarkably low The old courthouse sold
for sixteen dollars the old tavern stand for fifteen dollars
and other property in proportion
INJUNCTION cAsEThe circuit court at Wheeling now
occupied in hearing the application of the city of Wheeling
for injunction against the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company The principal points alleged in the bill of the
complanans the irrcparable injury which would re-
suit TO the city of Wheeling from the construction Of the
companys wharf and branch road at Benwood designed
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