The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-07-06

iSsAETEg sPIKsTUALlsA-In the police court Of
Bosioni on Saturday Ellen Brown formerly teacher in
the Dwight school brought up insane person
She i believer in the doctrine Of sprialis and
By continual thought and upon the subject has
become insane She iagines that She il continually re
ceisng communications from the spirit world totally
unfit 70 care for herself and VIII be insane
asylum.
FATAL EFEKcTs ca HKAz-The New York Journal
of Commerce Of the 4th says;
The fatal effects to human life Of the iatense heat Of
Saturday apparent In this city there eleven
deaths from snnsroke that day and eight have
red SINCE In Brooklyn there were TWO deaths IN Bal-
more seven, including policeman IN Philadelphia
three and IN Boston two Totai, 3D.
In the same paper find the following paragraph
which may Ia part account for the above
We noticed last evening considerable number Of
demlahns were being distributed about the city Their
owners doubt taking precautions against inter-
ference from the legal authorities-7
DESTRUCTIVE HRE-The Glasgow mills, at Springfield
Massachusetts destroyed by fire Tuesday after
The loss l. estimated S25oooo; insured for
$4,000 was killed by the falling Of wall
Chester Vessel driver Of public hack No 2s was yes
terday fined one dollar for charging lady 81 SO for
taking her her residence East l4rh from the
foot Of Couriandi In addition 10 this be
PEELED by Marshal Stephens refund the money charged
~ aboFe----f- - f21Pre6S
The distance from the foot Of Courtlandt street to East
l4th street and back is five miles Comment is
necessary.
0rPosInoS MISUNDERSTANDING the diversions for
morrow, says the New York Evening Post Of the 3D.
concert Of real Simon pure Ethiopian mnstrels the
Tabernacle g. p 1t is understood to be trial of
musical skill growing Of challenge them from
baek-washed company of white serenadera
SAD AFEAlR--One of the New York papers Of Tuesday
says We entered house yesterday where three children
lay dead u the scarlet fever and the fourth seriously
III Of the terrible complaint The only medical
tendant thar had been called nagnetizer and the
only medicine he had left FAR could learn an
INFUSION Of sage tea for gargle9
BrRauDA pora roEsA letter dated Hamilton, Bermuda
June az, says:
The shipment potatoes and onions stlll goes on az
brisky The hargue Mariei, brig Isabella Reed
and schooner G. d. Robertson being loaded this week
for New York The latelaned potatoes have done very
well, owing 10 the backward spring The first
weather that have had made its appearance last week
RICH TRAcT-Darlington township, Beaver county, Pa
contains Of aboat 200 of land underlaid by
Of camel coal estimated contain 2ooooooo
On The three Of bituminous
COAL estimated TO contain 100000 The land lies
along the Little Beaver river convenient water and fire.
clay is also abundant in the locality.
INLAND uosNERcE-The reciprocity treaty recently ear
red into effect ny government and the Canadian
provinces has opened up [says the Chicago Tribune
brisk trade between the cities the St Lawrence and
Chicago We have been forchly struck by this fact on
several occasions lately by observing the Cross Of ST
George floating from the masshends Of vessels in our hsr-
her The Ranger and George Moait from Mon
treal lying the foot OF Clark street with ex
elAnges Or market
Y.
AN oarEsTAL MAINE LAw-The Eastern Prince Of the
Chinese insurgents has issued proclamation arbidding
all princes and uohe ministers Of and people men
and women TO indulge in the of wine privately
under penalty of being behsaded
LosGEyTy- Mrs. Margaret Cameron aged la2 years
and Mrs Bethina Steward ag-d lo died in Burlington
county New Jersey during the month Of June last
PorAroEsThe Norfolk Herald says the spring crop has
turned uncommony we'll and immense quantities are
being shipped off 70 the northern cities.
much fortress fer that scarcely be APP
piled to it a defended by chain forts and field
Qualifications most Of which have been erected by the
yeous industry and energy of the Russians the COM
Of the siege upon principles admirably adapt
ed the peculiar conGguraon of the soil Thus Major
Bdduph observes, in his valuable remarks that they
have in fact produced the perfect specimen Of field
Manelon been constructed Of enormous strength and
not the less for it being simply Termed of earth"
THOUSAND YEARS oLDs---A tree, said to be
the largest in the world exhibition at New York
The Mirror says
This giant tree which grew in forest in Caaveras
county California and which has been by boansts
the Westinghouse GiyGHtea measured when standing 1868
feet from base top Its greatest diameter 81 feet the
base and 5} feet at the distance Of lie feet from the roots
Ii was cut and shipped this port BY two enierprsng
cypress species and Professor Winslow of san Francisco
estimates its age TO be three Thousand years
uSPaEcEDEVTED WHEAT CROPS IN KESTUcKr-The Gin
cinnat Commercial says:
Perry McNeey, esq. Of Petersburg, Boone county
Kentucky writes to under date Of June so that he has
conversed concerning the crops with least twenty OF the
PRINCIPAL farmers of that county and that all OF them tell
him there before such crops OF wheat that re-
gion There is rust the only complaint being that in
places il is down, An old gentleman named Harvey
Parker who has lived in Boone county sixty years
he never crops promise abundantly A Mr. Joseph
jenkins had fourteen of wheat which be cutting
within half mile Of Petersburg and Il was estimated that
II would average 80 bushels to the acre
RAILROAD LETTNe.-The Dubuque and Pacific Railroad
Company have advertised for proposals for the consruc-
ton Of the FIRST division Of their road The road an
tension Of the great chain Of railway from Boston and
New York west and ending at Dunleity, on the
Upper Missouri, opposite Dubuque Iowa The proposed
thirty miles win be trunk portion two important
routes viz that the Mississippi river and Of the
Minnesota and northwestern road northwest St Paus
BEAN HUNT IL SPANThe Memorial ass Pyrepoes has the