The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-05-26
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GEN ERAL NEWS.
SupPINo NEW BEproRp.--New Bedford has at the
present time many ships port in the harbor
Boston, and thirty more are yet due this spring
which will make fleet Of about seventy ships to be fitted
this season. such is the magnitude of the whale and
sperm oil trade.
STOCKING FlsH--The Rochester American
says gentleman engaged in breeding fish the banks
Of the Canandagua lake and expects to stock that beau
tiful sheet Of water with speekled trout
NEw YORK YACHT CLuB.The club present consists of
about one hundred and fifty members registers twenty
tyfve yachts ranging from ls to ITO onsl5 sloop and
10 schooner rugged The club will give their annual
gatta for prizes on the nth Of June.
GoIse ABRoADThe poet James Russell Lowell who in
tends staying year abroad before entering the duties
of his professorship Cambridge will SAIL they say in
the packet ST. Nicholas from New York the LIST of
June.
BIT A cRocopILE--We copy the following from
the Wheeling Gazette:
iMr Kelly who at present exhibiting monster croco
die under the Mcclure House. while attempting to feed the
eocous beast Sunday evening had his left hand caught
in his ponderous jaws and the meacayrGi bones Of the
middle and ring fingers fractured and the hand otherwise
Iacerated We learn that it with difficulty
the beast was compelled to relinfuish his hold
Torrance of The Seven Temptations" at the Bowery
Theatre, New York, Wednesday evening, Miss Mary
Ann Denhn who played the character of Luxury in the
piece approaching too the fooghts, her dress
caught FIRE consumed but fortunately without
injury her She rescued from her perlous po
son BY young Coney, one of the Imps" in the play.
Iaos pAvINe-A New York paper thus speaks OF iron
paving:
1t can be put down in saving of 54
in every half mile the cost of the cobbe pavement
imating its endurance but years. while it is claim
ed be indestructbe pavement which at time
be taken up and sold for nearly its first cost"
DEATH or AN AMERICAN SURGEON IN RUssrA-The Prov
idence Journal OF the 23d the death of Isaac
Draper, jr an American surgeon in the Russian army He
died at Sebastopo on March Goth, Of typhus fever.
rrE WESTERN RIyERs-The ST. Louis Republican of Sat
urday last says:
The Mississippi this point rising slowly yester
day The Illinois is also reported swelling and is in
good stage From the Upper Mississippi the last reports
were and half feet the Upper Rapids, and three
and half the Lower Rapids, and falling We expect
hear of rise in this quarter An arrival from the
Missouri yesterday reports the slowly rising with
four feet in the channel from Boonvle to the mouth
This rise probably occasoned by the late heavy rains
and may amount TO a considerable SWELL
THE KINNEY ExpEDirIos,It is announced that Colonel
Kinney will sail from New York tomorrow for Mica
ragua
MONSTER raNN.--The Buffalo Commercial says that
freight train consisting Of hundred and cars
sixty-one of which loaded with cattle, the balance
with miscellaneous freight left the city, the Central
railroad on Saturday Seven Locomotives employed
in the drawing process.
TEXAN poLuESEss-In the town Of Liberty Texas fine
of S25 is imposed any individual using pronc Ian
guage in the hearing OF females
orTy or are two hundred and sixty
locomotive engines running the different roads from
Chicago that housed in that city
CASApATho Toronto Globe intimaies that the removal
OF the seat the Canadian government Toronto pref
ty certain government agent has been Toronto
king arrangements for the necessary buildings.
SINGULAR MaRRrAaG---At Paris singular marriage
was celebrated in chapel Of the Hotel Invadcsiha
OF Zouave who lost both feet and both hands in the siege
Of sebas,opo with young Of property The
couple were engaged be married before the Zouave left
for Sebastopol and when he back goriously
tlaed his betrothed declared that she would keep her
word The marriage attended by the governor of the
hotel and his stah and by all the nvalids After the
emony cross OF the legion Of honor presented
the hero in the name Of the Emperor and valuable pres
en to the bride ia the Of the Impress The 2ouave
has besides been admitted the Hotel DIES Invadcs and
promoted to the rank Of sub-lieuteuant
CHOLERA MEmrHIs--There we're twenty-seven deaths
Memphis Tennessee for the week ending the l2h, of
which seventeen were Of cholera The secretary of the
board OF health says in his report This fell disease cho
ers made sudden outbreak in the upper portion of the
city about the first Of the week and proved fatal in almost
every case.
R.rrp RIpNo-The train Which conveyed the Emperor
Napoleon Windsor, his recent visit to England,
at the rate of sevenytwo miles hour The distance