The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-12-20


RAINY suNpAYs--A clerical friend (says the Boston
Trauserip) who keeps jour al OF the weather informs
that yesterday the fifteenth Sunday out of the last
consecutive sixteen Sendays which has been unpleasant
and rainy during portion ef the day If our friend
is correctand memory confirms the general state
mentwe have had but pleasant Sunday for about four
months few years ago there thirteen consecutive
Sundays that were pleasant
TAEIse IT EAsY-We find the following cool paragraph
in the North Catolina Times
The Times has been issued for the two past weeks
The of this omission waswoek before last we were
absent business and last week we were sefy ndposcd
from bad cold
THF NEW STEAMER ADRIAuo.-The ocean steamer
Adriae being constructed at New York. is the largest
timber slip in the world. The length of this great mon
ster Of navigation Is about a52 feet and her tonnage by
carpenters measurement will be about $500 tons The
diameter of her wheels win be about fory-fye feet Her
cost is $80O,Ooo.
MONSTER locLE-our last 81 Crox Nnnesota Union
saws "Wesaw an iccle yesterday down at MeKuscks mill
race which eighteen twenty feet long and in some
parts between four aud five eetln diameter. II was the
king Of icicles'
A nouen sArA-The Canadian schooner Alma, Of Mon
treal which arrived at Chicago with cargo Of salt from
Quebec has had hard time Of eleven weeks from that
port In Lakes Ontario and Michigan the weather was
extremely rough She lay in Montreal ten days. Her
deck when she arrived at Chicago, was covered with ice
OgruARy-Walter r. Hill died on the 9Th inst, at the
insane ASYLUM at Concord New Hampshire aged GO years
lie was brother of the late Gov Isaac Hill and was con-
neced with him in the publication OF the New Hampshire
Patriot from 1911 TO 1875 In October, 1914, on the
threatened invasion Of Portsmouth by the British he Gu
listed with many ohs townsmen under Major Peter Rob
/ nd tharas in
capacity Of orderly sergeant Of the company Here the
symptoms of his hereditary maady first appeared and
during the remainder Of his protracted life he had only
occasional intervals of health and sanity.
WRECK or THE STEAMER CRESCENT CTY.--A despatch
| from Savannah, dated the 18th, says:
"The schooner Baltic Capt. Cruden from Nassau has
arrived bringing intelligence that the Crescent
City, from New York for New Orleans wrecked the
7tb instant on Matinala Reef the Bahama banks The
and crew. with their baggage saved and
taken Nassau by the wreckers The steamer had bilged
and It feared would prove total loss The brigan-
tine Alma had been chartered TO convey the passengers
and mail TO their destination"
VIRGINIA LEGIsLATuRRIn the Virginia house of repre-
sentatives, on Saturday, IT was
Resolsed That select committee be appointed in
ou;re into the expedieney of approprianp s. for the
purpose Of enabling James Parsons jr of the county
Hampshire employ counsel to defend him against
dicentin OF the courts of Pennsylvania for kdnap
live slave his property, under and by virtue of the
etvcsave law and also for the object OF prosecuting
| said offenders"
TIM GRAIN TIDE ruRNEp-The St Louis Intenigencer Of
the 18th inst. says:
@There has been day since the opening Of naviga-
ton tsIrng which receipts of grain heavy
yesterday. The tow-boats Alaquippa and Fayway
came in from the Illinois river having in tow sixteen
nalboas fifteen OF them loaded with grain in bulk
and the other with lumber The fifteen boats spoken OF
contained in the aggregate 1865 bushels of grain This
grain all from Chicago direct and is being put in sacks
and discharged on the landing"
WHEREA BOUTS OF ROBERT ScnuYLnR.-The Sandman
of the New York Crusader writing to thai
journal From Turin, under date of the 18th ut, gives thu
following information Of Mr.. Schuylcrs whereabouts
have been informed by reliable that the new
charge dafares of Sardinia at Washington, Mr. Bernat
H. has been instructed by his government to stpulac
new commercial treaty with the United States Il more
liberal basis than the which is to expire next year.
have also ascerained that treaty for the extradon oil
criminals will be entered into between the two governments
Schuyler this great dcfaultc who resides in villa not a
distant from Genoa would rather be opposed to such
arrangement
THE NATIONAL DEBT OF GREAT BRITAIN.--The presen
national debt Great Britain is s45ol8 with an an
nual interest of 355 The London Economist adds
aThe present war has added already El6000000 to THU
debt and the has hardly commenced 1t is to be OBJ
served that the average interest in 1920 35 per
and IL per This reduction has been effected il
seasons abundance of money by reducing the
ineresthat is 10 say, ii the government paid til,
in 1920, the annual interest its presen
debt would be 500 0o0that is to say
than actually pays From this reduced interest the in
come is deducted, making over f4,000,000 actually re
pudiated. The present will take of further slice
from the State creditors, in all probability
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