The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-06-29

g-perAaps upon a little glass presorve-dish No here
yoa are furnished with bowl or large white Dutch
saucer, filled with many you eat and plenty
more IL the middle Of the tabls-not day, but
morning, noon, and night We them pienti
tai besre We repeat H. wherever yoa go for augb else
come 70 Paterson IL you would live strawberries"
fbe View York Evening Post says:
ehs yield Of cherries this season appears to be enor
nous One wholesale dealer Mr. Hyer, received thirty
thousand pounds consisting Of whitehearts baeshets
and dikemans, during last night This morning Wash
ington market the Of Fulton and West
piled up SIX eight feet high with baskets Of this
fruit The different qualities readily sold at four cents
poand Wholesale Haeksers in the market and groeers
tail them at cents farmer from Long Island stated
that be yesterday picked FIVE hundred pounds Of cherries
from one tree. Strawberries abundant to-day"
Ngw wHErr.Zfhs harvesting Of new wheat was com
menced in parts Of Illinois the lsth Of June II Is
said that farmers have offered to contract IN sefers cases
ai 81 % per bushe
Texas ITEMS SEws--Tn last says the Galveston
News 81 the l6th stated That dispatches had been
oeiyed from the Trinity representing rse Of six feet at
Magnolia and the river still rising We learn that the
rivers again down. that the telegraph has been other
wise interrupted that further dispatches have been
received.
The Austin papers are Urging the necessity for ssy
aIa tor he insane Five years ago here ver- according
the census 100 insane and idioc persons 10 the State
it s estimated that in 1860 the number will be over
500.
There was report at Loredo that the Gibusters have
possession OF the city Of Monterey and have the gov
ernors and all Of their adherents in Jail.
Carvaal crossed the river Rio Grande with about ons
thousand Americans.
Fine rains bave recently fallen throughout the State Of
Texas
RAscALLY rHrvr--The Boston Herald states that on
Friday night Mr.. Neal in the employ Of f. A. Vose Co.
painters in Commercial street. while passing the
Maine railway saw in the water and throwing Off
his coat Jumped in and rescued him from drowning When
he had got the in safe place he looked around for
his coat and ascertaned that il had been stolen by by
stander, who vas not only too cowardly to help the
drowning bat enough to rob his preserver
ROMANTIC AND MYSTERIOUS YOUNG LADY
AND 6sSrLEMAs--We copy the following from the New
York Express Of last Wednesday evenings issue
aH Cuisine temporarily residing with his parents ia
Caremont aven ie between Patks street and Myrtle
nue. was this morning about O'clock discovered lying
dead upon the back soop of his fathers residence bic ad
supported upon the body OF female likewise des sho
reclining setee or seat The discovery q me
bodies was made by young lady who WAS calling on bust
ness and vEo passed through the yard the house As
soon she the bodies ID alright Immediately ran for
assistance to Mr. Westcott who greatly alarmed, APP
priced the family of the catastrophe.
aThe young man, who twenty three year. OF age
has been for upwards of year troubled with pulmonary
complaint attended by the copous splitting OF blood from
the lungs 6nd has been during large portion OF that time
travelling through the southern Satesn hopes Of relief He
had in the time established himself ia business at
Muscalangc Ohio where he became member OF the Bap-
fist church He returned from his tour four weeks since
again left week ago to attend to the affairs OF his
business since which time he has not been seen alive by
his family or his friends here.
"Ths morning the discovery Of the bodies took place
and ii is supposed that he returned at late hour last
evening with thelady who accompanied him. and that in
accordance with premedtaed plan, they had terminated
their existence by prusse acid the presence OF winch WAS
traced.
aThe parents Of the young totally anacauainted
with the name age or OF the fena or OF
her for being the premises she s apparently
somewhat older the man. and is of very pretty appear
aEce she was neatly dressed
Tnrnrr THOUSAND PEOPLE xr prc-sro.--A New York
paper says:
aThe German Saengerbunds all out on picnic yes
tsrday in the Elm Park about miles from the City
Hail. II is supposed that there 10000 people the
ground Such swarns q Germans sneh pouring down q
lager beer and such jolly times we're seen before in
this vicinity The tables groancd with cold boiled and
meats sausage rye bread, cakes OF most uncouth
shapes and strange construction and the veabe lager
beer keg That keg all prevailing It stood on end
every table Ii dashed into the branches OF the
trees tipped up the crotch of every two nncov
cred roots There private kegs and public kegs
kegs out which ticket would buy drink Others out
Of which sxpence would suffice and others whence
no money would have tempted drop but for friendships
sake
FLAT commemorative hear from good authority
says the Boston Transcript that the started in
New York the effect that Bancroft the historian had
become Catholicism the verest gossip with
out the least foundation in fact.
The MAN OVER FAILS NrAGARA-The fact that
man went the great American Falls during Satnr-
day forenoon was briefly communicated BIZ telegraph A
letter from Niagara says;
Bachman at the grist mil few rods above the
Cataract House. him from the OF me mill coming
down in boat His hanging IN the row-ocks,
and he was sitting with his folded screaming for
help Mr. Bachman called him to seize his few
wes-directed strokes would have brought him 10 the
shore but he went, until he came opposite the back
piazza of the Cataract House where the boat capszed lie
was seen up and throw out his arms Mr. d
Says he WINS young man about twenty years old
he probability is that the poor fellow having ey some
means that win never be explained, found himself 10 the
rapids became paryzed with horror, and was unable 70
use any exertiops TO prevent his awful fate. Who can
imagine his emotions he neared the fatal precpiees
whose sounded like deathkne in bis terrified ear
the mad deirum that seized upon him at the thought
Of certain and terrible destruction II all done IN
molnenta struggle shrek, plunge, and sound went
homel II was ali done in moment, but i told upon
Eternity
LOCAL NEWS.