The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-03-28
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MELANCHOLY SUICIDE OF A MARRIED LADY.--Ws
copy the following from the New York Express
Mrs Mary Girard wife OF merchant residing at No
81 west 20h street committed suicide on Saturday after
noon by cutting her throat with She stated 10
short time before committing the act that she
going TO take walk aud the servant supposed she
had gons but upon going into OF the apartments about
o'clock in the afternoon found her mistress lying upon
the floor with her throat cut and dead and lying
beside her The deceased had been married rather less
than year. possessed Of much personal beauty and
had large circle of friends She only daughter
and her mother resided with her Coroner Hilton yes
terday called to hold inquest upon the body when APP
peared In evidence that for long time past the deceased
had been afflicted with affection, which
hereditary in her mothers family and that she had been
in the habit OF rising from bed many
twenty times during single night for the purpose of
shaking of her feelings She was also enceins
the time, but did not complain Of suffering and seemed
cheerful and happy The jury rendered verdict Of sui
eide committed while aborng under temporary fit Of
insanity The deceased native Of Massachusetts,, 81
years OF age"
A RAILROAD IN NEBRASKA bin to incorporate the
Missouri River and Platte Valley Railroad Company
recently passed by the legislature of Nebraska The capt
tai stock be S5000oo0 and there is to be double
track The road is TO begin at the town Of Plattsmouth
the Missouri river and to Fort kearny thence TO
Fort Laramie thence to the western limits Of Nebraska
upon the most eligible route with branch road from the
mouth Of the Nemaha TO unite with the main track at
RlsE IN THE WESTERN Rlygns-A merchant in New Or
leans, under date of March 10, writes
Heavy rains fallen throughout the city and coun-
try and from advces received from abroad large
and general rise in all the upper rivers and tributaries
reported The Arkansas river said to have risen twenty
feet think may with some degree of certainty
date the opening of navigation from this period and the
OF active business for the next two
months
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impresses stranger f,voraby is that of lifting taking
off the hat when funeral passes writer this sub
ject relates the following;
Some years since we one of that rushing crowd
pouring up and down Broadway When in front OF
old ST Paus all eyes attracted by the appearance
crew of the French vessel La Belle Poule which
then visited the United States under the command of the
Prince de Joinvlle The in their naval dress
uniform bright and beautiful and were sannterng along,
seeing the sights All at they stopped, formed
line, faced inward and uncovered How exquisite and
touching was the scene when we discovered in that
thoughtless, busy hurrying crowd man of foreign
birth evidently poor and friendess under whose
carried tiny coffin and by his side the stricken mother
They in search of burial for their babe and
osed and unheeded in that gay torrent OF humanity
til they met these hardy tempestossed mariners who
the instant with barred heads stood in silent respect while
the sacred ashes of the unknown infant were passing Such
are French manners.
GREAT nAcE.-we copy the following from the Louis
vile Courier of the 23d Instant
Lexngtons match against time for stake of 900
off between the LIST and 18th of April 1t said
that the bets almost the although there is
shade of difference in favor of time Lexington, it will
be recoected the palm in the great State stake early
in April last and lost it again the 9Th of the same
month"; when Lecompte made the unparalleled time against
which he is to rum
NEW ESrEnpRIsE-The Edgartown Mass Gazette of
March 23d says
The schooner Banner Captain Griffin arrived here re-
Gently with cargo of Florida mullet "a species of mack
erel previously found the coast of North Carolina
which had been taken the coast of Florida where they
swarm and Mt the proper large fat and juicy
The schooner fitted out for this enterprise by Captain
John Spear, jr of Dorchester Massachusetts, who has
made capital speculation out of it. We were presented
with of them, and found them fully equal to No
mackerel, and very much resembling them in favor
few Of this species of fish captured in harbor last
year. the FIRST time they known here but
very small compared with those brought from Florida
which about the size Of the common mackerel"
BANK RoBBERYThe branch of the Bank Of the State of
Georgia at Washington, Georgia, robbed the
ing of the 2ls instant of Sl5225 in bills payable that
branch reward of $1,000 offered for the detection of
the thief and the recovery of the money.
FAIR DIVISIONAL late town meeting in Marble
head Massachusetts, it voted that the stock of liquors
in the hands of the agency belonging the town, be dis
rbuted equally among the legal voters and that the casks
measures tunnels and other utensils of the agency be
sold at auction.
SALE or A THEATRE-The American Theatre in San
Francisco has been sold by the sheriff for 900 sum
much below its original cost
DEArH-Lieutenant George W. Campbell, of the marine
corps died board the United States rigate Columbia
at Norfolk on Saturday He Of those down with
the yellow fever the arrival of the gate from the West
Indies
Snow AT THE NORTH AND EAsT.-There is an unusual
depth of for the of the year the highlands
in New Hampshire, between the Connecticut and Merri
mack rivers Along the valleys of those streams the
has nearly disappeared For distance the line
of the northern railroad above Franklin New Hampshire
the is nearly three feet deep In the
part of Maine the deep the last accounts as
during any part of the winter,
The REMAINS MADAME SoSTAG.-A letter from Count
Ross the husband of Madame Sontag is published in the
London Musical World, in which he says:
q" waiting for the arrival at Hamburger of her dear
mortal remains, in order to go there and them.
shall then accompany them their last resting place in the
convent Of Maria Jhal Dresden where her sister is
num- and where in consequence the holy prayers of those
who loved her will not be wanting am having a
small chapel built there with tomb and after satisfy
ing this wish OF my heart viii return to my family
CATHARIsE HAYES Observation-Disclosures Hayes gave
her first concert in Calcutta the 18th January. The
prices of admission fifteen rupees about ST for
served seats and rupees S for admission without
seats These prices created dissatisfaction and there
symptoms of disturbance subsequently they were re-
duced TO single tickets So 6s and double S. SO but at
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