The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-07-12

The accounts of the crops Throughout the South are
much encouraging than they have been heretofore
The late rains appear have been general aud have
made highly favorable change in the prospects,
We learn that the Brazos river il nov again At its
lowest stage III fact the rise at Richmond was but about
four feet and went down again immediately.
Pursuant the sentence OF the district court the muir
derer Shu executed at Galveston on the s9th ut
At IL ocock M he led out OF the JAIL and placed IN
the usual manner upon his coffin when the procession
consisting of about thousand persons moved towards
the place of execution On the way out Shuz made
era demonstrations OF determination TO escape and
only queted upon being assured that If he persisted in
these attempts he would subject himself the
mary execution Of powder and ball He persisted that his
not John Shul and appears 10 have been labor
ing under the hancnation that discrepancy in the name
under which he received would finally be
of his After the reading OF the warrant by Sheriff
Grove he mounted the scaiold with firm step refusing
all counsel comfort from the clergy who in attend
While upon the scaifod his daguerreotype
cured after which the cowl drawn, and the man Of
many murders was launched into eternity
THE FIREWORKS AT NEW YoRK-The display of fireworks
New York Monday evening last postponed from the
4th) proved be grand affair 1t is estimated that
there were 10000 persons in the Park alone say moth
ing of Madison square and other points where the display
equally fine.
LONG JON BEFORE rHEMlt is said that party of Hol-
landers who bring with them from their 'iatherandn
great experience in dykng and draining have set about
retaining the body of salt marsh lying between Newark
and Jersey city New Jersey and devong its thousands
of the cultivation of vegetables and fruits
THE WESTERN RryERs-The ST Louis Republican of
Saturday last says
"The river this point is still receding The Upper
Mississippi had risen four or five inches Keokuk in
few days and the last arrivals report it at stand above
Keokuk--alling slowly from Keokuk down The last ar
rival from the Missouri reports five feet large from Arrow
Rock down. and falling another rise is said to be coming
down from the mountains. The Illinois river is falling,
with four feet large reported at Six Mile island Arrivals
from the Cumberland river report three feet on arpeth
shoals and falling fast There ia nine feet in the channel
between this port and Cairo and falling Business the
levee reasonably brisk"
DEATH CAUSED ooRpsE.In farmhouse near Liber-
IT, Missouri the mistress of the house became i'll
ing having according symptoms received attack of
cholera Her husband had left the house at daybreak and
her only daughter who then with her. sent for ply
scan After few hours the latter arrived but was al
ready the door aud received by the sobbng girl with
the cry "Shc is dead He conducted into the
where the corpse lay examined it, and directed the daugh
allow the intermcnt until wenty-our hours had
elapsed lie had scarcely done when the corpse nodded
Significantly. The daughter this motion, and
Mortified that she fell down dead the spot 1t is we'll
known fact that persons who die of cholera retain the
warmth of the blood for long Time frequently alarming
bysanders by contraction of the muscles
CHOLERA III Nlssssrp-The Marion Aiiss.) Republican
of the 18th ult says
I'VE understand that the cholera has broken out among
the railroad hands Sagevile several deaths have
ken place. and serious approximations entertained that
the devastating disease will check for time the progress
OF the railroad There exist it said thirty forty
cases of which eight have terminated fatally The
hands principally negroes and the probability is that
the win withdraw them if the violence OF the dis
does not moderate.
ABSENCE on AND MoNEY.--A few evenings since,
grocer at Pawtucket Rhode Island in making up the
tobt he eitrb
change instead of counting it and for that purpose placed
in his scales customer in at the time and after
some little conversation sufficient TO divert the grocers
mind from his momenary occupation, called for quan
ty sugar The merchant threw the sugar into the
scales with the money and weighed out both the sweeen
ing and the silver his at the Of fourteen
pounds for dollar; did he discover his mistake until
the money amounting to ten dollars, brought
back the next day He had missed the money in the mean
time, but supposed it had been stolen.
Two PERSONS KILLED BY LIGHrNIse.--During recent
thunderstorm at Minnesota the lightning struck the house
of widow lady named Wright killing two members of the
family and what most singular it proved fatal to
that was sleeping in the upper story and one on the lower
floor These persons had each companion in bed with
them the time both of whom were unframed The old
est daughter young lady, and boy some seven or eight
years OF age killed The family were strangers, hav-
ing but lately arrived in the Territory.
THE HORRORS OF CAMP IrE--The weather has begun to
smoking hot in the Crmea and some terrible pestlence
in the armies is naturally expected One of the officers
writes follows:
aThe soil is saturated with decayng animal matter
have slept lately in sunken hut in which corpse hes
buried Nth only o inches Of earth between its head and
my own
DEATH or THE LARGEST THE woRLD-The STAT
woman" Mrs. Catherine Scholey exhibited by Col Wood
in the Atlantic cities for number of months past died in
Scioa township Piqua county Ohio while sitting in her
chair on the 9Th inst few days previous she complain
ed of an attack of neuralgia but up to that time enjoyed
good health and had made every arrangement to visit
Canada during the heat of the Colonel Wood
had her life insured for S25000 Of which $4,000 in
companies at Hartford Connecticut and the balance in
Ohio companies.
DEAru--C Colonel Alvah Manu. the wel-known Snowman,
builder of the Broadway Theatre and formerly connected
with General Welshs circus died at Forence Hotel New
York. on Monday of apopexy. The Colonel had enjoyed
poor health ever since his from South America
something year ago lie has made two three for
tunes but died in INDECENT circumstances at last
A SAD SAD cAsR.--On Sunday last (says Philadelphia
paper woman was found wandering about streets
under the influence Of mana-a-potu She taken to
the amshouse Since then her friends have removed her
to the insane asylum The miserable at
time the wife of a distinguished citizen of New York the
mention Of whose name in this connexion would startle
the communities of the cities Such the fortunes
oflife She was divorced from him many years ago.