The daily union., 1856-11-07
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GALE on LAKE EnE-A tslegraphic despatch from Qs-
wego states that gale swept over Lake Erie the
night Of the 5th inst The schooners g. Chapman, with
cargo of wheat and the West Wind, with cargo OF
salt ashore between the piers The latter is total
wreck No lives lost The schooner G. NJ Deshler,
with cargo OF wheat 10 also ashore near here AT tie
last accounts men clingng to the wreck
Collision IN THE EAST RIvER-About halfpast twelve
o'clock yesterday afternoon says the New York Journal OF
Commerce of tho 5h inst) the Peck Slip erryboa Mag
and the schooner Nanc into collision in the
East river of the Hook The cabin and wheel-house of
the In and the schooner lost her b
Two ladies' one whose Is unknown, and the other,
Mrs Morgan of North Fourth street Williamsburg
somewhat injured by the falling tmbers.
Tux HIGHEST MOUNTAIN woRLD.-At meeting of
the Asatc Society of Bengal the 9th of August 1t was
announced that Colonel Waugh surveyor general Of In
da had completed his computations Of the positions and
elevations Of the peaks Of the Hmalayas The result was
to depose the mountain Kanchpinga from Its throne
the highest point the earhs SURFACE That distinction
belongs for the present to peak 100 miles from Knnchin
nga and between that mountain and Katamandoo. This
peak erained to be 290o2 feet above the sea level
Kanchinjnga is 2sl56 feet and Dewalagir, the noun
tain which school Biographies persist in calling "the
highest in the known world Is only 2es26 feet The
mountain has no name ineligible to civilized pan, and
Colonel Waugh has therefore ventured TO denominae it
"Mount Everest" after a former surveyor general
LoOUsT RAILRoADs-The Illinois Central Rail-
road Company have contracted for the planting Of locust
trees on each side of their road for the distance of
dred and twenty miles After the trees set with
little In keeping the weeds down and the earth mellow
around the for two three years they will require
no labor, and they will then afford shade along
the road, and will have tendency to the grass
to grow which will in great degree prevent much of the
- sk,g "A If
trees will afford timber large enough for ties for the use
of the road This most excellent pan and should be
adopted on every road that through land that will
grow the locust The aborers who repair the road
besow the little cultivation necessary which will cost but
trihe.
CONSUMPTION or TOBACCO PARls-According to a sta.
scsl work lately published on the consumption of Paris
the quantity Of tobacco consumed in smoking in 1854 was
nearly double that Of 1885, and that Of cigars Eve times
much whilst that Of snuff the contrary, presented
marked dimiDuon II is calculated that the number Of
smokers in Paris including the garrison is about 100000
and the total consumption gives kogramme 973
tgrammes Of tobacco l43 cigars and cigarettes for each
person or calculating the cigars at $50 and the cigarettes
at 1000 to the kiogramme kiogrammes 149 cenugrsm-
mes for each In England the consumption Is calculated
to be sixteen ounces head.
IsuUwAs ouuEsThe list of Offences 80 grave that they
appear inhuman TO increase with the advance Of
our boased civilization. Scarcely day passes that some
such the following does not present itself in the
newspapers:
A man named st. John brought mp in 81, Louis
week for brutal treatment Of little daughter thir
teen years old. II in proof that after beating her
numerically be threw her upon the floor, and stamped
her with bis feet until she nearly nsensibe and then
to complete the work struck her the head with iron
rod laying the skull bare for several inches member
Of the police was passing at the time and being attracted
by the noise stepped in Just n time in all probability, TO
keep the girl from being murdered outright The brutal
father fined S00 and sent to the wokhouse for SIX
months. The girl is represented being covered with
hdeous bruises from head TO foot and swollen ont OF al
natural shape Some more commensurate punishment