The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-02-19

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ruE ASTHRACsE COAL rRADE.--A NEW fROJEcr>-A Phil
adephia paper says; h@
is said that arrangement has beea entered into by
,bs Reading Railroad Company, Camden and Atlantic
railroad Company, and Com Vanderbilt Of New York by
which Atlantic city, Absecom beach, win be made
mart entry aud the place for extensive coal operations
Also that Commodore Vanderbilt recently visited Atlantic
y and has determined establish line Of steamers be-
tween the inlet and New York. in eonnsSion With the rail-
roads mcntioned.@ s g.agss... n s .
Az AGED MISSIONARY directors OF the London Mis-
oDry Society have heard Of the death Of venerable mis-
soDary Mr. Davis who landed In Tahiti in 1901 and died
at his work Pspara in August last In his eighty6fth
year He died Lords day morning having preached
the preceding Sabbath thus called his rest and reward
after fyfour years Of missionary labor in Polynesia
GREAT STORM AT THE EAsrA teegrsFhic despatch from
New York, received on Sunday evening last says.
"The telegraph lines now interrupted of Sack
Vile owing the prevailing storm of rain east from that
point 1t has been showing at Boston all day, and the
railroads blocked up No trains left therefor the South
tonight" iI4" ts"0 +'
DEAm OF AN sLAyE--The New Orleans papers
chronicle the death there Of Charles frmery owned by
W. Montgomery, the advanced age Of 100 years He
remembered many OF the of the revolution and had
resided in New Orleans all his life
PENSACOLA AND GEoaclA RoAp--We learn from the Al
gator Fod Advertiser that the engineers Of that road
reached that town, finally locating their line Their
work had been much delayed by high waters and rainy
weather Captain Griffin the chief engineer, in ALI
gator on the LIST instant for the purpose of receiving bids
from contractors but they had not yet been made public
ARRIVAL OF MoRMoNs--Fve hundred and twenty eight
Mormon emgrans their way to Great Salt Lake City,
arrived ut New York Saturday, in the ship John j.
Boyd, Capt Austin, from Liverpool December Is.
he foiIn
pears in a late number Of the Nashville Union:
Died in this county, Wednesday night the 9th in
sant Mrs Elizabeth Demumbrape, aged ll6 years and
MONTH" ~ 44. fe..
"SoNE" LADIEs-In Cleveland, last week. Kate Saxon,
who giving readngs," offered prize of gold watch
to the individual of masculine gender who should bring
the most ladies. The watch won the Herald states
by Phillips and 0Leary, Of the American lin partnership
who took in one hundred and irtyhrse ladies-her CON-
petor only fifty.
OYsrERs-The Annapolis Republican Gays that upwards
Of bushels of oysters have been transported from that
city by railroad to Baltimore within the last two weeks
The entire lot caught the Naval Academy wharf
ALLEGED MURDERERs.--Two young men, named Worley
and Strong charged with the murder of Mr. Gordon the
railroad engineer in Missouri have been arrested in In
diana .7 a.,E
A PLEASANT REsDEscE--In Northampton, Massachu-
sett the mercury stood Monday morning at "a deg
ADORE o. Tuesday morning deg below; and on We'd
neday morning 30 deg bloa change in hours of 60
degrees. s'->a"r = -
CovIsGTos AND ONO RAmRoAD-Iu the Virginia senate
Wednesday, the bill appropriatng 100000 for the
prosecution of the work the Covingon and Ohio rail-
road laid the table This decision not regarded
as irrevocable at the preseut session.