Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-05-08
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dence of the wealth and industry Of Minnesota,
we are informed that one hundred million feet
of pine lumber in the log were put into differ
ent streams in one district last year.
...... The Committee on Commerce in the
United States House of Representatives state
the amount of pecuniary loss incurred at the
port of New York, in the years l854-5, at
$lO,O00,0O0. a
...... La the three small States which last
voted, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Rhode
Island, the aggregate Democratic gain is over
twenty thousand.
...... A correspondent of the Rural Neso
Yorker writes that he has for several years
practised coloring white butter with carrots.
1t adds looks, flavor, and price Of the article.
He puts the carrot to soak over night, after it
is grated, and is governed by the quality and
of the amount of cream to be colored.
...... Mr.. Douglass bill providing that when
Kansas has the requisite population, she may
enter into the Union with such a constitution
as she may adopt, without reference tc the
slavery question, will undoubtedly pass the
Senate, and the Washington Star states that it
will also have clear majority in the House.
...... A Nan Buried Aliue IN Coal Bank
A coal bank, short distance from GAINESVILLE,
(Ohio,) caved in on Friday last, and shut in
four men. An immense number of people, at
last accounts, were engaged, amid much ex-
element in trying to dig them out. The pris-
oners had basket of provisions, and it was
supposed would hold out until rescued, although
they were nearly fourth of a mile from the
mouth of the pit.
...... Florence Nightingale, the woman be-
loved of all men and all nations, for her noble
humanity, has been gazetted officially as Di-
rectress- General of all hospitals in the British
dominions. No nurses can for the future be
appointed in any public hospitals without her
sanction. She has been i'll from fall, but is
quite recovered.
...... The Price Of license to retail liquor
in Dempolis, Ala, has been raised to $4,000.
Liquor must command high price down there!
...... Bad for the Apothecaries.-The report
of the New York Homeopathic Dispensary gives
the result of 754 cases treated at their in
6rmary by the physicians, at the cost of only
$4,8l for medicine though the pres, iiptions
given amount to 3,O49.
....:. Peach Tree Borer-- 7ansy-We saw
it stated, two years ago, in an agricultural
journal that these pests could be driven from
peach trees, by Tansy. We planted it at the
roots of ten or twelve trees, and not one of them
have been disturbed, whilst Others are injured
badly. This spring we intend planting it
around ALL
...... Forcedt TO Leape.-Tbe Leesburg Wash
ingtonian, speaking of the departure of Fran
els II. Ray from that county, says: 1t was not
a voluntary act upon his part, and it is due to
the citizens Of the Goose Creek neighborhood
to state, that they required Mr.. Ray to leave, as
they determined not to retain in their midst an
whose Abolition discussions we're
obnoxious to the public, and of mischievous
tendency"
...... chimney has just been completed at
Preston, England, which is two hundred and
6fty-eight feet in heights width at foundation,
thirty four feet; and forty thousand bricks have
been used in building it.
...... The Cyclopedia Of Modern Travel, on
which Bayard Taylor is engaged, is to be CON-
pletsd in June, after which Mr.. Taylor will re-
turn to Europe, to spend two years, principally
in Sweden, Norway, and Russia.
...... On the goth Of March, the Emperor and
Empress Of Austria washed the feet of twenty.
four old people, viz: Twelve old women and
twelve old men. The oldest Of the women
was eightynine, and the youngest eighty
three; the oldest Of the men was ninety one,
and the youngest eightytwo; the ages Of the
twenty-four combined, amounted to two thou
sand and 6fty-two years.
...... an Ancient Land Patent-We have
been shown a land patent drawn up in the
year 1884, in the reign Of Queen Anne, and at
the time Of the Governorship of Alexander
spottswood over Virginia. The patent settles
upon one Stephen Chasteane, the sole right
and proprietorship Of certain tco hundred
and tiffy acres Of land, situated in the good
county of Henrico, and for which the said
Stephen Chasteane paid the enormous sum of
thirty shllingsi or about six dollars.
...... A prize fight took place in Massachusetts,,
at retired spot, near the town of Medford, be-
tween Ned Price, Of London, and man named
Colbert, Of New York, for purse Of 5000.
The parties fought l55 rounds in 81 hours,
when both combatapts being blind, and sa-
vagely mauled, they we're separated by their
respective friends, through fear Of fatal ter.
mination if the fight was continued
...... Newspaper Folding Machine w have
recently added to the machinery Of our Office
folding machine, manufactured by s. III.
Weeks, of Columbus, Ohio. Ii is great saw.