The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-10-17
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NORTH CAROLINA STATS TAIR.-The fair at Raleigh,
NORTH Carolina commenced Tuesday and will continue
I'll Saturday The premiums offered amount TO 5000.
The annual address will be delivered BY Professor Mitchell
OF the University Of North Carolina
GoyERSNKSr KxAssAnosss-The Liverpool Evening
Star Of the Sd October says
A Government Situation Hand book Just published
oy Pgott Aldine Chambers, and from the pen OF Mr. w
Lyle OF the civil service very carefully prepared The
writer gives the following results OF the examination for
government situations The number Of candidates who
were examined In London from the date OF the order in
council TO the end of February 1855 was es7 purng
the same period there 36 candidates examined 10 the
provinces, making total of l,078 The number OF GER
uncates granted In the interval 676, and the
nur refused 3o9 The number of rejectons OF persons
unable pas N arithmetic 80 OF whom IL Jailed In
arithmetic alone 80 in arithmetic and spelling and 10 Ia
arithmetic spelling and writh1 The number deficient
In spelling alone Al 80 rejected Tor deficiencies
In both spelling and writing q for deficiencies In both
spelling aud arithmetic and u for deficiencies in spelling
combined with other faults 20 were rejected for tgno-
rance IN languages for ignorance OF bookkeeping and
70 ior ignoranceo OF geography"
IRISH RETuRSsThe Irish statistical de-
parme1t has just issued the annual report agricultural
statistics for the current year. The general results
briefly follows The number OF under tlage has
increased since last year by nearly $4,000 acres and the
total number of under cultivation Is said TO be- 1851
6sl considerably than oneourh Of the entire
of the kingdom There is increase in the wheat crop Of
$4,000 acres while the total increase Is but g. owing to
proporionae decrease In other cereal crops The oats
crop less by $4,000 than it last year. and bar
ley rye peas and beans taken togehe show decrease
Of The cereal crops in the aggregate show
decrease of compared with last year The
most remarkable increase however, has been the breadth
of potatoes this year. The crop has gradually in
creased from 877532 in 1852 to in 1885, the in
crease in this year. compared with last year. being
less than l222s9 In live stock the increase of agr
cultural wealth has been very decisive for the period from
1882 to 1856 being computed at 900 sterling
but owing to the large decrease in the of pigs this
year. the increase from 1855 to 1856 amounts to only f3
oooa mere fractional increase The decrease in the value
of pigs this year computed f32Os the decrease in
the number being s72 This decrease has been pro-
gressive during the five years. 1854 alone being
tom .
HoRRiD TREATMENT wTE.-HER DEATH.-The New
York Evening Post Of Wednesday gives the par
tcuars of horrible deed recently committed In that
city,
"On Monday last Mr.. j. Burns learned that his sister,
the wife Of Hugh Reevey residing in the twenysecond
ward dead. He Immediately proceeded to the house.
but found 1t locked, and refused Abundance He at
once went to the saonhouse and accompanied by two
three officers broke into Reevey residence They found
Mrs. Reevey dead with marks violence upon person
Coroner Hills was promptly notified and yesterday after
noon summoned jury and held inquest
On the examination before the coroner the oldest boy
sbout sixteen years DID, testified that Sunday he
to Sabbath school, aud did home till about
o'clock in the evening" When going through the yard be
observed something the grass, and going up it,
found il was his mother, and that she dead.
The testimony of the younger about fourteen years
of age sets forth the circumstances of the horrd
ton. His statement follows:
amy mother was scky all the time On Monday oil
last week she got worse complaining Of pain in her head
arms, legs and chest She did not get up to breakfast
lett early in the morning to go to my work. and did
return till in the evening, finding her still in bed She
ate nothing; would drink water and sometimes little
milk both of which she would throw up; have not known
of her drinking liquor. She complained of her head
my father beat my mother her head with his 6s
while in bed last Sunday morning This be doing
about five minutes He struck her very bard with his ifs
several times. She would cry out '0b, my God you
going TO kill mel and he says Oh you rascalP This h
said twice. This about or 10 o'clock. My brother
had left to 60 to Sunday school My father never STRUCK
my mother while he here.
"' For the last week my father has been on spree H,
commenced scoldng mother about four o'clock in the
ternoon on Sunday when she got up and went and lay
down the grass In the yard. carried pillows
and blankets Then went back and tried get the baby
to sleep, when got TO sleep myself Ny brother cam,
home and walked and said he thought mother dead
woke up father and told him He asked Who is dead
and told him mother; and he said, oh my God r And
we brought her in and laid her on the bed"
Reevey arrested by the 22d-ward police and com
mitted to await the result of the Investigation
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