The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-01-13

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THE CITY OF CHrcAso-Chicago spent for municipal I'm
year $3.50 634 This was laid out in city
buildings water and gas improvements and other city
works Private entsrp.ise is estimated to have laid out
74e 300 private dwellings stores &C. railroad build
logs churches &C. Total value of improvements $52e1,
34an increase of ST. sci $50 1855. There eight
new churches and Eve large hotels.
TEN YEARS IN JAIL DEBr-We copy the following
from the Warrenton IVA Wing;
An old man named Gregg, who has been confined in
Fauquier county Jail since the first of October 1876, for
debt under the old law, released Christmas day by
tailor Cross there being nothing left in the hands of the
Ito isil expenses We learn that this man had
law "a pays~ - debt against him, but that he
properly enough TO pay ~'fhin the gloomy
preferred spending his Weafy hours Itch he
wallis Of the county prison to paying the debt wI.~
owed The person who had him confined has been dead
some but we learn put provision id bis will appro
prlang sufficient amount to keep him in limbo as long
as he lived Somehow other this stipulation has given
out; and of Gregg becomes free again When DO
left the jadoor he appeared to be perfectly bewdered
and did not know which way to travel bat in short
time he became fully conscious of his freedom and srued
about with the air Of who knew what liberty used to
be in 'by-gone days"
THE DUCK TRADE-The Norfolk (virgina) Herald says
that farmer in Princess Anne county has had twenty
employed killing ducks and to the goth ut, they had
consumed 80 kegs of gunpowder. The gentleman ships,
on an average Is barrels of ducks to New York every
week. and some weeks high 81 barrels They consist
Iaard black sprg tail badfaces shovelers
and good proportion Of wild geese
A pEpLoRABLE AccIpENr-Capt T. ]. Manning, United,
States navy ton the retired lis residing about two miles
from Charlesown Virginia on the evening of the 9Th
inst most horribly burnt by falling in the fire. 1t appears
that Cert was subject occasional fits and during
of these attacks unfortunate &c to fall into the fire
Death ensued from the injuries he had sustained Tues
day evening last Capt NJ. was ty-seven years of age
and leaves wife and three children.
pRrss-aRFoRM CONVENTIONAL drsss-reorm convention
was held in Canastoa N Y, the 7th instant in which
large number Of strong reminded women and eakminded
men participated The objects of the convention be
gathered from the following correspondence of the New
York Trbunei
Resolutions were reported by the Business committee
embracing the vital features Of the movement which
elucdaed and enforced by Miss Donovan Mrs Ball. Gerr
Smith Pr and OTHERS The a., was large
Gro gded house in the evening" which vas 6tcped by DR.
Jackson in lucid and forcble address, running line
between the sexes and proving by
that present existing disparity between the sexes wa
the result Of false ply steal education and to great
induced by dress incompatible with the full develop
ment and harmonious action of their physical organiz
oh by which their spiritual thus detrmentally at
cted The remarks listened to with great attention
and apparent interest by the entire audience There wa
! Ia the new 6ostufSei ),
HThe proceedings have made quite sensation in our lit
tie village, and far ell has gone on we'll we shall Bel
what we shall see tomorrow
s1rraulse AT HARrFonD-The Hartford Times Of Satur
day says;
"Tne Windsor seghing party last evening started from
Gilmans Saloon, the number OF eight ten large double
seigbs full aud went off in 6ne spirits There brgh
moon the eky clear the weather not too cold and thu
sleishing excellent"
! INTERESTING BrArIsrres LowBLhA correspondent 0
the Richmond Enquirer furnishes the following insresh,
statistics in relation to Lowell:
! "whe in Lowell was furnished by the agent Of one
the corporations with the statistics Of the Lowell corpora
| tons. The Merrimack Manufacturing Company was tb
first incorporated which in 1922. There now L
corpo atoms with total capital stock of $4,000 06C
There 81 mills 1872, 234 spindes, and ll773 looms
! Eight thousand eight hundred and twenty females
4,367 males employed Two million two hundred
orysix thousand yards cotton 10000 yards of wooen
250h0 yards Of carpet and so manufactured
Il week. Twenty-eight thousand three hundred and fit
tons of hard COAL bushels of charcoal 900 cords
wood 6o7lT gallons OF sperm and 10000 gallons OF ar
OIL 1869 100 pounds of starch and 545 barrels of ou
used in the mills in year. Six hundred and ninet
thousand pounds of used each week The wheel
used the breast turbine, and wheel improved by Nj
Francis. The average wages OF females clear of board
week. ST. Average wages OF males clear Of board per
80 cents. The population of Lowell in 1928 was 532. Ii
1855 the population 81 553 The clearinghouse be
Greet matrons Several permanent iron ladders leading
from the roof TO the basement of the factory building
communicating with the windows of each story by plat
forms with iron-raings afford means of escaping in tn
event of FIRE. The whole Merrmack river is made ribu
| tary to the different corporations