The Washington union., 1857-05-12
GENERAL SUMMARY.

During the railroad jubilee at Memphis Tennessee)
boy seventeen years old with head tiryseven inches
in circumference and eighteen inches high, and body
only the size of eycar-old child exhibited Hir
monstrous head is pear-shaped, with welldeyeloped
forehead, and natural and not unpeasng countenancc
The intellect of the child is evidently impaired though
he shows signs of reasonaskng questions and smiling
at the replies His mother says his head commenced
swelling at the age of two years. and gradually
larged until it attained its present size. 1t
is said to weigh over sixty pounds The boy is n ma
tive OF Georgia
The Huntsville (Alabana) Advocate states that mann
actures in Lauderdale county rapidly growing in inn
portance, value, and variety Water power there Is
great and excellent sites for mills factories etc. abound
Manufacturing there Is profitable than any other
pursuit Seven thousand bales OF cotton expected to
be required this year. Most of the operatives tho,
whites-men, boys, girls, and womenwho now get paid
for their labor where before there demand at oil
for it.
The Courier des Eas Unis states that French chem
is Mr. Gard has at last discovered and put into actual
the gas made from water not in the laboratory at
exhibition, but in illuminating whole town the an
cent city of Narbonne France gories in light the ele
ments of which drawn from its antique and beautiful
canal the flame looking like the electrical light, dazzling
but not tiresome, white be, without vacilla
ton or smell all burners being similar to many
planets,
The New York Journal OF Commerce says that the
West India fruit trade Is increasing in importance every
year. This season both cocoanus and bananas
pected to be plenty than before The first
go of Matansas pnes numbering O000 has just been
received, and sold for sll per hundred Cocoanuts
very plenty not less than 600 having been received
last week. They sell for S25 per thousand.
The Bloomington Qllinois Flag states that WeSlnes-
day of last week while Mr.. John Baker was narrowing
in field, his two horses took fright and ran off; the har
soon got thrown upon its back with the teeth up
and the horses became entangled in the harness in such
to them both to fall on top of the har
row, the teeth of which penetrated to their vas and
killed them almost instantly.
Edward s. Bartholomew, of Hartford, is engaged
upon statue of General Washington, intended to fill
niche in costly structure in Baltimore. Bartholomew is
to have 81 900 for his pains The clay model is already
prepared and in six months from this time the enduring
marble will perpetuate the sculptors idea of Washington
The statue is seven and half feet high
Saturday before last Mrs. Flynn whose husband is
laborer that place. jumped the bank Of the Nga
river short distance below the outlet of the canal
She went down about 100 feet and through the branches
of tree, but not much hurt. Suicide her de-
sign When she left home she kissed her children bid
them good bye, and told them to inform Mr. Flynn that
he would see her no more.
gentleman named Samuel Turner died in Yorlville,
South Carolina short time since at the nearly cenen
marian age of SO years During most of his long life
maiden daughter had lived with him. nursed him in his
old age and resigned all other society and associations
for the pleasure of loving, with beautiful and dis
nterestednes and being loved by her venerable parent
In two days after his deccase she died also at the age of
~ years.
Ihe Goiad lexas) Express states tat the san ANTONIO
River Navigation Company have effected an arrangement
by which the contemplated improvement of the river
from the Falls Saua will be Immediately prosecuted
with energy and completed by the ensuing autumn.
dcdgeb boat will be built here for the work. and steam
boat ordered from Cincinnati expressly for the trade.
Portable steam-saw mills have been introduced into
Minnesota, and used with much advantage. They
only about 81 500 and said to be capable of turn
ing out about 900 feet of boards per day The
great scarcity of Swaerpower in the interior of Minnesota
must render these mills highly valuable.
The Trenton Q5ew Jersey American states that the
mount Holly Bank to be established under the gener-
oil banking law has had subscribed $40 800 up to Satur
day last, with $4,000 promised The books for
subscription viii remain open till the 23d inst when
final meeting to be had the books closed and the bank
organized.
The Danviie (Virgina) Register has beautiful
ingot of gold, which obtained mt the Elliott Nine
near the White Oak Mountain, in Pttsyvania county
which Is at present being worked on small scale by
Messrs. Davis Hutchings
Five persons hundred years Of age have died
during the last month Elizabeth Goldzen Hardy coun-
ty, Virginia, lis Christiana Phillips (colored New
Haven, Connecticut, 100 John Kelley, Steuben, Maine
l0l Joseph Ietendre, ST. David Canada 100 Rebccca
Carleton, Bartlett, New Hampshire l03
The citizens Of Toledo Ohio, are considering the sub
ject of supply Of water for their city The Of raising
II from the lake estimated million and quarter Of
dollars,