The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1857-06-27

At the festival Ia Madison. Wisconsin a week or two
SINCE Joseph Celie supposed 10 be the rst white man
that settled in Wisconsin, certainly OF the rst
was present He fst settled there eightyfy years ago
He has reached the extraordinary ago Of hundred and
seventeen years but il is said docs not appear more
than seventy. ..
calculation has been made that il each guest at the
recent great railroad excursion and celebration had used
his ticket for the full 1896 miles OF road included IN It's
privileges the whole would have amounted, II paid Tor az
the general rate Of two cents per mile, TO 500
1t is stated that fifty tons of American lard has been
reshipped TO New York from Liverpool the prices here
being remunerave than in England, where 1t has
declined from 7ys per cwt tthe rates obtained few
months ago. 10 B2s 1t retas In New York at 10 is
cents per lb
Rev. John c. Young the president of Centre College
in Kentucky with which institution he connected
for about thirty years died suddenly at Danye IN that
State, on Tuesday. He an eminent Presbyteria
clergyman and married sister of Vice President Breck
inridge. -
The new glass furnace in Halntrauc Michigan, owned
by the Detroit and Lake Superior Iron Mining Company
with some valuable table machinery has been destroyed
by fire The loss is estimated ut S3S 0OO and IL partially
covered by insurance
The editor of the Savannah Republican has been pre-
scented with several ripe peaches gathered from the afm
of GEN White, ON the Isle of Hope, The general had
ripe one FROM his trees early as the 9Th OF the
present month,
The vicinity Of De Kalb county, Missouri, visited
by a severe hastorm Saturday evening last The
hail about the size OF goose Consider
able damage was done 80
The Richmond Enquirer states that Mr. Oliver Beazley
of Caroline county, has sold five hogsheads tobacco
an average of S23 30 per owt One hogshead brought
$40 rs per cwt This is the highest price obtained for
Caroline tobacco for many years.
The Green Bay Wisconsin, Advocate says that seventy
Belgian emgrants the first steamboat arrival
at that port who stated that 5000 of their
rymen might be expected this IL expects an
accession of 900 to The population of Brown county
this season.
From experiments which have been made recently it
has been clearly established that the New Zealand flax
when properly prepared is equal strength to the best
qualities of Russian Italian hemp, and would
fully compete in the manufacture of corage with that
material Boston Courier
The New Orleans Picayune has been presented with an
apple grown in that city''the first New Orleans APP
ple," it says, 1--WE saw" 1t grew tree four
feet high.
Tyre Mauphin esq, the senior editor of the Martins
burg (Va Gazette and formerly Of the Richmond Ma
tonal American died Sunday last, after protractcd
Illness.
The Lynchburg Republican states that the ceremonies
attendant upon the second annual commencement of the
Lynchburg College off with considerable eat Eu
gene Blackboard awarded the degree of Bachelor Of
Arts, and was the only graduate
Gen Cass recently declined a complimentary dinner
rendered him by his fellow-citizcns of Detroit.
Sixteen of the Russian vessels that sunk during
the war in the Black sea- between Sebastopol Ncolaie
and Odessa, have been raised.
Two yachts the one of wood and the other of iron
now being constructed Boston by the most experienced
builders test the relative merits of wood and iron for
speed in sailing vessels They of the size and
model and will shortly be called TO test their sailing ca
pacities.
One hundred bushels of new white Georgia wheat the
first of the season. sold in New York Thursday at
tuvrd nl1a opb ftxy tic nor hpl q
The Delaware papers say that the peach crop bids fair
to be abundant than II has been for many years.
r. b. +, Burgess, of the judges of the orphans
court of Charles county, Md, has resigned
The Port Tobacco Md) Times says the recent storms
have done much damage to the crops in that county
The wheat crop of Albemarc county Virginia. accord
ing to the estimate of old farmer will be the most
abundant realized in that county for fifteen years.