The Washington union., 1857-04-29

900 and there was allowed by the adnrs.s 'or
saving this amount Sl6 slT about eight PER cent upon
the total value saved The total value of vesscs and car
goes wrecked in distress accidents etc. 81 4e4 600
expenses of vessels and rgoe including salvage, $751;
664 amount of auctioa sales SlT2, Ill ST.
New Orleans exchange attributes the high prices de-
manded for kid gloves to the scarcity of rats The same
paper thinks that the opportunity for manufacturing kid
gloves from Crescent city rats has passed away because
very remarkable has been the dminuon OF rats in that
city within eighteen twenty years In former years,
at night when the rain had fallen, the editor had to lit
orally kick them of his in passing down ChartTes
and other streets and occasionally, without intending it,
he had walked over and trampled them to death.
The Albany Knickerbocker Of the 27th inst states that
the one hundred mile horses have been matched again
follows twenty vemiie race for 81 900 to come
off between the LIST and 10th of June any track Dalton
may name The stipulations that Dalton shall drive
bis horse, and that Andrew Sheehan owner Of the
Taylor horse shall drive his Second to be fifty
miles for 81 900 sheehan is TO name the track which
the test shall be made previous to the start being
given at the first, or twenty -fiye-mile race.
A Kansas correspondent states that an old tmRper,
who has been in the mountains since $780, informed him
that during his long stay in the isolated gorges of the
Rocky mountains he had never experienced such severe
weather during the past winter The snow had been
very deep and the severity of the weather uprecedent
ed. AS far information be obtained the spring
has never been 80 backward IN Kansas.
The New Jersey geological report shows that the At
lantc Is steadily and rather rapidly cncroachng upon the
ward full mile since the revolution Along the bay
shore at Cape May the fars away at the rate of
a rod in two years One of the beaches upon il Is men
toned having showed inward hundred yards in the
last twenty years.
The New Orleans Bulletin of the ed inst states that
two large locomotives with double drivers about
be placed upon the Mexican Gulf railroad that other
improvements TO be made and that the crops
along the line of the road promising 1t Is likely to
do a thriving business.
I No Jnuis Iaade In sueaL of the cratic re-
Gently delivered by Hon. Edward Everett before the
Washington University in that city, says that it
of beauties beauties of thought of illustration and
of style delivered with perfect grace with sweet
ness and power of voice and modulaon MOST rare and
no less delightful
Saws writer in the Medical World in treating of the
eyes, scarcely any practice has deieerous effect
upon the eyes than reading in the when riding in
them The jar Of the vehicle by the wheels, the noise OF
the moving machine, and especially the sudden
transition Of light and darkness seriously affect the
gan of vision
4 A telcgraphie despatch from Evansville, Indiana an
that the steamer Julia DEAN the 26th inst,
when below Mount Vernon, came IN collision with the
steamer Rainbow and the former sunk, Five six
persons were drowned including four Of her deck hands
The Rainbow was but little damaged The Julia Deans
! loss is covered by insurance.
musical congress will assemble at Philadelphia on
the 18th of june to continue in session until the 18th
The whole number of societies which have accepted the
invitation attend is fy-sx, embracing membership
fifteen hundred The exercises will consist Of concerts
operas, balls, pic-nics, PROFESSIONS and banquet
The New York Sun states that wedding party on the
2lst instant in North Brooked having arrived within
half mile of the house of the BRIDE blocked in
by the snow and it required the laboous services of
eight for hour before the banks shovecd
away to admit of passage
The Pacific railroad through Texas will be 8s3 miles
long, and has grant Of S,0l7 900 acres Of land and
loan of SO, 900 per mile from the State.
Late intelligence from Cardcras Cuba reports that
sugar and molsscs had still further advanced nprice
The last spike in the track of the Montgomery ALA
bama) and Pensacola dlorida) railroad driven on
Tuesday of last week. and IL is expected that the
will run in ten days
The income of the Marquis of Westminster it is said
is G400 900 per annun equal S. per day. or over
three dollars for every minute of time, night and day.
through the year Every tick Of the clock throws half
dime into his pocket.
The Knoxville Whig of the 18th instant gives glow
ing account of the prospects of the wheat crop in East
Tennessee That paper says unusual amount has been
sown and if nothing happens to the growing crop il will
YIELD in the thirty counties of that end of the State
MILLIONS DOLLARS
week two sailors discovered, about mile west of that
place the usks of huge animal which five feet
eight inches in length. Three joints of the backbone
also found each measuring two feet inches in
diameter.
Missouri paper states that hen belonging to gen
tleman residing in ST. Louis laid egg the other day
measuring 10 inches in circumference and weighing
On breaking the egg another perfect egg with
a hard she'll was found within it.
The Upper Mississippi is falling all the way down. and
it is thought that there will be disruption in the ice
Of Lake Pepn until about the end Of the present month
The Illinois is falling slowly, with still fine stage
I of water.
i Nathaniel p Banks sr father of the Speaker of the
national House of Representatives died at his residence
at Walthanl Massachusetts, the 23d instant at the
| age Of sixty -four years,
The st. Louis Democrat states that the receipts upon
the Pacific railroad for the first sixteen days of April
amounted over s37 900 II is quite certain that the
total amount for the month will exceed $4,000.
1 telegraphic despatch from Chicago announces that
battle has taken place between the Indians and volu
teers under Gen Dodd at Wallena river Twelve Indians
were killed,
The boiler In steam planning mill exploded In Toledo
Ohio the 9th inst killing and seriously inurng
four persons The building demolished.
! The mayor Of New Orleans, in a communication to the
city council of that city recommended the appointment
by that body of delegates to the quarantine
convention which is to next month Mt Phlade
I phia.
Curtis the pedestrian, tsays 81. Louis paper) has
matched himself TO wah mile against the we'll known
mare Flying Clouds troffuy three.
At the April term Of the superior court Of Taylor cou-
ty Georgia. action for damages brought against the
Southwestern Railroad Company for the killing Of Urah
Pauk by collision between two passenger trains The
trial resulted in verdict for the plaintiff of $50 900 dam
/ ages.
OF the 1913 professors of religion at the University Of
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