Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-07-08
News or the Day.
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Telegrsphic feet is increasing daily. The
delay is BY some persons considered an omen
of success. whilst others think it proof posi-.
tive Of failure.
Madrid is still suffering from the food cri-
sis, but it is said to be more fictitious than
real Bread had risen one-fourth, while
Some of the Yves. Cambridge farmers dai-
ly send from 400 to 600 boxes Of strswber.
riss to the Boston market, and there are
many persons within ten miles Of Fausuil
Hall whose vines produce from 300 to 500
boxes each day of the strawberry season.
Christopher H. Mott, Of Mississippi, ha,
been appointed BY the Secretary Of the To-
terror, in conformity with law, a commission
er to investigate arrearaees of debts in rela'
ton to Indian affairs in Oregon and Wash,
ington Territories.
Sir Colin Campbell will get bis peerage,
and deserves it, if not particularly for bis
Indian exploits, for his whole lifetime Of
military service. He is a gallant old man,
SiIty-siI years ago be Was born, of humble
parents, 10 Glasgow, the commercial capital
Of Scotland, and exactly half century ago
he had the good luck to obtain commission
in the British army.
A young man by the name of Rudolph
Cotton was killed BY a stroke of lightning,
on last Saturday, at the house Of widow Nc.
Kay, in Indiana, opposite Carrolton, Ky
The electric fluid struck a scythe in the
along it eutered the hat Of Cotton, end pass
ing through his body shivered stone on
which he was standing into thousand frag-
ments. He fell dead.
A vessel from Havana, bound for Liver
pool, was towed into quarantine, on Monday,
at New York. She had lost her captain and
several of the crew by yellow fever. When
the condition Of the veseel wes made known
to the health officer, he Immediately sent her
IF to the lower bay.
The U. S. Court at Csuandaigua, has con-
cludod the trial Of DR.. Ephriam w. Fellows,
of Buffalo, who was indicted FIR the robbery
Of the post Office in that city. The robbery
was committed in 1856. and Fellows was in
dicssd in October Of that year, but there had
been delay iD bringing the matter to trial
until now. Meanwhile the accused was at
large under bonds to the amount Of SIS ,OOO
Not knowing the nature Of the testimony
against him, he has rested under the impress
sion that be would be acquitted. The YER.
dict was unexpected and took Fellows entire
ly unawares.
A drunken sailor belonging to sohr. Hart,
performed feat just outside Of Chicago the
other day which he will hardly wish to re-
peat. The Chicago Press says be went to
masthead, then to main mast truck, where
hanging by one hand to tbs slender top-msst
be wronohsd Of the gilt ball and hurled it to
4 distance from the vessels side, then sprang
into the air, coming down feet foremost into
the water, and after being under water until
it Was supposed he had gone to Davy Jones
locker, he rose to the surface and WAS res
oued. His first inquiry after consciousness
was restored was as to the whereabouts OF
tho man who "bet him S25." He lies seri-
ously injured at the hospital in Chicago.
Attached to the reportorial corps Of the
Pari. Pstris is an ingenious gentleman to
whom is confded the Horrible and Thrill.
ling Accident" department. This reporter,
when be sees men engaged on high aud
dangerous scaFolding, sits down and waits
all day for an accident, and if mono arrive,
rusbes to the river, jumps in, and then, as If
changing his suicidal Intentions, strikes out
and, swims until the bostmen come to bis
rescue. lie has then got his accident and
bis article.
AT the recent term Of the Supreme Judi
cisl Court, held at Exeter, n. H., the e1cop-
tons in the case Of Andrew Wentworth and
Gilbert Stone, convicted Of placing obstruc-
,ions on the Boston and Maine Railroad, in
Great Falls, were overruled by the court and
the prisoners were sentenced to ths State
prison for the term Of seven years each!
Stephenson, the Boston sculptor, has de-
signed monument to the memory OF John
Howard Payne, the author Of Home, Sweet
Home" Its an sllegoricsl monument, ty-
piosl Of the character and profession Of the
deceased.
Mrs. Mary Folger, widow Of the discover
or Of Pitcairu's Island, died at Massillon,
Ohio, on the 2Sth ul,., aged ST. She was
born in Nantucket. Her husband, Captain
Maybew Folger, died in 1928.
Charles Bliun, drorer, was robbed on
the Sd inst, at the West Albany Exchange
of 1920. His room was entered by means
of a ladder. The money was all on the
Passumpsic Bank. There is no clue to the
robber.
The safe arrival of the Bremen, the pio-
neer Of q new line of steamships from New
York to Bremen direct, in seventeen days
from the latter port, is considered proof of her
good qualities.
On Sunday morning, 9th ult., violent
storm passed over Minerva, Ohio, and Vicini-
ty, doing considerable damage, the lightning
killing three persons, and striking many
others.
From reports received at Gloucester, Mass.,
the prospects for good catch Of Maskorel by
the feet now in the Bay of St. Lawrence,
are very fair. There are about 300 sail now
engaged in this fishery.
Col. r. NJ. Hoe, the ingenious inventor Of