The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-08-20
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Tnx IRISH EScuxsFavp EsrArss Counr---Ihe Herald
says Thc act respecting the disposal of cucumber
cd estates has received the royal assent The total
amount OF money received, from the commencement of
the sales to the present. reaches over f22 000 of
which not than f3,0O0,0 600 was contributed by
English and Scotch purchasers There $50 estates
sold which divided into ii 900 lots and the pur
chasers number upwards Of {, 900.
MnIrAuY TRIP TO EUROPE 1T has been announced
that the LIST regiment Col yosburgh, intend making
trip to Europe time during the coming fall. The
report, however, is premature for although the mem
beers OF the regiment have discussed the poprety of pay
ing visit to the French capital the matter has not been
definitely settled 1t is reported that committee,
consisting of Lieut. Mccormick Col Hepburn and pri-
vate Coulter of the City Grenadier company H. second
regiment departed in the steamer last week for Europe,
to make for the visit of that corps to Scot
land, from which country most of the members hail 1t
is said the money is subscribed and that the committees
report will decide the matter ~ Y. Hrod.
RAIs.Whcn house is infested by rats which refuse
nbble at toasted cheese and the usual Bats few
drops OF the highly scented oil OF rhodum poured the
bottom of cagetrap will almost invariably attract it
full of the miscellaneous rodents before morning We
have known this to be tried with most extraordinary
Where trap baited with all manner of edibles
had failed to attract single rat, the oil of rhodium
caused to be completely crowded night after night until
the house cleared of the noisome visitors So says
of our exchanges Ta
DEATH OF AN AMERICAN AT sIAa.-Capt. Pres Duvol,
old commander in the Cincinnati and Pttsburg packet
ring the political campaign of ls4O died Mattaand
Siam, on the 9th of April last of the jungle fever
Several months since the Gazette announced his
in capturing pratical fleet in the Gulf of Siamhe be-
lg a commissioned officer in the Siam navy At the
time of his death, he engaged with company in
mining in the mountains He left Cincinnati for China
in 1854 The deceased leaves wife and child in Ian
caster, Ohio.
voLrAIRE's Bra ss.-1ne French Academy was offered
by the grandson Of the surgeon who embalned vo1ire
1xxifh ppft hp xytS brain
served in spirits of wne The Academy declined receiv
ing brains upon pretence that it shocking that
great mans brains should not lie in his grave. But
alileos finger at Florence regarded with great inter
est and of Guy Fawess skulls is carefully preserved
at Oxford, the ti5usal being in the British Museum
Tower of London
GREAT HAUL Bass AT NEwPoRr. --Seventy-six bass
weighing in the aggregate over twenty-five hundred
pounds sened night before last and the seiners
say they did not secure fifth part of the school, Sew
era of the fish weighed upwards of forty pounds They
were sold for 1853.
Mr. Doolittle of Chicago who hired two men to whip
the schoolmaser Keith because the latter had sent the
boy home to wash his face has been fined $500 and
to the city prison for six months. Doottle is Of
property.
BILE case Of longevity in family in Nelson county Va
There five married sisters whose aggregate ages
to 43+ On the LIST of January last the eldest
ter 93 the second 81 the third 49, the fourth g.
and the fifth so.
MARRIED SrgAM.--In the Mobile Tribune find
the OF the marriage of Mr.. j. Weaver and
Miss SaIe j. Austin .'on the downward train of the
Mobile and Ohio railroad, while under full headway
passing through Wayne county, Mississippi Rev.
Mr. Heard performed the ceremony.
A MoxslsR HORSE MAcKERsI--The Belfast (NIaine)
Age states that few days ago horse mackereI IL
feet long feet in circumference, and weighing $40
pounds, was caught by Messrs Frederick and Condons
of that city, after hard rum during which three har
poems driven into the monster. He produced
barrel of oil.
Hon Thomas A. Hendricks Commissioner of the Gen
eral and Office, left this city yesterday evening on
brief visit to his home in Indiana. During his absence
Mr. Joseph s Wilson, the efficient Chief Clerk, win be
Acting Commissioner.