The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-12-25
GLEANINGs FROM TmE llAILs.

York cattle market on Wednesday, for 500
The Sens OF Malta OF Cincinnati have contracted for
five thousand Ioaves Of bread which they will distribute
among the poor OF that city ON Christmas day.
bill repeating the act prohibiting circus exhibitions
within the limits of Vermont s been defeated in the leg
isiature OF that State
Two cannons ia course OF trial ut East Liberty
Ptsburg, by United States officers. Up to the 18th
each gun had been fired 200 times and both were still
sound--i5 pounds OF powder in each charge.
Our American custom of Thanksgiving day was oh
served at Paris by Americans and grateful congresa-
ton listened to grateful discourse the lips OF Bishop
Mcllyane of Ohio
The aggregate numerical strength of the Society OF
Friends Is estimated ut about Is 900 in Great Britain
During the last twenty the society in this country
has been slightly but gradually decreasing ia numbers
We learn that typhoid pneumonia il very preva
lent and very fatal in the counties around FedericSs
burg One farmer in King George has lost six servants
and large number still sick,
A Tobacco Fair has been held at South Windsor, Con
nectcut the first exhibition of the kind ia the State
The fair originated with few neighbors who tobac
co-growers am organization was formed, and exhibit
ton agreed upon
Within the last three years the number of unknown
persons who have died in New York has averaged 800
per This almost incredible, How many
tales vi and suffering connected with these
mysterious records.
At Camp Floyd Utah, the officers and men are divert
ing themselves with amateur theatrcals The company
Id made up of enlisted men, and the feminine part Is from
the ''Great Salt Lake City" 1t opened with tho
comedy called used Up and concluded with the dead
SHOT
The State of Texas has granted ortyiour charters to
railroad companies of which seventeen have been for
feited, leaving twenty.seyen charters still 10 force OF
these eleven in process Of construction with ag
gregate length, when completed, of 1928 miles
Ii credit statement received from the agent
of the Associated Press the Atlantic cable has had another
spasn We imagine that it is a se-a dodge to enable
Mr. Knave to sell stock to Mr. Simple. Wicked world
this and oil caused by having people in it,
An ingenious man, who desired to so from Needham
to Boston, but had money made believe that he was
the murderer of Carney for whom reward offered
arrested and taken to Boston, where he iInne
diately released, as not being the man wanted
Among the private bill notices inserted In the London
papers To empower corporation under the title
OF Pneumatic Post Company, to ny down and maintain
certain pipes and apparatus for conveying by atmos
pherc process letters and parcels to and from different
parts of the metropolis
A notifying report comes from the "modem Athens, "
t. Boston, to the New York Courier des Elas Unis
That papers informant says Mr. Morrissey attracts
rc attention and draws his exhibitions larger crowds
than worthy fellow-citzen Mr. Ullman and his
tire opera troupe, Piccolomini included"
The authorship OF Ernest Carroll, Artist Life in
ITALY, has been ascribed to several gent ee in this To-
caty, but tbs suspicious OF the most knowing have
last generally united upon Mr. Henry Greenough, of Cam
bridge, who is intimate acquaintance with the charac
tiers appearing in the book and he himself resided abroad
for some time.
AS John MethoIm feeding circular saw In a Chi
cage planning and single MILL Friday, by acct
dent or sudden obstruction OF the machinery, the
flew out of its bearings and struck the deceased one
side cutting him dagonaIly In two and coming out
the opposite shoulder.
The Masonic Male Academy at Unontown Ala with the
lodge above with aits contents destroy by
fire on the 10Th ult. The Jewels resalia furniture
paintings, papers, &c, lost The Masonic fraternity
therefore out Of pocket between six and thou
sand dollars. The fire. the Herald thinks, the result
of carelessness.
A porter in silk goods establishment in New York
has recently been discovered in robbng his employers of
valuable merchandise. Seven years dishonesty cna-
BLEED him to purchase fine house and live in excellent
style, though earning hut six dollars week. Two
thousand dollars worth Of goods found his prem
ises
A national convention of blacklegs assembled in Chi
aago last week, delegations being present from nearly
every State in the Union. They spendidy dress
I'd set OF and jewelry in great proision Phc
revision of Hoye and the codcation Of the laws OF
poker, &C., the objects Of the convention. What
next,
The schooner d. sexton. which sailed from Clevc
land the 29h May last for London has arrived safely
in Copstantinople the Sth November, after rough
passage up the edterraRean The captain states that
he outsaied everything In his pourse and was the first Of
fleet of hundred and fifty sail that arrived at that
port and without breaking yarn or leaking drop
just auctoneer In Hartford was saying ''gone ~
few evenings SINCE biz audience went throng the floor
into the cellar but, happily without hurting any Of
them The auetoneer, ~ soon as hp found his lega,
remarked that the accident would enable him TO sell oprr
than before and called for bid, and they bid hin, good
night This will balance the of shop lifting of the
day before,
The wealth of the two great centres Boston and New
York, amounts to eight hundred millions of doaTs-New
York having 1928 600 600; Boston S27a 600 000 or a
little more than onehalf that of New York The prop
erty of boston is hundred millions more than that of
the city of Philadelphia and nearly three times that Of
BALTIMORE II ~ said that Boston has more property per
capita, than any other city in the world.
Tho authorte, Of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad
Company have been engaged the past week In maturing
measures for the vigorous prosecution of the work the
LyDchburg extension the coming year. Favorable terms
have been made with responsible put about
twelve hundred hands the line after the first day OF
through to LynchLurg in full operation by the lst &c
September next -
The queen of the trotf
stables OF her owner, Mr. Mcdonald. OF
Baltimore, who purchased her of J. McMann, of New
York. for SO 600. McMann has been in charge of her
during the past season, aud will probably continue TO
handle her. receiving half the profits Of her engage
ments which amounted to about 900 per week during
her western tour ut agricultural exhibitions &c
In week 3O2 loads Of Delaware butter passed
through the Wwyck pa toll gate near that village
for New York, by the way Of Rondout steamers These
loads average twenty rkns Calculate each frkn Mt 90
lbs and we have $40 600 pounds or over 20 tons Of
the best butter in market passing this one point IT.
cash value, prices is than