Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-04-29

" T0sto~ hs gerry cge and body Of The TINES

"7osItoc tbs cery cge and body Of the TINES"
1t is proposed to celebrate iu July next, at
Greenyille, Team, tho completion of the East
Tennessee and Virginia Railroad. As the
Norfolk aud Petersburg Railroad will be
completed about the first OF July, 1t Is pro
q sed to have a Joint celebration Of the two
lines, whose completion will fni.h out the
continuous line of railway from Norfolk to
Memphis. The excursionists will pass over
the entire liue from Norfolk to Memphis.
During the storm on Thursday night last,
several of large feet of coal boats that left
Louisville on Wednesday, sunk near Hawes-
Vile, Ky. Eight pair of boats, containing
about lis 900 bushels of coal, are reported as
having gone down, and eigb, lives known to
have been lost. One pair OF boats belonged
to Ii. j. Brown, of Pittsburg. Mr.. Brown
was saved but his two brothers, William and
Henry Brown, pilots, were drowned, togeth-
er with four of the crew, named Dorsey,
Jackson, aud Cronin, Casper Colt and MIR.
Muddy, all of Pttsburg.
A monster nugget of gold, weighing lac
pounds, and valued at S34, $50, has been
found at Kingower, Australia. by four old
California Miners named Robert and James
Ambrose and Samuel and Charles Napier.
| is two feet Jour inches in length, by ten
inches 10 width at its widest point, and eight
inches thick at Que end. and four inches
thick at the other. The lucky owners are
two pairs Of brothers, one pair being Eng
lish, and the other Boston boys.
There is no need to 20 to the H)ttentots
for degrading superssi,ions. At Glen Falls,
n Y, man named Adams being sick with
consumption, his friends have dug up the re-
maius OF his brother, which had been buried
seventeen months, and taken out the heart,
intending to burn the blood found in it, and
thus save the sick man. But the heart was
So far decayeI that no blood could oe found,
and so the cure cannot be accomplished.
A frightful accident occurred lately at
Madrid, lin Spain.) A house in the Gale
Mantua, in tho central part Of Madrid. and
which was occupied by goldsmith, was
burnt TO the ground, and an entire family,
consisting of father, mother, and six children
and female servant. all persisted in the
Aames. The accident is said to be owing TO
40 escape of gas.
The whiskey war at Maquoket'a, Iowa,
has become serious, and the whiskey party,
indignant at the summary suppression of the
traffic by the temperance men, threaten to
burn the city. TIE Germans have released
several Of their countrymen from jail, where
they were held for selling liqurr illegally,
and the Mayor has enrolled special force
OF 200 policemen.
A most destructive fire occurred in the
village of Suntish, on the Ohio, below Wheel
ing, 90 Saturday morning just before day
light, by which several valuable horses were
burned to death. A young man named
Everall in endeavoring to get bis horses out
of the stable, was terribly burned about the
arms, legs and bead.
All persons who served in the Texas revo
luton, and the beirs of such as have died
are entitled to bounty lands; but the legsla
ture of Texas has limited the time for ap,
plicatioD to be made, which time has nearly
expired, and when it does expire, the clai,
mants who have not then applied will be
barred forever, and lose their rights.
Four or five of the Philadelphia fire com.
panies have resolved to procure steam fire
engines, as of greater efficiency in their
hands in particular cases, and therefore
greatly increasing the utility of the fire de-
partment. These companies generally un.
dertske themselves the expense OF procuring
the new apparatus.
The Davenport Iowa) News says that emf
grafton up the Missouri river this season ia
uoprec, dented. 1t is estimated that emf
grants are pouring into the Territories at the
rate of 5000 day.
Joseph Leofner recently convicted of a
double murder at Cincinnati, and sentenced
to be hung, has had his punisbment commu,
ted by Gov. Chase to imprison ment for life.
Reverdy johnson, esq, in view of his prac'
tice in the U. S. Supreme Court, is in treaty
for A suitable mansion at Washington, as a
permanent residence.
Tbcs. Primrose. caught opposite Chester,
town, Nd. 100000 white fish at one haul, a
few days since.