The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-08-25
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Extensive preparations making in New York for
national convention of Germans in that city, to be
posed of delegates from the various German emigration
societies throughout the Unonthe object being to urge
the enactment of laws for the better protection of emf
grants The convention is to commence the LIST of
October and be continued for three or four days.
Thursday night unusually cool for the season. here
and at the North 1t is said that there frosts
low grounds in towns to the west of Boston. In
birmingham, Massachusetts,, tho mercury Friday morn
ing stood at AZ degrees
The Albany Atlas says that the quantity of wheat left
at tide water this year. reduced to four shows increase
of 233 l4l barrels Of flour compared with the
responding period last year.
Mercer county, New Jersey, the counties Of Bucks
MONTGOMERY and Chester Pennsylvania and Chaauaue
New York. said to be overrun with grasshoppcrs.
On Wednesday last three gcntemanly looking stran-
gers while making tour of the u s. Mint at Philade
phia succeeded in robbing the cabinet Of coins
which preserved object of special interest and
value The strangers succeeded in absractng two fifty
dollar pieces slug worth $40 four s20 gold pieces
$50 California gold CON- and ono S25 gold piece
The scamps effected the robbery by of false key
with which they unlocked the cabinet, during the
mentary absence of the attendant Two Of the scaps
afterwards arrested at stores where they
deavorlng to pass of the stolen coins
1t is stated in recent despatch from New Orleans that
the cotton accounts from nearly every section
very favorable In Alabama especially the plant is said
to be doing better than at any former time.
Intelligence has been received at New Orleans of the
loss of the steamer Poydras belonging to the Tchuante
pee Company. She foundored ut on the 10th ult
All hands were saved
John Schpf, a German sixty years of age, KILLED his
Henry, aged about thirty -hrce years. in Ste Gene
We've county, Mo- the 18th inst, by deliberately
shooting him. large ball passed clear through the
body. More than q hundred persons were within fifty
feet Of the spot at the time The wife of the dead
running with her infant child in her to the
lifcess body Of her husband uttcrng the most piercing
obri anf np1f ha
was intense Many were for hanging John Sch@f the
spot but better counsels prevailed, and he commit
ted to the Ste Geneveve jail also his wife, step
mother of the deceased accessory before the fact
Family difficulties to have been the Of the
dreadful crime.
shocking tragedy occurred Bowling Green Pike
county, Mo-, recently, named Myers killing his
Legitimate daughter who lived with her father and dis
charged the domestic duties Of the household. The girl
was found dead on the floor weltcrng in pool of blood
shot through the heart BY her side lay Myers, also
dead, with bullet hole through his head None of the
circumstances that led to the bloody tragedy known
but the fact that the girl upon examination by the ladies
Of the neghborheod was found to be enas points to
another and still fearful crime the of the
affair The father, it is supposed had dishonored his
offspring and both had agreed bloody death
of not being living witnesses to the exposure of
the guilt of the one and the shame of the other.
writer in the Georgia Educational Journal, in reply
to the question, What goes with deers horns" says
that all deer, shedding their horns bury them
This explanation for tho somewhat singular fact
stated by hunters that deers horns never very
seldom, found in the woods.
Hanover paper tells the world that tho !" silly preu-
dice against horse flesh has altogether vanished in Den
mark and northern Germany, and that in the city of
Hanover alone in the Of Whitsunweek about two
thousand pounds Of horse flesh consumed The
number of horses slaughtered for eating in that city be-
tween two and three hundred year.
The English papers give the credit of laying the cable
tl,, 10 NJ Rriob tho IJ,o.
say the plan the arrangement, and the execution
principally his and he had previously studied elaborate
and successfully the capacity electricity for telegraph
c purposes The New York papers claim the credit for
Mr. Field As neither claim the Of more than
half the cable the honor DO divided between them
The New Orleans Cr1cm gives account OF the arri
val Mt that port with number Of French emigrants who
clatcd at the sight of free American city, that
on nearing the landing they joined hands and commen-
ced singing tho Marscaisc police-oicor stepped on
board and in French requested them not to sing loud
s there were a number of persons sick with yellow fe
yer In the neghborhood. They Immediately wllted,
stopped singing, and wanted to go back to han.