The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-07-29

,Jy and committed a rape upon her lie was pursued.
nugh and put in jail, and hung by the citizens tho
next day. 1850 ~
A HARD Nur ron PaESrilE. From the subjoned jea
k may BIO inferred that the Boston Post n not very
dendy To the editor of the Louisville Journal !.
Prentice tas tried spty aud well hs -s-
Could raulc has Jokes poor Monsieur issiy .
BIT older French geollemao the more at i-
And natural b o rren,ce via, 70 -
SFor6 avs md Hunk whose tongue curb
"iasn't rreutoe for year boon butt GA ho~e""s
EARLY RIrnsNa wHxAr--Is ADVANTAGE. John
Johnson the father of understanding in this State and
one OF the successful wheat growers says he would
give apze Of 81 900 to any who could tell him how
10 pen his wheat ten days earlier than IL does now
Even days ahead Of his neghbors Is great advan
age and him great measure from the nvsSeso OIL
The nudge and this is Of the advantages he has
nined by the use of salt lime high manuring and UNI
derdainng his land His object is to have his wheat In
ear from the 9Th to the 10th Of June and them even,
# il afterwards rpen slowly IL Is too forward for the
nudge One piece this year that several days
forward than usual he speaks Of splendid while all
around other farmers mourning the utter destruction
Of their crops. IN. A. Tribune. iss "a .sssta s a.
A Newport correspondent of the Now York Evening
Post furnishes us with the following 81
"a repartee Of Col Magruder. In command OF Fort
Adams has made deal Of amusement. You prota-
biz aware that the entrance to fortress aud Is In
tended 10 be- beset with difficulties. The pathway of
stone flooring turns this way and that with all manner
Of steep and salient angcs and it Ia no joke to drive In
the passage Well lady who had regard for her
horses and for her bones, nnocently protested
against these mpediments to smooth travelling, and
asked the colonel if he could not have the entrance 10 the
fort dlcds To which Col NJ, with great readiness and
suavty, replied, Certainly, Madam, will have it done
at once this fort made for the ladies "
AN EXTENSIVE ENGLISH SwISDLER ARREsTnD--James
Sutton Elliott senior military storckeeper of Weldon,
near London, England is alleged to have embezzlcd
$40 800 of the moneys that establishment He arrived
in Boston early in June An order for his arrest
granted some days since by Judge Ingraham, of New
York city. Early Monday morning, after nearly six
weeks chase by cx0cer Bowyer he was arrested at the
81 Nicholas Hotel and taken to the Edridge street ial
Since his arrival he has travelled extensively between
Boston, Newport, Norfolk, and Niagara, in company
with young and handsome actress Miss Sinclair whom,
DESERVING his wife, he brought with him from England
using great number Of aliases to clude recognition.
The New Orleans papers congratulating the resi-
dents of that city upon the improved efficiency of its
police force. No outrage has been committed of late
without the arrest of the perpetrators From the LIST to
the 18th of july 377 arrests had been made of which
1879 white persons 1t strikes that the number
Of arrests is exceedingly large and that they furnish the
ampIes evidence of the turbulence of portion of the
population of that city.
The Chicago Tribune says that in August 1S47 Thur
low Weed predicted that in years Chicago would
tain inhabitants than Albany. The ten years
passed. and in sporting phrase, Chicago has seen Al
bany, and gone thirty thousand better.
The wine and silk crops which arc about as important
France the cotton and crops in the United
States said by the latest adyces to promise remark
ably well The vines everywhere described looking
magnificent Wines were generally looking down in the
Provinces and bandes dull. According to circu
lar of NJ Aries Deour of Lyons the latest accounts from
the silk growing countries state that in their last stage
the had suffered greatly from the tropical temper
ate lately prevalent The estimates of the CROP there
fore, must undergo some deduction Nevertheless it
considered certain that taken altogether it will be much
t,a,,f hat
silk had increased within the past few days. and prices
which had been declining, had again become firm
Intelligence from Havana to the 18th instant states
that ffty-two Yucitan Indians and hundred
Asatics, from the Cape of Good Hope had been landed
recently in Cuba. Among the latter thirty -four
females.
monument is to be erected to the Pilgrim Fathers at
Plymouth from $500, 900 to $500 900 1t will be
built of granite, hundred and fifty three feet high
eighty feet at tho base, with sitting figures from thirty
eight to seventy feet high 1t is to be completed In
twelve years from August 1853 Thirty-six thousand
setts. The society for building the monument haye
purchased all the estates Immediately around the verta
bic rock, and also site for the monument embracing
ten acres of land commanding fine view Of the haror
and the locality of the rock.
The amount annually expended in the construction Of
railroads in this country since 1850 has largely exceeded
the whole expenditures Of government and the railroad
receipts for the years have surpassed the govern
ment receipts.
In the Minnesota legislature they are discussing
proposition to the capital to Ncollet island The
Pioneer thinks the price of lots in places might
be favorably affected should this plan succeed
The Detroit board of education who must be a little
waggishy Inclined have adopted device for the seal
of that body handsome young school MISTRESS with
thriving youuker her lap. The left hand is up
lifted having stout leathcrn strap in the net of de-
scending upon the younker aforesaid whose mouth is
wide open, from which issues the motto of ZEAL Srikc
but hear me- ~ t3
There was grand railroad celebration at IIempsead
Texas the 10Th utmo, in honor of the completion of
the first fifty miles of the Houston and Texas Central
Railroad to that place There turn out of the mil
itay of Houston, Galveston and adjoining counties and
an immense Of people, the largest perhaps TINT
has assembled in the State There were fine ora
tons and speeches. splendid babccuc all concluded by
balls. The trains crowded with passcn
gers from Houston Galveston and the lower counties
generally
cargo of North Carolina wheat consisting of three
thousand bushels raised by Col James c. Johnston was
sold IN Baltimore yesterday morning by Messrs John
Williams Son, to Mcssrs. r. w. lowering & Son, for
seed wheat at the high price of 81 76 per bushel The
same description of wheat this time last year, brought
81 20 per bushel
The pretended discovery of a coal mine some months
since at Bowmansve, Canada, where geologiss affirm
coal cannot exist turns out TO be deliberate inn
position Great excitement and indignation prevails in
consequence. sat
The extensive furniture warehouse of Scarrtt & Mason
Washington avenue between Second and Third streets
st. Louis totally destroyed by fire about ak O'Clock
on the morning of the 26th instant Loss $780, o0 In
snrancc s65, 900. 500 ~
The mortality at New Orleans for tho week ending the
18th instant shows an increase over the pr,,v;ous