The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-12-19
GLEININGs FRON TIE NAILS

ttLEiNINbA FEOI& a III HAdil@.s
An active emigration to the gold and silver mines Of
Arizona is setting in from Texas and Arkansas
The friends Of Dartmouth College making an ef
ert 20 raise q fund Of sl00, 900 for its benefit
Atst Paul. MINI, on the 9th anil 10th inst, the
thermometer stood at Is degrees below zero.
There are now but thirty Indian warriors in Forida,
and they will probably emigrate in two months
Mr. Pariee the bearer of the Presidents message,
met so miles cast OF Fort Beiknap 80 hours ahead OF
time.
Hon VIM L. Yancy has abandoned his PROPOSED visit
10 the Hot Springs Arkansas and has returned home
with his health considerably improved.
Bishop Melchior the Catholic missionary, the Of
WHO'S, arrest in Cochin China received some time
since had been executed by the authorities at Hue
w W. Leland and Chas Leland, late of the Metro
uoitan Hotel ". " their way to Texas, where
they 20 extensively into grazing, large and valuable
rlnche of 10, 900 acres.
Mr. Fox Talbot the inventor Of the well known paper
process" Of photography, has Just been nven.ng
process of engraving by light plates of copper steel
zinc.
Religious festivities and the AaFstzek opera engaged
the people OF Havana at last aecounts. Adelaide Philips
described iresh the rose with the song Of morn
ing spon her lips
4 party Of five, got up rnder the auspices Of we'll
and respected gentleman OF Troy propose IN May
or June TO start upon overland pleasure trip to San
Francisco Mr. ButterEeld offers them coach 10 them
Selves allowing them their own time.
In the divorce before the New Haven court,
the allegation that Mr.. Bennett made Ills wife father
Bay fifty cents for his dinner is Indignantly denied but it
admitted that be charged his respected father-in-llw
hryseyen and half cents for his midday hospitality
Boston has purchased two steam fire engines, OF
which is the Lawrence, Of Lawrence, Mass, and the
other the Rotary" OF Seneca Falls New York. The
of the two 81 600. The Miles Greenwood alone
cost nearly as large.
law has been passed by the Legislature of Mississippi
syyg upon bands in the river coaniies exposed to
inandation Of cents per acre. for repairing and per
iectins the levce of the Mississippi river.
Judgment has been rendered against the Illinois Cen
tl Railroad Company, at the suit of cattle drover for
ST. $50 damages for injuries sustained by 100 head of cat
tie detained on the road while their way Detroit.
The decision ii Of Importance to cattle dealers.
The sailor Austin Of the PARTIES charged with fir
ng the whaeshp Cortsz has tanned mouse IN his cell
in the Boston Jail The Journal says the little animal
occasionally energies from the pocket of Asns jacket
while he il in the courtroom takes run over his head
and shoulders takes look at the court and COUNSEL and
apparently satisfied that all is right retires to his retreat
Mr.. Stephen c. Mlssett viii be in Washington to
give bis original entertainment entitled Song and Chit
Chat Of Travel in Many Lands in which he embraces
anecdotes Of his adventures in the United States, Caor
MIA, Australia, and Europe The portion relative to
British India win be very interesting The entertain
ment blends the serious and humorous, and is exten
siyely diversified with songs.
james and VIM. Mason aged Is and 20 have arrived
at st. Louis, after having been rescued from Wilson
Island in the Mississippi where they had remained five
days without food They ratsmen, but passing
scattered their raft and they chung to single
timber till they were cast upon the island where they
endured terrible sutfrings, and whence they finally
capped by swimming to the main fand on stray log.
| An important agreement has been entered into
by the Providence manufacturers Of printing cloths by
which they fix upon 30 inches as the measure OF yard,
instead Of 81 inches, has been the custom heretofore
The given for this change certainly Asac
tory This is the true yard and it prevails in the meas
Of all other cIoths and there to be good
for the exceptional practice that has grown up
respect TO printing cloths.
The Rev DR. McCrie, in his antiquarian explorations
Of London has discovered the Minutes Of the WeaaaSsr As
amdy in manuscript extending the whole period
Of sittings. DR. Lee principal of the Edinburgh Univer
aty, believed they had been destroyed by fire They
ae found in the Episcopal Library of Sion College,
tue city where Presbstcry in its brief palmy days had
H headquarters
been arrested charge Of being in league with
terteers, At his house large number of bank-note
plates We're found purporting to be engraved for the
talkl and Mohawk River banks besides dies bearing
The words "Fennsylyania and ''Mnssachusetts
press also discovered in the premises. Brown
Is held % bail to answer
Alta special meeting OF the Manchester Chess Club il
Ms resolved That this meeting while recognising
a Sunton right 10 decline any chess Challenge winch
He might ind mconvenient and Incompatible with his
other engagements deems ii proper to declare its full con-
cuence in the opinion expressed by Lord Lytaton in
us letter to Mr. Morphy of the Sd inst, that in all fr
es and observation-disclosures Mr. Stiunton should have told
Mr. hophy long before he did that he declined the pro-
posed match"
There auction in Philadelphia on Wednesday
Tue prices ranged thus Vintage of 1889. 50 per gallon
vintage Of "a SIT so per gallon vintage Of 1900,
~ per gallon a fourgaion demilchn OF Butler
he, $40 per gallon-esiimated, with interest added
70 have cost the man who sold it ss5 per gallon. A
oIo golden sherry, imported in 1926, brought s6
yaoa two half gallon Jugs of Madeira, imported in
''9'r brought So. lot Of old whissey brought $i2
sllon--tle aggregate sale reaching $4,000. ~
The Farmers High School of Pennsylvania, located in
a'e county is to be opened in February, and applca
a ior the admission Of hundred students from the
rent counties Of the State, In proportion 10 the taxa
V mhaant1, viii be received until the 18th OF Inn
V'' All application must be made through the agri
'al socsos, except where such societies do not exist
%awAcant must be sixteen years of age. The terms
" tuition will be 500 for each session Of ten months