Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-11-03
News OF the Day.
"Toshop the gerry age and body q the TINES"

Isthmus of Tehuantepec. This route. 1t 10
claimed, will shorten by e'gnss
days the passage to California as compafeu
with the Panama route. The steamers u
this route are to leave New Orleans Oh 'n'
18th and 9th of each month.
The table of Marine losses for the past
month, shows 90 aggregate of thirty vessels
Of which four were ships, two were barks'
two were brigs, tweuty.one we're schooners'
and one a sloop. The total value of proper
~ lost was FIVE hundred and thirty three
thousand five hundred dollars. This 10 tue
value of the property totally lost, exclusive
of damage 10 vessels not amountingto 10
tai loss and of partial losses Of cargo.
The semi-annual meeting Of the Mary and
Association of the New Jerusalem Church
(which includes the District of Columblal
will be held in Baltimore, at the Temple Of
the Fire, German Society, in East Lombard
street, near Lloyd street, on Thursday ITO.
Gorrow) at 10 o'clock, a. NJ. Members OF
the church 10 Maryland, Delaware, the DIS:
trict Of Columbia, and Virginia, are invited
to attend, and friends from abroad will be
entertained in the families of the members
of the church in Baltimore.
Ga Wednesday last all the inmates Of a
boarding house, kept by one Casper Muhl'
mauus, at St. Louis, were attacked with
nausea and vomiting. They were twenty
three in number, and bad partaken OF soup
and vegetables at dinner. 1t vas subsequent
ly asct r,ained that arsenic had been mingled
1, tha oh
ed were all promptly relieved by medicines:
A b0arder named Gaetsauner Is suspected OF
having attempted this wholesale murder.
We learn from the Office Of the Pennsylvs-
MIA Coal Company, at Port Ewing, Ulster
comfy, y. Y, that their Office at Pittson,
Pa, was entered on Wednesday night Of last
week, by robbers, who, after garroting the
paymaster, Mr.. Glines, aid robbing him.
entered the vaults Of the office, and TOOK
large sun of money therefrom.
AT Newark, New Jersey, the jury in the
Mccker will case, have rendered verdict for
the plaintiffs. They also presented to the
Court resolution exculpating Daniel X.
Bovian from any participation in making the
fraudulent January will, and seked that 1t
be placed on the files of the Court, which
was acceded to by Judge Haines.
Mile. Piccolouipi had tremendous house
at New York on Monday, to witness her first
performance in Tropatore. Every available
| spot in The house was occupied, and the as
! seu. blaee was one Of tue most brilliant
AID imposing OF the season. Many OF the
seats and boxes were disposed OF at large
| premiums.
The Montreal Telegraph Company have
successfully laid a cable across the Niagara
river to connect at that point the Canada
lines with the lines in the States. The cable
| is $500 feet long and has three conductors.
The time occupied in laying 1t was eight
| minutes.
Arrangements are on foot by which there
will be consolidation of nine Of the prlnci
pal telegraph lines of the country. whereby
the relations between the public and the
lines will be greatly simpiticd and improved,
and their general working be more speedy
| and reliable.
Recent ad,ices from Paris state the Empe-
ror n apoleon has requested Morpby to give
a specimen of bis blindfold playing at the
TuiIleries, before the ladies of the Imperial
Court, and has also consented to be beaten at
chess by the young American at the odds OF
q rock.
Lieut.. D. NJ. Cohen, Of the Marine Corps,
now stationed at the Brooklyn barracks, has
been placed 10 command Of all the marines
in the chartered steamers about to be sent to
Paraguay. On tho arrival of the A,et at the
general rendt zVous, 1t. Cohen will assume
the position as third officer.
Hazard and Jno. Clifford, as principals,
and John ali as second, in prize fight
that Gu me of near Hudson City, New Jer-
sey, bave been convicted 10 the county court.
The Judge il sold to have been very severe In
his charge against the prisoners. Sentence
was not passed.
An artesan well lately opened at Bourne
England, sends water 25 feet above the sur.
fucc, ard discharges $50 gallons per minute,
or q 600 in one hour. 1t feeds three mills,
aud is said to be the greatest well OF the
kind in the world, excepting the celebrated
one in Paris.
The bequest of Judah Touro for the essab,
lishment Of the Touro Almsbousc, in New
Orleans, has increased to Sl23,00 1t was
originally $50 OOO A plat Of ground has
lately been donated, aud it is now proposed
~ erect building for the accommodation OF
$50 pensioners.
The colonization sbip Mary Caroline Ste
veus, will sail to day for Liberia, with nine
teen cabin and sixty emigrant passengars.-
Among her freight.~ill be the necessary ma
terials Tor the establishment Ut newspaper
in Africa.
From the Gculdy family, in New York, re-
ports ore quite favorable, excepting only the
case OF the father. His mind wanders and
his right side and arm continue paralyzed.
The time has not yet come to estimate pro-
periy the chances Tor bis life or death.
Lucille and Helen Weston, two actresses,
have sued the Cincinnati Gazette, for SlO,-
900 damages, for saying that they we're "the
sisters Of Charles Mathews's Little Arrange
mept, ridelicit, Lizzie Western Davenport.
In the Supreme Judicial Court of Massa-
chuset,s, on Friday last, Judge Bigelow de-
creed NO less than thirteen divorces
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Bonnets.