Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-11-24

name. Among them was cabbage we'g"-
ing q! pounds; cow-horn turn,p weighing
Is! pounds: a fat turnip fully inches ID d.
amcte,: and potatoes some 3 inches in diam
eter. They were raised in the garden OF MIR.
Robbins. OF Superior, who states that DO mas
this year raised caulifower, weighing W.
lbs. TIE couutry 10 that vicinity Is said 10y
competent witnesses to be Of unriVaed pro-
duotiveness.
The question which now agitatcs and
amuses New York, is not whether Pi:co!uml-
nj lie an Indifferent singer, and an excellent
actress, hut whether she mas any claim to the
title of princess" at all. Whether, In fact,
she is really PIccoomini, or somebody else.
Manager UllDsn stoutly AYERS, that she IS
compounded of veritable aristocratic porce-
lain. Masserss, the editor of the Courier
des Eats Unis quite as emphaticaliy pro-
nJunces her cot bing mere than simple Dell.
Much indignation continues to be express
se1 10 England at the adulteration Of Con-
dictionary, at Bradford, whereby zoo persons
were poisoned, II of whom have died. IL
vas caused by the con!ec,loner putting l.
pounds Of plaster to 10 pounds OF sugar
lie sent his boy to the druggists Tor l.
pound. of plaster, called daft" The drug,
gist directed the boy 10 90 down tho cellar
and take it out Of cask which he dssigna'
ted, but the hov made a mistake and got an
article % poison instead.
On Friday last an affair Of honor took place
between two young North Carolinans, IN the
woods near Stapleson, Staten Island. They
are both students at the University Medical
Institute. A lady was, as usual tie cause Of
the rupture, and the lie having been cxchanK
cd Southern blood could accept of no other al
ternative than tue pistol. -Four shots were
fired, but with the exception Of a hat dam
aged by q bali, 10 injury was received 90
either side.
Gov. King, Of New York. has done another
very foolish thing, in pardOning Joseph Jack
son, who was tried and convicted for com
hitting rape upon all emigrant girl. nance
Catharlne Sullivan, in March 1857, anc
sentenced to the State Prison for term of ter
years. The news Of the pardon was comma
ncated By telegraph FROM Albany. at abou
the time the newspapers were telling OF al
atrocious rape upon tie person oi a younI
lady in New York, by gang OF rutfIans, S.
10 number.
MIR. Phelps, postmaster at DuH's Forks
Onio, and his two daughters, Sarah and Jen
ME, aged Is and II years, upon the charg
of ebstrsctins q puokago of money from th
mail passing through his office, we're exam
ined on Friday last, before the United State
| Commissioners 1T Cincinnati. There was d
evidence whatever TO implicate Mr.. Pnelp
or Jennie, and they were discharged iron
custody. Sarah WAS required to give bali II
$500 to answer the charge.
Both the Senators FROM Minnesota are il
Washington. Mr.. Rice is secure for fou
years. Gen Shields is III pecarioas si.ue
ton. His term expires on the Sd Marc
next. The Legislature which has just bee
elected has I majority on joint ballot, but
is the privilege of the Governor to MULTI
tbi. action of The people by refusing to cor
woke the legislature until after the terms Q
the present members shall have expired an
another be elected.
A severe shock Of earthquake was felt o
Nalona, in Upper Albania, on the Goth Q
September and was followed by sovera
slight ones A Turkith mosque Tell in au'
several villages OF the neigh borhOod suffered
greatly. Ga the oh Of October, at 10 A. NJ
another terrible shock was felt, which de
strcy ed nearly oil the houses o! the village
of Vuno, Gimara, Dremades, PiIuri, &c.
| ,E kn,l % nj
from the fifth or sixth century.
The cost OF the Gable Enthusiasm" is no
yet over. The gold boxes to Cryus Field an
others have been just finished, the bill costin
the city $500. l. appears that, at the Crys
tai Palace, the boxes presented we're onl
wood, made TO lock like gold by little es
terrier gliding. Considering the disastrou
failure which has attended the greatest oven
of the age" the wooden boxes were the mos
appropriate symbol.
A few weeks ago young girl, II years G
age, met NTH fearful but instantaneou
death in the Cyfartha (Eos.) iron-works. |
the course of her work her clothes caugh
fire, and she ran to the rollers, wbero iber
il ALWAYS running water, to pu. out tn
flames. In doing SO, however, her dress Wa
caught by tie spindIes, and in an instant To
poor creaturs was dragged between the re
volving rollers, and literally crushed to piece,
A new translation Of toe New Tessanen
has lust been published by Messrs. John I
Jeyett & Co., Boston. 1t is the work Of Mr.
Leicester Ambrose Sawyer, who Is represen
ted TO be q most thorough scholar IN the lie
brew and Greek Languages, and To be enl
nentl7 fitted for this task, the most dcllc0t
perhaps Of any that could be uhderts Ken
| Ii is said to be translated from tho origlra
| Greek.
Mrs. Maria Gorz,lcs de Mora, a Cubnr
lady 81 years Of age recently died in New
York. Her younges. daughter being tb
wife Of the Cuban patriot Domingo GoioCu
ria was banished for life, and the worth,
mother followed her child into exile, ahau
douins a pIiucey aud luxurious home rstbe
than see her ohild suffer alone.
The most intense excitement has prevailed
for some days in Larue county, Ky, 10 cor
sequence Of startling tragedy. John, ;
slave, the property Of Berry Cudif, who wa
arrested about ono year ago, charged witt
the murder OF Miss Mary Shaier has CID
| fessed his participation in the crime, and i'm
piicated several other persons.
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