The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-08-26

red sisters whose aggregate ages amount 10 434 years
On the Of January last the eldest was w the second
81 the third, So; the fourth, 50 and the fifth so
The fire department of Rochester having received So
from the city press their ineciency Gas
they deem undeseryedly) at the late destructive fire. are
talking OF disbanding. One engine company has already
done
The aggregate OF the tax levy Of New York city for 1858
eight million four hundred and seyenty-one thousand
nincty-on dollars and trty-one cents or nearly one
hundred dollars per head for every voter in the city
passenger for Richmond, Me-, having been left by
the steamboat at Gardiner the proprietor of the Gard
ner Hotel took him the II miles Richmond in IS
minutes, in wagon drawn by LADY Lawrence beat
ing the steamboat i minutes
There forty-six persons in England who have in
comes OF $3.50 900 year. equal to two million and
quarter dollars while hundred and fortyfour per-
have incomes ranging from fifty to two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars year, and eight hundred and
eleven from twenty five to fifty thousand In Ireland
there Is but person who has of upwards of
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars twenty have
incomes from fifty thousand to two hundred and fifty
thousand and thirty from twenty five TO fifty thousand
dollars.
The German immigration arriving at New Orleans
during the year ending May 3lst number 1892 per-
sons, of whom 9 1876 went to ST. Louis $50 to various
places the Ohio river and IL to Texas The others
remained about New Orleans The total number of Ger
immigrants to that city for the eleven years
22O,4ls, thus making theannua average of 20, Oss.
One OF the most interesting features of the recent At
lanc telegraph celebration at Boston, says the Boston
Herald, the illumination of the old John Hancock
mansion Beacon street, The old gentleman (nephew
OF the revolutionary patriot who and occupies
the premises gave direction that in honor the event
the lightning rods planted by Franklin himself his
mansion should afford some indications OF the joy uni
vesaly felt the accomplishment of this great under
taking. The mansion illuminated from the floor to
the attic, and the candle sticks were used which
employed to celebrate the establishment of peace in
1885, in 1915, and the Introduction of Cochtuate
in lB4S
M yeinot the new relacteur en- chief of the French
Frro, gives amusing account of his having passed
twenty four hours in prison dungeon No 81 for neglect
ing summons to do duty national guard. He
in Belgium when the notice left at his house, and
might matter of course, have obtained the reversal
of his sentence by appealing But he says that appeal
would have taken up the greater part Of his time for
fortnight and he therefore deliberately resigned himself
to dungeon No for twenty -four hours being the
least of the two evils
Valley, Frederick county, Nd in the most virulent
The Register that Mr. Peter Cutler has lost
thirty head Mr.. Philip Coblentz thirty -four, and Mr.
Henry W. Summers eight 1t also hears Of other farmers
whose porkers have fallen victims to the epidemic.
A western correspondent of the New York Journal of
Commerce. writing from the Indian country says woman
has been the of numberess wars battles and per-
sona conflicts and strange to say she the origin
of this proraced between the Sioux and Chppewas
The two nations must have formerly been friendly, and
peace with each other until rupture took place at
Yellow Lake, on the ST. Crox. There, ms the story
goes, the tribes met for eae, and when they
to separate, the wife Of noted Chippewa chief went off
with Sioux. The Chippewa followed and overlook
them and killed the guilty pair, whom he found sitting
side by side The friends of the Sioux avenged his DEATH
and there has been since.
According to recent assessment of Leavenworth City
the value Of its real estate is So 57S The popua
ton is set down at 9l0S. The necessary amount
tend the telegraph line from Bonneville Missouri to
Lelvenwolth has just been subscribed by residents of
the latter place.
The local of the New Orleans Picayune mentions d
in the suburbs Of that city who follows the business
of hunting algaors for livelihood He has killed four
hundred since the first of May, from the hides tusls
and oil of which he has realized the sum of $500 An
alligator skin brings seventy-fve cents.
The amount of revenue collected at the port of New
Bedford for the year ending June 80. 1858, $l2,
9iC SO; expenditures for the government during the
period 81 G04 ST. Amount of hospital money col
lectcd s7GI Is expended sl55 O5 The disbursements
of the collector superintendent of lights amounted
to SCI, 6I5 50.
Readers generally that the famed Stuyvesant
pear tree which still ousbes part of the Stuyvesant
estate corner OF Third avenue and Thirteenth street
New York, originally brought from Holland, and
planted in that city than two hundred years
ago. This year it bears fine fruit We know of other
pear tree of equal longevity and uitulness though the
pear is proverbialy long-lived tree.
The Oxford (Mss) Mercury tells of old bachelor in
its neghborhood, worth 000 who recently found
born female babe hanging at his gate. He adopted
it, and gave it the name Of Eureka Gate"
1t is expected that at least $50 900 gallons of wine
will be made from the native grapes in California this
year. Where is Cough But what is most awful is the
fact that the grape chiefly grown in California for making
wine is Of Spanish stock and introduced by the priests
when they established their missions between the years
1869 and 1880 The vino is hardy and healthy and the
berry juicy and strong An of vine is calculated
yield 900 gallons Of wine, and less than SOO
although 400 is considered average yield in Ohio and
Europe.
The deepest coal pit in England and probably in the
world has after twelve years labor been completed and
opened in Dukenfed, Cheshire. The depth Of the shaft
is 6SG1 yards and the sinking of it cost nearly half
million dollars. At this immense depth, a fine seam of
coal found nearly five feet thick and calculated to
last thirty years, at the rate of 500 tons per day
The member OF the Minnesota legislature indulge in
the delightful practice of smoking during the business
hours of the legislature and the St Paul Times pro-
nounccs it undgnfed and unbecomng and thinks there
resolution passed at prior session in which the
language used pronounccs the practice ungentemanly
Mr. Thomas Gagliardi, pupil and friend of the great
American sculptor Crawford, has executed bust of the
amcnted deceased for the Boston Athenscum which IL
now exhibition at the Stuyvesant Institute In New
York city.
whale recently caught in of the small rivers
cmptying into Chesapeake bay. The animal measured
forty three feet nine inches in length twcntyeven in
circumference nine feet through, and the tail fin ten
feet wide
On the 9th inst fire broke out in the city Of ST.
scph Missouri. which resulted in the destruction
cra large mercantile houses, involving loss Of about
$50 600 worth Of property The principal sufferers were