The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-11-14
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Two charcoal burners were nearly roasted at lsIot
Mass Saturday last They both went TO sleep ON ~
watch, and when walked surrounded by fame 7ls
managed, however To make their escape from tie bum
ing building There is probability Of their recovery
The Montreal papers state that considerable ouro r.
income 10 the farmers throughout Canada for years It
the sale of their animals cattc-elers Who tn,
elied through The country in saT1 OF them but this E
there Is. We are Informed, little demand u thls
kind, aud consequently the animals are ofe. In nav
ment TO country store keepers who know not what do
with them
Rev. j. Hyatt Smith Of Buffalo has written LiL.r
In which he attacks the present system Of dead heading
lie Is particularly opposed 10 the sending OF compliment
airy tickets % ministers, and exclaims Let ministers AZ
the Gospel lay aud BE pad He thinks Il wrong 10 make
the clerk with $500 salary pay fof his ticket when the
minister with q two thousand year has free pass
AT Ironton, Ohio, the United States officials have ar
rested four having in their possession larse quan
ties OF bogus coin and the tools aud dies for is manu-
facture
A boy ia Augusta, Maine, fell OH a pile Of boards
distance of feet aud has not since been able Ia
articulate word otherwise be Is quite uninjured
The consumption Of tobacco ia France Increases eno
mousy In the last years of the first empire the sales
brought, ON IA average, net annual TO th,
treasury Of the State of 20 millions of francs (Ihs
whole trade in tobacco, snuff cigars and pipes in France
Is In the hands Of the goyeTnmcnt In 1920 the prolur
Of sales was AZ millions in 1871, ~ millions In ls56
IL millions Eneh inhalitant In 1920 consumed in the
u
granmes in 1856, 7o6 grarnmes.
The Arkansas legislature ass mbIed at Little Rock on
the sth instant The Memphis Appeal learns verbally
that Judge Fletcher has been elected president Of the
senate, and o. H. Oates, esq, Of Monroe. speaker the
house This election pTsge the reelection OF Judge
Sebastian TO the United States Senate
An agricultural fair win lie held at Fredericksburg
Va, on the 10th, 18th, and 18th instant
In Boston last week son drove bis father and younger
brother from the house. The father Immediately OBJ
tanned the aid Of the police who compelled 10 break
down the door To arrest the culprt. and then his
mother took his part He was however lodged in iai
where he deserves to remain
In New York, on Wednesday afternoon last. police
man arrested sailor named HALLS who made his estape
from his custody by knocking him down The officer
Immediately spang to his feet and firing his prisoner
shot him dead The officer has been arrested Ihrre
will Ike hard questions of law to be settled in this
case, as the offence Of HALLS only nislemeanor
and Cairnes had no warrant against him.
An arrival at New York brings the information that
terrible gale had prevailed in the vicinity Of Turks
Island OF seven vessels which Grand Turk an
but one, the barquc Tepuca (which put sea- were
wrecked. There names are. schooner Transit of Liver.
pool, n. s.; Teresa, OF Turks Island brig Aeppo of
Windsor, n s. Mungo Park, OF Bangor River Belle Of
Parsboro ~ s.; and Herbert Huntingdon of Yarmouth
n $. The brig Condeva, Of Providence, r. l., was
driven from her moorings Cotar Bay channel and has
not since been heard of. 1t is feared she is lost
Such the facilities in Indiana for obtaining d.
that the indianapolis journal says there are fula
thousand cases before the courts fourfths OF which
are from out OF the state Some legislative action ON
the subject will be taken at the session of the egis
lature
Thu place out West where the Scriptures are full.
filed to the letter, where il is said let God be true
but every man liar - missionary is greatly needed
miser, named AfcFriman died three years since in
Upper Sandnsky and heirs were known to his es-
tate somc s22 000D il supposed il would escheat to
the State The Marion Republican says, however that
heirs have been discovered in Germany and that invcsi
cation shows that the of deceased was Chester and
that he away from Germany for fear OF being con.
victed of smuggling
According to the Of 1856 The population of
Paris, within the walls is million hnr and sew
enty -four thousand. The calculation for the whole pop.
ulation, within the circuit OF the Notifications Ia nearly
sixteen hundred Thousand souls The capital covers two
and quarter square leagues