Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-06-21

50 burnt child breads the fire." but all warn.
ings appear to be in vain in reference to the
use Of burning fluids. Here We have dou-
BILE casualty "A Camphene lamp exploded
last night at NJ. st Columbia street, DANCE
rousy burning Mary Clark, seamstress IN
the house. The girls screams alarmed
child six years of age, named Arthur, a! No.
40 the same street, and in raising windo"
t. look out he feS TO the pavement, fractur-
ing his skull"
A very important change has recently been
made by the directors Of Girard College, IN
relation to admissions to that Institution.
The practice has hitherto been to admit chill
dren whose fathers are dead, without refer
ence to the fact whether tie mother vas liv-
ing or not The practical effect Of the new
decision Of the directors will be: first, to ex-
clude from admission all children whose
mothers are living; and second, to extend the
benefit Of the Institution to children born N
al parts Of Pennsylvania.
The Maysvil!e (Ky.) Eagle announces the
death CT Judge Adam Beatty, who died at
his residence in that city on the 9fh instant,
in the S2i year of his age. An obituary no.
tiCe Of the deceased states that he was ma
tive Of Maryland, born l777, il the midst Of
the revolution, of family distinguished Tor
zeal in the cause of the country, an older
brother OF Captain in the service, falling glj-
riOusly at the head of his company in the ter
ribly disastrous battle of Camden.
a letter from Paris says:--L1la Montc1
has come to Paris, to educate her daughter
for the ballet The iIluStriou5 mother has
in the mean time taken an engagement at
the Cafe chantaut for tie season, at Il salary
of ~, 900 francs, $4,000 where she vii!
probably perform the Indian scalp dance
and lie Pas de Kangaroo. The former she
learned from the red skins of the far West,
and the latter from tie long limbcd detorm!-
tes Of Australia.
The New Orleans Commercial Bulletin
states that Baltimore is the FIRST city in the
United States that was lighted with gas.
among the first That introduced water pipes,
the first in the world that introduced and put
in successful operation passenger railroad,
the first city in the Union that erected a
monument to George Washington, aud the
city where the magnificent telegraph was
first commenced"
Mr. Issac NJ. Smith, on enterprising citi-
zen of Norfolk, has commenced the manutac-
ture Of Brooms in that city. The Day Book
says There are about thirty thousand dol
lars worth of brooms sold 10 Norfolk and
Portsmouth annually, the whole of which
has here ofore been purchased at the North
and (Save the small profit this enormous
sum has yearly been sent away toT one small
article OF domestic economy"
Prentice, Of tue Louisville JournGli thinks
that step should at once be put to the swll
milk trade 10 New York, yet very coolly
adds but were it quite certain that the
present race Of babies IL New York would, II
spared to grow up, make 90 better men than
large proportion OF their fathers are, the
suppression Of distilery milk would not per-
haps be important"
The Albany Argus mentions an instance
in which ambition and folly are almost syno'
nymous terms. So great is the rivalry be-
tween the Propeller Line and the Hudson
drorers that live stock have recently been
carried to New York as we are intormei, by
the Propellers free Of charge
According to the Statement. Of q gentleman
who has recently been North, the noted
Anthony Burns,-a fugitive slave obtained
in Boston only at the point of toe bayonet,
and who was afterwards purchased and set
free-is now in the Peni,entiary Of Massa-
chusetts, for the crime of robbery 1t is re-
ported that be is there for life ~
John W. Gully, q man sixty-saVen years CT
age, has plead guilty in the United States
Court at R4lcigh, y. c., Of defrauding the
Pension Office and forging land warrants
He was sentenced 70 three years imfrlson-
ment and fiued = 900. The sentence would
have been mere severe had not the prisoner
been eih cted With al incurabIe dIsea.e.
The jury 10 the case of Rev. Daniel Dow
ney, tried at S;Gunton, for the murder of
VIM. Mullins, in December last, has been dis.
charged, not being able to agree upon YER
conviction for murder in the second degree,
two favored an acquittaI, and one was for in
voluntary manslaughtCr.
Certain vague and painful rumoTs have
been going the rounds Of London society for
the last week or two, and now they assume
n definite form. The great novelist, and de-
lineator Of the character of the iulmitab!c
Mr.. Pocksniff, (Mr. Charles Dickens has
separated from his wife.