Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-08-20
News Of the Day.
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ALEXANDRIA,:

The people of Norwich. Connecticut. are
making arrangements for celebrating the
two hundredth anniversary Of the settle
ment of that place on the 18th and 9Th days
Of September next. The cornerstone 81
monument to the memory OF john M"s'''
one of the earliest settlers OF the town: VIII"
distinguished hi self in the war WIN the
Peuuots, will be laid. Hon. John A k"H-
well will deliver All Grafton. The exercises "l
the anniversary celebration will consist m
n historic address by Daniel Z. Gilman, Il
hymn 10y Mrs. Sigourney. addresses hy
Bishop Lee. of Delaware. and p"nald t..
Mitchell. of New Haven. and poem hHI
Anson G. Chester, to he followed by s"nG
composed by George Canning HILL, of B"S
ton, and close with grand banquet in the
evening.
Capt. John Pope, Of the United States To-
biographical Engineers, arrived III the city
of St. Louis on the 18th instant. lie is the
officer, it will be remembered. who was sen,
out by Government in charge of the artesinii
we'll expedition to the Liuno Estacado and
other waterless regions on the great Western
Plains. A passenger Oh tho same boat say
that Capt. Pope's experiments proved sue
cessful. and that he succeeded III obtaining
water by boring to the depth of one thou
sand four hundred feet. the water, when
found, rising to within fifteen feet OF the
surface. lie thinks it practicable 10 supply
the desert locations he has visited with wa
ter enough to sustain all the travel that may
pass them.
A new divorce court bill is now pending
in the House of Lords. The Lnrd Chancel-
lor having moved certain amendments, u
discussion then took place upon the clause
empowering the Court to SIT with closed
dours in cases Of indccency. ahich ended III
a division, the members being twenty-six III
favor Of the clause, and nine ngail,stIt. The
clause was therefore made t" stand part ot
the bill. The clause giving the Court pow
err to invoke the assistance Of the Attorney
General in cases where there WAS reason T.
suspect collision was also adopted, and the
bill passed through committee.
Mr.. ii. Chase. Of Lynn, Massachusetts. Ii
now in Plttsburg with models and drawings
Of AL invention for the condensation OF smoke
in chimneys. The apparatus consists SIM
DIV of tube running up the centre "f the
chimney, ~ made ~ To scatter II jet of water
through the space within the walls OF tn,
flue. 1t is endorsed by DIR. Charles i
jackson, Of Massachusetts,, whom every bod.
knows ~ a scientific man; also, 10y DIR. a
A. Huye., Of Boston. State Assayrr; and by
Hon. F.. S. Dayi-, Mayor Of Lynn. wi here
the condenser has been tried. The whole
apparatus costs from thirty to fifty dollars.
Horace Greeley writes from Big Sandy,
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Oregon, July 9Th, that white men with
two or three squsws each. are quite common
throughout this region. and young aud relu
lively comely Indian girls are bought IRON
their fathers by white men as regularly and
openly az Circassians ut Cunstant,nople.- -
The usual range OF prices in from SlO 10 50,
about that OF Indian horses. ] hear II
stated that, though all other trades may b'
dull, that in young sqna%s Is Away. Dr'sA
ON Green river and the North Platte.
The Albany Evening Journal says thai
Hon. ii. II. Hanson. n prominent politician
of Michigan, and speaker OF the assembly "1
that State in 1917. died at Marquette. Lake
Superior on the 4th inst, of hen"rriiagc I"
the lungs. 1t is announced, a. " singular
fact, that his wife Tat the tims long di"
tance from him) dreamed. during the night
of his death, that he had died. and related
the dream tn her friends u day Or t"" he,
fore the intelligence Of his death reached
them.
A shrewd operation to eYade the liquor
law has been carried on for some time past "
few miles from West Kiilingley. Oh the b"r
ders of Connecticut and Rhode Island -
There has been built u shop, one side resting
ON Connecticut soil. aud the other part II
Rhode Island. When the officers "t CON
necticut approach. the c"ntraband article Is
moved across the shop. which makes 1t RESI-
ON Rhode Island, and ere "ers".
The design Of u monument t' he submit
ted To the Charleston Calhoun Monument
Association. is now in process of completion
Nv a SCULPTOR of South Carolina. The mode
Of the mausolem is said to be exquisite, aud
has engaged all the leisure moments "i the
artist for two years. 1t is furnished with
four glass doors, and is intended to be I'll.
receptacle of the remains VI John Z. Cal
houn.
The number Of inmates now in the New
York Almshouse and WorIhouse. Is 10
The Committee on tho Workhouse have re-
ported in favor Of permitting the women II
that Department to work for ten cents pei
day for one month"; and twenty cents pei
day after that time for eighteen months, AM
the report has been adopted by the Board o
Ten Governors.
A Mr.. Dennison. Of st. Louis. was fishing
near Lacrosse, Wis, last week. when tw'
men, three women and three dogs attacked
him. One Of the women approached hin
behind. and hit him with club. while 4
man struck him with Il pi,chiork. and The
u her man set the dogs upon him. MIR. ID
survived but a few hours.
On Wednesday a mad bull escaped from a
slaughter house in New York. and started
at An ungovernable rate of speed down For
sythe street into BrNme. through Broome L
Elm. down Elm to Walker. and thence Il
Centre street. causing n general c"nsterna
ton and stampede wherever he approached
The first American woman who ever wen
ashore in Japan. was Mrs. Bailey. wife "'
Capt Bailey. Of Philadelphia. master of ship
Mary Ellis. She was surrounded and fol
4 az Hon lint al