Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-08-24
News of the Day.
"To slow The re,y age andh"dy Of the TIMES.

The impurity in the Cr"t"n water in New
York sill continues and many persons have
b eli seriously affected 10y diarrhea from its
use. The Increased mortality Of the part
week L., ALSO 10y snnie. attributed to the WI
tel, but it is more likely owing Ia the eating
at uhripe aud detayeI fruits with which our
market, are now 50 abundantly supplied
o. 40 deaths last week. no less that sol Vie
I ais were children.
From Canton, Mississippi, we learn that
the Hon Franklin Smith, the independent
Democratic candidate for Congress in that
ID. strict shut Owen Van Nnc,er. esq, editor
OF the Commonwealth, IN tho streets oi that
town. "A controversy arose between them
about IL political article IN the last number
at the Commonwealth. W" wound 81 Mr.
Van Nuctcr is severe, though not NECESSARY
~ fatal.
A letter has been received at the Gen
oral Land Office. from Lafayette, lnd., which
besides having the usual p"stmark ON the
envclope had also written on 1t WA balloon
Jupiter" 1t ~ surpassed Tins letter was en-
closed with the mall-hag which WAS dropped
Ly MIR. Wise from his balloon during hls re-
cent ascension.
Recently most extraordinary race took
place in II fashionable ladies' seminary or
school, IN the Thiergaten. Berlin, where
thirty-iive Young ladies' contested for the
championship III swimlhlng. The winner,
who Is nIueteen years "i age and very hand
some. is said I" have proved that she might
as we'll challenge the other sex rs her own.
Ia News York twenty years ago every prom
eunder res"ried /" the Battery; now the Bat
terry has been very gcnernlly abandoned and
all prom-nnders ~ To the Central Pnrk,
which is six miles further north. No fact
more strlkingly illustrates the remarkably
rapid growth of the commercial metropolis.
Tue ship Commodore from Liverpool. ly-
ing at the battery wharf, in Boston. took hre
III the lower hold On Saturday, Tho result.
it is believed. of spontaneous combustion.-
She was scultird aud sunk III - leet water,
hut was pumped out again and hoated on
Sunday. She Was insured for Sjo,hU.
A correspondent, in giving an account OF
the drowning of tw" Of the daughters ri MIR.
George Lrmi-t, formerly Of Boston, ut Shelf
field Muss., states that nine of MIR. Lemsts
kindred have been drowned HIS father and
mother We're lost in the Lexington. An un-
fortunate family.
The most elegant suite OF rooms in the world
is at the Hotel de Vile, in Paris. They form
II circuit Of about half mile, and require for
their complete illumination 81 ii tapers. and
2,:iS11 gas burners. Seven Thousand visitors
can be accommodated at once. without di-
comfort, in thcs" caIaci"us rooms.
\ letter from Florida says:-"The moon
hoax WAS II pretty innocent piece OF fancy;
the OSweyn ;urulite rather heavy, and soon
over; but the fifteen or twenty cargoes "f
! Africans landed in Florida is stupendous;
and people who read aud digest such news.
must have II truly ostrich nature
The railroad Convention. ut Niagara agreed
~ reduce the rates to Memphis Tenn. via
Cairo, To- 81 50 and 81 A on first and second
class freight, and 81 SIS and 81 ~ to points
below Memphis. Third and fourth class
lreights are TO remain at the present rates
In New York city alone there are about
o00. 900 smokers, each using two cigars per
diem which makes 40o. 900 cigars every day.
These will cost for labor alone, at 81 per
thousand, the enormous sum of 50, 100000
annually. when made up 10y hand.
John Meter, by trade butcher, died
suddenly in Columbia Ohio, Oh Thursday.
uu the east end Of Friend street, from iii
overdose of lluiii,an's Bittcrs. taken while
recovering from tit OF deirun, produced
by excessive drinking.
The Sunday laws in New York were obey
ed ON Sunday last. in the city, with the usual
strirtness. the liquor stores complying with
the law in the usual form. by closing their
fronts and throwing open all other available
entrances Ia the public
According t" IL correspondent Of II Canada
paper, NJ. Blondn will walk again across the
Niagara, on this day, when he ANNOUNCES
his intention Of appearing in tho character Of
the Liberian slave, chained from head t" foot.
Tho extensive whiSkey dstillery OF Sumner
W. Bennett, between Jersey City and nub'-
ken, with its contents, was totally destroyed
by fire on Saturday evening. Loss S3' 900;
insured for $1,000.
On Friday evening last. II son of Elder j.
W. G"ss, aged about eleven years, was
;lrow ned while crossing creek, near MIR.
Franklin Minors, III tho couuty of Allie
marie
\ spirited meeting was held at Memphls,
Tennessee. on the 9th instant, to take into
consideration the extension Of the Iron M"u,-
tain railroad through Arkansas to Hnpehclf,
opposite Memphis.
One orp"siti"n candidate for Congress is
elected in Kentucky by IL ma iority of three
one in Tennessee by eighty; aud another
bv fifty. \ democrat is elected i'll Ken
tucky by sIXty-sc'on.
AT Cincinnati. AUGUST D. Messrs. lle~-
son Il Holmes, stock brokers, doing business
on Third street. suspended. The amount oi
their liabilities is not stated.
The United States sl""l.-oi.war Savannah
sailed from Boston. August II. Her destl-
uatinn il unknown. but it is SUPPOSED she IL
bound Ia Vera Cruz.
The Lafayette Journal of August 10th
says: "Mr Wises ASCENSION Yesterday, 81
widely L.ral,I,.l and of whirl, 81, much wus