The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1859-03-06

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The school fund Of Oregon aeeorline 10 tle
report q the commissioners presented TO the gislaue
is $50, SIG.
A rolling mill is about to be established Ia EIyton.
Shelby county Alabama which will furnish the iron tor
the Northeast and Southwest railroad.
The scarcity of grain In many parts Canada Is said to
be such that will find IL impossible 10 procure
the necessary seed for spring sowing
An exhibition of works Of art by living masters Of an
nations will be opened az the Hague on the zsd of Nay
which Is 10 last tin the 4th OF July. ~ as''
That charitable and phianthropc order the Sons OF
Malta, has beou established at Columbia, s. G. where
fifteen candidates were initiated at the FIRST meeting
provincial Mayor in OF the departments in France
ha' come out with ~ epgram In the shape of notifca-
ton All beggars found Ia this district will be fined
hiteen francs for the use Of the poor
murder having been committed in house of i'll re-
pute at Quincy H. infuraed crowd destroyed no les
than eight OF such houses recent saturday night
Some burnt down, and some were Quilted aud the
furniture burned in the street
The New Orleans Crescent of cath February saws that
there eighty i've thousand bales of cotton 10 vessels
that are stuck in the mud delayed la sang by the
distractions at the mouth OF the river below New Or
leans. t9laa
Cincinnati reporter says of very elegant female
pickpooset " She rarely speaks TO any one is always
quiet, gentle, smiling, and gentoel comes like sun
BEAM and like ii, also steais noiselessly away"
The total number of arrivals from foreign ports at Bos
ton during january aud February 2si time
last year, l51slow an Increase OF IL The coastwisc
arrivals were 5Ss time last car 4lO This com
pason shows important revival In the commerce OF
that city.
The Charleston and Savannah railroad will be com
plecd by the LIST Of April 1860 Col Drayton the very
efficient president having recently made
by which funds have been obtained The contracts for
the draw bridge the Savannah river will be shortly
let out
The following portraits have recently been added to
the National Portrait Gallery in London William Har
vcy the discoverer OF the circulation OF the bio Geo
Coiman the elder the dramatist. the connosseur and
the translator Of Terence, by Gansborough and John
Keats, painted at Rome by the poets friend, Severn.
The Wayerly Qowa) Republican of the 23d ult says
that couple Of hunters Of that place recently shot
Canadian lynx. IL large one, and measured when
standing. two feet high and 80 inches along his back
tail verebra four inches He of general gIayish
color, with the outer ends of the hair wavy black
II is but few years ago that mandatory was
erected in Prattyille Ala by Mr.. Daniel Pratt who
gives the name to the village The last year the total
amount OF business done in the place i've hundred
and eighty thousand two hundred and ninety one
dollars Of which four hundred and twenty three thou
sand four hundred and nifty dollars in cotton
FIXTURES. -afl tesH t.t ~ ss8 81 .
In Leeds vile. New York. a tame pigeon accompanied
two little children to school regularly flying after them
along the street. aightg the fences trees and in the
ROAD before them. Iii flies too far ahead you may
it turn round and looking at the children wait patient
ly for their arrival and then fly stretch further on
and SO it keeps doing until they reach the school
Then it pechcs itself upon the window SILL where it
mains until school out when it observes the
ner in going home