The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1859-02-20
GLEIELYGs FROM THE NAILS.

A Goldfish weighing saa pounds caught of Nan
tueket on Friday last,
copy Of Dante, belonging TO orsini with his auto
graph, fetched SO francs at book sale in Paris
Paris and London ab gassis pretend that the antici-
pated italian Will break out Ia April next
lal was selling at Halifax on the 7th inst at $40 per
ehaldron, and difficult to be had that price.
move has been made ilone Of the western States TO
abolish grand urors nuisance. We see that some Of
our Contemporaries strongly approve Of the
The national convention of sundy school Teachers and
superntenens win be held in Philadelphia colnmen-
cling next Sunday and lasting three days
The New York Police Gazette earnestly favors the pas
sage Of the bill 70 keep boys Of twelve from the theatres
unless attended by parents or guardians
The French claims for the Charles ct Georges capture
and detention paid without oomment-about sl4-
O80--by the Portuguese government
The next aud fourth trial OF Rev Daniel Downey for
murder has been fixed for May next, and the place
changed from Staunton to Charlottesville The re-
fused to bail the prisoner.
The St Charles Hotel at New orleaus for the first
time since it erected brifu the 9Th instant
and bed TO sparecontainng the large amount OF
eleven hundred and sixty nine guests. small town
The Detroit Advertiser says there Is general religious
awakening throughout Michigan The labors Of the
Pr,Iy terrain church in Ypsanti have resulted in the
conyersien Of one ilundred and twenty souls
The Kansas City Journal Of Commerce saws that both
btnmnous and camel coal have been discovered large
quantities within eight miles Of that city in the bluffs
the Kansas river.
In the Hudson county IN. Y. courts on Monday Thos
koCabe constable for using unnecessary violence ia
aIreSting woman, fined sI0p and costs and sem
tenced 10 De imprisoned thirty days,
The Baltimore papers are talking Of new opera house
foT that city The Holiday Street Theatre and aj0ninE
property win probably be used for that purpose
The cold has lately been 50 great in Madrid this win
ter that coaehan frozsn death, bis box and
the Manzanares
The McDonegh property in the first district Of New
Orleans belonging to that city. recently sold ut auc
value when the property was divided betwoen New Or
leans and Baltimore
At Attleboro on Wednesday, Mr.. Keller, French
man in the employ of Everett Dean & Co. Jewellers
got canght shaft and had bis right arm broken short
off below the elbow the Iimb hanging only lr the cords
The doctors decided, however tlat amputation would
not be necessary
An irnuensc bald eagle was shot near Oregon Gulch
Oh goodsized shoot u measured ten feet across the
wings Of It's talons covered span Of seven inches
The legislature a Newfoundland was opened on the
9th nit, BY the lieutenant governor. 10 lengthy
speech the principal topic u which relates 10 the dis
pucs between England and France the fishery ques-
ton.
The New York Seventh Regiment making prrpa-
rations Cor their ete the 3D. sele that Is pre-
sued viii eclipse anything Of the kind yet attempted
on this side the water. Walter Preston. ESQ., the whig
candidate Cor attorney general OF Virginia Major Gen.
woul and other gentlemen Of glory, viii he present.