Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-03-28
News Of the Day.
- To shoU he rery age and body Of the TINES"

" To shor he rery age and body cfhe TINES"
The engineer-in-chiefo of the Navy, Samuel
Arc hbold, has returned to Washington from
his recent tour to Norfolk. He reports the
sloop-of.war Richmond, now building at the
Gosport navy-yard, so far advanced as 10
be ready to launch in three or four weeks.
Her machinery is also progressing as fast as
can be expected. The machinery for the
other sloop-of-war building at Norfolk,
which is being constructed by Messrs. Murray
& Hazlehurst, of Baltimore, is also progress
sing rapidly.
The Savannah Republican gives an ac-
count of the arrest of thirty-six Africans OF
the Wanderers cargo in Worth county,
Georgia, by the deputy L. s. Marshal. They
were taken to Jacksonville, and the arrest
reported to the Marshal at Savannah. The
Marshal subsequently replied that he had
written and telegraphed to Washington, but
had received no answer, and his advice was
to turn them loose. They were consequently
discharged, and proceeded On their way 10
| Alabama.
| The Hartford Times gives an amusing ac-
count of the scene in that city caused by
the freshet. The writer took boat ride up
one street and found the grocery business
quite dull on that thoroug htare, the residents
summing themselves at the second story win
dOws. The chambers and garrets were
crammed with human beings, provisions
and furniture, while tables, chairs and beds,
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floating in the rooms of the first story
Milk men were serving their customers from
| boats.
About q week since. Ellen Vaughan, a
domestic. at a hotel in Troy, \. Y, had her
ears perforated for ear rings in the usual
manner, but on the following day the ears
commenced to swell. then the head, and the
swelling and inflammation increased until she
became blind and deaf and, finally erysipe-
las set in, under which she suffered terribly
for three days, when death put an end to
! her fortunes.
The U. S. Deputy Marshal arrested on
Tuesday, in Hampton Roads, Capt. II. vii,
son, of the ship Avery, and Mr.. Ossie, the
mate of the same vessel. The captain Is
| charged with having set seven men ashore
on an uninhab!ted island in the Pacific
Ocean. The mate was arrested on a charge
of having beaten sailor so numerically that
he died Of his injuries.
The case of the State vs.. William Thetford
and William Baker, indicted for the larceny
of ten thousand dollars, taken from the coun'
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Maryland which occupied the Criminal C"ur,
of Baltimore for nearly two weeks, has beer
concluded by the conviction Of Thcttord and
the acquittal Of Baker.
A writer in the Pacific, after discussing
the various positions in vogue for sleeping
in church says "The only true pious way OF
performing the important duty of sleeping
in church is, to sit bolt upright with the face
to the minister, eschewing nodding snoring
and depressions of the head"
The fredericksburg Herald says:-"Mr
G. b. Wallace of King George, has bought
Little Whim," of Mr. J. VI. Scott, for S.,
500. Mr. S. reserves 80 acres on which to
erect a summer residence. Mr. W. gets 26j
acres. lying in Stafford, about two miles from
fredericksburg.
The second public sale Of the Baltimore
portion of the McDonogh Estate took place
in New Orleans on the 18th inst. The prop
erty sold consisted of thirty-two parcels lying
within the Second district of that city, aud
brought together 1882, 225.
The class of moral philosophy in the Uni,
versity of Virginia have held a meeting and
passed resolutions contradictory of the state
ment that Professor McGuffey was incul-
eating sectarian doctrines of religion there.
The Hon. Daniel Cady, of Johnstown,
Montgomery county, n. u, awokc last Sat,
urday morning week. entirely blind. He
had had severe pain in his great toe, and IN
his temples, a few days previously.
The Fredericksburg News substituting
the past year the Common Council here paid
about eleven thousand dollars ($lO,995) Of
the principal of our corporation debt"
Hamilton, who shot his wife at st. Louis,
the other day, and then pat pistol ball
through himself has died Of the injury sus-
tanned. His wife is getting well.
Bayard Taylor has refused an offer Of sew
en- thousand dollars year, TO write exclusive
lv for the columns of Bonner's New York
Ledger.
The New York Assembly having refused,
by vote of 46 to 81, to order the prohihitory
liquor bill to third reading; the subject is
! lo,d Gov tbo ,ra,ant soss;np