Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-06-04
News of the Day.
"To sho,o the Gerry age aadJody Of the TINES

commissioner, who directed the public gar
dener, Mr.. Suffer, to ascertain, if possible,
the cause, and report. Upon digging in the
immediate vicinity, the earth was found to
be saturated with gas, which had escaped
from a defective connecting pipe. The tree
WAS a remarkably fine one measuring nearly
five feet in circumference
The Utica Herald says that Mr.. Gates, of
Frankfort, llerkimer county, has made dur
ing the last Is years, about 6,455, q 5000 OF
matches, using 100000 feet o~flumber. He
now makes 9, 100000 matches daily. making
use of 500 feet of lumber. He uses 5 pounds
of phosphorus daily, which is about the
amount found in the bones of a single horse.
He has thus used up the skeletons of about
$4,000 horses, "a host of matched" teams
No wonder that a horse starts at 'the fzz
which follows the primitive scratch
On Sunday morning while the congrega-
ton worshipping in the colored church, on
Harrison street, Cincinnati. were engaged i'll
singing a hymn, one of the female members
| fell dead in her pew. She was singing earn
estly, as is the custom of that people, and
feeling peculiarly happy, she extended her
hand to greet a sister in the church, when u
sudden and fearful hemorrhage of the lungs
strangled her instantly.
The annual election of Directors of the
Galena Railroad, resulted strongly in favor
of the Newberry ticket. This secures the
bridging of the Mississippi at Clinton and
repudiates the Turner policy of bridging at
Lyons, thus removinga difficulty, heretofore
existing, to a close connection with the Chi
cago, Iowa and Nebraska Road. The mum
Der of shares represented was twenty-eight
thousand.
The Shreveport (Texasl Gazette, after
Il glowing description Of the wheat crop
throughout that part of the State says:-"As
soon as our railroads extend into the
p~rairies, capitalists will establish larger
Touring mills in this place, and ship thou
| sands of barrels of new flour to New Or
leans, u month before the Western produce
can come into market"
Greeley, in a letter from Leavenworth,
says: Il saw II great mule train start from
the fort to-day, and another will start soon,
| filled with lG0..soldicrs' wives land babies on
their way to join their husbands in Utah,
from whom they have been separated nearly
two years. | argue from this fact that I'M
Gle Sam expects to have use for his army III
Utah for some time yet"
James Crawford, of Flintstone, Md, lost
a young horse valued at $1,000, a few
days since, by a singular ~mishap. When
turned in a field, he ran at Il headlong gait,
and pitched into q snag, fatally wounding
himself. lie was of the Vermont Black
Hawk stock, and it is said, a noble looking
animal.
The United States Homeopathic Conven-
ton convened in Boston, on Wednesday,
DIR. p. p. Wells, of Brooklyn, n. y, was
elected president; DR.. II. ID. Payne OF Alba
nv, secretary, and c. ii. Skiff, Of New Ha.
ven, treasurer. The lecture was delivered
by DR.. S. S. Guy of Brooklyn, \. \. The
convention is fully attended.
David Miller, the manager at the build
ing on the turn-table junction of the Fast
Pennsylvania railroad, was run over by the
ears on the Lchigh Valley railroad, on We'd
nesdav. in cndcavoring to Jump of the tram
Willie IL W uS III lHpllbH. SlN VI i" = "''
one arm were cut of, causing his death IN
q few hours.
While Il Mr.. Taylor, a w~heelwright, in Pc
tersburg, was engaged, ON Monday night, III
applying turpentine externally to his throat
as a cure for cold. the liquid took fire from
the candle, and his face was instantly covered
with fame, and burned in such II severe
manner that his life is in danger.
Aletter from j. NJ. Bolts appears in the
Richmond Wing, in which he declares his
purpose to prosecute O. Jennings Wise, for
libel, and to award the damages he may OF
tain to some benevolent society.
VIM. c. Halsey, the landscape painter
died suddenly in New York on Tuesday
night from the effects Of intemperance'-
Deceased was a graduate Of Yale College,
was Sc years Of age, and was a native oil
New York.
The contract entered into by the Postoihce
Department with Mr.. Johnston, for convey
ing the mails from New York and New Dr.
leans to California via Nicaragua, has been
perfected and dispatched to Washington tor
acceptance.
At Suspension Bridge, c. W., June l. the
Coroner's jury brought in a verdict OF Will
full murder against George Reed, n runner,
for the death of Off Olson, whose body was
found under the river bank on Sunday
Reed has been arrested.
The Old School Presbyterian General AS
sembly, now in session at indianapolis com
prises 2,4GS monitors, 1924 churches, ana
$50 900 church members. There are li9
Presbyteries who are entitled to send dele
gates to the General Assembly.
A circus proprietor has engaged grounds
at Brantford, C. W, for a performance on the
day the three negroes are to be hung, The
Hamilton Spectator denounces this attempt
to make money by such means on such an
occasion.
Flora Temple has been matched against
the California mare Princess. They go two
races, two mile and three mile heats, Tor
81, 900 each race. These trots will come "f
at an early day.
The Bishops OF the Methodist Episcopal
Church met on Thursday, at Pittsburg' to
consult upon the plan of future episcopal VI