Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-08-03

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OF young fellows gave newl y married couple
a charIyarl, consisting Of AL overture played
on tin pans aud other unmu-cal Instruments,
which took them Il couple of hours Ia execute.
At the end of the overture the bride appear
Ell AMONG them in her marital roles, very
much inrensed at the impromptu serenade.
81 much WAS she ilicensel that she caught
one "t the smaller members ot the band ana
d"used him into IA washtnb full ot snapsuds,
where she held him until he WAS nearly
drowned
A girl incarceratei in the Jail at Bangor,
Me, recently found small vial in her cell
which she supposed contained castor OIL and
accordingly set about making her toilet,
Swearing her hair with the liquid. 1t turn
Ell out however II be Croton oil, and the al-
plicatiun burned her hair, and running
down over her face and eyes, excnrlatei
them badly, causing much suffering. n
physician was called VIII" applied alkalies:
! The glrl has lost one eye, and II - feared
she will lose the other, by this accident.
The sovereign OF the feeee Islands finds
that his finances are i'll an embarrassed con
dition, and that he must adopt some speedy
means to avert "a crisis" He proposes t"
assign, transfer, aud set over" to Der Ma
.lesty the Queen of Great Britain, all right
title, property, claim, and demand which
he possesses over the hundreds of lslets
which form his doInininns, provided her
Britannia Majesty will pay his debts, iahout
$4,000 and undertake t" provide for the
government of his subjects.
Halls Journal of Health for August says:
From one square foot Of the paper taken
from room which was papered with one OF
the tutted or flock green papers, thirty grains
OF the powder was scraped oil aud sent To Il
chemist; and the amount of solid arsenic M
! 1t WAS eleven grains, more than "ne-thlrd
The green paper hangIngS are more poison
Gus to the air of the room when they are not
glazed, but velvety, and have the figure stand
ing out from the paper"
Engineers have started on a survey OF the
/ Kansas Central railroad. This road extends
| from Wyandotte, at the junction Of the Kan
sas with the Missouri river t. Fort Riley. The
! entire distance is one hundred and nifty miles.
/ This is the first railroad survey west ot the
! Missouri river, and constitutes another link
! in the great railroad chain that shall mltl-
mately link the States on the Pacific to their
elder sisters upon the Atlantic.
Two days ago was lodged i'll the Jail OF
! Chicago, an elderly Englishman, named Jo-
scph Elliott, for II debt of SIC, due for board.
/ Elliott had Just received letters from Great
Britain announcing the fact that the sum Of
| e., Hoo sterling. with interest from 1856, IL
now lying to his credit III the Bank OF Eng
/ land, vet the old man has not the lees Ia EN-
able him To- appear before the county Judge
| to swear out ni lall.
We learn from the Louisville Democrat,
that ON Saturday week, Hon. Sherr"d vii
liams aud Mr.. Frank j. White both at Som
erset, n.y., got into dispute upon politics,
or about the race between Anderson and
| Chrisman, for Congress in the 4th District,
which dispute ended in fight, ur personal
rencontre, in which White stabbed Williams
in three different places, with pocket knife.
A steam Japanese junk had arrived AT
Macao III China, the machinery of which
had been bought of the American, and
mounted in a japanese port. The chet en-
/ gineer was an American \ young prince
was on beard, who intends t. follow the sea.
/ Cholera had been raging frightlully in the
northern part Of Japan.
We see it stated IN one of our latest
/ French exchanges that an investigation re-
Gently made by the Council of State, re-
specting the duties ON cumbed wool, shows
that the tariff on that article acts III such a
way a. to prevent the enormous number OF
| 10000 900 of the population OF France from
clothing themselves in woolen garments.
A letter from Alexandra, Egypt, Of the lth
ult., says:--'There was grand trte-what the
Arabs especially call tantasia-at katr-e-
leis, last week, on the occasion of the open
ing for traffic of the splendid iron bridge
thrown across the Nile there, over which the
railway to Cairo passes"
The thirteenth meeting of the American
Association for the advancement of Science
is to be held ut Springfield. The meeting
commences Oh Wednesday, to-day the Bird
Of August, and continues until the 10Th.
A large gathering, says the Boston Tran
script, is anticipated this year.
The statement that the Hon. Rufus Choate
was an opium eater, is pronounced untrue
The only stimulunt he ever took was ted
strong tea.