The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1859-01-21
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sonicly celebrated Santa Fe, New Mexico by Monte
| zuma Lodge.
Raymond Miss, Is rising from its ashes, and brick
buildings erecting rapidly possible the ruins
| of those destroyed.
The common council Of Alexandria have appropriated
$500 the Alexandria Canal Company for the payment
| Of work done on the aqueduct.
There are thirty five persons confined for life Ia
the Charlesown, Mass State prison Over oncthrd Of
| these have committed the crime Of murder
The promoters Of the lstmus Of suez scheme intend TO
bring bi-montlly periodical to be called III Ixh@s
| De sasz, Jo,arnal IL tsnoa des Dear Mrs. I"
The Chicago and Burlington road has handled ss 600
pieces of baggage during the past year. without single
/ instant Of loss to or claim from passenger
Such of the French political prisoners transported to
Algeria after the c q f have asked for remission
of their TO be permitted France
| this year.
| The New York Herald says of Senator Sumner 'If
his sufeIngs half they have been repre-
scntod he ought to have learned the yittue of resignation
| by this time"
received from drunken woman whom he endeavor
ing take 10 JAIL says she kicked and curcd him around
as freely as ii he had been her husband
The thermometer in Montreal, on Tuesday, January
l. marked 80 degrees below zero which the coolest
since The Quebec Mercury says the 1lth was the
coldest day ever known In Canada.
The Bsn dcs Los publishes the official notes
\ ing the accession of the free towns Of Frankfort and
|
18th of April 1885, relative to maritime law in times of
war.
The circular is for the ffty-second Phadelphis
trade sale of books which will the twenty
first of March The sale is expected to be unusually
large. Invoices have been promised by all the Boston
booksellers, and most of those in New York.
The Wyoming IN W Mirror says the scarcity of fod-
der in the southern counties Of this State makes 1t
sary transport food for stock from that vicinity The
demand for has already increased the price OF that
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| fore hay time comes
According statement in the Stockholm Afoablad,
the authorities of the old university town Of Upsl have
granted elective franchises to fifty owning real
tate and to thirty-onc doing business their
The representative that their assist in elect
ing will sit in the House of Bughcrs, Merchants
The fire department of Montgomery, the evening of
the sh inst, had grand parade and torch light pro-
cesson which is said to have brought out the entire
population of Montgomery either participants spec
tators- The address delivered by j. Il. Burke, esq
Lake Ontario, Monday last, had the appearance OF
being frozen over the phenomenon being caused by the
rapid emission OF caoric from the water which formed
dense fog the sura of the lake. closely resembling
snow in appearance.
In proof of the determination of Nine. Jenny Lind
Goldschmdt to remain in England years, Is the
fact that she has renewed the lease of her residence at
Wimbledon for number OF years and her Teappearance
in concerts is positively announced Mt the Philharmonic
Concerts in Liverpool
In 1857 the total imports and exports Of Cleveland
amounted to SO, ,4l0 Ill the in 1858 were only
$40 64T 500 In most of the staple articles such as
-four pork &c, there has been considerable increase OF
exports the falling off being chiefly the productions OF
! other States passing through Ohio
The Salem Register says that during the late cold spell
the earth and the ice cracked frequently with loud
port, and in instance, large linden tree Oliver
street split from the roots to the top of the trunk
with an explosion like piece of ordnance
The price paid for the hire Of negroes in Virginia
is advance last year Negro for factory hands
hiring for from $3.50 to $3.50 and railroad contract
offering high $500 for all ablebodied men
they procure Women for cooks, &C., command from
| $50 to SIS and boys and girls from s23 to $50.
The editor of the Louisville Journal intimates that he
is quite that he knows himself 1t matters very
little If he does not Bulwer and Moore dining
/ with Theodore Hook. Says Bulwer to Moore, tWe'rc
going get gloriously drunk tonight TINT won't
know ourselves" ''You wouldn't know much if you
! did, I" retorted Hook.
correspondent Of the Hamilton sCanada) Spectator
says railroad should be built through the British pos
sessions to the Pacific coast it would cost $50, ,00O
000 and for six months OF the year the track would be
covered with snow and with water for another four
months
breach of promise case is now on trial at Worcester
Mass, in which the plaintiff Miss Mary Ann Hoy alleges
that sc 900 win not than the fracture her
heart has sustained by not marrying the defendant
Peter Morris Peter replies that he never promised to
marry the fair Mary and If he did is justified in not full
filling his promise, because Mary gets very drunk
Last Wednesday night night train the Central
Ohio railroad struck horse CLAY Lick, Ohio The
locomotive upset and thrown down steep ernsnk
ment carrying with it the tender and two baggagccts
all of which badly wrecked Philip Alpaugh, the
engineer crushed to death under the engine nobody
else injured.
few days since large baid-cagle caught wild dnck
in the river Snsquehannah, Duncannon Pa. and
carrying to cake Of ice commenced eating it. During
the operation his feet and feathers roze fast the cake
which aground and being unable to extricate him
self he perished Several attempts made to capture
him, but his locality could be reached on account
of the great OF floating ice between 1t and the
shore.
The of the Hamilton chief Of police, Mr.. Carruth-
ers and of Mr. McGlogan, the deputy chief for taking
Snow, the Philadelphia receiver of stolen goods from
Toronto to the States tried Saturday before MIR
Justice Mclean, at Toronto The jury could NOT agree
ON verdict and the defendants Withdrew the plea OF
''no guilty. pleaded 'grlty, and gave bail appear
during the sitting of court for sentence. FiF
concert a scale of monstrosty before heard
OF is projected for April next ia Paris Two hundred and
eight choral societies, numbering amongst them seven
thousand performers, to bc congregatcd within the
walls of the Crystal Palace, in the Champs Eysees NJ
Deaporte the president Of the Choral Society of Paris
and Nj. Naun, r<kcts OF the Orphnn and Of the PMS
the leaders of the enterprise which is said to be
patronized by Meyerbcer.
The funeral ceremonies in commemoraton of the
vices Of thirteen Phiaelpisns who persisted Of yellow
fever at Norfolk and Portsmouth while rendering assist
physicians and nurscs held Wednesday
ing, at St Stephens Church After the services by DR.
Ducacbet, the remains removed 10 laurel Hill for
rointcrment under charge OF Thomas Webster, ir
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