Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-07-23
News of the Day.
"7b shoD the re,y age and baby Of tile TIMES. .

miles from Cumberland HIS head. will
the exception Of the face from the eyes down
was cut ot, both legs severed near the ankle
and one OF his arms broken, aud indeed every
part Of the man Was horribly bruised an
cut. His name WAS John T. Cavener, ana
he had been employed, until IL short time br
fore this occurrence, as II Waterman upon the
railroad On Tuesday morning Mrs. Cattle
rine kesser came to her death by being ac
cidenlally run over by burden train of car.
near Cumberland.
Our exchanges particularly at the West
still complain of the excessive heat of thu
weather. At Cincinnati, on Monday, til,
thermometer again ranged at from 100 t,
lO3 degrees in the shade, and there were SIX
teen cases q! sun-struke, nine of which prov
ed fatal. Sunday WAS u searching day also
at Louisville, where the thermometer marked
lO2 degrees in the shade There We're seven
deaths from sun-stroke, aud many cases IL"
Of fatal character.
On the Goth instant, terrific hail storm
passed over Germantown, Pa, doing c"nsiI
cradle damage. Several buildings Were
blown down, aud the hail stones, which
were of unusual size, compared To pigeons
eggs, destroyed Il large number of panes OF
glass The glass in the town hall windows
were nearly all broken. Several persons
We're seriously injured.
The damage to the Cunard steamer Cana
da, by her recent collision with an iceberg,
proves to have been serious. The Boston
Journal says that the ship was taken int
the dry-dock at the Charlestown Navy Yard
for examination, and it WAS found that her
..apron" had been torn of at least eight feet
below the main deck. and the ends Of the
planking on the starboard side So much afec-
ted rs to require new ones.
Hon. Mr.. Ward, the United States minis
ter to China, arrived at Penang on April 80,
and left shortly after for China, in the steam
frigate Powhatan. The arrival OF this yes
sci ut Penang was the occasion of gayety
and kindly feeling. On April 18th the cap
tain and officers of the Pcwhatan gave an
entertainment on board to the gentry Of the
island.
That a belief in the leep-laid hostility of
Louis Napoleon towards England, gains
ground throughout the British Islands. and
that too among the best informed of their peo-
pie, is evident to every reader of the British
papers. The famous speech Of Lord Lynd-
hurst, and the numerous re.echoeS /" 1t III the
on any other principle.
The genuine curfew bell, which had hung
in Chertsey Abbey. (England.) since the
days of William the Conqueror has been
sent to foundry to be recast. and IN indi%-
nant correspondent of the London Times
asks whcthere the brains of those who We're
guilty of this vandalism ought not to be re-
cast also.
1t liz announced in the New York papers.
that one Mr.. 4. &. Evans, of that city, has
sailed for England, with the purpose Of CON
Guiding some negotiations which have been
long on foot between himself and MIR. Chas.
Dickens, the object of which is t" bring the
great novelist to America, for lecturing
tour.
A dinner was given in Salem, Fauquirr
county, Va, on the 18th inst, by Thomas
Maxwell, esq to ex-Gov. Smith, Represen-
tatiye of the seventh district in Congress- at
which were present large number OF friends
and acauaintances of the host and guest e.
The occasion WAS in every respect most agree
able
The London Times concludes an article
upon "old fogyism" with this observation;
IF we would hold our position among first
rate powers, and would dwell 10 peaceful
homes, We must have men at our Horse
Guards who are not too c"nceited or too old
to advance with the age in which they live
Mr.. La Mountain is reconstructng the
Atlantic for an ascension from WATERFOWL,
IN. W August II. Parties from New York
propose to place in his hands any amount,
not to exceed 900, for the immediate con
struction of new balloon for the transatlan-
tic voyage this season.
On the ship Pomona, wrecked some time
since of the coast Of Ireland, Mrs. Paxton
and her children We're lost. She was coming
to this country to meet her husband. VIII"
was expected from Calcutta. 1t has been
learned that on the very day Of his family y
loss he died at Calcutta.
Francis A. Maftitt, son Of Rev. John New
land Matftt, the eloquent preacher who Hour
ished 40 extensively some years ago, died al
an apoplectic fit, in the St. Louis Jail, on
Sunday night last The deceased. together
with several others. had been arrested aud
imprisoned ON suspicion Of forgery.
Mrs. Mary boring died in New York on
Wednesday, from the effects of aqnantity Of
oil of yitrol, which she took on the lth INST.
for the purpose of sell-destrurtion. lnil-
delity to her husband aud remorse at con
scisn,e. are stated to have induced the ACT of
suicide.
Wholesale purchasers and private consul
mers of Kerosene Oil, now 81 generally Poru-
lar for Illuminating purposes, should bear III
mind that there ure many limitations III the
market which, it is needless to say, are every
WAY inferior to the genuine.
The camp-meeting for the llarper'S Ferry
statiun. will commence on the 18th day ot
August, at the woods of MIR. Philip Engle,
near the Baltimore aud Ohio railroad, about
three miles from liarper's Ferry. =.
The semi-oficial correspondence OF Mad
rid. declares, that while desiring Italian In,
dan.ndepce Spain will still maintain her