The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1859-01-30

/. GLEiNIlVf!S From TIE NAILS.


owend gentlemen and ladies' present at the table
Six thousand five hundred barrels of -four were con
suned in old sore-house set ON fire ncendiary
at Rochester on Monday evening.
The celebrated horse Storx was sold on the 18TH
in New Orleans, for 81 900 This horse is TO be placed
in Mr.. Ten Brock stables in Europe.
Fifty thousand dollars worth of northern ice and
twenty-five thousand dollars worth of country ice
annually sold in Richmond.
trotting association has just been organized in Lex
nston of which r. A. Alexander has been elected pres
dent and Jos. Wingatc superintendent
1t Is stated in the Buffalo Commercial that there are
fifty three steam canal boats built and in process con
strucon for the coming OF ygation the Erie
canal
The snow is four and half to five feet deep
through the White Mountain districts, N III where the
thermometer during the hate cold snap ranged from TWEEN
~ four to forty degrees below zero
We find in exchange paper the statement that
fiy white females married to negroes in the
State Of Massachusetts last year II this be SO il Is car
rying out the abolition doctrine to practical results
The city council of vicksburg has agreed to appropr
ate 500 900 to the vicksbug Shreveport and Texas
railroad provided majority OF the people should decide
in favor OF a tax for said purpose.
1t is stated that 900 900 has been expended ON
the slumbering Atlantic cable large portion of
which out of the pockets Of American stockhold
who of course must bear proportionae share Of the
loss
The value Of food consumed in New York last year is
cstmatedat sl2 600 600 and the number of the various
quarnpeds eaten beeyes l91 374; cows TO- 1913;
veal, 36, G75; swine, 55l,479
Boston is cool place; certainly but the coolest thing
there is medicine vender In that city who asks publish
Of newspapers in the United States and elsewhere
to copy advertisement of his 'ettoially and
then take their pay in medicine
long report in the London Times was recently tele-
graphed from Manchester to London by young girls
the average rate OF twenty nine words minute and with
hardly error in the whole Cool work but how 10
they keep the telegraph secrets
The Tifin Ohio Tribune states that on Sraiay morn.
ing of last week a lady nam Philiips traycllinp
agent The American Sunday Sbhoo Union addressed
the sunday schools of that place in its behalf and in the
| afternoon occupied the pulpit Of the NJ L. Church
The California State Register for 1859 fa nshes the fol
lowing figures the population of that State Aneri-
cans, 800, 3l5 French $4,000 Enslsh 2, 900 Irish,
10 900; Germans 10000 McSicans $4,000; various,
Is 900 Chinese, IS, 900 negroes 2 900 Indians 60
| 900 Total, 53s, 900.
pocket book found in Boston, Massachusetts, last
week. containing 81 800 in money and 81 500 in notes
The finder appropriated part OF the ready and displayc
the balance freely He made effort to find the owner
not advertising, and arrested for fraudulent
! ly retaining possession of the money.
/ Parlors have been fitted up in the basement of Rev
| DR. Aikcn's Church at Cleveland Ohio with piano
sois SC, and social gatherings held in them for the
promotion of better acquaintance End more intimate
sympathy among the members of the Church and con
/ grctption.
| The New Orleans True Delta of the 10Th says that
checks to the amount of SIl 500 presented at the
Citizens Bank for payment but detected forgcrics
They bore the and endorsement OF well known
firms, These checks il adds, negotiated in Louis
! vile, and sent down there for collection
Felix Costc has Just received SlT 900 damages from
the city of st Louis for injury done to 5000 barrels of
lager beer belonging to him The city it appears at
tempted TO cut through cmbankincnt in doing which
a obtaining the beer seriously ovcriowed and
| the "lagcr'' ruined
The city of Kcokuk, Iowa. has Issued circular to
est upon its debt The debt amounts to ST. $50 600 Of
which $500, 900 issued TO various railroads Its AS
sets amount to 1885 600 of which $3.50 900 is railroad
stock, und $l75 900 unpaid taxes of 1851 and 1858.
All New York is now skating on the lake in the Cen
trial Park 1t is said 100 900 people have visited it
the LIST OF January. The ladies quite asonish the ma
lives in their propcnstics bit it puzzles them put N
their skates without seat to on or even rug Ia
break Of the iqy qooRess.
The German astronomers have taken tho position that
the heat al tho earth Is gradually diminishing, and its
general temperature therefore becoming lower and
American astronomers, believe concur in their opin
ion The intense cold which has been felt in the north
part OF America, withia few years past, would
tanly to confirm It's truth The idea that the eli
mate the North is To become colder and colder with
every revolving year should suppose would be any
thing but pleasant TO the people there, who now
| hardly endure its intensity,