Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-08-25
News Of the Day.
News OF the Day.
To shoU the very age and body Of the TINES.

July %, says:-"The sale of Government
property at Camp Floyd is still continuing
Some twelve or fifteen hundred mules have
already been disposed of in small lots to suit
the residents and small capitalists ut an aver
age ofSS5 per head. and many of them are OF
inferior quality. A few mule teams, wagons
and all complete. have been sold, ranging in
price from 1915 to 5000 per team. Now that
most of the light buyers have made their pur-
chases, it is thought that the animals will
he sold in lots and ut low figures to the spe-
culators who are in attendance"
The Providence r. L. Journal, in speak
ing of the "Croton panic" in New York, says:
Some of the people are bringing water
from Brooklyn, and probably there will soon
be as much cheating in imported water as in
imported brandy. The importers will pro-
badly send Croton over to Brooklyn, and
without landing it, bring it back as Brooklyn
water; just as whiskey goes to France and
comes back brandy. 1t is strange that it has
not occurred to some one to get out an in
junction on the Croton. This is the univer-
sal remedy in New York"
The editor of the New York Express, who
visited Mount Vernon recently, says that
from forty to hundred persons visit Mount
Vernon almost daily, and roam over the plan
tation like beasts of prey rather than as de-
cent, well-conducted people. lie says that
not long ago party Of them went 80 far as to
endeavor to steal the dinner from the fami-
" on its way from the kitchen, and it be-
came necessary to put it under guard
Others go into the kitchen, and lay violent
hands upon every thing they see and fancy.
Rochester and Buffalo are becoming excl
ted on the tight-rope question, Blondin being
the champion Of the latter city, as we'll as of
Niagara Falls, and DeLeave the former.
The Rochester papers dare Blondin to inter-
fere with their man, and the Niagara Falls
Gazette retorts by saying that "Bondin was
threatened with violence by Rochester shout
der-hitters," when he was there to see De-
Leave walk, and was indebted to ''some per-
sonal friends for safety
In Madison county, Va, recently, lady
hearing an alarm in her hen house, pro-
ceeded to ascertain the cause, and found
very large black snake. She sent imme-
diately for her husband who shot its head
off, and upon examination found it contain
ed three eggs, seven chickens, and had swal-
lowed hen as far as the wings. A few
days after, another was killed i'll the same
place, and its body contained fifteen eggs.
A watermelon was pulled on my farm to-
day, says a South Carolina farmer, writing
to the Charleston Mercury, weighing 81
pounds, 80 inches long, and to inches round.
1t suffced for my family, consisting of TWEEN
ty-six persons, fifteen of them being of age,
and the remainder all over fifteen: and be-
sides, one-third of it was left. | raised it
on my farm, and pulled it this day, 10th of
August"
The Dublin Medical Press asserts that the
pupils of the polytechnic schools in Paris
have recently furnished some curious Stats
ties bearing on tobacco. Dividing the young
gentlemen of that college into two groups
the smokers and non-smokers--it shows that
the smokers have proved themselves, in the
various competitive examinations, far lnie-
rior to the others.
Nick enzie and Brewer, the two Mormons
VIII hcTS upoh a va SO''
terfeiting drafts on the United States Sub
Treasury at Salt Lake City, have been tried
and convicted before Judge Eckels, at Camp
Floyd, and sentenced to twenty-one years
Imprisonment. They will be taken to Call
fornia or Washington, ID. c., to serve out
the term.
Another, and in every respect a wanton
and unprovoked murder, has beeh commit
ted in Baltimore. The murderer con-
firmed outlaw, who, if there had been any
vigor or efficiency in the administration OF
Justice to such criminals, would have long
since been undergoing punishment for other
crimes-has been arrested, with full proofs
OF outlines.
C. j. Faulkner, agent of Mrs. Humphrey
b. Powell, of Loudoun county, has sold at
public auction, a tract of 269 acres of land,
about three miles from Martinsburg, ut the
price of $50 222 an acre-tcrms, equal to
cash. Wheat crop reserved, and no I'M
provements of any value upon the land
VIM. W. Walker, purchaser.
The millers of Clarksburg, ascertalnlnS
that there is no more wheat in the county
than will be needed for home consumption,
have made arrangements to obtain a supply
from the Wesoto grind for other markets.
This is the first time that grain was ever i'm
ported from other states by the millers OF
Clarksburg.
An English writer has recently asserted
that an undue proportion of lime in the sys-
tenn, is the cause of premature gray hair,
and advises to avoid hard water, either for
drinking pure, or when converted into tea,
coffee, or soup, because hard water ls always
strongly impregnated with lime.
The Houston Telegraph says:-"The rail
road spirit in Texas is developing itself more
and more every day. The Central road is
now completed Assistance Of seyenty-hve miles
from Houston, and, it is expected to be push
ed far enough into the interior in time to Sc
cure the spring trade"
The Louisville Journal says I'VE are ex-
ceedingly sorry to say that we yesterday saw
a man get himself bitten by large rattle
snake, for the sake of getting quart of
whskev administered to him. lie wasn't
killed Ly either the bite or the drink
Lake Memphremagog has become within
the last two years, as fashionable as the
White Mountains, Saratoga Springs, or