Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-09-21
News Of the Day.
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The number of applications has been larger
than ever before, about 100 having been ex
amined. The number already admitted and
on the list is l54, and 40 others have been
examined, of whom over 80 are under condi-
tons to be made up within short time. A
considerable part of these will probably be
finally admitted. The new Freshman Class
will therefore be the largest ever admitted to
Yale. The precise number will not be known
for a week or two, but We presume it will be
about lao.
Victor Hugo Louis Blanc, Felix Pyat, and
NJ Prudhon have refused the armistice The
Paris papers, which are using now much more
freedom Of speech than they have ever before
done, publish the refusals of these gentlemen,
with comments. All the exiles, whose posi-
tions permit. with the above exceptions, are
returning. Even these gentlemen, it is to
be presumed, will enter France when they
please on business, and sooner or later will
perhaps renounce their opposition and re-
turn permanently.
While Mr.. Schuyler Colfax was addressing
a Republican meeting at St. Paurs, Mime
sofa, Thursday week, at the theatre, the
building was discovered to be on fire under
meath the stage on which was speaking, APP
parently in the extreme back part of the
building. The audience retired in good or
der, and barely had the last persons crossed
the threshold, when the flames, impcllcd by
the wind which was blowing briskly ut the
time, filled the whole building. and in 4 few
minutes only it was entirely destroyed
The building was light balloon frame,
with canvass top. The fire was the work of
an incendiary.
A correspondent of the Manchester Mirror
says that few days since needle was taken
from the outer and lower side Of tue foot,
near the little toe joint, of Mrs. Ira Atwood,
of North Sandwich. Is. IL. which she swal-
lowed six years since. The needle was shoe
needle, little over an inch long, and it was
whole, but quite rusty. The lady was alarm
ed at the time she swallowed the needle, but
she had felt no inconvenience from it, and
had forgotten the circumstance until she felt
a pricking in her foot, when the needle was
discovered.
The Charlottesville Jeffersonian says
1--WE saw lately large pile Of iron ore, in
pigs, for the Richmond market, obtained
at the blomary Of Mr.. Shaw, near Crawiord's
Springs, in Augusta county. Several thou
sand acres of mountain land, covered with
timber and filled with iron ore, have been re-
Gently purchased there for thirty and forty
cents per acre, and another large furnace
and blomary will shortly be put in opera
ton"
The plair old mansion at Baton Rouge,
La, long the residence of Gen. Taylor, was
recently torn down. 1t was an old house,
When the fort Of Baton Rouge was taken by
the Spaniards under Don Bernardo de Gal
vez, in l779, it was the residence of Col. Dix
on, the English commander. 1t was sub
auently occupied by the Spanish commander,
and more recently by the family Of the hero
of Buena Vista.
The annual gathering of the New York
Caledonia Highland Clubs was held atJones's
Wood, near that city, on Thursday, and at
tracted much attention. The lIighlandcrs
were dressed in close Scottish caps, with
hood, eagle and feathers, and bright colored
shawls and leggings of broad plaid. They
were accompanied on their march through
the city by u knot Of bagpipes, and brass
band.
"LITTLE ELLA" Burns, the infant prodigy
of four years, who has astonished everybody
by her spirited dramatic readings has become
the subject of litigation in New York. Her
real name is Eva Bell Written. and her faith
or has obtained a writ of habeas corpus to
produce here before Judge Davies, on the
ground that she is unlawtully restrained OF
her liberty by the respondent. Miss Martha
Pollock, now calling herself Mrs. Burns.
The Superintendent of the West Philadel-
phia Railroad shows horse whose hoofs the
rats have gnawed until their teeth reached
the quick. While lying down the rats had
also gnawed the warts upon the inside OF the
horses legs The rats are so savage III those
parts that every morning some of the horses
are taken out with feet bleeding from
wounds inflicted by the nocturnal providers.
A man died very suddenly in Pennsylva-
mia from the effects Of whiskey. The bevcr-
age was analysed, when the chemist report
ed that he found in it the poisonous constltu-
ent of Coculus LIicus. The proportion
found was two grains to the pint of whlskey.
This poison is considered fatal to human life
in quantities Of from five to ten grans ac-
cordng to circumstances and conditions.
The American Bank Note Company, which
organized last year, and is now in active
operation in New York. has just completed
a contract for the National Bank of Greece,
providing that institution with notes OF vari-
Gus denominations. engraved in the highest
style which the art has yet attained IN any
country.
Contrary to the popular belief, cattle,
sheep and pigs sometimes eat the tobacco
plant with ayidity. A gentleman informs
the Hampshire Gazette that two or three
wears ago he allowed his sheep to run under
shed where he had hung tobacco to dry, and
thew ate the ends of oil the plants they could
reach
The North Carolina Christian Advocate
states that five missionaries from the South
ern Methodist Church, will sail for Japan in
November, including Rev. NJ. L. Wood, OF
the North Carolina Conference, Rev. MIR.
Stewart. of the Tennessee Conference, and
two Ministers from the Memphis Conference
The Mariposa (Cal.l Star, thus describes
the nersonal appoarance of Horace Greeley.