Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-11-21
News Of the Day.
"7o show the uery age and body Of the TINES.


The Planas, or French Keys, where the
steamship North Star got on shore on her
passage to Aspinwall. are, two Keys of the
Mariguana Passage, on the route to Aspln-
wall, and nineteen miles west Of the west
end ot Mariguana, one OF the most northern
Of the Bahama Islands This is the passage
used by sailing vessels outward bound and
by steamers on their passages to and from
Aspinwall The New York Chamber of Com
merce, at its last meeting, agreed to memo
rialze the President of the United States to
apply to the British Government, to which
the Island and adjacent Keys belong, to erect
a lighthouse there.
A person supposed to be a female. giving
the name of Anna Page, was arrested in
Savannah, Ga, on Monday last, wearing very
extended hoops. An examination, however.
showed that the person was male On
his examination he stated his name to be
Charles Williams. The Savannah Republi-
can says he converses freely and well, and
with all of the action and delicate-,uned
voice of woman. lie is an exquisite coun-
terielt.
In Philadelphia, on Friday, rs the funeral
of colored female was passing Tenth and
Girard avenue, the hearse encountered an
obstruction, which forced pin out Of one of
the wheels, and the hearse was overturned
forcibly. The coffin was broken, and the
corpse rolled out upon the street, while the
driver was thrown from his box and consi-
derably injured. The funeral train returned
a. -, Il.
fin had T. be obtained.
\ New York correspondent OF Charleston
paper says that the leading fur man iactur-
ers of the former city have been busily work
ing up, during the past summer, skunk
skins, exclusively intended for the foreign
market, where the skunk and his remarkable
properties are entirely unknown. Large
quantities OF them 60 to Europe, and they
are highly priced there under various fctl-
tious and fancy names.
1t is stated that scarlet fever is prevailing
to an alarming extent in parts of Greenfield,
Juniata and Freedom townships, in Blair
county, Pa. Some families have lost as
many as four children in one day from this
fatal disease, and its ravages are still going
on, medical skill failing to do its work. III
Berks and other eastern counties ii is pre-
vailing to an alarming extent, and also in
Cambria county.
The birds-nests which are esteemed 80
great luxury in China, have become an ar
ticle of consumption in Paris. Although
the greater portion of what is consumed un-
der that name is nothing more than fish
glue, still the gendine nest can be purchas-
ed at about so per hundred wei light i'll its
crude state.
The Harrisburg pa Telegraph says: a
lady had the habit OF picking her teeth with
pins. Atrihing humor was the consequence,
which terminated in Il cancer. The brass
and quicksilver used in making these pins
will account for this circumstance. Pins are
always pernicious to the teeth, and should
never be used for toothpicks.
A Number Of officials under the Federal
Administration in Philadelphia, were notified
on Wednesday that their services were NJ
longer required. Four were removed from
the post office and two from the custom-house,
together with the mail agent running be
tween Philadelphia and Washington
Grace Greenwood lccturcI ut fremont
Temple, in Boston, November Is, to an i'm.
mense audience. Her subject was-''Thc
Heroic in Common Life" She spoke Of the
'dress-reform" movement very contemptu,
ously.
The !iobbers of Pittsburg and Cincinnati
are denouncing the practice of selling by
sample the goods Of merchants and manu-
facturers outside of those States. In Pitts,
burg they are determined to prosecute every
person offending against the statute.
The New York Church Journal (EpiSco.
pail denies most emphatically story that
Bishop OnderdOnk is about to appeal to the
civil courts to obtain relief from the pecunia-
ry results Of the sentence Of suspension.
1t is stated that DR.. 5. u. Howe has gone
to Canada. His friends dsclaim any con-
nection on his part with the late plot in Nir
ginia.
Hon. Edward Stanley, late of North Caro-
linn, but now of California, is said to lie
about to enter the ministry Of the p Episco,
pal church.
The captain and crew of the ship Emily
at New York. suspected to be SLAYER, have
been committed to prison.