The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1859-02-19
GLEANINGs PROB rlIE MAILS


The overland mail has arrived at So Louis with C4ii-
iosui dates the gath alt No through passengers
came IN the mail There Is no CALIFORNIA; Of IN
teTcst
Wells Commercial Express shows deficiency IN the
receipts OF wheat at Chicago OF i've million bushels
and estimates that the deficiency BY the ls Of August
win reach 8, 600 O0o bushels
The eminent musical inventor Sax, of the SaxhorD
has long been sufferer FROM cancer aud the leading
physicians velpeau and RECORD who had been in attend
ance pronounced him neurablc. N st
The dairy Of Zadoc Pratt Of Greene comfy New
York kept 80 ia 1885, which yielded 500 pounds
Of butter and brought from az b "a cents pen pound
81 500
The steamer J. o Carson bound for the Illinois river
with valuable cargo OF groceries has sunk Alton
Most Ut the cargo will be host The boat valued al
$40 600 insured foE 81 800.
A young but experienced burglar named bfurty Say
age, IL years old, has just been captured ia Norwich
Coma where he has OF late been pursuing his ayocstio
with great energy and The story OF his exploits
Is quite ia the Claude Duyai style. rs-a3s
The principal of the Seminary at South Haiey basssl
cbusetts has decided with deliIention 10 give the
young ladies under his tutease one hall hour more Of
steep la the morning Think of it, boarding school pro
pgetors but don take from the night what you adj to
the morning, early sleep Is the sweetest
Diamonds worth 81 900 and upwards were stolen by
jew from his brothcr-in-law ia New York Satui-
day He borrowed them on pretence of knowing puu-
chaser, stepped board the Kangaroo steamer and sailed
for Europe taking the jewels and abandoning wife
delicate situation
There a desperate fight Sunday ia the Sixth
ward in New York, between rival factions of a gang
which infests that locality, during which notorious
character named Welsh shot la the neck by pistol
He patent stock in which therewere steel bands
that prevented the ball entering his neck, thus saving
his Life
The Hampshire Mass County East Association of Con
gegatonal Ministers have yoted that in the opinion
this association the raising of tobacco Is immortality
The Springfield Republican thinks that business
less profitable the association might hope to
feet from their ukasc but long tobacco pays 5000
to $500 acre, they must learn labor and wait
and seek to reach the evil by prcept and example against
the OF the vile weed.
There are I 7I9 dram shops in New York. or one for
every so of the population, young and old. OF the
whole number. just serenity tao pay the decent respect
law procure license sell Intoxicating drinks less
than Ia hundred 1t il officially stated that
s. ls8 of those drinking saloons pursue Meytrgc S
day and at low estimate, the of 81 3lS 500 is
expended in them ON the lSandaysof year.
The Rockville lP) Jeersonian of the 10th instant
says that German named Carb, while out hunting ia
Clearfeld county, bear trap, and having
before he entered for the purpose of
aminng it, but unfortunately touched the trigger and
shut up. In this pIedicament lac remained two days.
nearly dead from hunger aud cold when the man who
set the trap TO examine it, and found that instead
OF a bear he had caught man.