Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-06-15
Travellers upon sleeping cars will do well

Travellers upon sleeping cars will do well
to exercise some caution as to any valuables
they may have in keeping. This style OF
travelling offers peculiar facilities for thiey-
ing operations, and presents strong tempta-
ton to those in attendance. 4 lady travel
ling on the New York Central Road few
DAYS since, on rising in the morning missed
SII0, which she had placed in a small bag
| under her pillow. The male ''chambermald
| thought she could not have lost so much as
that, and on examining further she found
$40 of the missing money in the bottom OF
| the bag. She left The car to 60 Tor the con-
ductor Of the train, but was called back by
| the "chambermaid,' who had found 500
more son the floor" The lady was so glad
to recover this that she did not pursue the
inquiry for the other so. Travellers gene
rally VIII do well to profit by this example
The Newark IN. j. Advertiser says: Dur
ing a brief visit to Florence yesterday, we
made the acquaintance Of Mir. George e.
Cannon, who has the general supervision OF
the Saints in this region, with a view to their
speedy removal to Utah. From him we
learn that train of tI,!rty-eight hand carts
with four or five persons to each Vehicle
will probably start for Salt Lake to-day, and
about twenty-five vehicles, accompanied by
a much larger number OF persons, will COM
mence their journey across the Plains next
week
In Portland, Maine, they have On officer
STYLED the "Truant officer" whose duty, as
his name imports, is to arrest all truants
from the schools during the school hours,
and conduct them to their duties. The ar
rangement is said to work remarkably well,
much to the satisfaction of parents. and also
to the residents of the town, who like quiet
and order. In one of the schools, the at
tendance among the boys has increased
twelve per cent since the creation Of the new
Office.
4 conductor On one of the railroads termi-
mating in Wheeling, Va, was dismissed from
the road last week, fr having complimented
a lady on his train, for the Cinderella-!lke
smallncss of IL foot which she exposed beyond
the folds of her crnoline. The company
held that if the lady had IA pretty foot, she
was probably aware Of it, if not, it was no
part of the conductors duty to inform her OF
the fact.
"The Oyster War;" which has been Great
inc considerable excitement in st. Mary )
county, Nd, has extended to the Eastern
| Shore, and the people of Dorchester county
arc to hold Il meeting on Saturday, to adopt
measures to prevent their ''oyster beds"
from falling into the hands OF the parties
holding warrants obtained from the land Oh
fee at Annapolis.
The city of Hamilton, c. W., with 10000
population, owes two million dollars, Oh
which the interest is $l32, 900 annually, in
itself IL very handsome tax. The population
has on this account fallen off 10000 as COM
pared with ten years ago, and Is still de-
creasing. Property is nn>aicab!e, and houses
are offered to let for the taxes alone.
The Brooklyn weather oracle Z. Merriam,
says that there We're more cool days III the
first half of June, 1850 than in any year Of
a term of scventy-two years over which his
records extend. In rwenty-tour OF those years
the thermometer has gone lower In June
than it has this June.
The United States Coast Survey schooner
Crawford, Lieut. Bankhcad, has been en-
gagged for some time in sounding; between
Charleston and Fernandina, and in operations
intended to determine the limits and extent
Of the Gulf Stream along this portion o!
coast, says the Charleston "Conrier.
A gentleman who WAS Il passenger on the
San Francisco steamer Of the GOTH says that
a yiruIent type of yellow fever was raging at
| A,onnl.n 'rhorn had hppn 900 deaths in II