Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-08-04
NEWS or THE D4I.
"7b shov the oery age and body Of the TIMES


and advertised in May last. This service IS
distributed through every State and Terrific
rv Of the Union except Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Delaware, New Jersey and Maryland, which
COMPRISED the regular lettings of the last
spring. The decisions will be made known
the 10Th instant, and the routes SO let are 10
be put in operation on the first OF October
next.
The Annapolis Gazette records the death
of the youngest child of Gov. Hicks. OF Mary
land and adds:-"Gov. Hicks has been sad
" afflicted since he took the gubernatorlal
chair. Within two years he has lost his wife
and three children has been confined to ms
room six months with painful disease from
which he was relieved only after undergoing
dangerous surgical operation. The same
paper announces the death of the eldest child
of the Hon. W. Fl. Purnell, the Comptroller
of the Treasury. During the month OF July
he lost three of his children
The Hartford Times learns that the census
takers down in Tennessee have found an old
lady seventy-fve years old, who has bnlt
three hundred yards of good rock fence with
in the last year, with her own hands, and,
what is more she gathered and carried IN
her arms all the materials Of which the fence
is built-aud, says the Times, what is sur
prising, in spite of her wonderful fence per-
formances, is not candidate for the presl-
dency of the United States.
We recently published an account of the
killing of two persons, DR.. Selser and Col.
Beall, formerly of Charles county, Md, and
De Griffin, in Warrenton, Miss, at the hands
of DR.. Bell. We have since learned that the
DR., Bell then mentioned is Dr. Thomas L.
whose family is well known and highly
esteemed in that county. 1t is SAID that DIR.
b. was acting in self-deience when he took
the life of the two gentlemen named.
In 1859 more than two million dollars
worth Of carpeting was imported into the
United States. Of that amount, 50. l14,O 6l
was for goods of English manufacture, and
SlO,3l1 for French makes. Although Il larg'
er proportion of expensive carpetinss is used
in this country than, perhaps, in any other
yet ii would appear that the kind most uXu
rious of all is sold to a very insignificant ex'
! tent.
Most of the locomotive building establish
| ments, which survived the storm Of 1897, are
now in full and profitable operation. The
American Railway Review says the improV'
| ed prospect of our roads, and the necessity
| for still more railroad accommodation IN the
| West and South, are likely to stimulate To-
connective building to pitch almost, If moi
| quite, as high as that attained III $50" ant
| 1854.
Colonel Fremont recently gave testimony IL
a ease in California, in which he made the fol
lowing statement-"Thcd discovery of gold
| in the rock was first made in 1919, on my
Mariposa tract 1t was considered that thai
discovery was the first of the kind in Caltor
MIA. That vein is now known as the OLD
Mariposa or Fremont vein, near the town OF
Mariposa. When left California, in 1917
the gold placers had not been discovered"
Mrs. Swisshelm, of the st. Cloud Mimi.
Democrat, says: "Wanted-in st. Cloud, {
large supply ofraw material for the manutac
! ture of brides None in the market, auc
pressing demand. Those having IA small
surplus to dispose Of, would do we'll 10 put uE
small packages carefully, in straw bonnets
barege wells, crnoline and silk tlounces, anc
consign them to the care Of any of our com
| mission merchants"
The Coroner's investigation in the case o.
Gastarina, the Spaniard who was found dead
| in an alley, in New York, about year ago
was concluded without any evidence OF vlo
ence being found on the person OF deceased
| Bavendam, the person VINO has been under
arrest for some days past on suspicion OF hav
! ing caused the death Of the Spaniard, vii
probably be discharged.
| Prof Steiner the aerOnaut, has been as
touiShing the people of st. Lawrence county
\. y, by his feats. He made tin ascension
last week in company with another, anC
when at the height OF two miles Steiner TOOK
a parachute and descended to the earth
The spectators were thrilled at the sight anc
stood GREATNESS as the daring aeronaut was
descending.
1t is stated that an organized band of kid
nappers is at the present time keeping the col
ored population of Kansas in constant alarm
Their victims are selected principally from
among the Arkansas eXlles, who few year
since we're driven from that State and took uE
their abode in Kansas. Their free papers
it is alleged, are taken from them by the kid
nappers and destroyed.
To prevent the constantly recurring cases
of poisoning by mistake, it has been suggest
ed that arsenic and other poisons be put up
in red paper and marked with the skull and
crossbones, as is donein some parts OF Europe,
and that in fluid poisons the same symbols
should be PET on the bottle. This the most
iiiterate could understand.
\ Baltimore committee has been appointed
to correspond with the governors otall South
ern States, and also the mayors Of all South
ern cities, 10 ascertain what amount Of bonds
they will advance, or what amount ot inter,
est they will guarantee per annum IN order
to establish direct communication between
the Chesapeake Bay and Europe.
There continues to be loud and bitter
grumbling on the part OF the excursionists 10
Cape May in the Great Eastern. tits strange
that any body of any experience in worldly
matters should have expected comfort or
elegant ease" on a steamer, however capa-
tious, among two thousand people.
Hon. c. c. Washburn, who has been in
Congress so long as II representative from
Wisconsin that he has almost come to he con
sidered life member Of that body. declines
TO be a candidate for denomination. lie has
.o,r,car,aI his district lnr five cons pcutiyp