Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-05-04
News Of the Day.
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on the 18th of July. His first port on this
side of the Atlantic will be St. Johns New
foundand. Thence he will proceed to Hall
fax; and thence cross over the country and
visit St. John, N. B., and Fredericton. If
practicable he will thence cross over to She
diac, where his fleet will go round to meet
him. and proceed up the river to Quebec
If he finds difficulty in getting to Shedlac,
he may cross to Portland and come over the
Grand Trunk Railway to Quebec or Montre-
al. From this he will 60 to Kingston; and
thence to Ottawa From Ottawa to Toronto;
thence across the lake to the Falls; and back
by rail to Hamilton.
The Committee charged with the work of
obtaining subscriptions to the Clay Statue in
Washington, have already obtained the sum
of $4,000. The success of the undertaking
may be regarded as established. Mr.. Brown,
the Sculptor, to whom the commission will
probably be assigned, is now in Columbia,
| s. c., to Superintend the commencement OF
his great work for the pediment of the new
State House in that city. The pediment is
90 feet in length by IL in height at the CEN
ire, and will contain fourteen figures in alto
relieve, the largest ten feet in length The
cost of this great work will exceed 100000,
and its execution will require several years.
About three months ago, young woman
was married in N. Y. Going with her hus-
band to Philadelphia on wedding trip, he
pawned or sold all her clothes, except a sim
gle suit They then extended their tour to
Boston, there the rapacious man sold his
wife's last female garment, and compelled
| her to put on male attire. 1t is not consider
ed the thing in the last named city, for wo-
men to appear as men, and she was arrested
as soon as she showed herself on the street.
| 1t was through this arrest that the strange
story came out.
The best fencer in Paris is beautiful
young lady of Polish origin, Mile. Linowska.
At soiree of the house of an aristocratic
widow in the Faubourg St. Honora who 1t
appears, is fond of fencing and has an
apartment in her house devoted to that sort
of exercise, the evening closed with grand
assault-at-arms. Dressed in the handsome
costume of her country, Mile. Linowska
held her sword with SO much grace and pre-
cision, that no gentleman present asable to
touch her.
The suggestion to establish a new State
cut of the most powerful and conservative
portion of New York, is again urged by one OF
the leading journals of that city. The New
York Express declares that New York IS nc
longer free State, and says the time has
come when the people of Southern New York
including Richmond, Queens, Kings, SUI
folk, and the river counties-ought to take
into serious consideration the necessity OF the
division of the Southern part Of the State
from the Western part.
Gov. Robinson, the Chairman Of the Yer
mont delegation to the Charleston Conven
ton, who died in that city few days since
was the only Democrat who filled the Guber-
material Chair of that State, for the last quar-
ter of century He was a distinguished
politician, and frequently the candidate OF
his party for the office of Governor, and was
only elected in 1853, by a combination of the
Free-Sol and Democratic members of the
| Legislature, over Gov. Fairbanks, the Why
candidate.
The Charleston correspondent of the Gin
cinnati Commercial says: "Fernando's crowd
is called the lizards" and they look hard
enough. A Tom Savers of a fellow, short,
bull-necked and with the red shirt of the
New York Roughs, sat near. His head was
turned slightly to one side, and he looked mp
with blood-shot eyes, and his great under
Jaw shut hard, and chin thrown out, like a
bulldog, making deceitful pretense of
sleepiness, Fernandy would only have to tell
that fellow to ego in" and he'd 60"
We take the following deaths from the
Greensburg (Pa.) Herald:-On the 18th
inst, in New Derry, of scarlet fever, Law
MIA K, aged four years; also, on the same
day, Alzinas Herman, aged ten years, and
on April 16, Sarah Elizabeth, aged two
years, and on April 10, Melissa c., aged fiji
teen years, children of Jacob and Amy Bear.
Thus in the brief space of eight days, from a
circle of five lovely children, four have been
removed by death.
The japanese have discovered that few
seconds previous to an earthquake, the mag
net temporarily loses it power. and have in
geniously constructed a light frame support
ing horseshoe magnet, beneath which is a
cup bell metal To the armature is attached
weight; so that upon the magnet becom-
ing paralyzed, the weight drops, and strlk-
ing the cup, gives the alarm. Every one IN
the house then, seeks the open air Tor safety.
The storm which commenced on Tuesday
did considerable damage throughout Jersey
City, and along the Newark river. The tide
rose to great height overfowing several
wharves, carrying off lumber and coal. The
cellars in the lower part of the city were
overAowed, which put families to great deal
of inconvenience, as well as some loss. Fen
ces, chimnies, and window shutters were
blown down and trees uprooted.
The New York Observer states that the
Presbyterian Board of Domestic Missions
will report this year an increase Of more
than $4,000, and the Board of Foreign Mis-
sions still farther increase of upwards OF
$4,000 over the income of the previous
year. This exhibit is regarded as salts
factory proof of the vitality of the Church, and
inspires its members with fresh zeal.
A writer in the Philadelphia Bulletin
says that after years trial of DR.. Sanders
method of making water gas at the City
works in Philadelphia, the chief functionary
of the works, approved of an investment Of
some thousands of dollars in the patent
This gas is about to be introduced into the
Girard House.
The editors and representatives of the
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