Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-06-30
GENERAL NEWS.

i. correspondent Of the Louisville Courier
SAYS: On last Thursday, June, 18th, as the
1lasons were preparing the large stone Tor the
door-sills of banking house being erected in
GpYinsGeld, Kentucky, they came upon llv-
iag frog in the middle of large stone, walled
about with sclid stone on all sides. The frog
,zas taken out and lived until the l7th instant
It's liberation was witnessed by some fifteen or
twenty citizens The stone from which it was
taken is from the oldest strata that crops out
on the surface in Kentucky.
On Tuesday, about II o'clock, two packages
Of money were received by the receiving teller
OF the Chesapeake bank in Baltimore, and
placed on his desk, behind the screen usually
surmounting bank counters; when, however, at
81. NJ, the bank was about closing, both
packages were discovered to have mysteriously
disappeared. One containing SO 900 in notes
o. out of town banks, of different denomioa-
;;ons, and the other 81 ,O00,ln one and two dol!
lar legal tender notes, making in all $ll 900.
The venerable Reuben Du'rand Mussy, NJ.
=, IL D., died last Thursday, in Boston, ct
the age Of sc. after an illness Of two years,
during the larger part of which tine he had
been confined to his room Prof: Mussy was
native of New Hampshire, and one of the most
learned and respected surgeons Of New Eng
:&nd.
Ellis Howe, the inventor and patentee OF the
sewing machine needle, has declared his pur-
oose not to apply for an extension Of his patent,
which runs out this year, on the ground that he
has made million and halt dollars on it al
ready, which he regards as fortune enough for
enc man.
On Thursday last woman named kearney,
residing in Rochester, came near putting ao
end to the existence Of her child, boy
eleven years Of age, by administering to him
three Pharaoh serpent eggs" for worms,
with which the child was afflicted.
Part of Iowa has been perfectly deluged with
rain for the past week. On last Sunday night
it rained all night, and the wind blew, in places,
perfect hurricane A regular whirlwind was
instituted, similar to the great tornado Of 1860,
only on a smaller scale. "..
A despatch was received yesterday, announc-
ing the death of Rev. J. T. Whiteside, min
ister of the Maryland Conference of the Metho-
dist Protestant Church, and Superintendent Of
New Market Circuit, Maryland.
Colonel Charles F. johnson, Inspector Gen
eral of the States Of Kentucky and Tennessee,
and Major F. W. Gilbreth, aide-de-camp to
Major General Howard. Commissioner Bureau
Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
has made report on the Memphis riot He
says:
The origin and results of the riot may he
summed up briefly as follows: The remote
cause was the feeling Of bitterness which has
always existed between the two classes. The
miner ARRAYS which occurred daily, especially
between the police and colored soldiers, the
general tone of certain city papers, which have
almost constantly counselled the low whites to
open hostilties with the blacks.
Jhe immediate cause was the collision spoken
ci between few policemen and negroes on the
a7ening of the 30th Of April, in which both
parties may be equally cul pable, followed on the
a!ening of the lst of May by another collision
Ok more serious nature, and subsequently by
sc indiscriminate attack upon unofensive col
o3lored men and women. ''
How TO GET UP REFRESHED. As almost
e"erg one, in this heated weather, feels more
.: less dull on getting up of mornings, we re-
commend the following good advice, which we
ind in an exchange:
Every person who tolls daily at any kind of
Iscor, requiring great physical or mental exer-
lon, should be extremely careful to practice
:agular system Of ablutiOn at the close of each
Gay'o work Sometimes person may be SO
completely exhausted as to render this any
ming out an inviting performance yet by its
omission great deal of the refreshlnent which
he hours Of repose are designed to impart, is
los$ To be cleanly is strictly religious duty,
@nG is absolutely essential to sound and refresh
lag slumber; hence the labor Of keeping ones
person clean is amply repaid by the elasticity
::hich follows from nightly ablutions before
setiTing. Heed this advice, and the reader
:!ill sleep soundly; disregard it-go to bed un-
1!asheueo and you will rise in the morning unre-
2Eeshed, with feelings Of lassitude which the
ezertions of the day will hardly be able to re-
move.
Ihe condition of the colored people in South
Carolina, has touched the heart of Bureau
agent in that State He, with the evidence OF
sher daily feecings and prosecutions at the
hands Of their pretended friends before his eyes,
presents, in his report, the following melancholy
estimate of what the negro is to-day:
The negroes are worse treated to-day than
'7hen they were slaves. Nobody cares tor them
Beyond the service they can get out OF them.