Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-10-16
NEWS OFIHE DAP.
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Ayessel at San Francisco reports the mutt
ny Of sixty coolies on board an unknown bark
from Callao. She had $4,000 specie on
board, and the owner and servant. The captain
and crew we're murdered and the money dlvl-
ded; but tho owner and servant were spared,
and the former directed to navigate the vessel
to China, (which he was unable to do. The
bark sailed north and passed Kurile islands !;
in MAY got into ice and drifted into Ochotsk
Sea, where the owner escaped On board whale
ship. A strange story. lFH
It is stated that upon an application In 'Bre-
men for 100000 subscription for the new Bal
timore and Bremen steamers, more than tnir-
teen millions OF dollars were profercd to par
ticipate in the enterprise Tickets were turn-
ished for nearly eight hundred emigrants ar.
irving by one steamer, by the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad, who were distributed to different
points in sixteen States and Territories, to all
of which passage was furnished at cost ma
terially less than the rates from New York.
Poisoned hosiery furnishes the materia! for
the latest "sensation" in London. The Star
says: ''Mr. Webber, medical man, has made
somewhat alarming statement at the Guild
hall. He affirmed that the eolorlng matter IN
many of the socks now sold in London, COO,
tanned poisonous clement, which produced
irritating sores on the teet OF several OF his
patients, and that in other cases which had
come to bis knowledge the dye had proved
equally dclctcrious.
a rich old man died recently, whose young
wife had led him but sorry life. He frequent
" stated that he would be revenged. On
reading the will his vengeance was too we'll felt.
He left all his property, about 500, 900 to his
WIFE on condition that she passes every day
from eight q. NJ. till six p. IN. in his tomb
Should she miss one hour the whole fortune
reverts to the natural heirs.
The extensive machine shops in Baltimore,
owned by MIR. Ross Winans, which at ono time
gave active employment to 500 operatives, are
about to be torn down. in consequence OF lack
of patronage, Mr.. Winans refusing to manu-
facture any but the 'camel back locomotive,
out of feelings of pride, as he acknowledges
himself.
Mrs. Andrew Weston, Of Middeboro, Mass,
recently sold bundle of rags in her possession
to tin peddler belonging in Norton. Next
day Mr.. Weston sought the peddler, found the
rags intact, and on their being opened took out
an envelope containing twenty-five hundred dol
lars, which be had put away for safe keeping.
Mr. Goni, the Spanish minister to the u. S.,
has received the following cable dispatch from
the provisional iunta Of Madrid: His Excel
lency the Spanish Minister to the y. s.: Re
turn the thanks of the iunta to Mr.. Seward for
his recognition OF the new Spanish govern
ment" This dispatch implies the continuance
of Mr.. Goni as minister from Spain to the u. ).
Grace Church in New ork has not been sold,
as reported; but the wellknown Brown, who
has been one of the institutions Of The Church
and OF the city, has left on account OF a diff
Guilty with the rector in reference to the per-
torrance Of operate music by the choir.
An experienced sugar refner Of n ew York
is about to establish beetsugar factory in
Buena Vista county, Iowa. The machinery is
to come from France, at a cost OF one hundred
thousand dollars. Five thousand acres OF land
to grow the beets have been purchased.
George Tinsley alias Wash Stewart, of Wal
ker county, has confessed that he murdered on
the 18th ult., at Calhoun's Ferry, Texas,
Charles Hall, ferryman, his wife, a stranger,
named Murry, and little girl, sister to MIR.
Halls wife.
The case of Bishop Dugsan, of Chicago,
has been acted upon by the propaganda Of
Rome, and decided entirely in his favor.
Some one, it said, has invented CT gar,
making machine that turns out hundred
thousand day.
In Paris, it is said, that hoops are no longer
worn, and that the skirts are either very long
or very short.
Helrnbold, the patent-medicne man, has
given $4,000 to aid the election Of Seymour
and Blair. O.
Lemons are now sold by the dozen in Boston
at one third the price asked for good apples.