Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-08-03
News Of the Day.
I" shoU the uery age anibody Of the TINES"

"sharp practice" is mentioned in one ut
these races at Norwalk. Each boat was re-
CURED to start with three passengers, hut 1t
Was not stipulated that they should all he
brought back. So two Of those on one craft
jumped over and swan ashore, immediately
after getting under way, and lightened their
boat much that she took the prize oi SlU.
There was a meeting held in Chicago on
Friday last. of all ministers of the gospel ia
vnrahle to efforts for securing better o''ser-
vance of the Sabbath, and opposed t" the
running of railway ears and other convey
ances Oh that day. After considerable DIS
cuss"n the nesting adopted a petition t" the
Chicago City Railway Company, requesting
them not Ia run their ears nn Sunday. They
ais" called a general public meeting Ia he
held on the 9th instant
There is to be ali organized opposition in
New York to the Sunday laws One hrancl,
OF it is acting under the title of the Amer
can Society for the Promotion of Civil and
Religious Liberty" and IA public mass meet
ing is PROPOSED "t all persons opposed 10 the
enforcement and in favor of the repeal of
all Sunday laws A bartender" states that
there is more liquor sold under the pretended
closed-door system, than when the doors were
permitted to he open on Sunday.
The Marine losses during the month of
July show an aggregate of seventeen yes
sels of which five were ships, three We're
banks, one was II brig, and eight were sch""-
ners. The total value Of property lost was
one million and ftty-fhTee honsamd sir h"n-
d,ed dollars. This is the value Of property
amounting to total loss.
Gov. Wright, our minister to Prussia, and
small party of Americans dined at Bremen,
on the 4th of July last, with cotemp"rary
Of Washington, an acquaintance and friend
of the great chief, the ONLY man probably
now living Of whom this can be said. The
person referred to is Alderman Delius, of
Bremen, who, as far back rs 1897, resided
in Baltimore.
A correspondent of the New York Herald
writes from Niagara Falls, As follows
Capt. Travis, who has opened shooting
gallery here, and who, by the way, has made
some wonderful shots. offered yesterday Ia
bet one thousand dollars that he can cross
on the rope. lie has some hackers, who are
willing to risk their money on him"
Some more camels, says the Civilian Of
Galveston, are coming to Texas. The I'M
portation now expected is to be made from
the valley of the Upper Mongolia. They are
stroger than any other kind of camels, and
are accustomed to the severest kind "t hard
ships. They are to enter the United States,
via San Francisco.
The late King Oscar, Of Sweden aud Nor
way, whose decease we announced few
days ago, was the eldest son of Bernadotte,
Prince Of Monte Corvo, one of Napoleon's
marshals, who, after the dethronement OF
Gustavus " in 1909, was nominated Crown
Prince, and succeeded to the throne III 1915
On the death of Charles NH.
The Brazilian Minister went TO Baltimore
on Saturday last, to inspect the steam hire
engines in that city, with a view OF report
ing to his Government the policy OF intro
ducing them into the principal cities of that
country.
A notorious rufian, known in Southwest
ern Arkansas as Jack Cade," was recently
killed by woman whose husband he had
shot. The widow attacked him with revol-
yer and lodged-three balls in his body, one
of which passed through his heart
Boys should look before they leap, when
diving. A boy in Brooklyn, n. T., named
Brown, made dive on Friday last, and buried
his head so deeply in the mud that he was
unable to extrcate himself, and Consequently
died from sutfocation.
The site of the house in which DIR. John
son lived and died, in Bolt court, Fleet street,
London, has been bought by the Stationers'
Company of London; and the statloners are
about to erect school for booksellers On the
site of DIR. Johnson's house.
Rev. James Cook Richmond, the rowing
clerical knight, has issued another challenge,
this time to all the world, to meet him in oral
or written debate, on the merits of Episc"-
pacy, as compared with the Latin church,
or ''schsm' generally.
So numerous have the applications for
situations in the Census Bureau already be-
come. that, in order to facilitate responses
thereto, printed forms have been prepared,
stating that no additional clerical force will
be required until next year.
The farmers in Maine say that they never
harvested larger crops Of hay than those "f
th. pre.ent season, and never secured 1t IN
better order. For over three weeks in hay