Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-03-07
News of the Day.
"70 sho0 tie rery age andJody Of tie TIMES"

Another attempt, it appears, is to be made
to link England and the United States to-
gether by Geographic cable. At the an
nual meeting of the Atlantic Telegraph Com
pany, which was announced for the 18th
ult., proposition was to be made for en-
abling the directors "either with the whole
or with a portion Of the shareholders, or
with other persons" to make arrangements
for raising the injured portion of the cable,
and for making another effort, next summer,
to complete the original undertaking OF the
company.
An official report shows that the old Capt.
tol Building is sufficiently strong to bear
withol any damage whatever the iron dome
which will weigh thirty seven hundred tons,
more than half of which is erected. The
Senate had instituted an inquiry, fearing
that the walls would not bear so much pres
sure. The cost of the dome as now estimat-
ed will be 100000, including the bronze
mammoth statue of the Genius Of Liberty
with which it is to be surrounded.
The Volunteer excitement has not as yet
subsidized in England Upon the suggestion
of several influential old Etonians, and under
the sanction of the authorities of Eton Col
lege, corps of nearly three hundred stu
dents has been formed for drill practice
They are being instructed in the manual by
ten Sergeants of the Guards, and will soon
join the volunteer organization as aseparate
corps.
The Dayton Journal publishes the marri-
age of Mr. Stephen $. Doggett to Miss.
Emma L. Harris, both of that city. The ce-
remony took place on Saturday, the 10Th
ult., at nine o'clock A. Nj. In the same pa
per appears the notice of Mr.. Doggett's death
on the same day of his nuptals, at halt-past
twelve O'Clock y. Nj The. deceased was IN
his twenty-frst year.
A bill is pending in the legislature Of
Maryland to allow dredging for oysters in
deep water in the Chesapeake Bay. The bill IS
accompanied by a memorial, signed by all
the principal packing houses and dealers in
Baltimore, complaining that the supply IS
not equal to the demand, and that there are
abundant oysters in deep water which can
not be taken with tongs as the law prescrIbes
A Penny Shakespeare is among the latest
English literary enterprises-weIl printed CO
pies of the plays being furnished to the pub
lie at this small charge 1t will probably be
very successful; like the two-penny Waverly
Novels, Of which, up to 1858, twelve million
sheets had been sold weighing upward Of
three hundred and thirty-fve tons.
''In the Midst Of Life, We are in Death. !"
This line of the episcopal Burial Service, !"
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have been composed by Notkin, monk Of
| St Gall, in A. u. GIL, while watching some
workmen building bridge at Martinsbruck,
in peril of their lives.
The Pemberton Mills property has been
sold at auction to Mr.. David Neyius for
Sc, 900 The iron and the matters de
tached from the buildings now standing, and
the ruins of the old mills were sold for Sill
900, the purchase being understood T. be
also for Mr.. Nevins.
Silver Lake." pretty little sheet OF
water in the heart Of the town Of Albany
Ga, has commenced to disappear through
one Of those curious subterranean passages
which seem to penetrate the earth IN the
low country, and connect with the streams
leading to the Gull.
The Boston Traveller, republican paper
says:-"The republicans have the worst pos
sible luck in the State money matters, and
the roguery or folly Of the men they select
for Office in many cases, promises badly for
the nation, should they obtain national
triumph"
According to despatch from Washington,
the Committee on Foreign Affairs il the
House will ignore the proposition 70 pur-
chase Cuba, and recommend instead the ne
gotiation Of a liberal commercial treaty with
Spain.
The annual message Of the Governor Of
New York, informs Us that 'whie in twenty
years, from 1881 to 1851, the population Of
the State increased only sixty-one per cent,
pauperism increased seven hundred and six
per cent.
Judge fancy, our readers will he glad y
learn, attended consultation Of the Supreme
Court or Saturday, and is gaining strength
daily. lie expects to resume his seat on the
Bench tomorrow week. after the present
brief recess.
We regret to learn that still greater
change for the worse had taken place in the
health Of Miss Florence Nightingale, than
was even lately announced, when great fears
were entertained She has left Hampstead
for London.
The New Orleans Picayune says: eve
have accounts of terrible outragcs and whole
sale depredations committed in chihuahua
by robber chieiain, who is more formidable
to the peaceful citizens than Cortinas has
been to the inhabitants Of the Rio Grande.
Mr. Colfax reported from the committee
on postofi ces in the lower House Of Congress,
a few days since, bill to authorize pub
fishers to print on their papers the dates when
subscriptions expire"
The American Hotel, located at Harrison
burg, is one Of the best kept houses i the
Valley, and may be ranked among the first
class Country Hotels.
The Alabama House declines to concur in
the Senate resolution, appropriating $50,
900 to- aid Virginia in defraying the expenses
incurred By the john Brown affair.
A respectable farmer named Budd was
shot and killed in Accomac county Va, on
Friday night of last week, BY woman nam
ed Mary Simpson.