Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-10-11
NEWS or TILE DAY.
"1o sAow tie re,y age and body Of tie times

at this place on the 25th day of October The
Executive Committed have requested Hiram
Lodge No. p, to bury our deceased brother
with Masonic Honors The Lodges in this
State, Maryland, District of Columbia and
elsewhere, are hereby cordially invited to par
tlclpate in the interesting ceremonies Oh that
solemn OCCASION"
The Richmond Wing says:-'During the
last years of the late Confederacy, there were
several thousand bales of cotton sent by those
blockade runners, the City Of Petersburg"
and the 'Old Dominion, y to England on &C.
count Of the State Of Virginia. The ships
were not lost while transporting this freight,
and the cotton must have been sold Can any
one interested in those vessels inform US as 10
what use the money was appropriated? "
At the railroad consolidation meeting held
in Norfolk on Saturday, speeches were made
in favor of the measure by Capt. Irving, Dr.
Robinson, and Gen. Blow. a long address
urging its importance upon the Stockholders
of the Virginia & Tennessee railroad was adopt
| cd, and resolutions were passed, condcmmng
the Richmond people for opposing it, and set
ting forth the propriety CT building up Norfolk
as a great commercial centre. s--
The President having, under the date OF
March IS, 1885, granted Il pardon to Joseph
i. Davis the brother Of Jefferson Davis, Ma
jor General Howard has ordered that possession
of his property be given him at the expiration
Of the present lease thereon, January lst, proX-
imo Such portion of the rents Of the proper
ty as accrue after the date Of the pardon will
be paid to him, amounting to about twenty
thousand dollars.
Some time since $3.50 in coupons Of seven
thirty bonds, due in February last, were pre-
sentcd at the First National Bank in Philadel-
phia, under suspicious circumstances. The
owner has not been discovered The coupons
had been cut from sixteen 81 900 notes, four
teen from $500 notes, and the rest from hun
dreds and fiftias the whole representing about
S26,Sj0.
The loles Of St. Mary's county, Md, have
made extensive preparations 10 hold 4 Memo
rial Fair to provide means to properly enclose
the grounds wherein rest the Confederate
dead at Point Lookout: 1t is to be held at
Leonard Town on Tuesday the 10th inst, and
continue until Friday, On which last named Gay
a grand Tournament will be held to aid the
Fair, to be followed BY Ball.
On Monday night, says the Boston CONNER
cial Maria Cavanaugh and Hannah McIaugh-
Ian, each about twenty years Of age, attempted
suicide by jumping into nc water from! Cra3lc S
Bridge Two sealncn, who were in Il schoon,
or lying near the pier hearing them cry out
Immediately jumped into a boat, and, proceed
ing to the spot. picked them up.
\ tornado passed over Franklin, Indiana,
on Tuesday, prostrating the north wall Of the
railroad depot, and causing considerable dam
age in tie town Several lives are reported
lost Another despatch from Indianapolis
says that AT Franklin sixteen houses and the
railroad depot we're blown down, and one
person killed.
At St. Louis on the 9th instant, four meet
ings were held in different parts Of the city,
at which members Of the ''Southern loyalist
delegation spoke to large and enthusiastic
audiences. The delegation leaves for Spring
field, H., where demonstration is to he made
at the tomb Of Lincoln.
Rio GraNde dates 70 the 4th lust have been
received Cortinas has proclaimed 10 favor Of
Juarez and espoused the case Of Totia, whom
Juarez has appointed Governor OF Talaaulipas
,Juarez pronounces Canaby usurper and rebel to
the constitutional Government Of Mexico.
Capt. Alonzo Grcenlaw, Of Memphis, who
recently killed young man named Taylor IN
duel, attempted to commit suicide ca Saturday
morning by shooting himself in the breast, in
ficting a severe though not q fatal wound. :
Remorse, he says, is the cause.
John g. Mcem, one Of the Directors i'll the
Orange & Alexandria Railroad. acting under
the suthcrity Ct the Board, will SCI! on Thurs
day the 18th inst, in Lynchbrug that valuable
property just above the city, known as Daniels
Island.
The statement is false throughout, in charg
ing that the New Orleans Picayune has changed
editors, and is giving support to the Constitu-
tonal Amendment. 1t cordially supports the
Presidential policy for the restoration Of the
Union.
The great rise in railroad stocks at the North
is one Of the consequences Of tue present and
prospective g!ut Of paper money in the conf
mercial centres The banks contribute largely
to the stock irritation by lending money to
SPECTATORS.
AT a special meeting Of the Atlantic Tcle
graph Company tie chairman said he antici
pated, at very early moment, great reduction
in the cable tariff, probably one-ha'f In fifty
five days the cable earned fortysix thousand
pounds.
On Friday oight last the Jail at Prince