Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-08-16
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GENERAL NEWS.

=; Jca&da Government, with the concurrence
O: ,re House, for the purchase and mainten
c,ss :: gunboats on the lakes and the st.
svrapce. 4 bill hes neen passed in the low
- 1c:se OF the Canadian Parliament prevent
:lo PERSONS suspected of disloyalty from drill
j? or possessing arms. England is to be asked
C hei3 70 defray the expenses OF the Canadian
,sn9@ign against the Feuians.
/. New York correspondent writes: Grace
nvrco is closed for the season, and so are halt
GoGea G. more Of the fashionable places of
public worship up town. With such i prac
ICE i 7ogue, one would think the churches
aere built only for the accommodation Of the
:ealthy, and that when the wealthy run off to
ne f'atering places, there was no further oc-
cc2:op Tor preaching the Gospel.
The Newbern North Carolina) Times says
>aG1 Colonel Moore, in charge Of the Freed
>2en'a Bureau at that place, accidentally fell
%".o:G his bridge over Trent river, breaking two
q ms ribs, and otherwise injuring himself Sc
,icus!y. lie was found lying under the bridge
il az ':insensible condition. It is not stated
.aq> ao vas drunk, but that's the only infer
22ca.
he annual Baptist Association at North
.o.!!-, in lloudoun county, last week, was large
= tie2Ged and the exercises highly interest
rc. A.nnmber Of distinguished clergymen Of
ne Baptist Church were present, among them
zevs. Dr. Burrows, Poindexter, Fisher, Grims
:, srd John I. Broadus The centennial
:ernoG 0as preached on Thursday by DR.,
;yoaGns.
',1'ho President in his trip to Chicago to assist
u nc laying Of the corner stone of the Doug
ies monument, will leave Washington or Tues
Gcy, the 28th instant, and arrive at Chicago on
..eGnesday, the 5th of September He will be
il New Xor!, late at night on Thursday, Au-
SasG 80, enc leave by the Albany boat next
i2o=lins.
IT tae funeral Of q young man named Hat
:o3, il 2ockawalking, Somerset, county, Md,
9: tae 18th Instant one Isaac James Cooper
Murdered Fir. Purnell johnson and Mr.. Josiah
llliagswc2th, by shooting them to death.-
Cooper y7as subsequently, arrested The diff
,aitg crew cut Of family troubles.
i;;r3 Glauretta j. De Caulp, who during the
:,ag yas known as Lieutenant Buford, Of the
g. = army, is now in Washington seeking
I'll I2t2rTieg with the President in relation to
he building Of an asylum for the disabled and
destitute OF the South. She is stopping at the
'iTi:aood House.
,;1s negroes Of San Francisco have been
'25ti1g their right to sit among white folks at
ne theatre. = Judge holds that q proprietor
nra right 10 enforce such regulations as will
&c most conducive to the prosperity Of his
0r2ileso
-oan Driiton, The United States Consul at
joEihsmpton, writes to the Secretary of State
.h:t there is 10 Asiatic cholera in that port,
&c 40 Danger of its transportation to New York
j. 2saig:ant vessels need be apprehended.
Gogarnor lIorehead, of North Carolina, who
"ent 10 she 3ockbridge Alum about two weeks
go, in quest OF relief from an attack Of jaun
fic2, mas declined in condition, and is in very
Critics! and unpromising circumstances.
ne population of Wheeling West Virginia,
10. including Ritchetown by a census just
'::eH, IS found to te nearly seventeen thou
i@nG. In the past five years 1t has Increased
23c4t iour thousand five hundred.
"-4u!6eTry Green" near Brandy Station,
'nt sale oi' which was advertised by Messrs
>GToor1 {; Green, Commissioners, took place,
o. the premises, and sold for 500 roper acre.
=. :. Nelson, purchaser
gay young man in Michigan, the son Of
.lmst-r, recently married two young girls with
n 81: weeks, thereby committing bigamy. He
'a5 arrested and put in jail, but escaped and is
no. ct large.
ne Collector of Customs at Charleston seiz-
&c 'he British ship J. B. Shaw, recently, for
smuggling. She had arrived from Havana
ne captain refused to give bonds and was inl
9.i2or2d.
ne rostoiice at Hamilton in Loudoun
COUNTY, which vas discontinued some ten days
T3O' mas been re-opened, with James NJ. Hoge,
AOs'naser, vice Hiram Tavenner, removed.
'~' The hockbridge Alum Springs the num-
vi o. "lsltors is about four hundred At the
'nIte Sulphur and at the Warm Springs there
''t about one hundred and fifty each.
l" Athens, Greece, malsdy hitherto uu~
,,o;'h mas broken out among the beasts of
,'Eea The animals, seized with sudden
:" y, Esge, tear their own flesh
An7 Il new departments of Major General Alfred
., '-e'g, lately commanding in Virginia, will
I,''ce III oslt Lake City, where General Terry
u S0ish his headquarters.
=, ''e'a! b. L. Colston, has been elected
,,!'I yj:'4teadent of the "Hilsborough North
H..0ll.l Iilitarr Insi;4,4,,