Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-04-08
VIEWS or THE DA ?.
80 saoy the ve,y age and bodyof the times.

/ treasury agents, is that of collector of inter
nal revenue who has been detected in efforts to
secrete the government funds and deposit them
to his own personal account 10 various banks OF
various cities The amount recovered already
is over 100000, which was found deposited
in hanks in New Orleans, Memphis, etc he
cleared out from his district, and endeaVoreo
to Withdraw the funds, but the treasury agents
were ahead of him with dispatches, and, with
the aid of the military, he was arrested III 1exas
q few days ago.
| Tho commissioner of internal revenue mas
dec;aad that banks are not to deduct from their
profits the amount Of the tax paid the otate
and municipal authorities on the shares OF the
stockholders, but are required to include that
amount in estimating the tax on their diVl'
dends and added surplus. Ii is proper that
| stockholders should be apprized OF this de-
cision that they may include their proportion
| of the amount thus paid by the banks Tor them
in sheir estimate of the deduction TO which
thew are entitled in making their statement or
taxable income
Some weeks since an account OF the blowing
ND of Table Rock by the Canadian authorities,
was published, the object being to prevent any
accidents from future falls of rock A hole
was drilled and charge of powder placed In
it, but it seems the usual packing was omitted
or badly arranged. The natural consequence
is that though the powder burned very pref
tily, Table Rock still stands unframed. A lew
pieces only were detached and fell.
A short time since Postmaster Gilmore
mentioned to member of the Young Men 8
Christian Association ct Chicago, that great
number of letters were sent to the Dead Letter
Office every month because the writer's forgot
to stamp them An idea was suggested and
now ''the Association afhXe3 the stamps to
| these otherwise dead letters, and sends them
on their way to rejoice the hearts of the writer's
| and receivers" %
Kendall and Rainforth the two lite insu-
rance swindlers, we're tried at Chicago on
Tuesday, for contempt of Court, they having
refused to give evidence. Kendall was SEN
fenced to four months Imprisonment, and Rain
forth until the 22d Of next February, that be.
ing the anniversary of the day on which be was
supposed to have died. Kendall, while before
the Court made il full confession Of the at
tempt to swindle.
1t is announced that a manufacturer at Ball
ston Spa New York, has invented an arrange
ment for lighting his factory with kerosene oil,
conveyed from a reservoir ia the upper story
by means OF gas pipes to all portions of biz
mill He does away with cumbrous lamps,
easily broken and liable to explosion. 1t is
claimed that the burners are always ready like
gas, and do not leak.
1t has already been announced that Mrs.
Frances Lord Bond has been appointed by the
i. S. Government consul at British seaport.
The Pail Mall Gazette remarks upon the ap-
pointmcnt that "a lady in an eminently inter
esting condition or a nursing mother, required
to deal vigorously with mutinous crew would
be scarcely the right woman in the right
place."
A serious riot is reported in Hazelton and
Foster townships, of Luzerne county, Pennsyl-
vania The Sheriff of the county telegraphed
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military aid for its suppression. The Govern
| or ordered military company to be held in
| readiness, but to make no movement without
| further orders.
The New York Evening Express states that
the international Ocean Telegraph Company
| has sent to Florida the last instalnAent of ma
! terial for the construction Of the land lines
through that State 1t is confidently expected
that the lne will be built lad the cable to ca
ba laid and in operation by the first Of June.
In Boston, New York and Philadelphia thir-
| ty-three ladies have received III edical degrees
within few weeks past; and 81 Gee this edu-
cational movement began (in Bo ston) over two
hundred women have graduated ia these three
citles-the number the present season being
| larger than in any past year.
A gentleman Just returned from Caswell
county, N. g., says that the farmers of that
vicinity are losing largely Of their hogs and
fowls from disease supposed to be cholera.
The hogs were first attacked aud died ia large
| numbers, and then the fowls, among which it
| is very fatal.
General Scott Commissioner Of the Freed
| mems Bureau n the State of South Carolina,
has issued circular letter to the freedmen,
deprecatipg the violent assertion Of their sup
posed rights and urging them to have recourse
to the courts for the redress Of wrongs.
At meeting Of the Conservative Union
County Convention, held in Chattanooga, Ten
nessee, on Saturday night last, delegates we're
elected to seals without distinction Of race or
color There were some 500 colored men
and 300 whites present at the meeting.
General Sickles has prohibited the branding
of certain Nicholas Carr convicted of man.
slaughter at Wilmington, North Carolina, on
the ground that the case comes within the pro