Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-09-26
NEWS OF TIE DAY
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To shoao the gerry age and body ofthe T,ar>
Aboat four O'Clock yesterday afternoon, a
tremendous hail storm visited Philadelphia,
causing much damage The hailstones were
as large as marbles, and an hour after the storm
could have been gathered in great quantities.
Many dwellings We're flooded, and here Is
serious destruction Of window glass. A Read,
ing, Pa, The hailstones were as large as hens
eggs The destruction Of window glass was
very great.
A newspaper controversy 10 Nashville, Tenn,
between Major James D. Walker and Col. S.
Albert Smith, ex-Federal officers from Indiana,
eliminated yesterday in pistol fight in bil
lard room Walker was the attacking party,
and received three wounds one through the
left lung, one in the shoulder, and another in
the thigh 1t is thought he cannot survive.
Smith is unhurt He was arrested and bailed
in S., 900.
A few months ago Mr.. L. H. Morgan, OF
Rochester, wrote to the Secretary Of War re-
commencing the appointment as an officer Of
the regular army of Mr. Isaac Newton Parker,
Seneca Indian, and brother Of Colonel Ely
S. Parker, Of Gen. Grants staff. The appli-
cation has resulted in the appointment of Mr..
Parker as Second Lieutenant in the Seth In
fantry.
A successor to Mr. Colby, late register of the
treasury, will not probably be appointed for a
week or so. The President yesterday appointed
James A. Graham, esq.,, acting register, until
regular appointment shall be made. Mr..
Graham has been for some time assistant reg
lister, and is familiar with the duties of the
Office.
The cholera in Southern Italy is said to be
on the increase At Naples there was no
diminution at the last advices, in the number
of deaths. At Messina, in Sicily, there was
also no change. but the public health had i'm
proved at Palermo At Leghorn there were
from fifty to fifty five cases day, most of which
were fatal.
The business in dry goods in New Y ork dur
ing the past week has been only fairly active
Jobbers are we'll supplied with foreign goods
and purchases of domestcs are only made from
hand to mouth under very prevalent impress
sion that there must be decline in the price
of cotton as the new crop comes to market.
Mr. Greeley calls Germans the 'rum-ovng
and school-hating Dutch. - The acting Vice
President of the U. S., the Radical Ben Wade,
is peramhulating the State of Ohio delivering
speeches, in which he asserts the superiority
of the colored man over the foreign-born
American citizen
James Miller, colorcd, shot his wife in Phil
adelphia, yesterday. He had been separated
from her, and on her refusal to live with him
again, he shot her by FIVE discharges from
revolver. The murderer has not yet been
arrested.
Gen. Hancock leaves Washington this even
ing on his way to St. Louis He will not enter
upon his duties at New Orleans until the yell
low fever subsidies. Meantime Gen. Mower
will be- responsible for the command.
it is estimated that one tenth of the entire
number of prisoners and soldiers at the Dry
Tortugas have died of the yellow fever, and
the plague has now assumed more malignant
form.
Gen. Sheridan's reception in Philadelphia
last night, appears to have been "a grand al
fair. :" The military, the fremen, Radical
associations and citizens, joined in the ovation.
The Coroner's jury 10 Baltimore assembled
to investigate the killing of the colored woman
Taylor, by Policeman Frey: on Friday night:
returned verdict of accidental shooting
A man named Berkey in Chicago, was late
ly 7ictimized out Of $4,000, by two sharpers
who pretended to sell him their interest in "a
valuable lead mine. -
The Captain General Of Cuba died at H a.
vsna on Monday Little ''Al Right" has ar
rived in Paris.
At present colored men are excluded from
voting in Michigan, while Indians are not.
FOREIGN NEWs.-By the Atlantic cable We
have additional particulars of the arrest of
Garbadi, mentioned in yesterdays Gazette
A Florence dispatch says that he was at SIM
gaglia, seaport of central Italy, and was sum-
mOned by the Italian authorities to retrace his
steps, Garibadi refused, and upon his refusal
he was Immediately arrested and conveyed to
the fortress of Alesandria. Arms and war
munitions, intended for the Garibaldan troops,
were seized on the frontier The Italian vol
unteers who formed the Garibaldian ranks were
also made prisoners. Intense excitement pre-
walls in that city. Yesterday riot was occa-
stoned in Florence by the news of Garibaldi' s |
arrest The Italian Government has offered to |
release him if he will give parole. The Pan
Anglican Synod convened it's sessions in Lon |
don yesterday Dover Castle. England, was |
expected to be attacked yesterday by the Fe-
mans, and preparations made therefor.
BASS IN THE PoToMAC "A company of four
If our citizens visited Harper's Ferry one day