Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-08-30
NEWS OF THE DAY.
$50 sso,othe very age and bcay Of The times

a very singular suicide occurred 10 Clnc'n-
natl yesterday. A young German, named
Joseph Zumbush, was desperately in love with
pretty young miner. She refused BIS at
tentions, and finally declined to see him. lie
entered the store where she was at work yes
terday, and asked to see her. Being refused,
he produced two daggers, and requested one
should be handed to her, SO that she might die
with him; and before the remaining weapon
could be wrested from him he plunged it into
his heart, and fell to the floor corpse.
Information has been received at the head
quarters of the Freedmen's Bureau that the
late owners Of the property at Point Lookout,
Md, recently purchased through Miss Baker
as site for an asylum for disabled soldiers,
have disturbed the new occupiers of the land,
and threatened to eject them oherefrom. =
Gen. Howard addressed communication to
Gen. Grant yesterday, requesting that corpo-
raj and few men he sent to that point to keep
the peace ard prevent any moestation of the
parties in possession OF the premises.
Our latest advices from Mexico are via
Brownsville, Texas, and Now Orleans. Gen.
Berlozabel has directed the chief OF police at
Matamoras to arrest all Catholic priests who
venture to cross the Rio Grande, and to hold
them subject to his orders. Gen, Reynolds in
command in Texas, has established quarantine
between Brownsville and Corpus Christi.
1t is good thing, says an English paper,
{6ot Ia al, fn no ohl IN
the whole world with quininc, for not only was
the American supply uncertain, it was actually
threatened with extinction, owing to the reck-
less way in which the indians killed the trees
in the process of stripping, planting, OF course,
no new ones.
A letter from Paris states that NJ. Alexander
Dumas is engaged on new novel, the scene OF
which is laid America the time being that of
the civil war. It is understood that many Of
the details and incidents have been furnished
by the eccentric equestrieune, Adah lsaacs
Menken Heenan, or whatever else the lady 8
name may be-
Judge FowIe, of the County Court at Will
hamston. n G. has conceded the right Of ne
groes to sit on juries, on the ground that since
the abolition OF slavery there is no law to pre-
vent them from doing so, and that under the
Civil Rights bill they are fully entitled to act
in the capacity ofjurors.
The venerable Eli Henke, an eminent cler
gyman of the Methodist Protestant Church,
died on Saturday last He was formerly
president of the Maryland Annual Conference
Of that denomination, and was extensively
known and much respected among all dcnomt-
nations.
The laying of the cable to Key West was
about commencing on Tuesday, when two cases
Of yellow fever were discovered on board the
Narva, both OF which proved fatal. Mr..
Webb was considering the expediency OF buoy
ing the cable, and putting to sea till the disease
had abated
A reporter Of the Washington Star has Wis
tied a negro woman in that city, who Is said to
be under an obeah SPELL She barks like i dog,
and complains Of lizard in her stomach, which
crawls up to her breast. The case creates great
excitement: among the negroes of that city.
The body of DR.. Matthew r. Ramsey, Il
we'll known physician, has been found secreted
in q swamp, near Raleigh road six miles from
Memphis, perforated with balls, his head
mashed and his pockets riaed. 1t is supposed
the murder was committed for robbery.
The New York Tribune censures the Chicago
Labor Congress as doing next to nothing, and
condemns as foolish its proposition to scnd a
delegate to Europe, and the organization of a
distinct political party as fraught with the
direst mischief.
Geo. W. Winnemore was executed at Phlla-
delphia yesterday for the murder Of an old lady
named Magilton. Though there was not a
a speech on the scaffold solemnly asserting his
innocence.
There is difficulty existing between the
Pope and the Gear in regard to the restrictions
imposed :,pon Catholics 10 Russia. Both the
Pope and the Car insist on maintaining their
respective prerogatives.
The Washington correspondent of the New
York World states that the Government at
the Mexican authorities lenient treatment Of
Santa Anna.
Itarpears from the North Carolina papers
that the registration thus far In that State
shows that two blacks registered to one white,
and in some districts larger proportion.
A serious riot occurred in Montreal yesterday
on the occasion OF making nominations for Par
lament. The troops were called out, and the
casualties were numerous and severe.
There are four hundred and fifty men in
New York who earn their livelihood by decoy-
ing parties into faro banks and sharing the
plumber with their keepers.
Adyices from Vera Cruz to the 18th instant
state that Lopez was still alive, and MARQUEE