Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-08-17
NEW.S OF TEE DAY.
"To sAoag TIE very age and body oftRe Times"

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Postoffice Department, during the past week,
recovered about s36. $50 in seven-thlrty notes.
which, were stolen in November last, while en-
route from the Aquidneek National Bank OF
Newport, R. T.. to the Treasury Department.
who was CLERK in the New York postoffice.-
The robber entrusted the notes to brother
in New York for safe keeping, informing him
that he found them, and when the brother
returned the package, apparently intact, 1t was
found about half Of the notes had been abstract
ed This led to trouble between the brothers
about the money and its recovery by the above
named officers.
The PEOPLES Bank, in Baltimore, was rob,
bed last evening by parties who first entered an
adjoining warehouse, and then obtained access
to the bank by breaking the wall. They dug
their way into the vault and blew open an
interior safe containing money and securities
the whole contents Of which they carried on.
The safe contained some six thousand dollars,
belonging to the bank, and government bonds
and other securities belonging to other parties,
and placed on deposit for safe keeping. Inc
amount of loss to these parties IS not yet
known. II IL
An Australian joint stock company has made
arrangements with the King Of the telec Is
lands, involving the settlement OF the claims
of the =. S. Government. and the proba-
HE establishment of British protectorate
over the Feiec group. The terms Of the char
ter occasioned considerable excitement among
the white settlers The British consul entered
a protest. -.
The New York Post says that the brlcklay'.
crs' strike, which has continued eight weeks, IS
apparently as far from settlement as ever
The bosses have SO arranged their business that
they alIege they can get along. with the ten.
hour men now offering, and it is apparent that
they are not disposed to conccde as much as
they were carly in the strike.
Measures arc still being taken by the author
tics in all directions to prevent the spread OF
the cattle disease. Inspections are ordered on
the trains in New Jersey. Professor Gamgee,
of Chicago, and committee, have reported
that the disease is brought direct from Texas.
One of the principal parties Of the Chinese
Embassy fell into the water at Buffalo on Sat
urday, and narrowly escaped drowning. AS he
had undergone four or five courses OF ''sumptu-
Gus hospitality" previously, perhaps the accl-
dent was unavoidable =A
The conservation of the new Catholic Bishop
of Wilmington, Delaware, and Of the Apostol.
ic Vicar of North Carolina, took place in the
Cathedral in Baltimore yesterday. An I'M
mensc congregation OF people witnessed the
procession and ceremonies. .G
Advices from Australia to Jaly I'd, and New
2 aland to July 7th, have reached Panama
Fur shocks of earthquake were experienced
during the night of June 2Sth, on the eastern
coast of Australia 1t was anticipated that
the harvest would be abundant
Mr.. P. T. Barnum ran foot race on Fri
day at the Profile House. N. Fl. He bad seve-
raj competitors, but distancsd them all: after
which be was borne from tho field on the shout
ders of the crowd Several thousand spectators
witnessed the race. .s- -... go ...... ...... .-
Minister Rosecrans will not sail for MEXICO
before October, as he does not wish to lano at
Vera Cruz during the yellow fever season. 1t
is said that his instructions contemplate
more active and vigorous policy 10 connection
with Mexican affairs @.-
The American banking house of Norton &
Co., have been authorized>by the Secretary OF
the Treasury to attend to all business connected
with the distribution of official American lntor-
nation among the bankers and brokers OF Eu-
rope. - s .-.'..f ~ }. rs .--1
Conversion Of the Seven. thirty bonds has
been stopped. All persons holding such bonds
can now have them redeemed, but Secretary
McCulloch has determined not to convert any
more of them into Five, twenties.
Senator Abbott, Of North Carolina, has col
lected the facts with regard to Northern capital
in that State. He finds that over ten million
dollars of Northern money has been invested
there since the war. -
A report comes from Nagasaki that one hun
dred and fifty-seven native Japan Christians
had been taken from Nagasaki, in steamer,
and drowned. The Consuls demonstrated inc
fectually. -..
Queen Fatouma, from Mobely, in Madagascar,
is now in Paris, trying to get Napoleon's help
to find her lost husband and restore him to the
throne
Geo. H. Pendletou, and Gen. Thos. Ewing,
IT,, are to speak in Bangor, Maine, on the 10th
inst, in Augusta on the 2lst, and IN Portland
on odd
4 railroad collision occurred on Saturday on
the Oil Greek Railroad, Pennsylvania, by which
five persons were killed and fifteen others scrl-
ously injured. ..'a
Dr. Rice, Paymaster's Clerk Hendce, and
four sailors, died recently on the United States
steamer Ossipce, on the coast OF Central
America , -
Mr.. Revcrdy Johnson U. S. Minister to
Great Britain, arrived at Southampton, Eng
land, on Saturday +.
A new planet has been discovered by Profess
sor Watson at the Detroit Observatory. 1t
shines like star of the tenth magnitude. pr.
Further outrages on the part of the Indians
in Kansas are reported.
Another case Of drowning occurred at At
lantic City on Saturday. s.,.--"-.-....
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