Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-08-04
NEWS OF THE DAY.

"Io Sho0 the ve1y age and body Of the Times
It is understood that nearly all of the twenty
five supervisors to be appointed under the ne"
tax bill have been agreed upon by the Secre-
tary and Commissioner, and that several OF
the detectives provided for have been appoint
ed. 1t is said that most of these appointments
have been selected from present officers OF the
Internal Revenue. .....
Last Friday there was an atfray between
whites and backs~@at Cooley School house,
Gwinnet county, Georgia, caused by the blacks
selling whiskey at school exhibition. The
students were indignant at the sale, aud gen.
eral melee ensued, in which tour negroes were
seriously and one mortally wounded.
The Atlantic telegraphic cable which was
laid in 1866 ceased to work yesterday afternoon.
| The tests used show that the fault is at the
Newfoundland side, and is supposed to have
been caused by an iceberg. The other cable
continues in working order, and communica-
ton is uninterrupted.
Mr.. Taliaferro, postmaster at New Orleans,
has been suspended upon charges preferred
against him by special agents of the Postoficc
Department, and Colonel VIM. Smalwood
has been appointed special agent to take
charge of the Office 10 the place Of Tallaferro.
A movement is on foot for the consolidation
of the Freedmens Monument Association, at
St. Louis, with the National Lincoln Monu-
ment Association, at Springfield, Illinois.
The fund of the Freedmcn's Association
amounts to about $4,000.
The long pending controversy between the
Board Of Health and the butchers in New
York, has finally resulted in compromisc-the
Board OF Health giving the butchers until tie
first of January next to remove their slaughter
houses from the city.
In Michigan, recently, thirty-fve men went
into Earvset field to cut grain. About 10
a. IN. not less than sixteen of them had been
sunstricken, the majority of whom died under
the exposure.
Extensive arrangements are making Tor a
grand encampment of the knights Templar in
ST. Louis next month. Communicates from
all parts of the country will be present.
Norwegian emigrants, to the number Of
four thousand, are about to settle in Wiscon-
sin. The lands, in different sections of the
State have been selected for them.
During the month Of July tho sum of S2l3,
9lS was coined at the mint 10 Philadelphia,
Including IS, 594 in gold, $50 ,S4Sin silver, and
Sl4S, Ats in nickel ard bronze
State elections will be held in Tennessee on
August Is; in Vermont on September l; in
California on September s; 10 Maine on Sep
TENDER a.
TIE Michigan Southern and Northern Indi-
| ana Railroad has increased it's capital stock
$4,000, 900 making it So 100000.
The wife of Senator Trumbull has been very
i'll for several days in Washington, with scarce
ly any hope of her recovery.
The latest accounts from England state that
the excessive heat prevailing there was largely
increasing the bills of mortality.
The European journals report that the health
of the unfortunate Empress of Mexico is in no
way improved.
AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE.-The African
slave trade still exhibits signs Of vitality.
Eighteen slave vessels were captured by the
British squadron on the east coast OF Africa
durnp 1897 ....-,