Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-03-10
NEWS OF THE DAY.
so shoo the very age and body of the Times. +"

NEW OF THE UAI.
80 shose the very age and body Of the Times"
The President received yesterday from Au.
gusta, Maine, the following kilograms: I'm
peachers rebuked- Augusta gives sixty lone
dernocr stic majority. 1t is the largest vote
ever thrown. The democratic gain is 500 on
the vote OF 1885," Also-'The home OF Nor
I'll and B aine responds to impeachment by a
democratic victory, the first In twelve years
Mayor and Aldermen elected on the largest
vote ever cast. Have confidence in the people"
An express train on the Missouri and Pacific
railroad, when four miles west of Jefferson City
on Sunday night, ran into large boulder
which hid been washed from the bluff, and the
locomotive was thrown from the track and
rolled into the Missouri river, bottom up. car
rying with il the engineer, who was drowned,
he died next morning
The closing speech in the McArdle test case
was delivered By David Dudley Fed in the
hearing of crowd of DISTINGUISHED personaages,
including the leading members OF the legal
profession from all parts of the country, ana 1t
is pronounced By competent judges one OF the
abest and most conclusive arguments ever de-
liyered at the bar Of the Supreme Court.
The South Carolina Convention has passed
the article on education. 1t opens the doors
OF all the universities and public schools of the
linction, and makes education compulsory
throughout the State by compelling all chill
dren t. 60 10 school for period of sixteen
months. =,
The joint committee of the Old and New
School Presbyteriaps, appointed by the General
Assemblies of 1866, and continued by the As
semblies of 1867, are to meet in Philade phla
on Wednesday OF this week March ll), Tor
the purpose of making final report.
The Senate has not taken any action upon
the nomi alton of Thomas Ewing as Secretary
of War, nor upon the brevet nominations of
Gems Sherman and Thomas. Of course the
wishes of Sherman and Thomas will be com
piled with.
The official returns of the late election in
Alabama have been made up. Of III, 900
registered voters, little over 10, 900 were cast
and not all of them for the con -titutlon. The
white vote is insignificant, not over one in
twenty.
Returns of towns and city elections from
thirty counties, or hat of the State Of New
Yo'k, show Democratic gain of seventy
three supervisors over last Spring. The gains
are almost entirely in the rural districts.
A snow slide of FIVE or six miles in length,
near isco, on the Central Pacific railroad,
killed Fix Cinnamon and buried seven Ioc"mo-
tives, and des royrd considerable other property
The British ship Scotia, from San Francisco
or Liverpool, with rgo Of wheat went
as ore outs,d OF the Gold Gaze on Sunday
ni.ht. Her cargo was valued at $50 600.
A fire yesterday morning destroyed the Ro-
man Catholic Church, corner of Sidney Place
and Llvinsron street. Brooklyn. Loss $50, 900.
The Chicago Tribune says, in effect, that
convic.i,u under the But er count Of impeach-
men cam take place short OF 1870
The munich pal election in Lexington, KY,
resulted in tbs success Of The whole Democratic
ticket.
Sergeant Bates, with the American fig, left
Macon, Ca, on Wednesday, en- route for Wash
in. ton. ..La..,
Th.ddeus Stevens has been too i'll, for the
past few days, to attend the sessions of the
House.