Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-07-17
NEWS OF TIE DAY.
$40 s1sosy the very age and body ofthe Tines

Yesterday was another exceedingly warm day
hut rather more endurabe than Wednesday,
there being more air stlrrlng. There were,
however, q large number OF cases OF sunstroke
reported in different cities. Thlrty-two cases
in Baltimore.
Eorney's Press has been sued for libel by
John Z. McDonough,o of Black Crook notorlety
who claims $10,O 900 damages for the publlca-
ton of az article rejecting on his honesty.
The article was copied from Chicago paper
The bill to establish new American line OF
mail and emigrant steamships, of which we
have heretofore spoken, will probably be called
I'D again in the Senate to- day 1t has already
passed the House.
Senator Wilson and other members OF the
Senate Military Committee are opposed to the
bill now before the House Of Representatives
for the reduction of the army, aud consider 1T
altogether impractlcabIc.
Mrs. Victor, sentenced to be hung on the
goth of August, for poisoning her husband,
has been reprieved by the Governor OF Ohio
until the Goth of November, and ordered to be
removed to lunatlc asylum.
Reports from Paraguay, received via lilo
Janeiro, and favorable to Brazil and her allies,
say that the early fall of Humaita is confident,
ly expected, in consequence of the weakness or
of the garrison.
The Maryland wing of the 'Chase party
has returned from New York, and publishes
card expressing disgust with the {" perfdi-
Gus Democracy for declining to nominate the
Chief Justice!
Philadelphia was in partial darkness last
night. Six hundred employees OF the gas
works are on "strike' for higher wages,
which the managers refuse, and no gas has
been manufactured for some days.
Professor Goodwin Smith, late OF Oxford
University, is coming to this country to accept
the Professorship of English and General Con
stitutional History in Cornell IN. " UnlVer-
sity.
Senator Doolittle has made public letter
opposing the third party movement, and
advising conservative Republicans" to sup
port Seymour and Blair.
The strike in the Pennsylvania coal regions
is extending. The strikers have visited sever
al towns in Dauphin county. Gov. Geary has
taken measures to suppress the rioters
A Philadelphia soldier proposes trip on
foot to Galveston, Texas, bearing in his hand
flag inscribed with the names of Grant and
Colfax. Run in the ground
Gen. Schouler, who filled the office OF AdJu-
tant General of Massachusetts,, during the war,
wilrun as an independent candidate Tor Con
gress:in Gen. Buffers district.
1t is believed the Senate Committee of the
Georgia Legislature will report adversely tc
expulsions. It is considered doubtful If any
one will be expelled in either branch
j. N. Camden, Of Parkersburg, was yester-
day nominated for Governor Of West Virginia
by the Democrats. G. H. Pendleton was
among those 10 attendance. p"
The New Yord Board of Health report more
than $50 cases of death in that city from the
effects of heat within three or four days
1t is announced that as soon as Congress ad-
iourns N. O. Cutler will be appointed Commls-
sioner of Internal Revenue.
In the trial of the Columbus, Ca, prisoners
yesterday, the testimony was damaging to the
prosecution.
The International Union of TailorS assemblies
at Washington on the 10th of August.