Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-05-01
NEWS OF THE DAY.
1. 70 shoe thepery age and body Of The Times. =

& The Ritualistie controversy Ia the Episcopal
Church at the North does not lag, and prom:
ises shortly to break out again with increased
violence. The Tyngs, Rev. John Cotton
Smith. and other eminent clergymen OF that
school, are preparing to "fraternize with the
sects'' during Anniversary week, to an extent,
it is said never before witnessed.
Tomato plants may now be transplanted from
the hotbed at any time. They should be set
firmly in the soil, which should be well ma
nured and for the first week or two, should
the weather be warm, be protected against the
sun during four hours Of the day. If the
nights be cool or frost threatened, they should
be covered.
The Fifteenth General Conference Of the M.
E. Church will be called to order at Chicago
to-day, and will sit four weeks. Nine bishops
and 235 delegates comprise the Conference, put
visiting delegates are expected from an parIs
of the country, and from Canada, England,
Ireland and France. -
The church choirs in Rochester are in trou-
bic. The Union of that city says Just now
there is a eommetion among the choirs of some
of the city churches, which extends to the con
eregations, growing out Of high bidding for
leading siDgers-one church bidding over an
other" 6Tyg
Aaron Bradley, of Boston, is one of the
blacks elected to the State Senate from Sa7an-
nah. AS he was expelled from the convention
for being an unexp ired convict of Sing Sing, he
will not be allowed take his seat in the Legisla-
ture Of Georgia.
The editor OF the Savannah Daily Advertiser
publishes valedictory, relinquishing his edito-
rial position, upon the ground that the per
soDal animosity of Gen. Meade will suppress
the paper unless he withdraws. = -
The telegraph brings us an account of the
murder Of four railroad employees by the In
dams near Plum Greek Station, and two near
Sidney Station, besides other outrages com
mitted by them. "eg-.a 80. ~.
A returned Fenian convict delivered a lecture
at Cooper's Institute, New York. last night to
a crowded house. Mayor Hoffman presided
and delivered speech upon the rights OF
adopted citizens. -s.~.------. s...
0At sale of valuable library in New York,
on Tuesday evening, single volume-a copy
of Eliots Indian Blble-s0d Tor 81, $50, the
largest price ever paid for any single volume in
this country.
John Bright announces that he has retired
from the stump, and will .no longer be an out
door political orator. He intends in future to
confne his efforts to the House of Commons
Geo. r. Carpenter, express agent of the
Merchants Union Express Company at Dav-
EXPORT Iowa, was robbed and murdered in
Chicago last night by an unknown assassin.
The Boston Traveller says that the state
ment that the managers of the Erie Railroad
Company are quartered in that city is wholly
without foundation.
By the Cuba cable advices are received of
the burning Of Jazeton: Mexico, by which two
hundred families are deprived of homes, and
seven lives lost. ~
Several Americans at Nassau, n. P, have
been threatened with prosecution for express
ing themselves antagonistic to British policy.
Since the purchase of Alaska the Russian
American Company stock has advanced from
below par to $3.50 per share. 91.SI =.
Edwin Kelley, the minstrel, on trial in New
York for the murder of Thomas Sharpley, was
acquitted yesterday. ~