Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-01-22
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Within the past eighteen months Jour mi y
adelphians have invested Overcome hundred
and thirty thousand dollars in the purchase
and improvement of land in Somerset county,
Md, near Westover Station, on the Eastern
Shore Railroad combinations of and general
" called tie Delaware Railroad The land is
to be used for the cultivation Of apples, peaches
and other fruits Rdsberfies.A 4 p
The Fredericksburg Herald says: cCraek
en- & Bro. have sold. 10 Mr. Joseph LIGHTER
stein Of New York, trastl Of land belonging to
Mr.. L. w. Dobyns, IA miles from Fredericks-
burg, containing one thousand acres, for III,
500 cash. There is. q good three story brick
building, containing Is rooms. on the farm. as
also tobacco barns, stabessand out houses. " II
There is at present q vacancy in the corps of
clerks of the u. 8. Senate According, to the
rule that has largely Obtained in late years,
the Senators, in turn, insist upon making ap-
tpointnents. It now being Mr. Sumner 2 OPP
portuDity, tho report that a scolored man IS TO
be selected to sit at the Secretary desk IN
the Senate is not much discredited. se5S
The report recently published to the effect
that muchdestitution and disease prevail among
the troops at Alaski; is false in every particu-
lar. There are only three companies OF troops
at Alaska, and no deaths or sickness have
occurred The soldiers are comfortably housed
and have plenty of provisions. The weather
was quite moderate. Ss1ttt.
In suit against John Leighton, instituted
by the Franklin Mining Company 10 Boston,
for the misrepresentation of funds n:certain
transactions In which the company was inter
ested, the Jury have found verdict Tor the
company, assessing the damages at ten fsthous-
and dollars stsh @I4aa&
The Frontier Index says, advices from Fort
Phil Kearney are to the effect that the Chey-
ennes and Sioux Indians are becoming very
troublesome. The cavalry scouts at that post
have recently had two fights with them, k filing
several, and reca pturing fifty stolen Govern !:
ment horses and mules. Il. tG yz.essg vsGr sgE
The Lynchburg Republican gives the follow
ing dispatch from Washington, received by
"Grapevine '-"Washington January Is. Mr..
johnson is sewed up; Butler is bottled up !;
Grant is politically used up; Stanton IS stuffed
up; and the country, constltntlcnally speaking,
is gone up. III s.n.r SO
Joseph Beher, whilst serving on a jury at
Memphis, Tenn ,ssee, yesterday, was.arrested
on requisition from the Governor OF Mis-
souri, charging him with obtaining goods to
the value OF twenty thousand dollars from H.
/. Lacroix, fist. Louis, on false pretencss.
Three dwarfs, Jean Petit, Jean Picolo and
kis Josef, were initiated Thursday evening
last in the German Pilgrim Lodge of E. and
A. Masons in New York city. The Sun says
no similar scene has been witnessed in the
annals of the craft %
Rumors of Fenian invasion CT uprising are
causing intense excitement in Toronto again.
The sentries have been doubled and the volun-
teers called out. An attempt was made yes
terday to blow up the magazine in the garrison
in Toronto. "a b.os 81 Inv =
An especial feature in the machinery de-
partment of the Glate French Exposition was
the variety of instruments for the economical
cutting of coal, 50 as to save the enormous
waste OF the pick and other hand tools.
Rev. Amos Smith, Of the Baltimore NJ 3.
Conference, died on Monday, at McConnelis-
burg, Pa, 10 the 73d year Of his age, The,
deceased was q native Of Frederick county,
Virginia. .....r, h