Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-01-06

i destroyed by fire last evening. The loss Is SAID
to be very heavy.
The man who shot Judge Busted in; Ala
4 bama, was the III. S. District Attorney, -
Southern Radical. .
The merchants and other business men OF
Cambridge, Nd, have held meeting and re-
solved to discontinue the long credit system.
In Philadelphia, Friday, VIM. Meeser ofthe
i Sunday Mercury was sent to prison for a month,
and fined $500 for libelling the District Attor-
|sney. ra aas I
More than ESQ families in Trenton, N. j.,
are supported by charity, now that the facto-
ries have stopped, and it is almost as bad 10
other manufacl turing places. 800
! Il Land is selling in some counties in North
Carolina at runious prices. One tract wassold
on Friday for $l67, for which 5000 was offered
before the war fine farm was sold on sat
urday for $3.50, which was worth 1000
The Metropolitan Hotel, in. Cincinnati was
damaged by fire yesterday to the extent OF
$4,000. Two men, Marshall and Willard, OF
Paris, Kentucky, were badly injured by jump
ing from the windows e @a
The Japanese Government has appointed
Chas. Walcott consul for Japan at San Francis
CO. 1t is the first appointment OF the kind
ever made by Japan, and is said to confer ex-
tensive powers
The Selma (Ala Times states that it is In.
formed on good authority that large landhold-
ers in Greene county, Texas, are offering to
give the use of their plantations for next year
to any one that will agree to pay the taxes on
them.
Mr.. Abbott Lawrence, of Boston, recently
stated to gentleman in Washington, that
manufacturing company, in which they were
both interested, was losing 81 900 per day
| Other corporations are losing IN the same
ratio! an 81
u. S. steamer Arostook returned to Hong
Kong November II, with the body of Lieu
tenant Commander Mackenzie, who was killed
at Formosa during the attack upon the natives
by the Hartford. The body will be sent home
to his friends
A passenger train was fired into by negroes
on Saturday night last between Branchville
and Columbia, South Carolina. No one was
hurt, but to allay public apprehension in future
Gen. Candy is called on by the press to pro-
hibit the carrying of deadly weapons by both
whites and blacks.
The stern-whee steamer Harry Dean, bound
from Marietta to Cincinnati, exploded her boil
er on Saturday morning, two miles below Gallo
polls, caught fire, and burned to the water S
edge. The cargo was total loss Five per-
sons are thought to have been killed, and
several seriously injured.
| The Georgia Conservatives are holding meet
ings throughout the State preparatory to the
approaching e ection on the State Constitution.
Resolutions were passed at Augusta, Georgia,
on Saturday lat, thanking President johnson
for the removal of Gen. Pope, and expressing
confidence in the impartiality OF Gen. Meade.
The will of the late Robert S. Alexander, Of
Kentucky, has been published. There are
stamps to the amount of FIVE hundred and six
ty-thlee drlIars attached to If. WoJdburn
contains about thirty five hundred acres Of the
best land, and, with its stock, &c., was estina-
ted, by its late proprietor, to be worth 81, 00CS
600.
The Nashville Tenn Union states that on
Sunday Of last week, they had twenty inches
fall Of snow there The Union adds: "Never
within the history of our city or State has there
been such snow storm as the one With has
just visited us. The snow commenced falling
on Sunday night. at II O'Clock, and continued
to fall all night and ali day on Monday.
The ''Black Crook" was played at Niblo's
Garden, New York, for the last time on Satur.
day night, where it has had possession of the
stage tor the past fourteen months 1t has
been performed Ats times, and the total re-
celrts at the trea urer's Office amount to $780,
900, Of which some SIS, 1000 has been paid to
the Government
The December immigration to New York
reached 10, 279-419 of whom were from Ant.
werp, 1854 from Bremen 557 from Glasgow,
500 from Havre, 2l2l from Hamburg and
1861 from Liverpool Of these l,O4S went to
Illinois, 1909 to Pennsylvania, 7O3 to Wiscon-
SIM 800 to Michigan, $50 TO Ohio, 258 to New
jersey, $50 to Massachusetts,, LOG to Connect
cut and 4, 1913 remained in New York.
A set of spirituaists, " in Newark, N. j.,
have actually gone crazy, under the influence
of their leaders, and have behaved in such
grossly indecent manner, that the police have
had to arrest some of them. They would strip
guage in their Authorizations. 1t is melancholy
illustration Of the weakness and corruption of
poor human nature.
It's stated in diplomatic circles that Baron
Stoeckl, the Russian Minister feeling keenly
the embarrassment Of his own position and that
of his Government through the exposure made
in the case of certain contracts, is DESTROYS of
compromising the same, but that Dir. Seward
advises HIM to keep perfectly quiet, assuring
him that the Alaska appropriation can be easily
Engineered in the House without being en-.
dangered by those claims.
At New Orleans, the Radical Convention $
in trouble. The finance committee cannot ne
eotiste loan to pay the members their per
diem A resolution was offered to appoint
committee Of three to wait on Congress, and
represent that the Convention has been in SEES
sion for thirty one days without being able to
raise means to deray its expenses. Further,
that the Convention adjourn until the views of
Congress be ascertained. The resolution crea-