Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-03-23
NEWS OF THE DAP.
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be extended to oil the large 1sl1ues, dts well DIS
to New Grenada, and probably one or two
noints on the South American coast The
agent of the International Company has ap.
Piled to the Legislature of Jamaica for permits
sion to land the Cuba Cable, and to put up a
land line across Jamaica. Thence submarine
line will reach Aspinwall, giving us South
American and Pacific Ocean news week or
more sooner than at present by steamers.
Train had been announced to lecture at the
Rotunda, in Dublin, March 9, and was on his
way to that building, when he was arrested for
an old debt on Judgment which had been
obtained against him by London firm. On
Train'sagent announcing the TACT OF his arrest
to the expectant audience, they demanded
back their admission money. The agent re-
fused, and Mr.. Train was then denounced as q
swindler; Ultimately. an arrangement was
made whereby the disappointed ones were
appeased vr
The safe of the Treasurer Of Howard county,
Iowa, was broken open Sunday night and from
$4,000 to $4,000 taken. Tie robbers took
an iron bar from the tank house, punched a
hole into the safe, and blew the door open with
powder, and then took the small safe short
distance from the Court House and secured the
money. 1t is not known at the present time.
the exact amount taken. but it is supposed to
be near 5000 in money, county orders. and
drafts. " aa IT. H53@
At Russellyille, Kentucky, on Friday, the
banking house Of N. Long & Go. was entered
by five men and robbed of nine thousand dol
lars in currency and an unknown amount of
private deposits! They shot Mr.. Long and
knocked him down. He subsequently recover
ed and gave the alarm, and general shooting
commenced, during which a Mr.. Owens was
slightly wounded The robbers escaped to
Frankfort. .@
Northern and Eastern kilograms represent
that the equinoctial storm which occurred on
Friday last, did considerable damage in various
parts of the country. Some of the shipping IN
New York harbor was injured. -
A dispatch dated Cape Island, N. j., says:
"a small schooner loaded with gravel went
ashore on Fishing creek shoals. All hands
were lost The vessel, it is supposed, was
struck by heavy sea, shifted cargo and capslzed.
One Arnold, secretary of the Hope Insur
ance company, in Louisville, has been arrested
on the charge of embezzling $1,000 of the
company's funds. Arnold gave bail in $4,000.
The majority against the Constitution in Ar
kansas will be larger than was anticipated
Many of the blacks did not vote at all, and
nearly all the whites voted against it. .s ~,
Another fire has occurred in the Pennsylva-
MIA oil region, which destroyed four thousand
barrels OF tankage and twenty-one hundred
barrels of OIL
Porto Rico advices to the 18th reports some
awful shocks of earthquake bad been felt and
for safety. -..
St. Domingo dates to the Goth say that Gen.
Baez had not yet arrived Gen. Hungaria
was Governor in his absence The cholera
had abated
Adyiccs from st. Thomas to the 10th say
that there had been strong shocks Of earth
quakes felt and business was paralyzed.
The second detachment OF Papal Houavel
will leave Montreal on the 9Th of April.
FEMALE DIpLoMATGsTs Some time since
Mrs Frances Lord Bond, an advocate Of wo~
mans rights, obtained warm recommendation
from quite number of leading public men of
both parties for some diplomatic position
abroad Among the recommendations was the
following from Senator Wade, in which he
expresses himself believer in the capacity Of
woman to occupy positions of more promi-
nence than those TO which they have hereto
fore been assigned: ~ =.
10 His Ercellency Anareay Johnson, President
ofthc United States: ~. --r....-
.Si-Believing, as we do, that the time has
come when women Of capacity and talent may
properly represent this Government at foreign
courts and in foreign countries, we, the under
signed, most cheerfully solicit for and recon.
mend the appointment Of Mrs. Frances Lord
Bond to such embassy as may be compatible
with the interests and the honor of the country.
Respectfully, B. Z. WADE.
The CONVENTION has been in actual session
eighty one days. Besides, there was recess
of about three weeks, for which the members
drew pay They have been here upwards OF
three months, have exhausted all the money
appropriated for them by the Legislature, arc
scheming to borrow more, and yet their work
is not done! Was ever people cursed with
such q body? Ignorant, vlndictivc, proscrlp-
tive. They are wasting the money Of an i'm
pOVcrlSllcu OtdtG III ucVlSluS SCliclueS W SHOO|-
Innate the most intelligent and responsible part
Of society, and bring further ruin upon tho
country. They were the earliest to meet save
Alabama, and save Mississippi every conven-
ton in the South has adjourned yet we have
this Virginia mockery daily wasting money
and offending the public sense with its follles
and barbarities -Rachneond Dispatch
RECRUITS ARRIVING.-For several days
past number of troops have arrived in this
city, being recruits for the regiments now
forming the garrison Of Washington. One
hundred men arrived for the 18th United Sta
tes infantry, and fifty more are expected and
one hundred recruits arrived for the 29th
United States infantry. These regiments have
been full up to the present time, the existing
laws authorizing only sixty.nine enlisted men
as the maximum number in one company.