Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-08-17
NEWS OF TIE DAI \.
$40 sho,g the rey age and body QfMe Times.

$50 sho,g the ray age and body Of The Times. !"
The New York Times of yesterday says -
Notwithstanding the immense quantities OF
peaches that have been offered in tie market
during the past week. shrewd sellers have
managed to work off their supplies at satlsiac'
tory prices, and 10 keep the market active
Almost every day from G0,0oo 10 $4,000 bask-
cts have been received by railroad and by
steamers, and yet the peach trade has by no
means reached its height. The supplies are bet.
ter in quality almost every day.
Partial returns of the receipts from internal
revcnuc from all sources Of the year ending
June 30th, 1869, were as follows: Distilled
spirits $43, 500, 900; tobacco, S22 200 600, fer
mented liquors, 50 COO 600; incomes, S23 100.
900; stamps, SIS sos 600 total. $40, POS 600
Seventy seven districts are vet TO be heard
| from.
The President is spending few days IN the
| Pennsylvania coal regions in company with
Senator Cameron and other citizens. He was
| at Kane on Sunday, and COntempates return
| ing hv way of WilIiamSport, Harrisburg, Read
ing, PottSville, hauch Chunck, and thence no
New York, arriving at the latter place on
Thursday night
4 letter IRON South Carolina says that a
Chinese immigration agent has been 10 that
State for some weeks past, and has made con
tracts with u number OF planters there to iur
nish them with Chinese laborers by the first of
the new year. One rice planter has contracted
for two hundred and fifty Cinnamon to substi-
tute for the backs.
Senator Warner. OF Alabama who arrived
in Washington on Monday, repr asents fairs
in his State in a Furnishing condition The
crops are in an excellent condition, aud the
yield of cotton, wheat and corn will be greater
than in any season since before the war
The Executive Committee of the New York
TailorS' Union has declared the strike at an
end. In their address announcing this, the
committee say that they hope soon to discard
strikes as means of obtaining better wages.
The farmers along the banks of the Gun
powder river, in the vicinity of the Philadel-
phis railroad, suffered considerable loss to
their crops aud fruit ~ severe hail storm
about four o'clock on Friday afternoon.
Colonel Nagle, prominent Fenan, on Sun
day morning, while temporarily out Of his
mind, lcaped from the attic window of his resi-
dence Madison street, New York, and was
instantly killed.
y postal convention has been arranged with
Switzerland. by which money can be transmit,
ted between the United States and that couu-
try by means of the postal money system now
In use here.
George Il. Ritter. President Of the First
National Bank of Memphis, was arrested in
New York yesterday on the charge of having
cmbczzlcd 100000 Of the school Iund OF Ten
nCsSee.
Twenty cicrgymcn OF Philadelphia have Just
signed an agreement not to officatc at funerals
on Sunday, unless upon physician $ certificate
that burial on that day is unavoidable.
L. S. detectives are after the scOundrcls who
arc flooding the country with circulars propos
ing to swindle the public by furnishing coun-
terfeit money.
The game of baseball at Charleston yestcr.
day between the Savannah and Charleston
Clubs passed OF quietly.
The worst Of the unhealthy season has pass.
cd in Cuba, and the sickness among the unac.
cimated is decreasing.