Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-08-26
NEWS OF TIE DAY.
40 .how the roy age and body Of the Times.


the hours of half past eleven o clock yesterday
morning and two in the afternoon. The greater
portion OF block of buildings, 4 Jumper yalo
aud several workshops, bounded by names
Wolfe aud Lancaster streets, were cVusuinIu'
entailing loss, it Is thought, OF heary GlIU,
900. The property was generally insured, out
only in amounts half 10 the loss. The origin
of the fire is unknown.
The proprietors OF the ST. Joseph (Mo.)
Herald have discharged their entire force of
printers and filled ther places with men from
ST. Louis The proprietors claimed the right
10 manage their own business IN their own
way, right which every publisher ought to
exercise, or submit to the mcauest and most
despicable tyranny.
w. S. kimball, a tobacco manufacturer OF
Rochester, n. Y, was convicted before the
L. S Court at Buffalo, yesterday, Of render
ing irauduen returns to the Revenue Depart
ment Kimball loses bis tobacco and his fac
tory and machinery, valued, all told, at $2O
600 tie will be tried on a criminal lndict
ment in October.
The New Orleans Picayune Of the 9th inst.
says that Mr. James P Kennedy, of Frede-
| rick, Nd. who Intends to make his home IN
Louisiana, has purchased the Buena Vista
plantat,ou, the homestead OF the late Patrick
McSherry, esq, for which he paid the sum OF
$4,000,
Dakota Territory will soon be knocking at
the doors of the Union. Villages are said to
be spriuging up there rapidly. More than five
thousand persons have emigrated to the Terri
tory this summer The present population IS
reckoned at twenty thousand.
There is to be an election in the eight west
ern counties of Florida on the second Of No
vember, on the question whether these eight
counties will unite themselves with the State
Alabama This is the work OF the reconstruct
ed legislatures Of Alabama and Florida.
A party of some $50 Indians made des.
cent, Sunday, on Dougherty's Government
Surveying party on the south side of the
Platte river, near Alkali station, on the Union
Pacific Railroad, and CAPTURED their entire
outfit. The men escaped.
A temporary injunction has been obtained
by }. W. Fitzgerald, of Cincinnati, restraining
the holders Of the Fenian fund from any fur.
Their disposition thereof He has commenced
suit for s., 900, which he claims to have con-
trlbuted.
The next meeting OF the American Science
Association will be held at Niagara Falls, it
suitable accommodations can be obtained
otherwise the committee are authorized to Sc
cure another place.
Rev. Father Mcmahon, SO long held as a
Fenian convict by the Canadian authorities,
arrived in Buffalo yesterday, after an absence
OF three years. lie is to appeal 10 the govern
ment for redress
The grand pic ME at Memphis, Tenn, on
the DIST, under the auspices OF the Confedcr-
ate Soldiers Relief Society, was attended by
about five thousand persons. Col. j. b.
| lleiskell delivered an Grafton on the occasion
Only three Generals and some other small
fry men arrived at Gettysburg yesterday to
fight the battle DER again. The grand
hall'' took place last night Tho ia, uisLe i
the best part Of the youth and beauty.
The North Pacific Railroad accommodating
party report Cadatts Pass through the Rocky
mountains practicable. They are now en- route
for an exploration OF the Yellowstone, or Base
man Pass
By our exchanges from different parts of
the country, We notice that preparations are
being made iu hundreds of cities and towns
for the celebration of the Humboldt Centenary
in September.
Prince Arthur visited the English frigates
Royal Alfred and Revenge and the French
irigate SemramiS, at Halifax, yesterday, and
was received with due tokens of honor and
respect.
A special commission, headed by Hiram
Walbridge, New York, would leave Sacramento
this morning to make q thorough inspection OF
the Union and Central Pacific Railroads.
There was a small attendance at the Fenian
Congress, which assembled in secret session in
New York yesterday. 1t is rumored that
Savage will resign the Presidency.
Mr., Burton Stout, Miss Annie Rogers
and Miss Martha Hunter, all residents of
Philadelphia, were drowned at Atlantic City
yesterday, whilst bathing.
Secretary Boutwell, has promised to be pres
ent at the Georgia State Fair, to be held in
Macon in November.
Hon. David Mcdonald, Judge of the United
States District Court, died at Indianapolis
yesterday.
Gen, Ryan aud two officers direct from Cuba
met at the Clifton House, Canada, Tuesday,
and left Yesterday together for parts unknown.
Two Erie Railroad freight cars were precpi
tated into the Delaware river, on Tuesday
night, over bridge a hundred tect high.
President Grant was yesterday at Concord.