Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-05-24
NEWS OF The DAl.
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A bill contracted by Secretary Seward in
telegraphing over the cable to Reverdy John
son, has been presented to Secretary Fish by
the agent Of the Telegraph Company for pay
ment 1t consists Ct single item and amounts
to $4,000. When this bill came IN he reiuS
ed to pay it, 1t therefore fell 10 the succeed
lug administration. Secretary Fish declinea u
pay it, and when it was presented to Presioent
Grant he sent it to Attorney General Hoar tor
an opinion which he is now engagel on
Two OF the parties concerned IN the robbery
Of Sl6, 900 from Mr.. Pattlson, the Harnden
Express messenger, in Baltimore, on We'd
pesday morning last were arrested near Swan
ton a station on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road in Allegheny county, Md, about 22O miles
from Baltimore, on Friday morning. They
were brought to Baltimore and some $1,000
of the stolen money recovered from them.
A dispatch from louisville says: after
breakfast this morning eighteen soldiers Of
company f, 45th L. S. infantry, stationed at
Taylor's Barracks, near this city, were taken
ILL., All are now convalescent. 1t Is supposed
that poison was introduced into their food
There is much excitement.
The committee of ''the grand army OF the
republic" having charge OF the grave decora'
ton ceremonies at Buffalo, New York, decline
to comply with the request OF the clerSymen OF
that city to appoint Saturday, the 29th inst,
instead of Sunday, S0.h, as the day OF obser-
vance.
Bishop Simpson is OF the opinion that the
tide of drunkenness and immortality cannot be
stopped, especially in our great cities until the
ballot is given to woman. At the Methodist
Conference in Richmond, Indiana, this senti
ment was received with great cheering
Several suicides Of boys have occurred 10
Brooklyn recently Yesterday afternoon Thos.
Leonard, aged seventeen years, was discovered
hanging in the cellar OF an unoccupied house
on Warren street The coroner jury found
verdict OF suicide by hanging.
Gen. d. F.. Sickles on Saturday received
his commission as Minister to Spain He ha:
accepted the Office, and is to enter upon It's
duties on the lst of July next He proposes
to leave this country in about three weeks, sc
as TO reach Madrid at that time.
Ii IS stated that there are more stores torrent
ON Broadway, New York, than was ever known
before at this season OF the year, and there
are more new buildings being erected on the
same ,horouphiarr than during any Other
season.
Yesterday, at Hudson, N. y, the Hudaor
river railroad freight building was entirely de
| stroyed by fire, which, it is supposed, was the
work OF an ineenliary. Loss, Sl0,o0o IN
| 9ured - 1000,
Mr.. Caleb Cushing Is now in his seven:iett
year, yet to all outward appearance not owe
sixty. lie was graduated at Harvard in lNl1
! and has been clos, student all his lie.
Archbishop Spaulding will soon leave Bait
more for Rome to attend the meeting OF The
| U:umenical Council in December next.
It's said that John Russell Young, late o
| the Now York Tribune, is to be Jay Cooke y
| Co. s financial agent in Europe.
President Grant has iutimated that election
day in Mississippi and Texas will be fixed 10
! the first Tuesday in AugUs;.
The coal miners at Scranton have resolved
| by vote Of 4OS to 800, that they will not sus
| penl work