Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-05-04
NEWS OF The DAY.
40 shoe the very age and body Of the Times.

nree there was much misery. nunureus nocA
n the station in every stage OF starValon.-
There were some !, 800 paupers, many OF them
mast work. Day by day bodies we're found OF
those who had tainted aud died before they
could reach the relief house which the English
have started.
Gen. Lee was guest OF Mrs. Kennon' at
Tudor Place, on Georgetown Heights. Mrs.
K, whose husband was killed by the explosion
Of Com. Stockton's peacemaker, on board the
Princeton. is a niece of George Washington
Park Gusts, the father of Mrs. Lee. The
General dined on Saturday with relative,
Mrs. Podestad, the wife of the Secretary OF the
Spanish legation.
The Memphis Appeal has intelligence that a
riot occurred at Brownsville. Tennessee on
Sunday night, in which white man aud two
negroes were killed, and white man named
Tom Grant was MORALLY wounded, Inc anair
grew out OF a threat OF negro to KIN wnite
man named Sherman. AT III O'CLOCK ias'
night fighting was still going on.
A bold attempt at robbery was made yester'
day in New York, at the corner OF Broad
wav and Peal streets. Two men jumped IN
70 one of the money wagons of the American
Evnrcss COMPANY and knocked down the mes
seneer in charge; but before they could drive
off To break opon the safe, they were arrested.
In printing Office at Gosport, Indiana, is a
blind compositor. His average days work is
5000 ems, and on several occasions he has set
from 1000 to 5000. His letter is distributed
for him, and his copy is read by his partner
his memory being so perfect that ne can TO-
tain from four to six lines.
Judge Breckenridge, Collector Of Customs
at st. Louis, has been asked to tender his reslg-
nation of that Office. This request was made
because "the President wishes to recognize the
powerful German element in that city by the ap.
pointment of one of its members to this ottlce
The mail contractors on the Southern
overland route have entered into contract to
transport Two millions of bullion annually from
chihuahua, Mexico, to New York. Hereto
fore the bullion has been carried to San Fran
cisco, and thence to England.
The Arizona Cotton Factory, established in
Claiborne parish, Louisiana, siuc, the war, is
now paying net profit OF twenty'four per ct.
per annum This income is realized on cap
ital OF $50 900. and with part of the machln-
cry counted IN the capital not yet at work.
Dispatches received from Fort Sully al Gen
eral Shcrdan's headquarters say that every
thing that has been done to make peace with
the Sioux, as u nation, is an entire failure, and
that the Indians are just as far from peace now
as they were two years ago.
The charge Of fraud against Mumlcr, the So
called spiritual photographer. was dismissed
yesterday, Judge Downing deciding that the
prosecution had failed to make out case, and
that he would not be justified in sending the
charges to the grand jury.
A meeting was held yesterday afternoon in
Boston for the purpose of devising plan for
the obtaining OF subscriptions in aid OF the
erection of statue of Frederick Douglass, to
be placed upon 40 angle Of the proposed Lin
coin monument at Washington
There appears to be some opposition to the
appointment of Gen. Sickles to the vacant
Spanish mission, which had been decided upon
by the Secretary of State and the President.
Protests have been filed ut the State Depart
mcnt.
This morning an east bound freight train, on
the Toledo, Peoria and Wabash railroad, broke
through bridge over Panther creek, near So
cor, Illinois. killing the engineer and severely
injuing the fireman. Several cars were
smashed.
A Boston breach of promise case-Elms vs.
Kelly-twice decided in favor Of the plaintiff,
has on tho third trial been decided in favor OF
the defendant, and the two previous verdlcts
were set aside.
At North Andover, Massachusetts, boy Of
fifteen, yesterday, killed himself because his
father required him to apologize to his school
teacher Tor truancy.
Secretary Boutwell, proposes to prohibit
smoking chatting, receiving visits, and drink
ing among tho Treasury clerks during bust
ness hours.
The flow of emigration from Ireland to the
United States this year promises to exceed that
Of any previous year. The great majority Of
the emigrants are now going to the West.
A Convention of Bishops of the Methodist
Church South, will be held at St. Louis this
week.
The failure of large dry goods house in
New York, connected with the Southern trade,
S reported on the street, but no name is given.
ScARLATINA.-Th Paris Journal dcs Con-
laissances Medicines publishes paper by DR..
5couttetten, on the measles and scarlatina, in
10Th of which disorders he recommends rather
startling remedy, namely, cold water! He
perfectly admits that the public, and even
physicians, are afraid of anything that might
ause a chill in eruptive complaints, but he re-
lies that this fear would be well founded if
he cold water cure were long continued, and if
Is temperature were lower than from 100 to
g Centig., the usual one of bed Chambers
says that he is not the first to recommend
uch cure, and that it was first proposed by
frederick Hoffman, professor Of Medicine, at
Halle, in 1912, and afterwards by the celebrat-
d Huieland. If since then this system has
cen entirely abandoned, it must be owing, he
outends, to it's having been Improperly EN-
Logged, and also to certain instructive aver
ion we have to cold water.
The RECENT STATE COMMITTEE MEETING.
Tho vote on the proposition of Mr.. Shackle-
,rd, which was no less reasonable than it was
LIST to the people of Virginia-being for
Convention fresh from the peo-
le-was rejected by vote of ayes "a nays
g. The same proposition was voted upon the |
lpht before az n su Institute for the two re morris