Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-06-03
NEWS or The DAI \.
40 shou The rciy age and Jody ofhc Times.

MO, and probably other interior places, Where
II was almost impossible to get lee, except III
cxorbitant rates, these manufactures nave
placed IL at a rate 50 low, and made At 80 con
venlent aud easy to get 1t, a. to aitogctier uo
away with their dependence on Importation Tor
1t, while in our own city Importation only
serves the purpose OF Keeping lee within The
reach OF the poorest
The castor bean i, becoming an important
article OF culture in Texas. THIS year hund'
reds OF acres are planted the soil Is prohhc,
and IN some instances has yielded sixty bushels
of castor beans to the acre, Very little machn'
cry has a set been introduced ior settluk cut
the oil Tue ramie plant Is also attracting At
tcnton IL is looked upon a. oil great Viiue
to the South Tor the purpose 81 making ropes
La scleiai Of the Methodist Episcopal
Churchcs OF Chicasc on Tu1aIay vote VA,
| taken Oh the question Of admitting lay dtieft
| ties TO the General Conferences with Tue fea"l'
| OF 29j i1l sud {; against. The &'h't" aeh'l
ment OF the Church all over the country APP
pears t. he decidedly IN favor OF the htW i"'''-
| mDut.
The Orthodoy Fr,,nds yearly meeting ha'
been "A SCION IN New York tof several days
INIT ib. ptoces,Hup4 have not been oil general
| int.r,at Acte~slou5 Ut 800 person. 10 the
lit ot members dur,ne the past year a,e repor-
i'd aud the membership. including branchrs
| IN Great Hutain AMI Canada now number
| s. 900
| The hotel rroprietois Ia New ork, have
promptly dismissed all the refractory WATERS
procured others in their places, and resolved
not 10 employ nrain any person connected W.T.
| these -iilkti and their ASSOCIATION. 30, ~ 4
| ,pn,t,iiy tho case the '+t..Lers are the ouII
1 pe,-das who suitci.
| A STRANGER recently went to a hotel IN Hart
| ford foe 4 bath, and IS he did not emerge Iron
his retirement Tor an hour, the proprietor On
| tered with ioal5 oi sC,t'Ie IA his heart, to see
| what Wa4 the matter The stranger had ohi>
| haen washno hiI shut and was waitinr !nr
to dIy.
| An UNPROTECTED settlement one hundred an'
6fty mliea ..om Topeka, Kansas. was the hcen'
of A brutal indian massacre on Sunday morn
lug. Two hundred and fifty Cheyenne Indian
/ apIToached the iowa and mr. -defrd ia t"c'
men, womeE and children.
| Accordmg to Spanish official despatch IRON
Havana marty OF Glbustcrs have been de
iea!ed by the Government troops between tn
bays of Nipe and Ranos, IN which the canno
and all the munitions of the former We're CAP
turtI.
The Schylkill (Pann miners, 1t IL reported
will soon resume work. The Scranton paper
state that the chances are that by the time re
sumption occurs in the other rcrions, the rrlcC
will lie down to the old figure.
Rev. Dr. Mahan, Rector Of st. Paul Epl:
copal Church Of Baltimore, departed 10
Europe yesterday by tho steamship l.elrzl'
Il pr. Mahan expects to remain IN Europo sever;
, months.
i Certain Wall street bankers or" '"""' "''''
The New York State Temperance Conycn
ton has resolved that the sale of l1uots 1T
crime and requests both political lqriles {,
nominate prohlbltloni5s Tor Office.
Dennis Recn, who Killed his brother IN l,u
Tor giving MN the lie, was convicted Of mur
der at Cambridge, Mass, Yesterday, AMI "en
fenced to be hanged
| There was landed yesterday in New York At
| the Bremen dock the elephant Empress, said
| to be tho largest animal in the world, wciuhjnp
i1,"oo lbs and standing H.! feet high.
boat containing nine men was carried over
a waterfall, near Lewiston, Me, Tuesday and
three OF the party We're drowned.
Dispatches from Havana dated yesterday re-
port that Captain General Duco had RESIGNED,
aud that the cty is tranquil
The u. s. Congress Of Brewers met vester
day at Newark, New Jersey. About two hund,
red lager beer brewers were present.
Seventy thousand dollars worth Of propcrtv
has been coniiScated by the Spaniar,is, IN Cuhl,
within the past SIX weeks.
Commodore James Z. Foster Il = n
dlcd IN lGdi aua yesterday.
VIOLENT THUNDER STORM. Oar village
was visited on Sunday afternoon by one Of the
severeSt gusts Of lightning AMI thunder w,th
IN cur recollection IL occurred atont five
u clock and struck aud shattered trees IN three
different places in the town
lie conEre cation at the Methodist GbuIcL |
were listening to a deeply Impressive sermon
RON the lev. MIR Harper when the Storm
,elened lts height, and the hehtning entirely
demolished small locust tree standing lew
ards from the budding. Such was The din
II tbnadcr aud trapedlr,un OF the audience
"it the preacher had to suspcnd his discourse
OF iihe, Dropping the thread Of hi, aupu-
heht, ne instantly raised aud feclincly sang a
e'Se OF an appropriate hymn:
he '!0d that rules on hie5
That all the earth surveys, |;
that ride upon ne stormy ska. II
Aud csIuis the Roaring seas:
This awul toi IS ours,
Our Father and cue Lave:
lie will send down Hishaavonly powers
10 carry Us above III
Every heart was bowed, aud the power of :
lie Great Am, as he spako ia voi.a oil e
under, was felt and Acknowledged "A
Hdiins the storm, enc Of the bans on the Ii
lntati1n OF MIR William Z. PampLiey. near o.
u town, was struck aud considerably dam. ia
ed several other instances, where house W
trees have been demolished, show how the
nm rieed -4NUitoyo' Ga.eHe.
i'fE Mn. SUNDERLAND, Of this city, seems
DE- bidding Ion the charlaincr OF the Chand o.
Outer expedition against f,ngland. # vel
y nudge by the tenor Of has discourse bef ore u"
New School Presbyterian Assembly m New DO
TX on Monday last. The circumstance which CT
ed At forth, -beiup the recommendation otl lin