Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-01-27
NEWS OF The DAP.
$40 shOao the very age and body of the Times

The y. S. Consul as Havana has made a
demand on the Captain General for the pos
session of the body OF Samuel Cohner, an
American killed during the recent disturbance
in that city. He also asked Gen. Dulce wheth-
er the government was able to protect u. ,.
citizens, and volunteered the declaration that
if it was not the U. S. would. The remains
were delivered TO the Consul, and the CAP tain
General expressed regrets for the occurrence
On Sunday morning last, Mr.. Fish, clerk
in the Yale National Bank, New Haven, went
to the Bank to see if everything was right and
found man lying asleep. He had effected
an entrance through window, after which he
eudeavored to reach the money drawer by cut
ting hole through the top OF the counter
with his knife, but finding the work difficult,
gave it up, laid down and went to sleep. The
man was arrested.
Jay Gould and the Erie men are now report
ed to have purchased the Louisville and Nash
vile Railroad By means Of t his line and the
new Ohio and Mississippi extension they pro
pose to have direct broad guage line from
New York to New Orleans.
The tunnel which is proposed under the
English channel at Dover, it is asserted, viii
have to be bored through chalk formation,
aud though the actual perforation will be easy,
the pressure OF the sea upon the yielding rock
will be immense.
japanese Tea, to be properly prepared. It Is
stated, should be treated differently from tea
from China. The Japan tea ought to be nearly
boiled Tea carefully drawn, it is asserted, is
q most powerful anti-spasmodic.
Capt. Brown, of the Navy, who took TO ia
pan the iron clad ram Stonewall, purchased by
the Japanese Government has telegraphed
from San Francisco that he will deliver the ram
to the Miksdo Government at once
The New York Board of Health has passed
an ordinance which forbids the sale or use Of
kerosene oil, as an Illuminating agent if it
takes fire below 10 degrees Fahrenheit, OF
evolves an explosive vapor below 100 degrees.
The Democrats of the Maryland delegation
in Congress, yesterday went in body TO the
White House. to ask President johnson iol
the pardon of DR.. Mudd, wrongiully detained
at the Dry Tortugas.
There remains only two hundred and sixty
seven miles of the Pacific railroad to be built
and the line complete from New York to San
Francisco, it is believed, will be opened early
in the spring.
The London Spectator asserts that the only
innocuous dark dye is a weak solution of ace
tate of iron, mixed with glycerine, which grad
ully darkens the hair and has tonic effect.
Dispatches state that the House Committee
on Foreign Affairs have agreed to report in
favor the Baltimore claimants to the island Of
Alta Vela.
Gen. Grant goes to New York on the 4th Of
February, on private business and whilst there
will be the guest Of Mr.. Hamilton Fish.
The defeat of the Denver Railroad bill in the
House yesterday is regarded as the final defeat
of all rairsad subsidies by this Congress.
The treasurer Of the German Protestant
Church of Cincinnati absconded three weeks
since with S. 800 of the church money.
The boots and shoes manufactured in Mass.
achusetts during 1868 are estimated to be
worth one hundred millions Of dollars.