Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-01-15
NEWS OF1HE DAP.
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Great feeling exists among those known as
river men" on and about the Ohio, with ref
ererce to efforts on the part of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company virtually Ito
break up the navigation of The Ohio river by
Steam" These efforts are involved in that
company's efforts TO bridge the Ohio at Bellar
and Parkersburg with bridges of but three hun
dred feet spans Instead OF five hundred
feet spans, which the steambOatlng inter
est In that quarter contend are necessary, II the
river is to be bridged.
The Secretary of the Treasury has directed
that the manufacture of mutilated and worn
out postal currency, etc., into paper In the
printing department shall cease. The expert
ment has not proved to be success, and be-
sides the nauSeatiug and infectious smell gene
rated in the process of making the pulp has
become a source of continual annoyance to the
employees in the department.
The San Francisco Alta California says that
california dried figs are taking their place
in the market and gradually crowding out the
imported article, many OF them being decidedly
superior in quality to all from Smyrna. save
the very best. The raisns generally are lnter-
or to the imported, but they are improving In
quality every year. 80 are the prunes'
In Naperville, Dupage county, Illinois, on
Tuesday night last, James Laird, Deputy u.
S. Marshal of Wyoming Territory, was killed
by Chauncey Bailey, as he was entering Mrs.
Bailey's bedroom, Bailey suspecting improper
intercourse. The woman had previously eloped
with a Universalist miaister. The citizens
justify the homicide.
At Annapolis, on Tuesday, the church cases
from Montgomery county, Maryland, were de-
cided by the Court of Appeals in favor of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, These are the
first cases Of the kind that have come before
that tribunal.
A Wilmington On. c. dispatch reports the
loss of the steamship Gulf City, from Calves
ton for New York, on Monday night, off Cape
Lookout. There were twenty i've persons on
the vessel, and only three are known TO be
saved.
A meeting OF representatives Of Insurance
companies outside Of New York city was held
there yesterday, to take measures against the
rebate system adopted by the New \ DIRK Board
Of Underwriters.
Three New York distillers, charged with de-
traudiug the Government of the tax on whis-
key, were yesterday, upon motion of the Dis
trict Attorney there, committed to close Gus
tody.
Cyrus W. Fields gold medal, voted to him
by Congress, is missing. twill be remembered
that a large gold medal, given to Henry Clay
by his admirers, mysterouSy disappeared
also.
A dispatch from st. Louis announces that
Gen. Carl Schurz was nominated on the first
ballot for the u. S. Senate, as the successor
of John B. Henderson the present incumbent.
John Z, Stockton has been nominated by &C
camation in the Democratic caucus of New
Jersey, and will certainly be chosen, T. S.
Senator
Rings" of various characters are again In
Washington, endeavOring to get Congress to
tinker up" the internal revenue law to suit
their interests and fill their pockets
A lady living at Shrewsbury, n. D., weigh
ing two hundred and seventy pounds, has had
ten children, seven of whom are living, each of
them weighing over two hundred pounds.
The largest, handsomest and best appointed
theatre on the Pacific cnast is now approach
ing completion in San Francisco.
Several of the committees OF the u. s. Sen
ate have adopted a rule to report in favor of
no combinations except In cases OF vacancy.
The former officers, President, Directors,
&c, OF the Philadelphia, Wilmington and
Baltimore K. r., have been reelected.
The Indiana Radical caucus last night nomi |
mated Lieutenant Governor Cumback for u. |
s. Senator from Indiana.
The price Of gas in Charleston, South Carroll
ma, within four years, has declined from 81 to
81 per 1000 feet
A woman-Mrs. Overton-has been appoint
ed Inspector of Customs at Brownsville Texas