Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-11-28
NEWS OF THE ia J.
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-,A pier in the new distillery Just built by Il.
l.. Briggs & Co., in Buffalo, N. Y, gave way,
causing O portion of the building 10 fall, OK
ploding the still and setting fire to the still and
liouor. Seven persons were known to be 10 the
building at the time, all of whom were more or
less INJURED Loss $4,000. The accident
happened on Saturday.
The safe of the Hoboken, N. j., City
Treasurer was blown open last night, and rob
bed OF the entire contents, including accounts
of the past ten years, coupon bonds amounting
! to $4,000, and some private property bonds
| mortgages, &c., to the extent Of $4,000. he
money was fortunately deposited in the bank
Tho German Consul General at New York:
| ia reporting to Berlin the shipment OF arms and
| war material FROM the u s. to France, re-
ouested instructions to guide bis action. nc
was directed not to concern himself regarding It,
as there was no law among nations to prevent
such shipments. ,suE,,
\ The aggregate valuation of real estate IN
| Cincinnati exclusive OF recently annexed terri;
tory, is $751; ,99S. The real property, held
by churches is nearly four millions, and the
valuation of parks and cemeteries is over two
millions and half.
In the Circuit Court for Baltimore county,
Nd, on Saturday, the case Of the Baltimore
| and Potomac Railroad Company VS.. Cary Nc,
C!clland was concluded by verdict in favor OF
the Company, The award Of the jury being
ratified
Southern papers say that +. NJ. Yergor, who
killed Colonel Crane, 10 Jackson, Mississippi,
about one year ago, had second trial recently,
was found guilty, and sentenced to lmpc!son-
| mcnt for lite.
A colored woman named Jane Shaw, died
| in Wilmington, N. g., on Monday last, aged
| l23 years 1t is said she was born on the ] lth
of January, l747. So says the Wilmington
Star.
The u. S. Assistant Treasurer, in Now
York, has been directed by the Secretary OF the
Treasury to sell during the month OF December
four millions Of gold and to purchase live mil
| ions OF bonds.
A number of conductors On the Seventh
Avenue Railroad, Now York, were arrested
on Saturday charged with embellishments.
Twent7.one cadets recently successfully pass.
cd tho examination at tho Naval Academy Tor
promotion.
Tho National Medical Convention, which
was to assemble at Washington, December
18th, has been postponed to January 18th:
A japanese Prince and suite arrived at New
York on Saturday.
The apple crop is said to be very abundant
ct the North and In the West.
NApoLEoN's TOMB IN PARIs.-lf you want
your stay in Paris to be climacterlc, leave till
| the last your visit to the Tomb Of Napoleon -
| As you 70 into the gate, an old man who was
with the great Frcnchman at Saint Helena will
seIl YOU poor picture of something that no
photographic can catch. 1t is q cathedral
three hundred and twenty.three feet high
| having cost two millions Of dollars, dedicated
| to ono dead man. Under its FURNISHED dome
| is concentration of wonders. Not his ashes
| resting there, but the embalmed and undecay-
cd body of Napoleon, in military suit in rcd
| sarcophagus of Finlander quartzltc, polished to
the last perfection by skiful machinery, and
resting on rock ofgreen granite; surrounded
| by twelve funeral lamps OF bronze, and twelve
marble statues Of great slZe-one with wreath
| az if to crown another with a pen, as il 10
| make record for the ages another with key,
as if to open the celestial gate Tor departed
spirit another with trumpet to clear The way
for the coming OF king-the pavement cna-
melted into q crown OF laures, from which
radiates on all sidesa living star. There are
gilded gates, ard speaking cenotophs. aud
radiant canopy, and elaborate basSo relieves,
and embossed pillars. and two Persian statues
holding on cushions sceptre and world, and
ceilings bossomed with finest fTesco by French
and Italian masters their light dripping
down the marble in blue and saffron and cmer-
aid and gold.
Oh it is dream Of beauty If the dead
giant could wake up and look around, he
might think he lay in the Moscow palace that
he coveted, and the glistcning whlteness around
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or that universal empire had come to him, and
to make bis palace Egypt had sent its por-
phyry, and Switzerland its marble, and Greece
its sculpture, and Rome its pictures, aud
France its bronze, and that tho reVerentlal
spectators, In all kinds OF national costume,
leaning over the balustrade to look were the
adoring subjects OF universal rellelon.-LI.
De Witt TaImadge.
CATHOLIC CoLoRED CHURCHES There was
quite largo turnout yesterday afternoon OF
the Roman Catholic societies OF Baltimore to
participate in tho ceremonies attendant upon
the laying OF the corner stone OF building de-
signed to be used as a school and asylum tor
colored orphan children, to be under the con
troll and direction of the Oblate Sisters OF Prov
idence, all of whom are coored Archbishop
Spalding delivered brief address, during
Wnlcl ne SAID tnere was no uistinCtloo vi eoioi
in the Roman Catholic Church, and he rcjolced
to see Americans, Germans and Irishmen car
rying out by their action yesterday, tho true
principles Of that Church. It is moo!ed
question, said the Archbishop, whether the
colored people of the Roman Catholic faith
should have separate churches, or whether they
should remain, as now, 10 the churches 10
which they enjoy common privileges with all
other Catholics Heretofore they have met at
the same communion table, and have partiei-
pated, he said, in the same sacraments and
ordinances OF that Church on terms of perfect
equality. lie thought that perhaps in some
localities, by reason of their increasing num-
bers, it may become desirable to gather them
into churches of their own.-Bah. american
The Road LAW OF VIRGINIA. The law
provides penalties and forieitures for noncom,
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