Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-01-03
THE GAZETTE.
MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 8.

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MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 8:
MISCELLANEOUS IrEMs.-The Bombay ia
zatte. If November 20, publishes an interest
;na ,stter from DIR. LIVINGSTONE dated May 80
lost and received at Zanzibar by DR.. Kirk,
the British Consul, on the I'd Of October last,
in which he speaks of intending soon to com
nlete his travels and explorations IN Africa
He says:-"As to the work to be done by me
il il oplv to connect the sources which l have
discovered from 500 to 700 miles south OF
Spoke and Bakers with their Nile. The vol |
ume of water which flows north IRON LATITUDE
IL south is so large, suspect that l have
been working at the sources OF the Cango as
we'll as those of the Nile
It is ascertaiued that K. Kendall, late trea-
surer of Boone county. Illinois, is detauter
to the county for about 24,OOO His deficit
commenced in 1865, and continued to increase
until he went out of office, IN 1857.
At the urgent request of the distlIlers OF
Cincinnati and vicinity to the Commissioner
of Internal Revenue to send some ono to near
them on the subject of assessments under the
fortseght hour system of MASKING, he has deslg
mated two persons to 60 to CINCINNATI anu
hear the parties.
Madeira is again becoming great wine
island. 1t is said that the vine is already cover
ing the land in districts formerly known to be
best adapted to it; and, moreover, ground
which, in the memory OF man, has never 0eiore
been planted, is now covered with the ilg9I re-
freshiug foliage and the heavy clusters OF black
and golden Madeira grapes hanging luxurlant-
" from the trelllses.
On account of the excess of judicial labor in
some of the circuits, as now allotted to the
Justices of the Supreme Court of the United
States. a member of the Senate Judiciary Com
mittee has prepared bill for the rearrange-
ment of the circuits.
Louisville is excited over the supposed dis
covery by couple of strapgers-one an elder
" physician and the other notorious burglar,
of large amount in gold, and gems found
in deep pit on the bank OF the Ohio river.
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