Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-07-12
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
TERMS or suBscR1PTIoN-1N ADVANCE.

annum-payablo in advance.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
The Senate passed tho bill making the usua
appropriations for the support OF the army
and tackled on as an amendment modification
of the recently defeated bill to reduce the
army. One of the principal changes is the re
storatiou Of the old pay roll SO that the salar-
les of Generals Sherman and Sheridan remain
untouched. The provisions for retiring and
mastering out officers are the same as hereto
fore, which will make the maximum OF the
army year hence about thirty thousand men,
and cut down the expenses of the military eS-
tabIishment four millions Of dollars year.
The finance committee appointed by Mayor
Emery, Of Warrington city, to ascertain the
floating Indebtedness OF the city, concluded
their labors yesterday, and report that aside
from about one million increase Of the funded
debt during the two years MIR. Sayles j. Bowen
was mayor, the outstanding claims amount to
SSlG, $50. During the same term the taxation
OF the city was increased about SO per ct. and
the assessment OF real estate about 90 per ct
whereby the revenues were enormously aug
mented
The Fisk. Vanderbilt War had a curious
episode. When the New York Central put
down freight of cattle to 5 per carload to spite
freight over Vanderbilt line. so that 23O cars
we're running on this per day, while only thirty
passed over the other. About the middle Of
last week Vanderbilt discovered the trick of
his antagonist, and put his freight up again to
$40.
On Wednesday last Commodore Robert
Richie died 10 Philadelphia where he was
born, and where he has always resided whom
not on duty elsewhere His age was about
seventy lie entered the navy as mshipman
in lsl4, and his first voyage was in the sloop-
Of War John Adams, which that year took to
Europe the commissioners 10 negotiate the
treaty of Ghent.
In various parts of England the surface Of
the country has undergone great changes in
the last hundred years. a new county is being
reclaimed from the sea on the coast Of Norfolk
and Lincolnshire. One consequence OF driving
away the water is that the land shrinks. In
Lynn many Of the houses are settling the
bridges are weakened, and the Corn Exchange
is 'sIidipg away from its tront.
1t is stated that the Chesapeake and Ohio
railroad have purchased large tract of land
on the liver side, at the point Of intersection
of the Guyandotte river with the Ohio, and
extending down four miles Upon this they
will Iay out a town, to be named Huntington,
after the President of the road. The new bridge
across the Ohio will be built there, and leading
capitalists have taken hold of the enterprise.
The exhibition Of fans, now open in London,
is part of scheme for the instruction OF Wo-
men in art. To promote this object the gov
ernment department OF science and art offered
prizes in competition for fans painted by tho
students n the female schools of art, in 1868,
in 1869, and again in 1870 The French, how
ever, under the patronage OF the Empress, excel
in fans.
Nautilus Case living near North Bend,
Boone county, Ky, made desperate attempt
to kill Mrs William Hodges, OF the same place,
last Tuesday He fired revolver three times,
the balls passing through her dress then
snapped Case was discarded lover OF Mrs.
Hodges, but both parties we're since married.
Case has been arrested.
Claimants to the property located at the
corner of Broadway and Canal streets, New
York, valued at So, 200, 900, have turned up
10 Georgia village. They say one OF their
ancestors gave lease on this land Ter one
hundred years, which time has just expired.
The tenants on the property have no intention
as yet OF moving.
Advices from North Adams, Mass, state
that matters are settling down there, excite
ment subsiding, Crspins organizing their CD.
operative factory with 10000 capital from tho
grand lodge, and Chinese working ln rapidly,
in the bottoming room of Mr. SIMPSONS fac
tory, where sixteen teams are DOW at work,
and arc not disturbed.
A black man, near Laurel Delaware, lew
days ago, committed horrid crime upon the
person ola highly respectable married lady.
He was arrested, and confessed, adding that
he had been guilty Of several similar deeds, the
last lew months He will be hung or lynched.
The Rochester On. ~ Express, Radical,
comes out squareIy in favor of sending Fred.
Douglass to succeed Judge Davis in Congress.
1t says that Douglass is the abest ard most
widely known public man in his congressional
district.
The travel to Europe continues active. The
four or five steamers sailing from New fork