Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-01-01
q dIspatcli of Secretary F<au on Il
alabama question.


\ fearful gale from the Northwest occurred
At Limerick Yesterday, Trees were uproolcd,
chmncys thrown down, and in some instances,
houses were Frustrated. Ten persons are known
TO have lost their lives, end many nIhcES were
badly injured.
The troubles in Ireland have been rev wed,
and several Constablcs are reported 10 have
been recently assasslnatcd.
Heavy gales have prevailed all around The
ENGLISH coast Tor the past lew days. Many
shipvrccks, attended in some instances with
loss OF lille, have already been reported.
The London Examiner has an article on the
Alabama difficulty. it says: When the M
ure Of the American struggle was unicr;tood,
Encland restored her synpathi2S 10 the North,
and, that rccawa,iOns, now based on earlier
wrongs, are simply vindictlve.
The London Shipping Gazette, in It's money
article, ascribcs the easness in the money mar
ket to the diminished capital required, owing
TO shrnkage OF prices for conducting business
since 1868.
No French or English mails have been re-
ceived in Madrid fer four days, oil the roads
being blocked by snow.
Il is reported that Victor Emanuel positive
| " refused his consent to the cAnddaturc ol the
| Duke OF Genoa Tor the throne OF Spain
| The weather is severe in Germany. The
| Elbc is blocked wiki ce and navigation above
| Hamburg Is suspended.
Some time since the Sublime Porte sent 4
demand to Ismael Pasha to abandon his iron
clad fleet, and the demand remaining unan'
syered, tue Sultan has forwarded violent
message to the same effect.
| The London Lancet, the recognized medical
authority IN London, asserts that the Emperor
Of Russia is suffering severely from hereditary
hyphochondraSis He often refuses to partuEc
Of food for days at a time, and INDUCES IN other
morbid practices, which arc rapidly undcrmin.
ing his physical condition. -,
The London Herald asserts that while the
Khedve Of Egypt is pretending to pursue
policy Of peace, and to encourage the enter,
prises which arc favorable to the promotion OF
such policy, he really means to soon initiate
war. In substantiation Of this, it states the
fact that he has ordered Immediately 2OU, 900
stand of arms (hreech leaders,. and has telc
grabbed the iron, clads at louon to proceed to
Alexandria,
Esd or MARRYING a LORD. The welded lite
of Miss Maran, the Staten Island belle, who
married Lord Hubert s. Leroy Ainse y
iotherwisc called Dick Radford) some time
ago, has terminated much as predicted when
the nuptials were announced. After checker
red career of several months in New lork-a
pait of which time everything was lovely with
the young couple, and the rest otherwise
the scene closes by the hasty absquatuaton1
Of the snowy swindler, who rather emphasized
the event by carrying off the !o1so Smp"F
Watches icweIry and other portagh,e cr n notc
Of his con6dng wife, and leaving s,ns me, 1Io';'
% irs eo sbe would never see hlm more 1t Is
saying SIZE .bat the heartess sooundrel has
saueu aIU abused and maltreated his wife, who
s sa NOW zone back TO her mother Il Gisgrheed
and heart broken woman:
AN ELopEMENT. This place was all agog.
the first days of this week, over the clopement
Of Oft one of our leading citizens in this vicinity,
w;th a young lady who lived On an adjolning
farm, which took place on Friday last ga
th .'', morning he hired hack. drove to the
h rIv RI the Iady,who jumped in, aud were not
IU" making their way 10 Manassas where they
t oot the train, it is said, for California. The
eoUn leaves a vile, and several children,
cd valuable farm. The lady was about
twenty sue i've single, and said to be handsome
The gentleman is about forty tive, and Tor some
fine had been acting as the ladys agent, in
The management of her estate, which he con
trived to wind up before leaving. -~Louds"a
! Republican.