Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-10-07
NEWS OF THE DAY.
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The U. S. Fire and Marine Insurance Com.
pany of Baltimore has made an assignment to
VIM. A. Stewart, in trust, for the benefit Of
its creditors. Policyholders who desire to do
so can cancel their policies at the Office of the
Company, and receive a certificate tor the
amount of return premium to be presented to
the trustee for settlement.
A New York business letter says "Busi
ness in nearly all departments is getting to be
very dull again. Trade with New Orleans is
rapidly falling off in consequence of the pre-
valence of yellow fever there, Practically the
Fall business is nearly at on end, so lar as
that section OF country is concerned
John Minor, who was clerk in the Sub
Treasury during Gen. Butter6eld' 8 administra.
ton, was arrested in New York yesterday for
attempting to pass forged Treasury check for
$4,000 on Messrs Vermiye 4 Go. lie was
held in $50, 1000 bail.
Fitz Hugh Ludlow, we'll known to the read.
ing public as writer Of considerable brlliancy
and attractiveness Of style, died at Geneva.
many years past be had practised the excessive
use of narcotics and stimulants.
The steamship South Carolina lcit Charles
ton for New York last evening with cargo OF
l $50. 900 pounds of cotton, rice, -four. &c.
the largest ever cleared from the former to the
latter port.
10 its advertising columns that Ling Wau,
Chinese physician and his assistants have a
stock of Chinese medicines. and are curing
diseases declared hopeless Verify. the world
moves
H'b, ID, 4, o1orl,nl 2,o
at San Francisco yesterday, were delayed by
the burned snow sheds near Cisco. The origin
of the fire is mystery. A large force is EN-
ployed repairing damages.
The convict who murdered one of his keepers
in the Connecticut State Prison short time
ago was yesterday found guilty OF murder in
the first degree. He insisted on being his own
lawyer.
The naval corps of officers appointed by the
Department for the Tehauntepec and Nicara.
qua surveying expedition is now organized and
will sail for Tehauntepec about Monday, Octo.
Der 10Th.
Secretary Cox is in hot water with his party,
owing to his efforts TO prevent the Depart
ments from being turned into mere political
machines.
Three men have been arrested in Concord,
n. H., charged with placing distractions on
the Northern Railroad, in that State, designed
to throw the train Of cars off the road.
The State OF Alabama has been constituted
a separate military district, under command of
General w. S. Crawford, and ten additional
companies OF troops have been ordered there.
The astronomers are taking notes of the new
eruption of spots on the sun. The side of the
sun now turned towards US is covered with
hundreds Of them, of all sizes.
The cornerstone Of tn, Hazard College,
Memorial Hall, a tribute to the graduates who
died 10 the Union armies and naves, was laid
at Cambridge, Mass, yesterday.
Thomas 2. Beard, colored man, was yes
terday nominated for Congress by the Radicals
OF The Fifth District of Georgia.
The earnings OF the Central Pacific railroad
main line tor September are 1888, Alp, the hea
West traffic since the road was opened.
The stockholders Of the Buffalo and Wash
ingtou Railroad assembled in the former place
yesterday. and elected officers.
The mother of General B. f. Butler died in
Massachusetts on Wednesday.
Commissioner Delano left Washington yes
terday Tor Ohio to take part in the campaign.
One OF the Newfoundland and Valentia ca.
bes has been injured, and is not working.