Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-11-23
VIEWS OF THE DA J.
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lattcr continue TO advance. On Saturday
they could be purchased at S2,25 So retail
to dagthe quotations range from s.. IS 10 5000
Some entcrpriSng dealers have broughta largo
assortment OF Italian 6 loves into the market
for 81 the pair, and these arc eagerly snapped
UP, though they have shabby enough look.
Secretary Robesen has received telegram
from Key West, Fla, announcing that Chlct
Engineer Mortimer Kellogg, OF the iron clad
Terror had been killed, on shore, in tracas,
by Surgeon William Nj. King, o. the Dictator.
The civil authorities had arrested Surgeon
King, aud the verdict of the corouer's jury
was manslaughter in the second degree.
All the Baton Rouge riot prisoners have
been admitted to bail except six, whom the
court considered had been identified with shoot
ing through the window of the court house
whereby colored man was killed. About
twenty witnesses for the prosecution are to be
examined, and the trial will probably last
another week.
The conditions tackled to the Tuhuantcpec
Railroad bill in the Mexican Congress were
such as to render the concession nomlnally
worthless. President JuareZ returned the bill
to Congress with certain observations, and 1t IS
believed the measure will pass in an acceptable
shape at an early day.
In his forthcoming annual report, Postlnas
ter General Creswrll will recommend the adop-
ton Of the penny postal card, similar to those
now in use in Eoglaud and Germany. The
card is bought stamped at the Government
postofices and is transmitted open through
the mail.
MIR, Henry Berah, the indetatigable presl-
dent Of the New York Society for the Proven
ton of Cruelty to Animals, addedto his services
in behalf of prosecuted animals, on Monday
night, 10 breaking up dog-6ght at the dog
pit OF one Kit Burns, In that CITY,
The Observation-Disclosures residing in New ork
and Brooklyn propose to organize a 'Uolon
! Society,"" and to adopt every available means
OF agitating the cause of annexation 10 New
toundland. The Observation-Disclosures Of Boston
| will also form Cooperative Union
The physician Of the Jail at Carlisle, Pa,
where DR.. Paul Schoeppe is confined awaiting
execution for the murder of Miss Steinneckc,
Of Baltimore, has again petitloned Gov. Geary
to release the convicted man from lmprlson-
ment,
A dispute about the boundaries OF adjoining
| mines at Central City, Colorado, caused Thomas
Gleason, foreman OF one, to get shot by hlioh-
ael Shannon, employed 10 the other yesterday,
| and the wound mag prove fatal.
"A letter from Havana, 18th inst, says that
several persons, connected with the lnsurrec
| ton in that island have been tried in their ab
sence from the country, and sentenced TO death
| by the gaTrote.
Acting Commissioner Douglass decides that
| when tobacco is sweetened and cut without re-
moving the stems it is liable to tax OF thirty.
two cts per pound as it Is intended to be used
as chewing tobacco.
President Grant has completed his Annual
Massage, and it was read at the Cabinet meet
ing Yesterday. 1t will bo submitted TO Con-
grcss on the day of meeting, which will be next
Monday one week
Mrs. Sarah J. Hale, the authoresa, Is ma
tive of Newport. N, H.. and in 1925 was q
dress-maker in that village, She Is no"
seventy FIVE years old, and resides in Phl!a-
dclphia.
An effort is being made to INDUCE f. the v RI Il
afanaEg ia ra as Governor Of Utat, recently pro
noted from the Secrctaryship Of that Territory
| 1t it proposed to change the name Of WEST
| Virginia" to Jefferson )" but better still
would it be to let the change consist simply in
dropping the West.
A bogus preacher did Il lively business in the
| matrimonial line lately at MuScati0e, Iowa.
! lie ''married' seven couples at that place be-
| fore he was found out.
The Grand Lodge Of Masons OF Mary land
last nigh; elected John IL. B. Lltrohc Grand
Master.
| The Northern Transportation Company Of
New York suspended payment yesterday.
Their liabilities arc estimated at S4OO, OOO
Weston, the man who is engaged in New
Sort in w,lkinr four hundred miles in five
days, has completed eighty miles Of his task.
Secretary Robson announces that ho is not
candidate for United States Senator from
New Jersey.
A prominent German house in the cloth
trade tailed in New York yesterday. with
500. 900 liabilities, and $4,000 OF assets.
|; appears that fifteen Of the members Of
the Alabama State Legislature are colored
men