Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-06-01
Foreign News.

Foreign News.
The miniature steamer City OF Ruguaa will
leave Liverpool to day Tor New iork. She is
only twenty one ieet long, but is provls'oned
for three months The Captain expects to
make the passage inside of fifty days
Dispatches from Bombay state that within
lew days past 81 900 bales OF cotton have
been shipped to Eagland 10y way ni the Sue2
Canal.
A statue oil the late Lord Palmerston. by
the sculptor jackson, was unveiled 10 West
minister Abbey yesterday. The ceremony was
private, none but relations OF the deceased ne
| ing present.
The new telegraph cable from Falmouth 10
Malta has been successfully laid to LISBON
The t. s. irisa,c Franklin has arrived at
Lisbon.
Yesterday more than twenty pcrsous, who
were imrrisoned ic St. MaZlS prison charged
with coynplicity in the late regicidc plot in
France were Internationally released and II
is announced more will be released to day.
Ia the French Corps Legisatit yesterday
afternoon the session was nearly consumed IN
debating the means 20 check the ravages OF
the small pox in Paris
TIE debate upon the dogma o. Papal lu-
liability continues. The opposition are
makinga determined stand against the over
wheIming majority in the affirmative, but their
objections will be overrued By a decided ma
jority when the question CONES 10 vote:
which will probably be about the latter end OF
July. s -,
| 4 thorough reorganization ct the army. The
work is to commence Immediately, and the
| Minister Of War expects to see it completed
with the year. The Government is also max
| Ing preparations Tor the construction Of the 81.
| Gothard Railway.
Dispatches from the West CoasI of Africa
announce the breaking out Of serious troubles
10 Liberia. The President Of L'baria appoint
ed Walter Good, Collector and Postmaster at
appointment is distaste!ul, threaten secession
if he is confirmed.
Advces from the West Coast nf Africa re-
port that party of missionaries, consisting oil
Mr. and Mrs Ramseyea and MIR. knabe and
attendants, have been captured by the Asian
tees and taken to the interior.
The assassin of Prince D. Arenburg 10 Rus
sia has been sentenced to fifteen years in the
mines, and Punishment to Siberia for the &c
mainder Of his life.
The VIRGINIA SPRINGS. Men travel the
world 10 see its wonders enjoy it's amusements,
observe the traits, good and bad, Of different
nationatics, and test the various phases Of
civilization, and at last, if good fortune directs
them TO Firg mia, they have not long to live
here before they are satisfied that It's climate is
the best, its soil the most generous, its people
the most hospitabe, its mountains b!uer, and
its valleys lovcIler, than any on the broad green
Garth 20 let the adventurous traveller, or him
in search OF health and pleasure. go to the
baths of France and the springs of GERMANY
aye, let him exhaust the round of watering
places Of the world. and then, in quest OF fresh
novelty, 90 to the Virginia Springs, and there
he finds fountains of health such as be never
dreamed Of before, scenery as romantic and
beautiful as he found amid the graDdest peaks
of the Alps climate of the very temperature
tina. the system seems to call for 10 summer,
hotel accommodations that would be deemed
first class in any city, and society as elegant,
refined and intellectual as the world can furnish.
Alter being there short while he is compelled
to admit that he had, in all his wanderings,
found no watering places equal in every parti
cuIar to the Virginia Springs. lie may have
seen more pretension, more attempt at guady
display, but never more real good taste and
transformations elegance, or people who give
evidence OF higher breeding than he will be
sure to meet there. -Richno0nd Eng.
Coon CRopPINd.-Mr. John G. Wall, who
lives on the Mount Carmel road, in Rocking |
liam county, recently sold his crop of tobacco. |
from five acres, for 1887 so. This crop he |
made with lis own hands, with horse his |
father gave him IS years ago and it it the |
same horse he went counting on and it is, more.
over, the only horse he he's ever owned. He
has sold his crop made by himself for larger
sum, but 1897 80 will do very we'll tor one man
to make
Bright tobacco is the most profitable staple
that is made in the United States. Mr. Wall
is by no means the most successful farmer We
know Of About the best farming we have
heard of since the war, is that Of Mr.. John Pace,
who worked seven hands and made one thous.
and dollars to the hand, from his tobacco crop
alone, on his plantation near Danville This
crop is better adapted to white labor than any
other, because the price is in proportion to the
pains and skill shat are taken in its cultivation.
Times.
WASHINGTON CITY ELEcTIoN-THIRTY-S1x
YEARS AGo.-The following paragraph ap.
pears in Niles Register for June 7, 1884:
civilian A. Bradley has been elected Ma
yoI OF Washington. For Mr.. B. sac; for Mr.
Peter Force, 442. There was DO administra.
ton candidate
Thirty six years ago 9S3 votes were cast for
Mayor At the last election there were some