Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-11-30
NEWS OF THE DAP.
$40 show the very age and body ofths Times

Buy, the only white man present. shooting
into the house, wounding several OF the coloreo
inmates. They returned the fire and mortaly
wounded Buzy. Yesterday five of the blacks
were arrested, charged with killing Buzy' and
it is reported two OF the prisoners, were cap
tured and hung last night.
The statistics of the divorce business OF CHI
capo, as Given in the Republican OF that CITY,
10 three column article. are startling IN their
magnitude and the disgraccful facts they mol
cate. One attorney alone entered 245 SUITS IN
seven months, down to the Sth OF August,
when the new constitution went into effect' ana
nearly every one was allowed.
A correspondent writing from chihuahua
Mexico, says that the people are excited over
new discovery OF placer of gold about seven
ly five miles from Chihuahua. The dlscoTerer'
with three other men, washed out twenty three
ounces of gold in nine hours. The particles
found arc round and plump one nugget weigh
ed an ounce.
1t is recorded of certain Vermont glri that
she is DESTROYS of knowing whether the woman
rights movement includes the rlghs to 10 inc
c5urting If this desirable boon be one OF inc
advantages connected with the effort 10 raise
woman from her present unhappy conul'loh,
this Vermont female is prepared TO espouso
the cause.
The revenue reform dinner given Monday
night at Delmonico's New York, under The
auspices Of the Free Trade League, was Splcn,
did demonstration, being marked throughout
by elegance, enthusiasm and line representa-
ton OF the commercial community at large.
Over two hundred persons sat down.
The Nilsson oratorio in New York, Saturday
eveninn nptted Sc, 900 The critics all speak
in glowing terms of the performance, but some
of them scold tho audience, many OF whom
had the ilmanners to leave before 1t was over,
and that too 10 the midst OF one OF the hnest
choruscs.
MIR. John p. Hale, who will be remembered
ty many as burly, robust Representative
from New Hampshire, Is now mere wreck OF
his former self. Hi. whole right side is para
lived, and he walks with difficulty. 1t is ssld
bis old friends would hardly recognize him.
The elgen japanese students now In New
York city arc said to be very intelligent men,
and exceedingly pleasing IN manners end al
dress. Five of them are to remain IN New
York, while the remainder sailed for England
yesterday.
In Cincinnati Mohr, Solomon y Mohr, liquor
dealers, reported as suspended, state emphall'
csllv that though they have asked tor some
extra accommodations their paper has IN 30
case gone to protest, and that their business Is
proceeding as usual.
OF 5000 men who went to the diamond dig
pipgs OF South Africa, only eight or ten were
what is called successful. The rest either came
near starving, or secured barely enough to live
upon by the hardest kind OF work.
The Episcopal monastery which the rtualist
NJ, # IF
astery, EogIand, proposes to found IN this
country will have head missionin New ORR,
and another in Boston.
Miss Blanche Il. Williams, young lady,
who in April, 1869, received severe injuries by
the fall of a portion of derrick at Fairmouut
Park, has just recovered 900 damages from
the city, of Philadelphia.
Tho American steamer Eric, having on
board an immense cargo of arms and ammunI
ton for the French Provisional Government,
sailed yesterday from New York t0r CoweS am!
q market.
Charles Wolf, 10 Philadelphia yesterday shot
at bis wife aud child, and then shot himself.
His wife was unhurt. The child was shot
through the arm Wolf is dead.
The Radicals in county Of Minnesota lately
elected a man to Office who had died the day
previous to the election and they knew that
he was dead.
Another attempt, made by greedy relatives,
to secure the commitment to mad. house CT q
sane man has Just been happily frustrated 10
New York.
Seventy five bushels OF apples, Of fair quail
t., were sold by auction few days since, IN
Grafton Vermont, for one cent bushel.
The annual convention of the Northwestern
Woman's Suffrage Association com menced at
Detroit yesterday with smell attendance.
They had fine slcighing in Maine on Thanks.
giving Day.
Wolves are announced as an extinct race in
New England
Over six hundred bales of cotton were re
ocived at Baltimore yesterday from the South.
The LORD MAYOR CT LoNDoN.-The out
going Lord Mayor, whose mayoralty ended on
the sth OF November, gave farewell dinner
to number of civic officials and friends on the
Goth instant, and in the course of some re
marks afterwards, alluded to the duties of that
Office which foreigners so long regarded as the
acme of Briton's hopes-'Duc, Prince. peut-
etre Lor Mare" ''Some people, he said,
tancied that the Lord Mayor had nothing to
do but to sit in his armchair and eat turtle
soup" His lordship then proceeded to unde
coivc such i'll informed beings BY sketching out
what the chief magistrate really had to do, and
mentioned among other items that he had to
sign from six hundred to seven hundred docu'
ments daily, as justice of the peace, and is
entirely occupied every day from ten to five.
The duties are in fact very arduous, and tor
their due discharge require considerable energy
and address. The Lord Mayor receives sal
airy Of $40, 900, but that SUN does lot general
ly suffice to cover expenses. There are but
Two Lords" Mayor in England, London aud
York. 1t is remarkable that the Lord Mayor
OF London is tho only Engsbman other than
peer or member of the Privy Council, who
is addressed as Right Honorable" This Is
merely by ancient usage. Although the office
is not what it was in the days when Beckford
see Junius' S lettcrs) and other leading polltl'
clans thought it an honor to fill the post, It Is
still position of considerable influence ire ,es
influence of the Lord Mayor and OF the city
has declined with the enormous rise In import
ance Of the outlying parts of the metropolis
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