Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-06-28
NEWS OF THE DAY.
$40 show the rery age and body ofthe Times.


The long growing dissatisfaction between
Catholic priest, in Hudson city, New York, and
his congregation eliminated on Sunday morn
ing, by about 200 of the latter forming around
the church entrance and denying the priest ad-
mittance when he appeared at the morning
mass After some alteration the priest retlr-
ed without holding service. This morning he
applied at the Police Court for forty warrants
for arrest. ....--.. ..-
"A colored boy ten or twelve years old, in
Wilmington, N: c., on Thursday last, caught
a little child two years old, Of Captain +. S.
Woodford, which vas playing in front OF It's
fathers house, and forced down its throat Il
considerable quantity Of kerosene oil from a
can which he was carrying. The baby was re-
ported as suffering terribly, swollen its mouth
in horrible condition, and not expected to sur
viye.
A petition numerously signed, but with the
various signatures in only three different hand
writings, vas received at the White House
yesterday from colored people OF Dublin, Ala
bama, representing that the ku-Klux roam at
will, murder indiscriminately, and oyerawe the
civil authorities, so that the latter are power
less to execute the laws, &C., CD
Some time ago j. S. Bigby, member Of Con-
gress from Georgia, had one Samuel Hunt APP
pointed Collector of the Second Georgia Reve-
hue District From information subsequently
received at the Revenue Bureau, it was sus-
pected Hunt was not all right, and upon lnves-
tigation it turns out that he was Indicted some
time ago. in Tennessee, for Illicit distiing.
There seems to be no immediate prospect OF
all adjustment ofthe miners difficulty in South
Wales. The strikers are now estimated to mum,
Der 5000. :Apprehensions are felt at Sheffield
on account of a subterranGous fire which was
raging, and which, it was thought, was in an
old coliery which extends to the very centre
Of the town. 70. ;a''--.' 49,
| Veto Hugo defers his visit to the United
States. 1t was stated some time since that the
cosmopolitan society (communists) of New
York had invited him to the mass meeting they
intend to have in that city OH the Fourth OF
July, the invitation being accompanied by an
offer to defray his expenses coming and going.
There was late debate in the British House
Of Commons on proposition for putting IN
end to the payment of sun Of $4,000 Il year
to the heirs OF William Penn. 1t was decided
that this payment could not be put an end to
by Parliament.
Owing to ill-health, had at his own request,
Gen George Stonemau has been ordered be-
fore the army retiring board, in session at San
Francisco. Capt. George B, Hoge has been
ordered before the same board for examination.
The race of the Brooklyn Yacht Club yes
terday is described as having been It spirited
affair. Ten schooners and twenty seven sloops
artcaGdd fb Sggddo from H Bay kgs sDd qpg
At the meeting of the Democratic State
Convention of Maine yesterday, at Augusta,
Mr. G. F. Kimball, of Portland, was nomina-
ted for Governor by an almost unanimous vote.
Miss Harriet Whitehouse, youngest daugh-
ter of Bishop Whitehouse, died suddenly IN
Monday evening, in Chicago.