Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-05-06


was granted.
Rev. James b. Ayirctt, the Principal OF the
Dunbar Female Institute Of Winchester, III
tends becoming the Pastor Of the Episcopal
Church in the Parish composed of Catoctln
Furnace, Mechancstown and Liberty. III Fred
erlck county, Ald.
With the exception of Harrison county, the
Flick amendment has been carried throughout
West Virginia. and by large maoritieS. The
next important local matter to come before the
people of that State is the vote on holding
convention to generally rex iSc the constitution.
The American Colonization Society an
nouuces that thousands Of people Of color are
pressing upon it for passage to Liberia In
Elizabeth City, y. C., 4 Freedman Immigrant
Aid Society has been formed III aid OF this
movement.
The wife and children of Mr.. Ruth, of Law
renee, Kansas, who died recently from the et-
fects, it is supposed, Of poison administered BY
! physician, swOrc vengeance against the latter:
while standing over the dead body OF the
victim.
A freshet in the Hudson river has overhowed
the docks at Troy and Albany, and the tide at
New York yesterday was unusually high. and
flooded the cellars in South and West streets,
and in Jersey City deluged the easements for
distance Of three blocks from the river.
Caleb Gushing has been appointed Attorney
for the L. S. in claims Of citizens of this Gov
ernncnt against Spain, to be adjudicated under
Arrangements made by Minister Sickles, Feb
rrary 18th, 1871.
The subscriptions to the new Government
loan Yesterday ran as low as fifty thousand dol
lars. If they fall off much more they will not
pay the expenses OF advertising. 80.
A boat. with Lieutenants Ashbury and Nor
rison L. S. \. and six men on board was cap
sized in the Niagara river. on Friday, and all
hands were drowned.
Shipments Of wheat have been recently made,
by an English firm in st. Louis, to Baltimore,
for European shipment, at eighteen cents per
buShcl.
The Raleigh Telegram says the fishing sea-
son along the North Carolina coast and eastern
rivers has been the most extraordinary known
for years.
Texas cattle are coming into the Baltimore
market in large quantities.
The probability is that there wi! bc FIJI
Senate on Wednesday next
The father of Gov Hoffman died in New
York yesterday. .. .''.
At Lewiston. Maine, yesterday, the ground
was covered with snow.
The rainy season has just commenced in
Havana.
WASHINGTON ITEMs-'The news concerning
the health Of Mr.. W. W. Corcoran is not so
favorable. He is growing percertibly weaker
aud his cough is no better. Ar examination
made by his physicians revealed the fact that
his right lung is diseased
Mr. James w. Baggott native Of Fredcricks-
burg, Va, and for upwards of thirty years il
citizen Of Washington, died at his residence i'll
this city yesterday, of disease of the heart
The formation of q District colored regiment
under the title OF the 'Nationa Territorial
Guards" has been determined on.
During the heavy rain yesterday, the waf1r
pressure broke open sewer in Virginia avenue
and the water rushing across Virginia avenue
nearly inundated the dwelling of Mr.. Caye,
who, with his family, had barely tine to escape
before his house was flooded. ..n
Benedict Eolkert was arrested yesterday for
assault and battery with intent to Kill his wife,
Rosa Benedict keeps lager-beer saloon and
is charged with having beaten his wife over the
head with billy. and the chances arc that she
may not recover.
The Radicals scrcnaded Mr. \. G.. O-lway
asst night, and Gov Cooke and others made |
Radicals speeches.
An attempt was made last night to set fire to
he store of Mr.. Van Doran, on South A. street.
\ large mass ofpapcr, saturated with Kerosene,
lad been placed in the cellar, the smoke from
r,rn y ,rI, ,.1
Who eXtinguished the flames before any damage
lad been done
Gen. \. p. Chapman is lying seriously i'll at
lis rooms. Dr. Noble Young, his physician,
S in constant attendance The illness is pro-
'ably caused from his eXertonS du ng the late
ampalgn.
The great game Of base ball for the cham
,lonshlp of the United States, between the
BOSTON Club, of Boston, and the Olympics of
his city, came off this afternoon, on the ground
t the latter, and was won by the Boston Club.
he score being 90 to IS.
COOP OLD PEopLE-Orr correspondent
T. f. e., M.iting from Goshen, Va, in
orms Us that there is an old gentleman named
Ir. u Kelso, living near Bells Valley, in
county, whose father and mother
we'd together as man and wife for the remarka-
ly long period of sixty eight years, and raised
family of twelve children, eight Of whom are
till living-two in the west aud the other six
the immediate vicinity Of Bells Valley.
he oldest child is near seventy years of age,
nd the youngest near fifty. The old lady, the
bother of these children, is still living in the
.me house into which she moved when she
as married, over seventy years ago. The old I
entleman died about four years ago, in about /
is nlnety-ffth year. This aged and happy cou- ,
lie were never known to utter a cross word to
ach other, and the old man was never known
, strike one Of his children The old lady is