Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-07-27
NEWS OF THE DAY.
$50 show the very age and Jolly ofhe Times.

A old-headed cane, formerly belonging to
the late President Lincoln, has been bequeatb-
ed to John Bright, NJ. P, by the late Dr.
Smith the u. S. Consul for Dundee. 1t was
the wish of President Lincoln that, on the death
of DR.. Smith, to whom he gave the cane,
it should 60 to Mr. Bright.
In Cincinnati new sort of piano has been
invented and patented during the present
month. The peculiar feature of the invention
is that, instead of strings stretched across the
sounding board, small steel tongues, each with
a hook or arm on either side, are attached to
the sounding-board, and struck by hammers.
w. 4. Hayne, colored, member OF the South
Carolina Legislature, has had j. Lombardo,
also colored. barber, of Charleston, arrested
and held to bail in the sum OF one thousand
dollars for violation of the civil rights bill in re-
fusing to shave the honorable gentleman.
At meeting of the Baltimore Bar, yester
day. resolutions expressive Of regret at the
death of the late VIM Meade Addison were
adopted. Several gentlemen made brief ad-
dresses, complimentary to the life and charac-
ter of the deceased.
Somerset county MD. papers give the par
ticulars of tornado in Hungary Neck, in that
county, last week. The Princess Anne Herald
says that its force was terrific. The width OF
the line it pursued was about two hundred
yards.
The Secretary of the Treasury has accepted
the application of the Merchants Dispatch
Transportation Company for permission to
transport goods in bond without appraisement
to all the ports, enumerated in the act establish
ing this system.
At the auction sale of the Ohio portion Of
the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad yes
terday, at Akron, the entire property was
bought by the Trustees, Senator Thurman
General Mcclellan and W. B. Duncan for ST.
49,, 500.
Commissioner Peasonton has offered Q re-
ward Of 5000 for the arrest and conviction OF
the parties who murdered revenue officer at
New York last week whilst attempting to ar
rest the owners of an illicit whiskey still.
By u collision on the Toledo and Wabash
Railroad last night, about sixteen miles from
ST. Louis, between freight train and gravel
train, six men were killed. The number woun-
ed is not given.
\ suit against the Western Union Telegraph
Company for damages caused by an error in
transmitting Il CIPHER despatch, was yesterday
decided in Cincinnati in favor Of the deten-
dants.
Rev. Father Francis Nayicr Iii Maria, OF
the order Of Jesus, died Oh Sunday evening at
St. Joseph's Hospital, in Philadelphia. The
deceased was born in the Kingdom Of Naples.
May, 18th, 1903.
The Labor Exchange in San Francisco has
in three years found employment forever eight
thousand women, and more than twice that
number of men, This year they have found
places for >, ~ women and Ills men,
The telegraph on Tuesday made the singular
statement that whole herds of cattle OH the
western pastures we're attacked with blindness
The German school teachers Of the L. S.
hold their second annual Commencement at
Cincinnati from July Dist to August Sd.
Secretaries Boutwell, and Delano and Attor-
ney General Akermon have returned to Wash
ington.
General Butler is out in favor Of prohibit
DRY liquor law for Massachusetts,.