Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-10-18
NEWS OF THE; DAY.
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The Philadelphia Ledger III It's regular
weekly review of the anthracite coal trade yes
terlay, has the following IT he mild weather
Of the past week Or ten days has very much
Sottened the market for anthracite coal
Prices are scarcely maintained at any Of the
coal ceutreS while at New York sales Of coal
aaoat have beeu reported at a decline OF one
dollar yer ton on prices current fortnight ago.
The trade is decidedly dull all round, and ope-
rators in this city are unusually short OF orders.
The next New York public sale Of Scranton
coal, on the last "Wednesday of the month, Is
awaited with considerable solicitudc.
An accident occurred at the Annapolis juno.
tion B. T. o. H. r., yesterday, which resultedin
the death OF Mr. Noah f. Dorsey, who resided
near the Junction. 1t is usual TOR the .Annapo'
lis train. after the passengers get out at the
Junction, to back down to the Wye to turn
| the locomotive Mr.. Dorsey, who had been
seen approaching By persons at the Junction,
was either crossing the track or attempted To
get on the train as it was backing tn the Wye,
when the train IA part OF it, passed over HIM
cutting him nearly in two.
One Of the natural sources OF supply of Eu-
rope is the corn growing region embracing
Hungary. the Dauubian Principalitcs, South
| the reports seuerally indicate small crops, Rou
mania being the only Danuhlian province like
| ly to produce full yield. Hence Europe al
ways all importer Of wheat and coru from
| America. will this wiutcr make I'LL unusually
heavy demand upon Us.
An attempt made by i number nt lumber
dealers in Chicago, Yesterday. To carry up the
price VI lumber from three to four dollars per
|
! thousand feet was arrested by many "t The
| larger and kore respectable dealers, AMI The
| attempted ext0rtion defeated, and lumber Is
now selling at the old prices. Their" are fully
two hundred aud fifty million feet now i'll the
lumber yards of Chicago and the supply will
! continue abundant
The Alexis Ball in New York is To he
thing imposing. Bierstadt is decorating the:
Academy of Music for the OCCASION The rxec-
utive committee subscribed $2U,VnU, and
900 tickets are to be sold to approved per
sons at $lU apiece. The Graud Duke we are
todd is to be introduced to any number OF as
piring yonug ladies', but he IS to be allowed 10
choose all his own partners.
On Sunday, in Warsaw. Ky, tirciiey, i
desperate character shot from L hotel window
at Il nan named Worth, with whom lie had 4
difficulty, aud inflicted q mortal wound. Grid
ley was arrested and imprisoned, aud about
two U clock Yesterday morning party OF men
went to the jail and broke L hllc throug h into
Gridley ) cell. with cruwDarS &c. fired IN, and
| killed the prisoner
Accounts from Northern Kansas say, drStruc,
tive fires have been raging in Deer Creek and
Harrison Creek Valley, extending IL jcllcr-
son county, Nebraska. Several houses, barns,
L.. r.
| have been destroyed and many miles I'll fence
burned. The loss Is cStlmlted at from S3U.ooO
| 10 $5U.uVl.
Bayarl Taylor, vino says that he ha, fire.
lucnly experienced earthquake shocks in 9th
cr countries, AYERS that lin no instance were
they accompanied with such Il Loud and long
continued reverberation' us the shock last
week in Delaware and the adjacent counties OF
Maryland.
The milk dealers Of Orange county. y. Y,
have formed combination to keep up the
price of their product in New York city by
sending thtLcr only enough milk tn cause pro-
| italc rivalry among the consumers, reServlng
! all abuvc this amount tn be- converted Int"
cheese " butter Oh he spot.
Miss CARR: Monroe. nj Boston, Snown Il
| the fla. Girl died ut stu, on bn!rd the
| steamship Virgo. ut disease OF the heart. and
was buried at sea uu Thursday last. This re-
| nak ode siri was lille years o! :gc.and Weigh
Cd nearly four hundred pounds
| .An assault was m;,l,: Yesterday ON Col. W.
I. Pr">>cr, postmaster at Nashville Tcuu.. by
the sons Of cx-tiovcrnor Neil H. Brown. Col
| Pro>scr WAS trllrd To the ground b. severe
| Ulow ON the head. delivered hy uic of tn,
Browns and pistols were drawn
! Capt. Hou>tot. nf the Steamboat llasreI.
has brought suit III tic Federal Court at Mem,
| phi> Tor $40, OtII against the Confederate zen
| era Forrest an'I Others Ior the value 1T arm,
destroyed some gears since. l'y a party u! dis.
gui>,cd mcu.
\ dispatch from Biuyhampton, y. y, says ::
''Thc safe of the hallway Hotel and Susqur
hanna Depot was robbed of $3u.7uO on Sun.
day night The money was funds Of the Erie
| Railway, deposited in the safe by the payma>
ter.
\ bed oil excellent coal iia, been discovered
in the northern portion Of Minnesota and with
| iu three miles OF the Northern Pacific Rail-
road The coal is said to exist in vast body
the >calu, being from twenty Ia fifty feet i'll
| thickness.
| 1t is now known that the recent lire in Chi
! cago destroyed 2.jUO tuus vi br,'ou curu, and
| prices have largely advanced. 1t l., almost IN
possible to buy even coulmon grades uulrr
twelve 10 fifteen cents per pound.
The Agricultural Bureau states officially nat
| the cotton returns of October are no more Il,
vurabfe than those Of the preceding months,
Ia Ito State is the average u! September fully
sustained.
\ telegraph cable between Earha,!c,.S and
Dcmcrara has Lccn successfully laid.
HEAVY RAILROAD OpERATluNS- From
the Knoxville lrenpJ Press, October II. i
We live in day Of momentous financial opera
tons. We chronicled on yesterday, the yur-
chase OF the Knoxville and Kentucky Railroad
by W. B. Johnston Il Co.. representing the
lessecs of the Western and Atlantic Railroad
and the PENNSYLVANIA Central Tor S32Ti 600 -