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

NEWS OF THE DA
$40 sho,o tie rc,y age and badly ofMc Times.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
$40 sho,o tie roy age and badly ofthc Times. "
Richard 3. Osborne: Chief Engineer of the
Western Maryland Railroad, has addressed
communication to George NJ. Bookce, President
of the Company, in which he shows that at
least half million Of tons OF coal per annum
can be transported from Williamsport to Bal
timorc, beginning with COO tons per day, as
soon Us the connection Is made.
Our Ambassador to Great Britain, Mr..
Schcnck, with the members Of the Joint High
Commission, arrived in Liverpool on Saturday.
The Chamber of Commerce presented am ad-
dress to Mr.. Schenck, which was replied to by
our Minister who expressed a hope that the
friendly relations now existing between his
country and Great Britain would be perpetual.
President Grant has set to work on the re-
form of the civil service by the appointment Of
Board of Examiners to determine the qualif-
cation of applicants for employment under the
Government, as authorized by Senator Trum-
bulls amendment to an appropriation bill. The
Board is headed by George W. Curtis, of New
York.
In the u. s. Circuit Court at Boston, on
Saturday, verdict was rendered against the
Phoenix Life Insurance Company, which had
resisted payment Of policy Ola lady who had
been assaulted and imprisoned in Savannah in
1862 and had died from the injuries received.
Full payment to the heirs was awarded.
At Louisville, yesterday, Rev. Mr.. Sutton Il
Methodist minister, on leaving the house Of
Mr. Ellingswortll handed his (Sutton
coat to Miss Ellingsworth, when Il pistol
fell out Of the pocket and was discharged; the
bullet penetrating the abdomen Of Miss Filings
worth, infictiny Il mortal wound.
There is some emigration from New York
Of mechanics and others to North Carolina
through means of speculative land COM
panic<, who have bought cheap tracts
and divided them up into small farms and vii
lagc lots.
y malignant type Of fever, l"caliy called
ship fever has been prevalent at Ilavrr de
Grace Md. during the past week or two among
the culorcd people, chiefly those who are
residing in 4 dirty and nolsOne quarter OF the
town.
Mr.. Bancroft, to whom his credentials rs t.
s. Minister to the German Empire lave been
sent. is certainly DESTROYS OF returning home
Our Government, however. has desired him
to remain at his post,
The Erie Railroad is again involved in troll
BIKE by the strike Of the brakemen employed on
the freight trains, for higher wages. The Com
jany refuse to acccde. and freight traffic on
the road will cease day.
Last Wednesday bank-robber i'll New Iork
was sent to the State Prison for twenty years.
and on Thursday, in the most crowded part of
Broadway, 4 bank messenger WAS assaulted and
robbed OF 81, COG f.; in cash and two checks.
TO relieve the distressed Of Paris, the Pope
has RENTED G0.00O francs in money, besides
several cheats of consccratcd objects for the
churches destroyed during the siege and the
fighting in Paris.
Mrs Laura Fair, the San Francisco mur-
dercss, has received sentence of death, and will
be hanged on the oSth of July. The Judge,
on Saturday, ovcrrulcd the exceptions taken
during the trial
Mr.. Coltax arrived home ut South Bend on
Saturday morning, and was able to stand the
journey very well, despite the hot and dusty
weather.
Last Friday evening Senator Fcnton WAS
Frustrated by Il sudden attack Of fever ut James
town, n Y. lie is now dom" well, although
still confined to his bed.
The breaks in the Mississippi river lcvccs,
have caused al extensive flood in New Or
leans. y large portion of the city is under
water.
The will Of the late Bishop Clark divides his
estate among his wife and children, besides
lcgacics to SEVERAL missionary and educational
purposes.
One Of the Angio-Amcrican telegraph cables
has been rccovercdanl repaired. The steam
or Scandcria will Immediately proceed to re-
cover and repair the other
The total subscriptions to the fund for the
relief of the widows and orphans of the recent
disaster at West PittSton is officially reported
by the committee to be $3.50.
1t is announced in London that Gen. Sicklcs,
is shortly to be married to young and bcauti
full Spanish lady.