Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-01-30
Foreign News.

commission has exceeded all expectation.
Foreign News.
Mr.. Gladstone replying to the Bristol Cham
Der of Commerce, who urged the settlement o
the Alabama claims, said that he was assured
that her Majesty's Government had given it
assent to every allowable proceeding looking t.
a settlement, and was stu so disposed, belle, n!
chat the long unsettled state of the controvers..
was disadvantagcous to both countries.
Senior Martos, Spanish Minister Of Foreign
Affairs, has issued circular to the diplomatic
representatives of Spain throughout the WORT
upon the foreign policy of the monarchy. The
document praises in the highest terms the de
votion Of ex Regent Serrano and The late Gen
eral Prim to the welfare of Spain, and says tina
to their efforts, in Il great degree, is due th(
improvement of the finances Of the Kingdom
The foreign policy Of Spain is comp scd in the
words eve desire peace with all nations
General Sicklcs has given grand State ban
quet to the Spanish Cabinet and the diplomatic
corps coinciding with the conclusion of IN i'm
portant negotiation between the United States
and. Spain. ,-.e..
The Italian Senate has adopted resolution
prov ding for the removal Of the Capital from
Florence to Rome on the goth Of june. The
Senate has also, by another resolution, decla' cd
its satisfaction th the engagements entered
into by the Ministry concerning guarantees OF
the independence of the Pope and the liberty
Of the Church
A revolt has broken out among the Tartars
in China, and ut last accounts it had reached
alarming proportions The rebels had seized
many points of importance.
The marriage of Princess Louise with the
Marquis Of Loi lie is fixed for the, Dist OF
March
The small pox has become epidemic in Lon
don, and the rapid increase Of mortality causes
alan m. 49,.
Perc Hyac:athe writes denying the validity
of the Pope IS encyclical syllabus. -
A DIAMOND STo sY.-The New York MAJ
tells of Brooklyn lady who took passage on a
Broadway omnibus, with only So in her purse,
and who was particularly struck by the appear
ance Of fellow-passenger, who was dressed in
the most magnificent style, and wore on one OF
his fingers superb diamond. After getting
out Of the omnibus she found her pocket had
been picked. The editor goes on to say
She wondered, all the way there, who had
picked her pocket, and blamed, alternately, all
the honest people who had ridden with her II
the stage; but she never for moment harbor-
cd suspicion Of the gentleman with the ring
and things. She got home and told her neigh
bors, who conSoled her, in the usual ncighbory
way by Shopping it would be warning to
o4f,
ETC., ETC.. She told her husband, who laughed
at her till she cried, she says, then kissed her
and gave her $40 to buy new purse a
..iiicnd dropping in after dinner, she had to ten
the story all over again Strange to say, he
suspected the gentleman with the solitaire.
WAS he in when you paid you fare p -
'He was
Gould he have seen your purse, and where
yoas! , pgt it? p .o,,..o =, .,n,, ),
Didn't he get up and then sit down again
the second time beside your
HE did, but .
"Whcre's your pocket p
'';;Why, here, said the lady, plunging her
nervous fingers for she was excited by the
cross-questioning) deep into the pocket Of the
dress which she still wore-"rght here And,
God bless me p said she, as she withdrew her
hand again, "as I'm living woman, but here's
the ring r. il. L.g.s.... 81. T. .s.t.,
Sure enough. The exquisite, in abstracting
the purse, had left the solitaire behind him.
\ Broadway jewelcr values it at 81, 800.
Mr. KNOTS speech last week, in the House,
on that great fraud, the ST. Croix and Lake SUI
perior railroad, was a very funny production
We were not astonished that all the members
crowded around the speaker to listen to his sub
lime buresaue Of the future greatness and glory
Of Duluth. .,....
With mock gravity he painted the glories Of
the sandy pine lands, and the absolute necessity
for constructing the road to the ST. Croix river
and psetr~ed the fearful consequences likely to
arise should the bill Ea:' We would have all
the horrows of secession and the reconstruction
measures upon us again with the 18th, 18th
and 10Th amendments--the sixteenth, ofcourse,
going to those blooming damsels who desire to
vote, hold office, drink cockta and tide strad7
de- 49, r. F ianI
Duluth waste be the great beef market rs de-
clared By the mas, which showed that the Pie
gan Indians would start with a drove of bu6a=
loeS, stop over night with their friends, the
Creeks, and the next morning the buftaiocs
would bein the stock yards of Duluth.
Duluth was so exactly in the, centre 0f5tlie
earth that the skycame down around ton all sides
With much ieryor he portrayed the prostitution
of France before an inferior foe, and appealed
most ludicro,lsly to the Speaker # he believed
that it would have occui red had not General
Sherman gone over there and told King vii
liam how he whipped the Pegan Indians