Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-08-23
NEWS OF THE DA
:. IL show the rrv age and Loely QftAc Times.

4 week ago. in an election row at Trenton,
in Kansas. the terminus Of the Atchson, To-
pcka and Santa Fc Railroad, Texan Was shot
and killed by one McClo>ky, the Texan being
the aggressor. Since that time McClosky has
been appointed policeman, and there has
been teud between him and the Texans,
which eliminated in general fight on Satur-
day night, in which McCloSky and Texan
were killed. and two others mortally and four
seriously wounded.
The scvcnty-Gve millions Of the five per cent
loan allotted to Europe, were all taken before
the close of business yesterday, and subscrip-
tons in excess of this amount were offered.
The American subscriptions yesterday were
$j00,0UO, and it is very probable that to-day
the entire loan, 5000, 600, 900, will be exhaust
ed Applications have been received ut the
Treasury Department for the conversion Of
Fivc-twcntics into the five per cents.
Steamboat travellers at New York have got
TO that pass now that the sudden escape of
steam from the satety-valve startlcS them like
a clap Of thunder in clear sky. 1t is inter-
csting ito the New York Commercial Adverti
SER to see what rapid time even SLOW people
can make toward the bow or stern Of the boat
during the period Of this phenomenon.
Mr.. Frederick Kapp who was honorcd with
both fame and fortune in the United States:
has recently repaid the debt he owes our coun-
try by publishing in Germany, whittier he has
gone to reside permanently, work in which
he Whites the Americans as the most selfish,
money worshippng, dishonest nation in Chris
tendon.
Accounts from every part of the Southern
coast section report immense damage to the
cotton and rice crops, especially cotton, from
the recent heavy and continuous rains and
gales. Reports from the interior, on the other
hand, represent cotton and corn to be suffering
badly from the protracted drought
The steamer Wyoming, reported lost off
Point Judith, was from New York bound to
Providence, with moulding sand She sprung
a-lcak, was abandoned by the crew, and sunk:
The crew reached Naragansett and proceeded
thence to Boston.
The celebration of Italian unity at New
York on Friday, promises to be an imposing
affair. Many societies aud organizations,
whose members sympathize with the Italians,
have offered to join in the display, and the
procession will be very large and brilliant.
In the two weeks between the 10th and 2jth
Of July there were shipped from Rio Janciro
D., 649 bags of coffee for Baltimore, over
thousand more than were shipped to New
York in the same period.
Gr;lsshoppcrs in vast numbers arc appearing
in several of the principal agricultural counties
in Utah. and the deposit of eggs threatens Sc
rously crops of every kind next season.
The first lot Of the new crop of Carolina rice,
say twelve tierceS, cleaned sold at Charleston,
S. c., on Saturday, at II cts. per pound, and
will be skipped to New York by the purchaser.
To-day the great race between the Tyne
crew of England and the Paris crew Of New
Brunswick will be rowcd on the kennebecasss
river.
\ fire occurred yesterday at Lexington, Ky,
totally destroying Virgins block, seven build
ings in all, and involving 4 loss of $4,000.
One of the station houses in Philadelphia
has been ordered to be closed, ''as anuisancc.
OLD-FASnIoNED LlTERATCRE.- The Pitts
burg Chronicle wisely remarks:
I'VE confess that we are old fashioned
enough to prefer the 6ctions of good Sir Walter
Scott to those ingenious compositions of later
times, which will not let the simplest actions go
unexplained, and which find cunning mystery
alike in tying crayat or taking snuff, and in
the forgery of will or the preparation ola
murder
This hits somebody very hard, though it is
evidently but general observation. Since
Dickens died the passion for fictitious litcra-
turc has had nobody to control its evident ten
dcncy towards the meretricious excitements of
what are known as sensational novels Wri-
tiers like George Eliot don't find readers among
the class who are most apt to be injured by such
an appetite, and Sir Walter Scott is to them
but a name. 1t is the disease of the age to
relish what is morbid rather than what is whole
some and rational; ana it is disease which,
we regret to say, is only too rapidly spreading.
N \ Commercial.