Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-01-19
NEWS OF THE DAY.
':75 shou the re,y age aud Loely Of the Times

"T6 shou the re,y age and Jo'!y Of the Times y
The effect Of the late could snap i'll Florida is
said to be very disastrous The banana, lemon
and orange tress in some localities have Il withe
red appearance, and are injured to such an ex-
tent that they will produce no fruit this year.
Judge Edwards, of Micanopy, lost 25,0Oo Or
anges. and it is stated that 30O,0OO organge
tree on the St Johns river were totally de-
stroyed.
The committee of the late French Ladies
Bazaar. in New York, have made a remittance
to Mr. Stafford Allen, the treasurer Of the So
ciety of Quakcrs in London, in the shape of a
check for e3,5717 As sd, on Barring 4 Brothers,
in aid of the suffering families inhabiting the
districts in France which have been devastated
BY the War.
The statement that the buffalocs are deserving
the plains is pronounced fiction. They cover
the plains for miles and miles. The railroad
track bothers them. They consider it 1 snare,
and will not cross it. They run along by the
side of the train for miles. and when they come
to culvcrt dive under
Andrew Brentling. who was sentenced to be
hanged in Allen county Ohio next Friday, and
whose sentence the Governor has committed
for eleven weeks, telegraphed to Gov. Hayes,
through the sheriff, that he desired to be hang,
ed on next Friday. according to the original
sentence.
Mr.. Blair who has been nominated for the
L. s. Senate by the democrats Of the Leglsla-
ture Of the State of Missouri, was born in Lex
ington, Kentucky, on the 10Th Of February,
ISL, and has consequently very nearly COM
pleted his fitch year.
On last Thursday policeman Davidson, Of the
Maryland Oyster Police Force, arrested four Of
the Deals Island oyster feet, upon charges
connected with the display Of their numbers
They were severally fined one hundred dollars
and costs.
The Chicago papers state that the snow storm
which set in there and the surrounding country
on Saturday night was the severest known for
many years 1t prevailed for forty-eight hours
with great fury. The snow fell to the depth OF
over twenty inches on a level
\ man named Felcker, pretending to be a
detective, threw New York into immense ex
element by declaring he knew who the Nathan
murderer wasand could produce various articles
both to the murderer and his victim
He has turned out to be 4 swlndlcr.
4 letter from Atlanta, Georgia, January 10,
says ''While our political horizon is brighten
ing, am sorry to say that our financial cond-
ton is far from being satisfactory. As a State
we are. decidedly poorer than we were twelve
months ago.
The L. S. Marshal for the Eastern District
of New York has brought suit against Brook
lyn newspaper for libel, claiming $50, 600 dam
ages. The paper charges that the Marshal has
not performed his duties nsuppressing whiskey
frauds.
1t is said that several thousand dollars in
specie have been transferred from the secret
service fund to the San Domingo commission to
cover expenses 1t will be remembered that
Congress appropriated no money for the excur-
sion. "
The death of Baron Saard, a distinguished
Frenchman, is announced. At the time OF the
of Sedan the Baron was, Director of
the Ministry Of Foreign Affairs, and was cs-
pecially noted for his honesty and frankness.
The oft-disappointed Millerites Of New Eng
land have set adother day for going up'-the
| 18th OF Fubruary-and they have already COM
menced to get excited and enthusiastic over
their ontemplated journey.
A new brake has been adopted ON one of the
English railroads, in consequece of the recent
frequency of accidents, which is able to stop a
train going thirty miles an hour in twenty-five
seconds. -'.i".-'r
Miss Winnie Ream claims that the raw marble
out of which she chiseled the Lincoln statue
cost her two thousand dollars in gold and that
the expenses have largely overreached the origi !
nal appropriation of $4,000.
Stephen Colwell, a well-known citizen of
died on Sunday, in the seventy
first year of his age. He Was engaged in the
ron business tor many years, and was the author
Of number of works on public questions.
Walter Lennox, once Mayor of Washington,
has been committed to an insane asylum. Mr.
Lennox was refugee in Richmond during the |
war. and suffered term of imprisonment, by |
Federal order, in Fort McHenry.
\ subcommittee of the committee ON APP
oropriations consisting of Representatives Sar-
cent. Beck and Lawrence have commenced
akng testimony with regard to the alleged
Indian frauds.
The House judiciary committee have decided
o report bill to divide the State of Virginia
nto two judicial districts. thus creating one
lew u S. Judge marshal and district attorney.
The trial of Jay F. Galentine, for the muir
Ter of his wifes seducer, DR.. W. Il. Jones,
'egan in Toledo, Ohio, on Thursday, and ere
ties an intense sensation in that locality,
1t is stated that Germany is apprehensive Of
| famine and the very horrors which are NOW
setting down upon France. ."-
Edward c. Delevan, for many years the lead
r of the temperance cause in New York: died
N the 18th instant.
n r,lnor was started in Washington. yestcr-
lay. that Paris had capitulated.