Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-01-26
NEWS OF TEE DAY.
I'D shog tbs roy age and Lody Of the Times

Rear admiral Rogers in il dispatch to the Navy
Department, pictures Il condition of political
affairs in China which shows that the nation IS
on the verge of a great revolution. The pre-
sent Government Is attempting to conclllatc
both the Progressives and the ReactiOnists, and
its fall from power is almost certain. Mr.. Sc
ward was well received everywhere throughout
the country. ..
The t. S. steamer Nipsic. of the Darien ex-
petition which left Washington December
| eth. arrived at Minititlan, lsthm,,s ofTehuan-
tcprc january 9th. After landing several en-
ginecrs to search for practicable canal route,
the steamer intended to sail for Vera Cruz
but hearing that no coal WAS to be had there.
she put back for Key West. where she arrived
January 10th.
Mrs. Polly N1clntre, Of Canoe. Winneshiek
county. Iowa, WAS burned to death few days
since. She was nearly one hundred and fifteen
years DID, having been born September S. l156
in New Brunswick, n. j. She was first mar
red at the age of twenty-four. then at seventy
and last at Seventy-fve, her last husband being
much younger than herself, and surviving her
The President has directed General &. &.
Aug,r to subsist Indians temporarily who come
into Forts Laramie and Fetterman, and for that
purpose to purchase 1000 head Of cattle. lie
also directs that they be issued limited
amount of ammunition for small game These
Indians belong to Red Cloud Is tribe, and have
suffered greatly from scarcity of provisions.
Judge Stephens: of Georgia, has been arrest
l.. :. Commissioner on the at1idavits of the
! two coored managers Of the election in Han
cock county whom Judge Stephens had arrest
ed. The charge is q violation of the enforce
mcllt act.
1t is stated in the Washington Republican
that the congressional library contains about
I91GGS bound volumes, besides about 10000
pamphlets The operation Of the copyright
law has increased the library during the last
year to an unusual extent.
\ bill will be introduced into Congress giving
to George +. Robinson five thousand dollars
and Il gold medal for his bravery in saving the
life Of Secretary Seward, when attacked by
Payne on the night of President Lincoln's us
SasSlnatl0n.
Last evening Patrick Collins was killed by
William Morgan in a drinking saloon in Balt-
more The testimony indicates drunken
quarrel between the two men, previously stran-
GERS, in which Collins committed an assault
which cost him his life.
The freight cars of the New York Central
and Hudson River Railroads have been robbed
almost nightly Of goods for months past Two
men were arrested yesterday supposed to be en-
gagged in the rohbcries and are held for exami-
nation.
Lord Pcnzancc. in his capacity as head
of the Probate Court of England, has grant
cd Madame Lynch letters of administration
upon the will Of ex-President Lopez, of Para
quay.
Mr.. James f. Randolph, father Of Gov
Randolph of New Jersey, died at Easton,
Pa, yesterday. Mr.. K. was formerly editor
of the New Brunswick, New Jersey, Fredo-
MAN. and member Of Congress.
The case Of G. c. Bowen, member of Con
gress from South Carolina, indicted for biga-
NY, has been set for trial in the Criminal
Court Of the D. c., on Monday, February
18th.
Female students continue to attend clinical
lectures in Philadelphia, but the male students
remain hostile and the other day created a
slight disturbance at Blocksley Hospital.
Thomas Garrett, well-known as i prominent
abotionist, especially as friend of escaping
slaves, died in Wilmington DEL: yesterday,
aged 50 years.
Mr. Alex. Caldwell was yesterday elected Z.
S. Senator from Kansas for six years from the
fourth Of March next He is 4 Radical.