Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-06-08
NEWS OF THE DAY.
TO sho,c the rc,y uge and Jody attic Times.

Some strange developments are being made
in the case of Mrs Fair. the convicted San
Francisco murdereS> The laLors of her ply
sicians and lawyers in attempting to save hcl
she has already paid twenty Thousand dollars
for and she is now sued 10y the physician Tor
two thousand dollars more.
The agita,ing house Of Alexander Sroiirhl X
Co.'S. oil refinery, Cleveland. Ohio. exploded
Yesterday. The house, with LOO barrels Of
oil. and the company $ Office Were destroyed.
Adam kehr, an employee. was instantly killed,
and three others seriously burned Loss
$4,000: no insurance.
Two clergymen, late editors Of the Mjni>tc-
rial Union-a Christian paper which appeared
for four consecutive weeks in Chicago--yaledic-
toried as follows Chicago is a good place Tor
a religious paper. providing that three pages
serve Satan and the other one is mixed.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue states
that he does not feel warranted in holding cities
liable to the tax on currency issued by corpora,
tons but he calls attention to there being Il
tax of ten per cent. on the ASSOCIATIONS paying
ont the notes OF any city.
The New Brunswick Government has ap,
pointed three of its members to confer with the
Governments of Nova Scotia and Prince Ed
wards Island with q view to united action
against the adoption of the fisheries clauses OF
the Treaty of Washington.
The Directors Of the New Jersey Railroad
and Transportation Company yesterday APPROX
ed of the action CT the Joint Board Of the
United New Jersey Companies in the lease OF
- roo1 fla D.ppr,.lyonio fnutrn1
\ tremendous hurricane has lately occurred
in the vicinity Of the Fiji Islands. in which the
brig Kentucky, from San Francisco for Mel
bourne, foundered with all on board, including
the Captain 5 wife.
4 brisk trade has lately sprung up in the i'm
portation of refined petroleum from Canada.
which passes through New York in sealed cars
for expectation to Europe.
At the session of the National Typographical
Union, Yesterday, an attempt made to decide
the vexed question of coored membership was
promptly tabled by a large majority.
Gen. Rodman. of the L. S. army, best known
as the inventor of the Rodman gun, and an ar
tllery officer of considerable ability, died at
Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, yesterday.
BY cable We learn the death, on the 9TH i'll
slant. of the distinguished German navigator
Johann George Kohl, in his native city Of
Bremen, in the sixty-fourth year Of his age.
TO attract strangers to Paris suggestion is
made by Paris paper that gaming houses and
be re established.
The obseouies Of the late Archbishop OAR
boy took place yesterday from the cathedral OF
Notre Dame in Paris. with great pomp.
Great floods have devastated large portion
Of New South Wales in the Pacific.
LoUDoUN CoUNTY.-The annual memorial
decoration at Leesburg took place on Satur
day last. The company, composed Of ladies
and gentlemen met at the Court House and
BY calling DR.. r. Fl. Edwards to the
chair; thence they proceeded to the cemetery
and silently and Solemnly, as befitted the occa
sinu fair hands laid their floral offerings on the
graves OF the Confederate dead.
For the season Of the year. We have no recol-
lection Of So protracted spell Of dry, hot wea-
Their as we have been swcltering through tins
The corn and We getablc crops need
rain badly but the wheat, now almost ready
for the reaper, might be seriously injured by 4
fall sufficient for other purposes.
Capt j. II. Manning, of Leesburg while on
4 visit toIMr jonah Osburn smear Woodgroyc,
on Sunday last, killed 4 rttlesnakc about three
feet long and extracted from him nine rattles
and Il button. His snakeship WAS discovered
near the house. by some children playing in
the yard. 1t has been i long while since Il
has been found that fur from the
June Term Of the County Court, Judge Ball
presiding. will be held ON Mondy next 18th
INST
On Wednesday last there vas :, floral dcc9r;,-
ion Of the graves of the federal dead buried
n the National Cemetery 1T Balls Bluff
we understand that speeches were made by
Messl$ Warner. Nichols and Downcy Of Lees
burg.
Rowles ludly, i negro man living in the
nelghborhood of Gum Spring. died ON We'd
1esday lust. at the advanced age Of one hun
trcd and nine yearS.-ilS gathered from what
; regarded by those who knew him as al au-
hentic record. This is the third death in that
lelShhorhocd since the war. where the PARTIES
lau passed their five score years.
We are informed by gentleman from Philo.
mont that teams we're yesterday sent 10 the
River after the timbers for the
[crrlcks to raise che marble from the l.nu,lonn
larrrS. -LDmhjpN Wi7ur.
WASH. X Rich. Il. R--Thc Richmond En-
ulrer says the prospects are now in the high
st degree promising for the early completion
t the all-rail line to Washington underline aus
ices OF the l'enna. Central Go. The latest |
ivees in regard to the progress Of the work |
n the Washington and Richmond road are |
lat between Quantico and Washington there |
C fifteen hundred hands now at work; that the |
'ad be-. will be completed and ready for the
MS ty the 18th Of September; and that the !
hGiie route will be open for trade and travel
;; the middle Of December.
The Staun,on Spectator says the proprictors
the White Sulphur have invited the Fifth
giment of Volunteers, in Baltimore to visit
lie Springs this Summer and encamp upon
lie lawn. 1t is said that Gen. Beauregard has
teptcd an invitation Ia spend the summer at
IL same Springs