Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-05-27
NEWS OF THE DAY.
$40 sLoso tic rery age and boc'y attic Times.

Yesterday was busy day at the Baltimore
Custom House, there being seven clearance>
for and fourteen entries from foreign ports. -
Among the arrivals was the steamship Leipzig.
from Bremen and Southampton, with q large
and valuable cargo and over eight hundred
passenger<-hy much the greatest number yet
brought by any vessel OF this line.
The scheme for establishing a House o!
Refuge for the colored children of Baltimor
$ now inaugurated, and the corporators yester
| lay afternoon voted to rent farlu OF tit.
.crcs, and commence operations on the tarL
| ,chOvl system as soon as SlJ.0O0 can be OBJ
;a!ned.
The Chinese Doctor Liposi, in San Francisc'
Yesterday received permission TO testify in Il
Justice Court. He had made arrangements
10 take out warrant in the Federal Court uIi-
der the Ku-kiux bill, whercupon decision
against HIM Was reversed an be WAS permlttel
10 testify.
Vegetables are arriving in NowYork from the
South in great numbers, especially by the
Charleston line, 400 tons Of which were reccv-
I'd BY steamer. New potatoes arc now receir.
ed in large quantities FROM South Carolina and
! Georgia.
Extensive smuggling operations extending
over period of several months, and involving
nearly $4,000 have recently been discovered
BE- officers of the Special Treasury Department
in New York. 1t is alleged that some OF the
officers Of the ocean steamers arc implicated.
The country around Ottawa in Canada is
threatened with repetition Of the terrible
fires of last year The whole country side
around Pembroke, Chelsea, Buckingham and
Gotimeau Point is filled with dense clouds Of
smoke. The fires are spreading rapidly.
The Methodist Bcol; Concern affairs have
assumed more troublesome, if not more Sc
rious aspect. and the full Book Committee
have been called together 10 make some final
and satisfactory disposition of the case
The prize-6ghters Edwards and Collins who
fought eiehty-iv- rounds near New ork
Thursday, have been committed to the 1ombs
in default Of So, 900 bail to answer at the Court
Of General Sessions.
y dispatch from Wiuona, Min. says The
first train bound east crossed the Mississippi
river at $50 this morning Great crowds
lined the river banks Trains hrncetorth will
pass regularly 10 st. Paul and west hy the
bridge.
Governor Bowie has called the Maryland
Agricultural and Labor Convention to meet in
Baltimore on Thursday next. The Emigraut
Union will assemble on Tuesday evening to
appoin, deleeatS.
The San Francisco Bulletin charges that 4
ring has been formed there which includes
scvcra! prominent politicians, to deiraud the
Government out Of the Marine Hospital pro
perry in San Francisco.
The coal miners in Pennsylvania continue to
resolve to resume work On the terms offered
by the operators But few now remain idle.
\ shock of all earthquake was felt last Sun
day morning at halfpast one o clock at Roches-
ter. Syracuse and other places.
The Columbia Is c. Union, a Democratic
paper, hears rumor that counter organizations
are forming in that state to meet the ku-klux.
The missionary worl, of the Presbyterian
Church during the past year cost S373,S0l. |
and tor the present year $500, 900 is asked.
Vice President Coltax was decidedly better
Yesterday and all the symptoms are favorable
tor recovery ,