Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-03-18
NEWS OF THE DAY.
"7o sho,o the ve,y age and bo'3y ofthe Times


the reelection Of Grant.
Prince Napoleon is in Rome and has had an
interview with Victor Emmanuel.
Transactions in Erie stock on Saturday were
very heavy in New York, 1873, 100 shares chang
ing hands
Three Communists, who has been convicted
of numbering hostages: were shot at Satory,
France, on Friday last.
Captain Andrew Heath, the Oldest Free Ma
son in the State of Maine, died at Bath on
Saturday, aged 90 years.
The investigation into the official conduct of
United States District Attorney Bateman was
concluded on Saturday, and Mr.. B. exonerated.
The Montgomery Guard, military organza-
ton of Boston, have issued a challenge to drill
for the national championship, and for $500 to
$1,000.
The balance 10 the Treasury at Washington
at the close of business on Saturday was: Coin,
Sll6O74, 5S7; currency, $685. OBJ certificates
$50, $50, 500.
The Archbishop Of Cologne has formally ex-
communicated several Professors Of the Uni
versity of Bonn for their rejection Of the dogma
of Infallibility.
The Massachusetts Legislative Committee
have reported a resolution to amend the Con-
stitution so as to give women the right to vote
and hold office.
Charles W. Butts, lawyer of brief residence
in Washington was arrested in that city yes
terday on the charge Of licentiousness towards
girls in public schools.
A cable dispatch on Saturday states that
England and Uruguay have come to an open
rupture, and that all friendly relations between
the two nations have ceased
DR.. Howard, who was sentenced to death,
but whose sentence has been committed to i'm
prisonment for life, quilted Havana on Friday
for Spanish penal settlement on the west
coast Of Africa.
1t is stated that Jay Gould has under his
control sl2, 000, 600 of Erie stock, one-half of
which is his private property. 1t is also stated
that Gould retired from the Erie Board merely
to renew the fight.
Theirs has presented definite proposal to
the French Assembly for raising $4,000, 900
francs by the taxation of textiles, and $4,000,
600 on other raw materials. The proposal gave
rise to warm debate.
The number of deaths By small pox in Phlla-
delpha last week was one hundred and twenty,
an increase of two over the previous week. In
New York last week the deaths from the same
cause amounted to seventeen.
1t has been ascertained that the Initiative
steps in the Treaty of Washington began one
year previous to the commencement of the
formal negotiations in Washington and that the
British Cabinetat thattime suggested modlfca
tions as the case required.
Ohio, Illinois aud Iowa have each adopted
in their State Legislatures bills repeating the
law which prohibited readers Of the newspaper
reports of the cases on trial, from sitting on
lures. Missouri and New York have the sub
ject under consideration.
1t is understood that David Dudley Field,
has rendered his assistance to Mcssrs johnson
and Stanbery in the argument of the case of the
South Carolina ku-klux prisoners before the
Supreme Court of the United States III Wash
ngton The hearing was set for today.
The French Assembly Committee on the
Defence of Paris have submitted report con-
demning the present system Of Notifications
around the city, and the Government has re-
solved to tortify the points occupied by the
German troops during the siege.
St. Patrick's anniversary was observed
throughout Ireland yesterday. No disturb
ances are reported At Drogheda there was a
great open air celebration. at which speeches
we're made unfolding ''Home rule and de-
nouncing the Government tor refusing pardon
to Fenian prisoners.
The New York Assembly has appointed a
committee to investigate the railroad combina-
ton known as the Southern Improvement Com
pany. The appointment of this committee Is a
movement to brea k up the alleged agreement
between the Southern Improvement Associa-
ton and the Oil Ring, about which 50 much
has been said lately.
An immense demonstration took place yes
terday in Rome in honor of the memory of
Mazzlni. The procession was composed of all
the workingmen's societies, with banners, flags
and bands of music A bust of the deceased
was borne along, and after paradlng through
the principal streets, it was taken to the Capt.
to where it was deposited with imposing cere-
monies and speeches Of eulogy
Drs. Parish and Dodge, two American ply
sicans who had charge of Inebriate Asylums,
and are supposed to have original views as to
the treatment of drunkenness as disease, have
received formal invitation from the British
Parliament to appear before committee of that
body to give a detailed history of the workings
of Inebriate Asylums in America. A thorough
investigation of the whole subject is promised
The rs train yesterday morning from Bos-
ton for Springfield was thrown from the track
about mile and half east of Wibraham by
a broken rail- The engine and baggage car
passed over the spot in safety, but the smoking
car, in which we're about twenty five persons,
ran down an embankment and turned partially
over. All the other passenger cars ran off the
track but none off the embankment. Fifteen
or twenty persons, mostly those in the smoking
car, were more or less injured probably none
fatally.
| MARRIED.
March 18th, 1872 at the brides mothers, by
Rev W. G. Hammond, Mr.. CHARLES l..
STEWART and Miss HENRIETTA V. HOW