Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-02-03

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and apply to it the sales of public lands was
then taken up. After debate it was laid over
until Tuesday.
Copies of the speech of Professor Benjamin
8. Ewell before the House Committee on Edu.
cation and Labor, in advocacy of the claims OF
the trustees Of the College Of William and Ma
ry, at Williamsburg, Va, which was destroyed
by the zion frees during the war, were laid
upon the ursk Of each member Of the House
yesterday m~oruipg He asks an appropriation
Of S79. 600, to reimbsrs~ the trustees for their
loss. We hope that this claim, just itself, may
be tavorably acted on.
The Washington correspondent of the New
York Journal of Commerce ~playful|y observe:
that of fifty one monitors now owned by the
United States forty are so badly put together
that after the turrets we're adjusted the shift.
ing of quii 10 the gunuer's cheek would cap
size them Four are still! OF the stocks, where
they are safe, and should remain. OILY five
out of the whole lot, it is reported, are sea-
worthy.
The Georgetown Courier says that the
Priests House, at St. Inigoes Manor, the old
est Catholic residence 10 Maryland, was totally
destroyed by &c on Wednesday evening OF last
week. The Jesuit Fathers lost Nearly all their
wearing apparel AMI many valuable paintings
ard ornaments. besides II a,y lightly cherished
relics If ~cul3u:al tiu,es. on which unfortunately
tn " .~sii-uacs.
Tel ( patches tr Tc,xa- s'a;e
thar ne : 411 :;uIy Of the INT d S'a Is Dis
tit c III; q, Au;in. Texas, has t"und tue
bis against Gov. Davis an S:crr;ary IF Estate
Newcomb, on account of u gu!arities in The
late. election. Private dispa ches Include At
toruey General Alexander al>J among the in
dicted.
The New York Tribune remarks, that with
almost tie single exception ofthe Press, which
sees things through a Custpm-house medium,
the journals Of Philadelphia deuouuce the
election of Gray as State S.uator, as the result
of paIpable fraud, aud Col. Mcclure is urged
to contest the seat before the LEGISLATURE.
1t is said that ST. Luis is still uneasy at the
prospect Of becoming an inland town. The
Mississippi still demonstrates toward Illinois,
threatening to cut a new channel around Bloody
island. The river banks, as high up as the
mouth of the Missouri, are in a state of serious
dilanjdation
Ex-Gov. Wise, of Virginia, ex-Ccngressman
De Jarnette aud William Watts, also of Vir-
GINA aud Isaac D. Jones, Levin L. Waters and
VIM. J. Aydelotte. of Maryland, who compose
the Maryland and Virginia boundary commits
%sioners. are in Washington, and will probably
there hold a conference.
Sir Edward Thornton, the British minister
in Washington, has been applied to from
home to obtain copies Of every newspaper,
periodical and magazine published in the y. S.,
to be placed on exhibition at the International
Exposition to take place in England this year.
The dwelling house Of Captain John K.
Pumphrey, situated in the upper part of Not
tirelan District, in Prince Georges County,
Md, took fire on "Wednesday night and was
entirely construed, together with the whole
contents.
Track laying at the Potomac end of the line
of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad, will
commence as soon as the weather will permit.
at Pope's Greek. A vessel loaded with iron
has been dispatched to the creek.
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Mrs. Leonard Shelter, in Cumberland, Md,
was bitten by a mad dog a few weeks since. She
was attacked few days ago with bydrophobia,
aud in Que of her fits has bitten severely one of
her children aud, it is said, her husband.
Carl Schurz, Gralz Brown, aud Horace
Greeley, are under the fire of the Radical guns
now, every day. They seem, however, to stand
the fire very we'll.
The Congressional committees on
acting Jointly, advised the Postmaster General
to give the contract for the European mail to
the Williams & Guion line, which he has done.
Destructive fires occurred yesterday at Que
bee, Paterson, New Jersy, and Newcastle, Del.
At the later place the Agricultural Works were
burned down.
The English papers of the latest dates at
hand, devote a large amount of space to the
Tichbvrne trial.
Nobody can deny that at tLis-time, stern
winter rules the year"