Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-05-18
NEWS OF THE DAY.
To show the rery age and body Of the Time

To show the uery age and body Of the Times
The South Carolina State authorities, acting
under recent stringent enactments, are adver-
Using large amounts of real estate 10 every
county. to be sold absolutely in the first week
of J une for unpaid arrears of taxes for 1868,
1869 and 1870. As the State guarantees the
titles obtained at these sales great efforts will
be made By dellnquents to save their property,
and it is expected that 81. 800 900 of Arrears will
be received in the State Treasury before the
day of sale.
4 most appalling accident occurred at Ha-
gerstown, Md, yesterday. A number of work
men we're engaged in taking down the walls of
the Court House destroyed by fire last Decem-
ber) preparatory to the laying of the tounda-
ton for the new building, when the west wall,
which had been cracked and rendered unsafe
BY the heat came down with crash and buried
three men IN the ruins, When taken out they
were found to be dead.
The most valuable horse in the world, says
the New York Sun, is Mr.. Bonner colt,
''Startle' He would probably sell for more
money to-day than any other horse IN the
world His time on Frday-two nineteen and
three-quarters-is the fastest trotting ever
made By stallion, and he is not yet FIVE years
old.
At Chicago yesterday, carpenter named
Simmons shot his wife through the head. in
ficting fatal wound, then put bullet through
his own head and fell by her side. The couple
had been married about eight years but lived
unhappiy
On Saturday lady who heads very fashion
able school in Baltimore leaves for Europe, ac-
companied by twelve young ladies from among
her scholars \ courier and man servant COM
plete the party
The ringleaders of the late extensive strike
at the copper mines of Michigan have been
ascertained to be two Cornish men. who have
recently arrived, and are alleged to be members
of the international Society.
A Jury at Utica, New York, yesterday, ac-
Quilted the woman McCarty Of the murder OF
Hall, which took place during the past winter.
The facts of the crime were undenlable.
The SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION which
has been in session at Raleigh y: g., adjourn
ed on the 18th inst, to meet at Mobile Ala,
on Thursday, next before the second Sunday
in May, 1873. Nearly 800 delegates were
present, representing all the Southern States
DR.. James Boyce, Of South Carolina, presided;
+, Calvin Williams, of Baltimore, and Truman
Sumner, of Alabama, secretaries. Reports
were received from the mission and Sunday
school boards At the second days session
SO, 900 was pledged to build and maintain a
church at Rome, Italy. Upon the election of
the presiding officer, DR.. Broadus, delegate,
rose and remarked that when In Palestine a
few months before, he cut piece Of balsam
wood from tree growing on the banks Of the
Jord on, where Jesus was baptised, and anoth-
er piece of wood from the mount whence he
assembled With the two be had made gayel
which he begged to present to the presiding
officer.
Leonard Scott & Co., New York, have re-
published the April number of the Westmin-
ster Review. Contents: Trial by judge and trial
by jury; the political reconstruction of Germany;
the University College of Wales; India; Chris
tan Theology and Modern Scepticism; Napo-
leon the First; the Migration of Labor the
question of Race in France; Spiritualism and
its evidences; the Distribution of Representa-
ton; Contemporary Literature. twill be seen
that the subjects discussed are all interesting
and important.
We have received the June number of the
Galaxy Magazine, published in New York,
with number of interesting articles.
Scribner's Monthly Illustrated Magazine, for
June published in New York. is an excellent
number.
Littell's Living Age, for this week, has good
selections from the late British periodicals.