Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-05-25
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NEWS OF THE DAY.
40 shov the ve,y age and body Of the Times

| \ dispatch from Chicago, dated yesterday,
says:-Last evening terrific tornado passed
over several counties on the Mississippi river,
in the central portion of eastern Iowa and west
! ern Illinois. 1t appears to have moved 10
southwark direction Accounts from Des
Moines county. Iowa, and Adams county, Hi
nos, state that every movable thing 10 its track
was swept away.
Railroad companies in more than one instance
have been made to pay roundly for injuries
suffered by travellers on their line, but the
heaviest verdict was given inBaltlmore yesterday
in favor of Mr.. Alsop, against the B T. o.
Company The damages awarded for his brok-
en- arm and lost money were $4,000, but the
! Company have made an attempt to get new
trial.
The Centennial Commission, to which is en-
trusted the duty of making all the arrange
ments for celebrating the hundredth anuiversa
~ of the Declaration of Independence, has de-
cided that the Centennial Exposition shall
open at Philadelphia on the 10Th of April, 1876,
and close on the 10th Of October OF the
same year.
The Baltimore Sun of yesterday says: The
Southern Maryland Railroad Company aud the
Washington and Point Lookout Railroad Com
pauy each has charter to construct road be-
tween Washington city and Point Lookout,
Md, and each, according to the Leonardtown
Beacon, has made commencement IN st. lnl-
goes district, ST. Mary's county, at grading
In the Methodist General Conference yester-
day the committee on episcopacy reported
resolution that one new bishop take his resi-
dence at or near each of the following places ;
Boston, Cincinnati, st. Louis, Chicago, At
lanta, San Francisco, Omaha or Council Bluffs
and St. Paul; after considerable discussion
the report was adopted.
At a dress parade of midshipmen at the Ma
val Academy, at Annapolis yesterday, an order
referring to the conduct of Midshipmen Nc.
Lean and Gait, who jumped overheard and
saved MdShipman Carter, who fell from alott,
on the Dale, fifty feet into the water. was pub
licy read.
The story which was telegraphed from
Brooklyn to Western paper some days since,
to the effect that Mrs. Harold had committed
suicide because she had been seduced BY, ex-
President Andrew johnson, is denied. 1t is
said that it was the upfounded scandal that
drove her to suicide
The latest foreign dispatches state that the
steamship Baltimore has been cotton off the
rocks at Hastings, and has been towed to port
for repairs The disaster could not have been
so great as reported, since If appears that the
vessel may be saved.
With the beginning of the summer travel on
the Hudson river, commences the rlvalres OF
the respective steamboat lines running from
New York to Albany and Troy. The rate of
transportation is much lower at present than
for several years past.
New York recently adopted the common
sense law that acquaintance with the facts OF
the case shall not disqualify from service as
juror upon trial, any man who may be other
wise able to render a fair verdict
The General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church, now in session at Detroit Michigan,
yesterday designated the Central Presbyterian
Church 10 Baltimore as it next place OF meet
ing
Stokes, the murderer Of Fisk, will not be tried
yet. The case has again been postponed for a
month to permit the procuring Of some myth
cal testimony from England.
The Liberal demonstration which was to
take place in New York on Tuesday has been
postponed.
Andrew johnson has expressed his willing
ness to run for Congress should his friends in
sist upon it.
The new Bishops of the Methodist Church
were ordained in the General Conference yes
terday.
WASHINGTON IrENs.-Yesterday evening
Henry C. Ellis, stonecutter, in going down
et.;rs Of h;s residence missed step and fell
breaking his neck. He died instantly, He
was Past Master of Lebanon Lodge of Free
and Accepted Masons.
The Secretary of the Treasury has issued an
order closing the various Offices in the Treasury
Department on Decoration Day, so far as can
be done consistent with proper regard for
the interests of the public service.
At the session of the Homeopathic Conven-
ton, yesterday, the bureau of organization,
registration and statistics was directed to pre-
pare new constitution and bylaws.
On Thursday night of last week the merch
,,t mill Of Nashville IN RocEinob.n, ouned