Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-11-22
NEWS OF THE DAY.
"7o show the very age and body Of the Times

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provision of June 6, 1872, for reducing the
Internal Revenue Districts of the country from
two hundred and thirty to eighty, by the flrst
of January next, will ask Congress at the
approaching session to extend the time tor
consolidation. and meanwhile to consider new
system for collecting the internal revenues,
which is embodied in bill that contemplates
the abolition entirely of the Offices of Assessors
and Assistant Assessors, and makes provision
for the collection of all taxes by the sale OF
stamps.
On last Saturday evening a man named
Wylie, formerly citizen of Hartford county,
but now an inmate of the Maryland Insane
Asylum, made an assault on Mr. Lackey, who
has been patient at the institution for
twenty six years When discovered by DR..
Steuart, the resident physician, Wylie had
Lackey under him and was beating him cruel
ly. The unfortunate man was not able to tell
anything concerning the assault. lie fingered
until yesterday morning when he died from the
injuries received at the hands of his insane iel-
low patient.
A firm of New jersey silk dealers arc about
to have very important matter tested III the
Courts. Some of their operators are on strike,
| and have by threats of violence prohibited
others trom working Two Of the ringeadcrs
have been arrested and committed to jail on
the charge of conspiracy. 1fiudicted and tried
| it will be authoritatively determined whether
strike which prevents men from working is
| Conspiracy IN contemplation OF law, or not
An ecclesiastical rights bill, prohibiting the
issue of DEGREES of accommodation, has been
submitted to the Prussian Diet 1t declares
that any clergyman who shall, by name, threat
en- with punishment, on decree or proclaim as
punishable, subject of Prussia, shall be liable
to fne of 5000 thalers, or two years lmprlsou,
meut, and be ineligible to office for the term OF
five yerrs
Rinchart's statue of the late Chief Justice
fancy will be presented to the State of Mary
land on Tuesday, December TO- The prcsen-
tatiou will take place in the Senate Chamber
at Annapolis. S. Teackle Wallis. esq, will ap-
pear for the Memorial Committee on the occa
sion, and Gov Whyte for the State.
The brothers Macombs, Of Oblou county,
Tennessee, had an employee in their mill
named Saunders with whom they had quar-
rel, in the course of which Saunders was shot
in the side. He returned the fire and killed
both brothers.
The widow of Avery D. Putnam, who was
killed by Foster while stepping from street
car in New York, has brought an action against
the Seventh Avenue Car Company for dam
ages sustained by her in the loss Of her hus-
baud
The Spanish Premier, yesterday announced,
in the Lower House Of the Cortes, that the
Government would take energetic action TO
crush the Carlist movement in Catalonia. Bull
letnS yesterday afternoon reported klug ANA
deus slightly better.
4 telegram from New York says that the
police there have arrested u man supposed to
be the robber and murderer of Mr.. Peay,
whose mysterious disappearance from she
Brandreth House, in New York, was mention
ed in yesterdays Gazette
A London dispatch reports that the bark
Samuel Larrabee, from Savannah, aud the bark
Lanercost, from Baltimore, were lost at sea-,
and every person on board both vessels per-
ished.
The American Woman Suffrage Association
is now 10 session at ST. Louis. Lucy Stone
Blackwell, Julia Ward Howe, Mrs Cutter and
other we'll known ladies Of the strong minded
persuasion, are present.
A Brooklyn lady has recovered $4,000
against the Southside Railroad Company for
injuries sustained 10 the accident at Breslan
last summer.
The Mayor of Boston has appointed a
committee of FIVE scientific getlemen to inVesti
gate the cause OF the fire and the meaus used
to put it out, and to report upon the same.
Governor Yarmouth has issued proclama-
ton calling upon the newly elected Legislature
of Louisiana to meet in extra session on Mon
day, the 7th day of December next.
The pugilist Samuel Collyer, has found
his way out to Little Rock, Arkansas, and is to
take part in prize fight near that city on Sat
urday next.
The official returns Of the late election 10
Maryland, filed With the Secretary of State at
Annapolis, show that Greeley S majority is 927
The Australian Legislature has passed bill
permitting the marriage of a widow err to de-
ceased wifes sister
In the French National Assembly yesterday.
The trial by jury bill passed by vote of 46l to
lis.
The new Minister from Chill to the Holy
See presented his credentials to the Pope yes
terday
\ special convoy from the Republic of Hayti,
a General Brce, has arrived at Berlin to open
diplomatic relations with Germany.
The Society of the Army of the Cumberland
is holding its annual reunion at Dayton, Ohio.
4 VESSEL SUNK BY A SwoRDFlsH.- "A dis
patch from Levuka, the capital Of the Fiji Is
lands, announces the total wreck of the schoon-
er Trent, after having been attack led bby a
monster sword6sh. Itappears that the Trent
left Levuka on the 18th of December last OF a
labor" cruise, and called at Rewa, which she
cleared on the Goth. On the 9th February
something struck the vessel, and directly after
wards water rushed into the cabin from large
hole 10 the quarter On looking over the side
it was discovered that an immense sword6sh
had attacked the vessel, and was banging by
its sword to the ships side. The fish was
caught, and on its being hauled on board it
was found to measure twelve feet in length,
and four and a-half feet round the body. Its