Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-08-30
NEWS OF THE DAY.
TO sho,o the ue,y age and Jo'ly of the Time

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The Attorney General of the i. S. has de-
cided that all tobacco stored in bonded ware
houses and Withdrawn for sale or consumption
before lst OF July, 1872, is subject to the tax
prescribed by the act OF July, 1868, and that
all tobacco in bonded warehouses on the lst
day Of July Withdrawn after that date tor the
same purposes is subject to the tax prescribed
BY the act of June, 1872.
The Geneva Tribunal was in session three
hours yesterday and adjourned until to-day.
Only the members of the Court and the secre-
tary were present. 1t is reported that the
question of interest, which was expected to be
brought up, was again postponed, and pro-
pusal in reference to a continuance or the pro-
ceedings 10 secret was debated.
The bronze statue of Sir Walter Scott, which
is to be erected in Central Park, New York,
will be shipped from Edinburgh to-day. This
is the first work Of art produced in Scotland es-
pecially for America A bust of the distin-
guished novelist and poet, which is to be sent
to St Louis will soon be finished.
A tornado passed over Jacksonville, Illinois,
on Wednesday night, which unroofed two wool
en- mills, threw down the walls of church
which was in the process of erection, upset a
number of houses and barns, snapped Oft forest
trees and shade trees, and did much damage TO
other property.
The outrages of Mexican raiders upon Amer.
lean citizens near the Texas frontier are testi-
fed to by Mr. King, a cattle raiser, who has
been one of the chief sufferers, and recently
three more Texans have been murdered by the
outlaws.
On Friday last, during storm, the stable
and storehouse of J. O. Dickinson, in Kama
wha county, w. Va, was burned by lightning,
with farming implements and other contents to
the amount Of $1,000.
The St. Louis Republican announces the
death of James Long, who removed to the
West with his father, Lawrence Long, from
Caroline county, Va, 10 1895. lie was ma
tive of Port Royal, in that county.
General Mcclellan refuses to lend the use of
his name to the spectators who have been
working up the Arizona diamond discoveries,
and who had put him forward as President Of
the company Incorporated, to sell stock.
The New Jersey Radical State Convention
met at Trenton yesterday. Secretary Robson
made speech. The only business before the
Convention was the selection Of District and
Senatorial delegates.
Henry V. Clinton, alias E. Washburn, was
arrested in Baltimore, on Tuesday, on the
charge of having been accessory to the recent
bank robbery 10 that city.
A Vienna dispatch informs US that the ex
Empress is sinking fast and that no hopes are
entertained of her recovery.
Mara, the Philadelp hia rufian who attempt
ed to murder McMullin, was yesterday ar
rested.
James Gordon Bennett jr., and party left
Chicago for the plains yesterday morning on
hunting expedition
VIM. NJ f. Round has been appointed as
sistant commissioner from the United States to
the International Exposition at Vienna.
COL VIM. B. Hamilton has been nominated
as the Democratic candidate for Congress in
tie Fourth District of New Jersey.
The Radicals of the Fourteenth District of
New York have nominated John H. Ketchum
for Congress.
Several cotton operators in Lancashire, Eng
land, have failed in consequence ofunfortunate
speculations in cotton ahoat.
The Commonwealth began the examination
of witnesses yesterday in the Scheppe case.
Elk Governor Curtin, recently returned from
Russia, is dangerously i'll in Brooklyn.
The engine makers of the city of Berlin were
on strike yesterday.
Professor Tyndall has perfected a new resp-
rator for 6remen, iu which the solid particles
of the densest smoke are arrested by films of cot
ton wool wetted with glycerine, and the most
puDgent gas by layers of charcoal. By this
simple means, tiremen can remain within burn
ing buildings for upwards Of and hour at