Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-08-08
NEWS OF THE DAY.
80 sho,o the vey age aud Indy Of Ihe Times

Fires reported in this morning kilograms
Sugar refinery in Boston, loss halt a million,
Que hundred and fifty men throwu out Of em
ployucnt: saw mill. planning mill. salt block,
eight thousand barrels salt and four million
lect Of lumber at Portsmouth, Michigan, loss
$500, 0UU.
Bauton Duncan is out with card in behalf
of the anti Greeley Democratic Executive Com
m;ttee dcnuDciaory of the nomination Of Gree
lev and Brown, and recommending measures
for the appointment OF delegates to the Louis.
vile Convention, September 3D.
An accident occurred on the Western Mary
land Railroad last evening at point near
Fuksburg. Carroll co., by which several persons
are said TO have been injured. The accident &c
Cured to the HagerStown accommodation
train.
Twenty thousand dollars have been placed
by the French government at the disposal OF
the minister of public instruction for the colec-
ton of the necessary Instruments for the OBJ
servation of the transit of Venus, which is to
take lace Oh December Sth, 1874.
As soon as Preside Grant returns to Wash
iugton he will be waited upon by deputation
Of New York merchants to urge more decS-
i've policy with reference to the outrages OF
Mexican banditti along the line of the Rio
Grande.
Judging from the immense number of appli-
cations for space now in the Cincinnati Fair,
this year will eclipse that for any former year.
There is not half room enough 10 the spacious
buildings they have erected, and additions
have been decided on.
An important work is on foot at Washing
ton, no less than the codifcation of marine sig
nails BY the use of which the ships of all ma
tons will be able to communicate at sea though
speaking different languages. .
Secretary Delano is i'll at his home, Mount
Vernon, Ohio. 1t is said that his illness is Sc
rious, as he has telegraphed his son to go to
him immediately.
The last steamer which arrived at San Fran
cisco from Japan, brought intelligence of the
occurrence of cholera IN Jeddo which had
proved signally fatal.
Stanley was dined at the Junior United Ser
vice Club in London, England, yesterday; prin-
cpaly newspaper men present.
Mr. Elias Thomas, highly respectable citi-
zen of Portland, Me-, died in that city on
Tuesday last in the lOlst year Of his age.
The condition of the Ku Klux in the Albany
Penitentiary is to be made the subject of official
investigation.
The Court of Arbitration at Geneva closed
its labors this week by hearing arguments in
the case of the Shenandoah.
The Carlist prisoners captured in the late
Spanish difficulties have been sent to the penal
colony.
Mr. j. S. Laugworthy, for four years in the
Treasury Office, has beeo appointed Deputy
Controller of the Currency.
A project has been submitted by the Span
sh Cabinet to Amadeus, looking to the aboi-
ton Of slavery 10 the Spanish Dominions.
There was severe and widespread storm in
England yesterday. Several persons were
struck by lightning and killed.
Mr. Greeley addressed the people at Man
chester, New Hampshire, last night.
The Emperors OF Russia, Prussia and Aus
tria are to meet early next month.
Gen. Dlven has resigned the Vice Presiden-
cy of the Erie Road.
1t Is reported that martial law is to be pro-
claimed in Pope county, Arkansas.
A new Labor Reform Convention is called
to meet in Columbus, Ohio, on the 2lst inst
Postmaster General Creswe is again in
Washington, having returned from Michigan.
The specie export from New York yesterday
amounted to $2O6, I25
A LOST COW was lately advertised by the fol-
lowing notice, which was posted on trees aud
fences near the owners hnlldinp .-"Straued or