Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-08-26
NEWS OF THE DAY.
"To sho,o the ecry age ant body of the Time

The South Carolina Radical Convention COM
pleted its ticket on Saturday by the nomlna-
ton of Cardozo, mulatto, for treasurer j;
Hodge, from Ohio Comptroller General P!lr-
Wis mulatto for Adjutant General, and VII
son. from Massachusetts. for Superintendent
of Public Instruction. The boilers completed
their organization on Saturday, and also noml-
mated State ticket, with Reuben Iomllnson,
for Governor, and Judge John L. Green. for
Attorney General. The Democrats and Llber-
al Republicans are making arrangements Tor
conference. ..s
The latest returns from West Virginia indi-
cate the election Of Jacobs, the present incum-
bent, who ran as an independent democrat.
over Camden, the regular nominee. lie new
constitution. upon which the people also voted
is still in doubt. AS generally conceded hitler
to, the result of this election can have no bear
ing upon the presidential election, the issues
being generally of "a local character The re-
publicans having no ticket of their own, voted
the independent ticket, which it Is stated, rep
resented also the mass OF the liberal party.
There is something pathetic aud affecting in
the mourning of Frenchmeu over the fate OF
Alsace and Lorraine. 10 Huvrc on Friday the
bau,i of the Garde Rnpubhcalne, gave concert
for the benefit Of those people of the donation
allied Provinces who prefer to be exilcs rather
than Germans. One can imagine that the
scene, the Az :tian girls dressed 10 moU nlng'
the display Of the colors and the perfect music
| of the band would have touched any emotional
| heart.
The Charcstown, ". Va. Free Press iufers
| from partial returns received. that Thomas y.
Moore AID Robert T. Brown, candidates for
clerk ships of County and Circuit Court re-
spectivcy -incumbcnts in the good Old days
lang sync-arc very probably elected. The
| Sherifaly, still in doubt, between Mr.. Edward
| Tearney aud Mr. r. B Washington
The aggregate lumber Of claims presented to
the Southern Claims Commission thus far is
sixteen thousand, ranging from sl2 to $3.50,
900. The Commission have finally reported
on five hundred and eighty cases. IN which ST.
COO. 900 Were claimed of these about Two hun-
dred and fifty were rejected, principally for ab
sencc Of proofs Of loyalty.
Five thousand persons took part yesterday IN
| New Orleans in celebration by one or two
thousand natives of AISace aud Lorraine OF
of their declaration of allegiance to France.
procession of number OF French Societies was
| formed which terminated at the Opera House,
where several patriotic addresses were de-
| livered
Bishop VanderhorSt, of the Colored Mctho-
dist Episcopal Church in America, died in the
city Of Charleston, S. c., last mouth, aged si6-
ty tour years. Bishop Miles is now alone in
the general >uprcintendency, and it is thought
special session of the General Conference Of
the Church will be called to strengthen the
eplscopacy. .
y representative Of the manager of the late
wheat corner of Chicago on Saturday made q
statement to a meeting of his creditors of his
liabilities, which we're placed at $500, 900. He
offered to pay % per cent. cash on Thursday
next, and per cent. more in thirty days \
committee was Appointed to examine his al
fairs.
The mortality rate in New York last week
showed a continued increase, owing chiefly to
the severely warm weather which prevailed
the better part of the week. The deaths num-
bered 7SS against 162 of the week before. In
Philadelphia the total number of deaths was
42G, an increase of SO.
Arthur Stevens left Gloucester, Massachu-
sets, week siuce intending to make his way
to New York by sea, in small two cared boat
He was seen on Wednesday last off Stafford
Point, Connecticut, since which time nothing
has been heard of him. 1t is feared that the
storm on Thursday night swamped his boat.
The facilities in California for transporting
the new wheat crop to market are reported to
be wholly inadequate In many sections of the
State where the crops are very large, the
farmers will not be able to get she bulk OF their
grain to market before the rainy season sets H..
Yesterday was the hottest day Of the season
in s.: Louis, the thermometer ranging from
| IS degrees to l04 degrees IN the shade At 5
0 clock 10 the evening it stood at Is degrees. =
In New York city yesterday the weather was
cool and very pleasant.
The tables of the last census show that
there are in the United States, in round num-
beers, !, 800, 600 families, with an average of
nearly six to each family, while in 1850 the
average number to each family was only five
aud quarter.
The efforts to place the postal card system
into immediate operation are frustrated by the
operation of existing law which prevents the
use of appropriations for the purpose desired
The next Congress will have to remedy the
cause Of the delay.
The papers for the pardon of four ku-klux
prisoners, confined in the Albany Penitentary,
have been made out at the State Department,
and will be forwarded to Albany as soon as the
President signs them, which he will do on his
return to Washington.
Hugh S. Brown, a distinguished Baptist
preacher of Liverpool, arrived at New York
yesterday morning in the steamer Spain, and
preached in the evening at the Hanson Place
Baptist Church, Brooklyn.
A prize fight took place on Saturday at
Washoe Lake, California, between Ben Will
liams and John Chatham At the end of the
forty-hfth round Williams was declared the
winner.
There has been another split 10 the Irish
band its leader, with seven Of the members
have sailed for Europe, some OF them have
cane m Canada and tvn ramain in NnU Tort