Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-05-21
NEWS OF THE DAY.
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NEWS OF TIL DAY.
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We have accounts of a fearful disaster which
occurred at Labrador. The brig Huntsman,
with sixty-two men, on a sailing voyage, when
off Cape Charles, Labrador, April 10Th, was
driven upon the rocks. Before the vessel
struck three seamen saw the rocks and jumped
overheard to try and save themselves, but were
instantly killed by floating ice. The remaining
6fty-uine then took to the rigging, and in five
minutes thereafter both masts went over at SIX
feet above deck, and only seventeen Of the
crew escaped. Of these all but three were
~varously Injured. They reached another vessel
by crawling a distance of half a mile over the
ice. Forty-ive men were lost. most OF them
leaving families.
A dispatch from Little Rock, Arkansas, says:
The Arkansas river is tweuty-six feet deep at
this point and is still rising: it lacks but four
town of Argent, opposite here, is overdowed,
and also the depot and track of the Memphis
Railroad. The damage already done to the
plantations near here is estimated at $4,000.
One thousand acres of cotton are under water
in Jefferson, Arkansas, Desha and Chicot coun'
ties. A large number of farms bordering on
the river are covered with water.
On Wednesday of last week a duel was
fought at New Orleans between two young
journalists of that city-Mr. j. Passama Dom
enech, Of the Bee, and Mr.. j. Noblom, of
L'Avenir. They fought with pistols at ten
PAGES. The first fire was Intellectual, but in the
second Mr.. Noblom was slightly wounded IN
the region of the stomach. The bullet was
safely extracted, the seconds declared the
wounded honor satisfied, a general hand-shak-
ing followed. and all left the ground happy.
There was an exciting scene in the Methodist
General Conference yesterday, provoked by a
sharp reply from the former Superintendent of
the printing department of the Book Concern
to DR.. Lanahan's statements. The latter relt-
Grated in very plain language his ideas about
official r~ascality in this connection, and for
some moments there was a fire of accusations
and answers in relation to the alleged efforts to
silence DR.. Lanahan.
There is now one line Of railroad across the
Continent, to the northward another is being
built with rapid labor, and the prospects that
we are to have a third on a southern parallel
amount to a certainty. Tie stockholders of the
Texas Pacific Road yesterday appointed to con-
duct their work the engineer who built the
Union Pacific.
A dispatch from Memphis says:-'Four
children, at ages varying from two to ten years,
were horribly burned in this city on Saturday
night by the eldest kiudling a fire with coal oil.
One died An hour after the accident, the second
and third soon after, and were buried yester-
day. The fourth died this morning
The Philadelphia Board of Trade yesterday
passed resolutions approving of the supplement
tai article to the Treaty of Washington now be-
fore the Senate, which proposes to establish as
a rule of international law that hereafter conse-
q~uential damages shall not be claimed by Eng
land or the United States.
A dispatch has been received at the Treasury
Department announcing the death, at his home
in Connecticut, of Mr.. George ParDell, chief of
the Sub-Treasury Division of the Secretary S
Office, and formerly Deputy Commissioner of
internal Revenue.
Judge Bond, of the U. S. Circuit Court, was
engaged on Saturday in Baltimore in hearing a
case from the Virginia district, on a motion to
set aside a sale of certain property of Mr.. Nc
Weigh, of Alexandria; Mr.. Howard for, and
Mr.. S.. +. Beach against the motion.
The Board of Foreign Missions in the South
ern Baptist Convention, yesterday appointed
Rev. G. C. Larimer, d. D., of Boston, mission
airy to Italy, with authority to raise funds and
build a Baptist Church in Rome.
The forest fires in New York, Pennsylvania
and New Jersey, were tolerably we'll extin-
guished by the rain on Saturday and Sunday,
but not before the damage done had amounted
to at least two and half millions of dollars.
An officer of the U. S. navy sent a boats
crew ashore on the Haytien coast for howitzer
practice, whereat Hayti gets up indigna-
ton and threatens dire consequences unless an
apology is made.
The masters of the trades in New York arc
making the best of bad situation by surrcn-
dering to the workingmcn's demands for eight
hours.
The mathematical textbooks Of Professor
LOOMS, of Yale College, are in process Of
translation into Chinese.
The Investigation in the case Of Rev. DR..
Huston, commences in Baltimore to-day.
SCARCITY OF WATER.-Never within our
recollection were refreshing showers more need
ed than at the present time. From all por-
tons of the country we have the same story Of
excessive drought and its evil consequences
Within the last forty-eight hours there has
been q little relief in this respect, but not
enough to dismiss our serious apprehenslons
for the future. Under such circumstances,
the greatest economy should be praticed in the
use of water. and the ordinary waste of that