Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-06-06
NEWS OF THE DAY.
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NEWS OF THE DAY.
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The Spanish Mioister has filed at the State
Department information against the American
steamship Edgar Stewart as tilllbuSter en-
gagged in aiding the Cuban Instruction. Inc
Stewart was conveyed out Of Kingston harbor.
Jamaica, by the U. S. irigate Wyoming FROM
under the guns of Spanish aD-ot.war and
since then nothing has been heard OF her. The
Government has given instructions TO hold her
if she arrives at any of our ports.
A demonstration was made in Singer 4 Go. 5
factory in New York, yesterday, and half of
the employees struck. Two thousand three
hundred men are employed IN this factory.
Singer & Go. say that the strike gives them
little apprehension, as they eau we'll afford to
he idle for some months, and will make money
BY suspension.
Fruits and berries this season of the year are
not only precious luxuries, but great promoters
of health. They act upon the liver, promoting
that secretion naturally which many arc 10 the
habit of obtaining only by the means of artll-
zeal medicines They may avert many d.
sease resulting from torpid condition OF the
liver.
In the northern part of England the supply
of coke is so insufficient that a coke famine
prevails. 1t is stated that short time ago
20 600 tons of coke could be purchased tor.
$50 900 and that now $l60,000 would have to
be paid for the same quantity. The price OF
coke has thus advanced $50 per ct.
4 locomotive on the track at Sanderson,
Florida, yesterday, while taking in water, ez-
ploded, killing the fireman and wounding the
engineer and others, and breaking the leg of
lady who was standing in the door OF store
twenty five yards OF.
The Oregon election returns: Tor Congress
men and Legislature, are incomplete, but they
Indicate that the republicans have carried the
State with sufficient majority in the Legislature
to ensure the election of a republican United
States Senator in place of Corbett, republican.
Private advices received in London from
Zanzibar, give details Of the terrific cyclone
which occurred on the island on the 18th of
April. Great damage was done both on sea
and land. Every vessel in the harbor Of Eau
zibar excepting the Abydos, was wrecked.
Among the equipages at the New ork Cen.
trail Park on Sunday, were two very stylish
miniature phaetons drawn by goats-a liveried
groom walked beside each, and the young &C.
cupants within, and on the box, enjoyed the
drive far more than in mamma 5 carriage.
It's said that employees at navy-yards, Gus
tom houses, and elsewhere will now put in
claims for back pay for the time they were re-
required to work over and above Ell ght hours
since the eight-hour bill passed Congress, about
two years since.
The shipment of grain for the Canadian ports
from the three principal shipping PORTS Chica-
go, Milwaukee and Toledo, during the past
week have been unusually large. The increase
in the diversion of corn to the ST Lawrence
route is the most marked.
Father Cleveland, the we'll known Methodist
clergyman, died yesterday 10 Boston. He was
born in Salem on the 2lst of June, 1772, and
consequently lacked but little more than two
weeks of being hundred years old at the time
of his death.
The scheme of Civil Service reform received
its first practical czempli6caton in Washington
yesterday in the competitive examination of
candidates for three vacant clerkships 10 the
Treasury Department.
In the case of G. B. Lama vs. Chas. 4.
Dana, for false imprisonment, while the latter
was Assistant Secretary of War, Judge Wood
ruff in New York, refused to remove the case
back from the I. S. Circuit to the State court.
The Southern Claims Commission are now
engaged in examining cases which have been
heard by special commissioners throughout the
South They will not hear any other cases till
October next.
4 telegram, dated in Paris at late hour
Tuesday night, Informs us of the death of Jean
Baptiste Phbert Valiant, Marshal of France,
aged 50 years He was an old soldier of the
Empire of the first Napoleon.
Mr. John ". Burroughs, of Prince Georges
county, Md, lost two very valuable horses
few days since, both being killed, it is sup
posed, by lightning.
At Richmond, yesterday, the International
Typographical Union selected Montreal as the
next place of annual meeting. Boston was the
principal contesting city.
Favorable reports of the wheat crop from
different portions of the county, are operating
somewhat upon the grain market.
CONGRESS. Ia the Senate yesterday the
Sundry Civil Service Appropriation bill was
taken up aud contest ensued on the section
providing for the payment of mail contractors
in the South at the outbreak of the war
Nothing definite was done, although the Senate
continued in session till late hour last night
The House held formal session in accordance
with previous agreement for the purpose OF
having the Tariff bill signed, the law requiring
that it must be done 10 open session. The |
Speaker signed the bill and announced the
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