Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-09-04
NEWS OF THE DAY.
10 show the very age and bo'{y of M Times

The Schuppe trial "drags its slow length
along" The most important witness examin-
ed for the Commonwealth yesterday was Dir.
Heron of Harrisburg, who testified that he
sold an ounce of prusslc acid to Dr. Sch1rpc
on January %, 1869, five days before the
death of Miss Steiuuecke.
The Pacific mail steamer America was burn
ed while anchored in the harbor of \ Okohama.
Japan, on the 9th of August. Gold and sill
yer coin to the amount oil 100000 was lost.
The passengers and crew escaped. The Am
erica was new vessel and was valued at a
million Of dollars.
The fire at Canterbury Cathedral, an &C
count of which appeared in yesterday Gazette.
was happily extnguished before the building
was seriously damaged The palace Of the
National Congress, 10 the City OF Mexico, was
burned the day previous.
Accounts from Cuba report that on the Goth
ut. the insurgents attacked the town Of Barre
Arrita, but were rcpulsed by the garrison. The
Laguira, where another engagement was
fought in which they were defeated.
Much alarm has been caused in Alabama, in
consequence Of many OF the cotton fields hav-
ing been overrun by caterpillars, but later dis
patches report the planters are more hopeful.
The crop is estimated at about ten per cent.
below the yield OF last year.
Reports have been received at the War d.
partment to the effect that there is great dcsti
Secretary Belknap has ordered the revenue
tl.a RI ,li,IS
to the famished natives.
Rose McCabe, an inmate Of Bloomingdae
Insane Asylum, New York, has sued out
writ of habeas corpus and at the hearing yes
terday made some damaging statements with
regard to the treatment Of lunatlcs in that in.
stitution.
The whaling bark Mwood, of New Bedford,
was driven ashore by the ice at Cumberland
Inlet November l3, 1871. The owners Of the
vessel were advised of her loss yesterday.
The Commissioner Of Pensions has decided
that soldier who ucurs disability while en-
ployed in the S;gnal Service is entitled to
pension
\ special dispatch from Louisville says that
Colonel Duncan will challenge Dr. kcllar for
striking him on Monday.
The Californians have been giving General
Mcclellan a splendid ovation.
CHEESE FAcToRY.-We still insist upon a
Cheese Factory at Wheatlaud. We have talk
ed to several prudent and sagacious gentlemen
upon this subject, and they all agree that it
would pay. Some five roads passing through
the very finest portions OF the county meet at
Wheatand, which would give easy access to
the factory, to a large number Of farmers, who
cultivate productive land, which is especially
adapted to grass. The best cattle raised in
Loundoun have heretofore been sent to market
from this section, which shows the fact that it
is eminenty suited to grazing. W heatland is
within short distance OF the Hamilton depot,
husreudering it easy to put the cheese into mar
ket. Why not build the factory at once? or
make arrangements through which it can he
of the principle farmers 10 that neighbour
hood-should meet together and talk this
thing over. They are intelligent enough
to see, if they would but look into the matter,
the great profit there would be in the establish
ment, and energetic running, of a cheese facto
ry at this point, so we'll adapted to it in every
particular. 1t is time that the farmers of Lou
doun should wake up fully to the importance
of a change in their system of farming. TAX
lug the testimony, in the reassessment cases,
lately before the county court, as an index, the !
lands of Loudoun are gradually sinking to bar
rem worthlessness Something should be done
therefore, to arrest this downward tendency,
and to utilize the manifest advantages which
Loudouu possesses Let US try cheese factories
by way of start, and no point in the county is so
well situated to give helping hand in this
matter as Wheatland. = Lmu1om Enterprise. |