Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-08-14
NEWS OF THE DAY.
"To shoo the very age and body of the Times

A fatal railroad accident happened yesterday
on the Dayton and Michigan line. While GO
inc down grade portion of the train becamed
detached and was left behind At the foot of
the grade the main portion of the train slowed
and the cars behind came laundering down
and ran into it. Two lives were lost.
There is considerable excitement among the
residents of Staten Island in relation to the
SPANISH man. Of: war Numancia, which is lying
at quarantine with yellow fever on board: =
Yesterday there were twenty cases on board
six men died on the passage, and one died yes
terday.
The Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce has
passed a resolution censuring the Chicago and
Northwestern Railroad and accusing the cor
poration of being in collision with the men
who are operating the wheat corner 10 Chi
cago.
MIR. William Dean, late Chairman Of the
Delaware Democratic State Committee, has is
sued call for the election of six delegates to
the Louisville Convention; he has also organ
lied straight-out Democratic club.
Thomas B. Van Buren, is the u. S. Commits
sioner for the International Fair at Vienna,
Austria, appointed under act of Congress au-
thoriz;nr it, provided it should cost our Gov
ernmcnt nothing.
Lindsay, charged by the executors of Prof
Morse's will with the misrepresentation of sew,
eral thousand dollars, has been arrested and
bailed in ST., 900.
Gen. Hilyer bets $4,000 that Greeley will
be defeated, and also the value of house and
lot in Harlem, two to one, that Grant will be
elected. Is this the game?
There was only one bid put in for the carry
ing of the mails from San Francisco to Japan
and China, and that was for half ulon dol
lars, the full amount authorized by law.
The Republicans Of the Third Michigan Con-
grcsslonal District have nominated George
Willard to be elected in the place Of Austin
Blair
Mr.. B. Gralz Brown denies the impeach-
ment Of his sobriety as written ID the story of
his recent visit to New Haven. "
The previous rumor regarding the fact of
England's responsibility being settled at Gene
va, is coutradicted.
Congressman W. D. Kelley, Of PenDsylva-
MIA, addressed large meeting in San Francis
co last night.
Appropriations for all purposes to the
amount of $l4l ,4S2, 900 were made at the last
session Of Congress.
The eighteenth annual meeting of the Amer
lean Dental Convention is in session in Bos-
ton.
The Seventh Annual Convention of the
Journeymen Tailors' International Union is in
session at New York.
Mr.. W. A. Handy, of the Revenue Marine
Division, Treasury Department, died yesterday
morning in Washington.
The Democrats and Liberal Republicans of
New York will hold their respective Conven-
tons n Syracuse on the4th Of September.
With the diamond furore 10 California comes
a reported discovery Of rich silver mines 10
Lower California.
The veterans the District of Columbia
will hold Grant and Wilson mass meeting at
| Washington on September llth.
p. B. S. Piuchback RADICAL has the noml'
nation for Governor of Louisiana.
Emerson Etheridge, of Tennessee, will not
be an elector on the Liberal Republican ticket.
The shoemakers at Lynn have adopted and
published "a declaration of independence. "