Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-05-15
NEWS OF TIE DAN.
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In the Methodist General Conference in New
York. yesterday, some excitement was caused
on motion that The rules Oh trials be altered
50 as to read that "a Bishop or an officer APP
poibted by the Bishop shall preside ne
motion was laid on the table. A resolution
calling upon the Agents OF the Book Concern
for Information was adopted. A delegate from
Canada stated TO the Conference that the
Methodist Epi>copa! Church o.! thar place
would prefer union With the Methodist Epia-
coral Church, of thu Unircd States rather than
| with other Methodist bodies in Canada under
their recent relations with England, and that
the Church was growing politically and rellg'-
nr,sly tired Of the interference Of Englan'!. he
speech elected great Applause.
The Harrisburg Patriot say :-'tIorernor
Geary is at present occupied in soDe heavy
litigation in the courts Of California. which, if il
results faymably. will make INN one Of the NH
| iionaires Of he land The Claims he is prose
cutting are founded upon land ard financial
speculatnn- wh.n be Vas Alcaiin II San Fran
! cisco.
In the Superior Conr; Of Baltimore yester-
day the counsel for the Rev l. D. Huston.
placed or ie his declaration in the libel sult.
! brought by his client against the propretor- OF
The Baltimore American. laying his alleged
damages at the sun Of Que hundred thousand
dollars. 1t is not knnwp whether ne suit will
ever be prosecuted.
The strike in Hourh,on county, Michigan,
has extended to more thar half doz"u o;hrr
| places and yesterday there we're upwards Of
two thousand men engaged IN The movement.
At Calumet and Heca the rlngIaade,s # the
strikers were arrested By six DEPUTY Sheiiffs.
! but mob pressing upon aud threatening NO
iencc to the officers. the men were released.
4 delegation from Western and Southern
cities. interested in the Atlantic and Western
Canal. to open water comlouDcaton between
the Nississinpi river and the Atlantic Ocean.
arrived in Washington yesterday and will to-
day call urou President Grant and present :"
MIN an address embodyiug their plans.
A petition signed by Geu. Meade, George
H. Stuart, Jay Cook and others was presented
in the Senate yesterday asking that $500 he
! apnrnpriatcd 70 the National Homestead, at
/ C5ettvshure for the educ,tion OF soldiers Or
phaus Tie petition was appropriately re-
terred.
Rev. E. T. Bcrkley, for fifteen wear: pastor
Of St. Georges Episcopal Church III 1T. Louis.
was arraigped yesterday before an eccicSla>;l
cal court on the charge Of assault and batter;
On Ella G. Perry, eleven years Old, al different
times during the summer Of !Siu
Alfred Hugcr, well known Charlestonlau
aud conspicuous Uuiouist i'll the day. Of NULL
fication and secession. died Yesterday 1t paraIy-
sis 10 bis eighty fourth year. He was Postmaster
Of Charleston from the tirc Of Prc-'dcn. Jack
son until lSt3
An arrival from Iceland reports SERIES OF
violent earthquake shocks at HasvicS 90 the
10Th, 18th and 18Th of April Twenty bouSc:
were destroyed and several persons injured -
No lives were lost.
The House Committee Oh Appropriations
are about reporting bill appronratlng
$4,000 to the officers and crew Of the kcar
sarge tor destroying the C@nf,.derae cruiser Ala
hama.
Buchanan Read, the poet, painter and scnip
tor, was buried al Germantown. near pha1"i,
phia. Yesterday The tuoeral was attended, by
many persons noted 10 literature and art.
Marshal Bazaine vas placed under arrest in
Paris, yesterday His trial before special
court. martial will begin III few days.
New arrests of citizens under the tnfome-
ment act are daily reported from Fairfield and
other places 10 South Carolina.