Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-01-03
NEWS OF THE DAY.
so sho,o the very age and body of the Times

orators have made compromise proposition
for 1873, viz: the basis of 72 sliding down, il
coal declines as low as 1926 per ton as a mini
mum. This has been presented through the
president of the Workingmen's Benevolent AS
ISOLATION, and until it is accepted there will be
very few collieries worked. All collieries, as
far as heard from, are now stopped, but it is
expected the men will accept the offer, and
work will be speedily resumed
The up and down passenger trains colllded
on the Macon and Western railroad, thirty
seven miles from Atlanta, Ga, yesterday morn
ing. Eight colored persons we're killed, and
| len or twelve colored and three whites injured.
Three cars and an engine was wrecked. Car
lotta Patti and troupe were on board the train.
The wardrobe, with the piano, is total wreck,
but the troupe is unhurt. Patti was active ID
relief to the wounded. The colored people
were emigratlng to Mississippi.
Governors Washburnc, Of Massachusetts,, and
Perham, of Maine, were duly inauguratcd and
entered upon their second terms yesterday.
Governor Perham's message shows healthy
condition of the financial, agricultural aud
manufacturing interest Of the State; The pub
lie debt is now only about seven millions OF dol
| lars. and the Governor suggests that the State
tax may be reduced five mills on the dollar.
| The returns of the popular votes for electors,
| at the recent Presidential election, from all the
States in the Union, aggregate 3,590,9S4
votes for the Grant electors; 1888, SIT tor the
Greeley electors and 81, 293 scattered votes,
| the latter being chiefly for O'Conor, although
some votes for Black, the Temperance candl-
date for President, arc included. The majority
| Gov Gr.nt nunr CIrnelev is $50 l37
A mon named L. Watson, said to be native
| of Savannah, Georgia, and Bcjamin Crowder,
an Englishman, have been tried in Hungary,
| and the former sentenced to SIX months lm-
| prisonment, for remarks not considered COM
planetary to the Emperor Of Austria, and the
latter to three MONTHS for resisting arrest on
the same occasion.
At the New Years reception of King ANA
deus, at Madrid, on Wednesday, the subject of
colonial reforms was mentioned in conversation,
and his Majesty expressed himself as heartily
in favor of the bill recently introduced in the
| Cortes, providing for the emancipation OF the
slaves in Porto Rico.
The House Committee on Appropriations
have tackled on an amendment to the Navy
Appropriation BILL which provides that from
and after June 80, 1878, the term of study at
the Annapolis Naval Academy shall be six
years, instead Of four years as now provided
by law.
In the case of Judge John j. Freedman, OF
the Superior Court of New York City, Judge
Shipman has decided that the salaries Of Judges
of State Courts cannot be taxed by the United
States.
A dispatch from San Francisco gives an &C.
count of an iusurrection in the PHILIPPINE
Islands, which seems to have been rather
serious affair, although the details are rather
meagre
The thaw which has followed the intense
cold and heavy snow was general throughout
the country yesterday. There was heavy snow
! in tho North .vca.. md rnin along the Atlantic
| coast.
| The Merchants and Miners Transportation
Company, owning the fine line of steamers run,
ming between Baltimore and Boston. have
found it necessary to place another steamer on
the route.
Yesterday morning freight train ran into
passenger train at Townsend station, on the
Western PENNSYLVANIA railroad. A little girl,
Maggie Townsend was kiek, No other lives
were lost
Madcaine G. Battle, of Alabama, has
brought suit 10 the U. S. Circuit Court against
the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New
York to recover $4,000, the amount her hus-
bands life was insured TOR.
The Prussian Government has, communi-
eatcd to the Government Of Great Britain its
plans for the campaign in Central Asia, and
offered to allow British officers to accompany
the troops in their operations.
A London telegram says that hundreds of ag'
ricultural laborers, out of employment in Eng
land because farmers refuse to pay the wages
they demand, arc preparing to cmlgratc to
Brazil.
Lieutenant General Won Kamccke will sue
coed Won Room as Minister of War for Prussia.
The latter, it is understood, will be made a
Field Marshal.
A transport is about to sail for New Gale
donia with five hundred and eighty exled
to that penal colony.
The municipalities Of Navarro are raising
volunteers to fight the Carlist bands now re-
ported to be roaming through that province.
WARM FEEr.-To 60 with cold feet is to un-
dermine the constitution and this half the
women and the girls are doing. They have
| the habit of cold feet, and the accompanying
habit of i'll health think home, knit wooden
stockings are not very fashionable. Once no
country girl was reckoned fit to be married un-
til she had knit her pillowcase full of stockings,
but it is not so now. do not regret that less
hand knitting is done now than formerly, but
| hope We shall not give up warm wooden
stockings for winter use until We can replace
them with something better. Merino or the
common boughten white wool stockings
are rather thiu but some of US supplement
them with an additional pair of cotton stock
ings, wearing the cotton or the WOODEN pair
next the feet, as individuals prefer. Cold feet
are often caused. at least in part, by too tight
elastic or bands at the tops Of the stockings, or
by tight shoes, or shoes tight in the ankles.
These interfere with the circulation of the
blood, and there cannot be comfortable de-
gree of warmth without good circulation and