Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-04-26
NEWS OF THE DAY.
"To shoao the very age and body Of the Tunes.

The case Of Mrs. Sarah L. Worthlngton,
wife of the late VIM. w. Worthington, OF
Aouasco district in Prince Georges county,
Nd, vs. Geo. Forbes, esq, which was heard
before Judge Magruder, in chambers, at BAL
timore last fall, has been decided IN favor OF
Mrs Worthington. The proceeding was H.
stitutcd by the complainant to recover her dow
er interest jo the farm purchased by the de-
PENDANT.
Secretary Belknap and Gen. Sheridan and
staff reached Brownsville on Wednesday, after
making the tour of the Rio Grande for several
hundred miles. They were received by the City
Council, and were the guests Of the city. The
streets and houses were decorated with hags'
and a general welcome was rendered the dlstln-
euished guests. They leave Sunday for New
Orleans BY steamer, touching at Galveston.
The latest news from the lava beds is that
the cavalry have returned to camp and report
ed that they saw no ModocS. 1t is said that
there are fears of general border war, which
will be attributable to the bad faith OF the gov
ernment agents with the Indians on reserya-
ton, and the encouragement the latter have re-
ceived by the example of the Modocs.
Official returns made to the Bureau OF Sta
tistics show that forty-three vessels, of an ag-
gregate tonnage of 10000, belonging to the
port of Boston, were lost during the quarter
ended March 3lst Among the vessels lost
we're seven barks of three hundred tons each,
ten briggs and ten schooners of one hundred
tons each.
The Secretary of the Interior has decided
that the Wnoua and St. Peters Railroad Com
pany is entitled to the lands in controversy be-
tween that company and the st. Paul and Sioux
City Railroad Company. This controversy IN
volved about $4,000 acres.
Paris is said to be again becoming brilliant
city. 1t is filling up with summer occupants,
and the display of wealth and luxury is almost
as great as it ever was, though it now proceeds
more from foreign and less from French sources
than formerly.
The bill for the control of the clergy, after
being fully discussed, yesterday, passed the
Upper House of the Prussian Diet The En-
peror has taken his departure for St. Peters
burg, where great preparations are being made
for his reception.
A cannon, weighing 1850 pounds, arrived
yesterday in New York, from Berlin, it being
a present from the Emperor William to the
Lutheran Church at Titusville, Pennsylvania.
The gun was captured at Sedan, and will be
cast into bell for the church.
A special dispatch from London to the New
York World says that the gravest apprehen-
sions are felt 10 the highest circles in Paris OF
an immediate civil war, the monarchlsts being
determined to Dust Theirs at any cost.
A cable telegram reports that twenty cases OF
sporadic cholera" were taken 10 the hospital
in Vienna, yesterday of which five proved
fatal An effort was making to conceal the fact
of the disease being in the city.
The New York canal commissioners have
designated the 18th of May as the time when
navigation on the canals will be resumed. The
Oswego canal, which has been damaged, is ex-
cepted.
Under the law abolshing the ranking priv.
lege after the LIST Of July next special postage
stamps have been ordered to be issued only for
official mail matter. Designs have been sub
mitted which will probably be adopted.
J. R. Nichols, Deputy Collector of the First
Maryland Revenue District, is alleged to be a
defaulter to the Government. He has resigned,
and is believed to have gone to his home at
Elkton.
The French Canadians from the vicinity OF
Quebec are emigrating to the United States IN
large numbers.