Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-02-06
NEWS OF THE DAY.
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The Vice Chancellor of New Jersey has
granted an injunction against the National
Railroad Company asked for by the Pennsylva-
MIA Railroad Company He decides that the
former company and other corporations con
pected with it had no right under their charters
to construct through line through New Jer-
sew, and that 10 use them Tor such purpose
was fraud. The real issue was whether these
compapies should build route between Phla-
deIphia and New York to compete with the
roads owned by the Pennsylvania Company,
and the result is to continue the monopoly
which the latter now holds.
Madrid dispatches tell of another discomh-
ture of force of Carlists by the royal troops, in
the north of Spain. 1t is announced officially
that two hundred insurgents were killed and
the same number made prisoners n later dis
patch states that the Carllsts have burned III :
railway depot in the town Of Villa Franco, pro-
vince of Guipuzcoa.
The SANTANA Bay Company's operations in
San Domingo have now found their counter
part in the operations Of the Polynesian Land
and Commercial Company, recently organized
ID San Francisco, which has purcha> ed 100000
acres of cotton growing land in the Navigator $
Islands, which lie northeast OF Australia, and
almost north Of New Zealand
The equaDimity Of the citizens Of Beaver
county, Pa, who are engaged in Industrial pur-
suits, has been very much disturbed by the lm-
purtation of l65 Chinese laborers for Il large
manufacturing establishment in that county.
Two hundred more Chinese are understood TO
be on their way for employment in the same
establishment
A subscription by the State Of Maryland of
5000 to the stock of the Southern Mary
land Railroad Company has been made by the
Treasurer, 10 accordance with an act Of the
Legislature passed 10 1868. The road will cx
tend from Point Lookout to Washington, and
the work on it is being vigorously prosecuted.
Pay Director John S. Cunning ham, y. S.
Navy, is under orders from the Navy Depart
ment to attend the great exposition at Vienna,
and to report thereon Mr. Cunningham was
a commissioner to the Wotld's Fair ~ London,
and one of the jurors at that exhibition.
President Grant is to make trip TO Will
mington, Delaware to-day, and return to
Washington tonight. The Governor aad mem.
bers IF the Legislature will meet him, and the
party will visit the Industrial establishments
for which Wilmington is noted.
In New York yesterday the Importers aud
Grocers' Board of Trade adopted resolutions
opposing repeal Of the bankruptcy law, and
returned the report Of the committee on trade
aud statistics, to be prepared in form Of u me-
mortal to Congress.
The apprehensiuns of all ice food i'll the
Susquehauna have in some measure subsidized
The pleasant weather seems to promise Il
gradual tbaw, and unless there is heavy rain
it is not probable that there will be any great
rise in the river
The Pennsylvania Senate has adopted Il reso-
luton nstrucling the U. S. Senators from
Pennsylvania to vote against the purchase or
control Of the telegraph by the government.
The resolution was adopted by vote Of %
to |.
The ST. Petersburg Official Gazette tauuts
England with her jealousy regarding the Rus
sian movement in Asia and her Indifference to
the growth of the United States, and advises
her to take equal notice of each.
A telegraphic dispatch from Melbourne says
that the British soop- off, war Basili>k has seiz-
ed three vessels which were engaged in kldnap-
ping Poynesians to be sold into slavery.
1t has been announced in London that the
British court will go into mourning, for short
time, for the Dowager Empress Of Brazil.
The first through train from Cincinnati to
the seaboard, over the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad, left Cincinnati yesterday.
Henry P Haven, has been nominated for
Governor of Connecticut by the Radicals. The
election takes place in March.