Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-10-31
EWS OF THE DAY
" To sho,c the ve,y age and body Of the Times"

upon the victims of yellow fever, has fallen
victim to it himself The Memphis Appeal
says: From the first of the fever he went
about doing good and till the past few days
might have been met with moving through the
infected district as vigorously as his condition
would admit, visiting first one and then another
Of his friends, and carrying consolation to their
families and comforts to their sick. His was
noble. pure, a good example. Old, aud SO
crippled as to be compelled to use crutcbes, he
yet managed to go about among those stricken
with the fever, and nurse and console them. .
Frank L. Taiutor, late Cashier of the Allan
tic National Bank of New York, charged with
embezzIing 1926, 200 Of the funds Of the bank,
has been tried in.the u. S. Circuit Court and
found guilty. The rulings of Judge Benedict
in the case, 10 excluding the offer to prove in
behalf of Taintor that he acted by and with the
advice and consent Of the Bank Directors 10
the fraudulent disposition which he made OF
the funds of the bank, will be found very I'M
portant as warnings to the directors OF every
National bank who have departed from the
sphere Of their legitimate business to try their
luck in stock gambling
A fire broke out at Freehold, N. j. yester-
day in the Inquirer printing Office, which was
destroyed, together with the stores of }. l:
Burtis, T. B. Beale, r. NJ. Hartshoroe, and
Connoycr Il Thompson five lawyers offices.
the post Office court house: Jail and offices OF
records were saved The total loss is 100000,
and the insurance about half that sum.
The suit of VIM. Z. Britton against Benz. +.
Butler to recover $4,000, the amount of two
drafts seized by Gen. Butler in 1862 while he
was military Governor of New Orleans, came
UP for a hearing before Judge Woodruff, in
the e. S. Circuit Court, yesterday. General
Butler was present, and advised the United
States attorney who defends the action on be-
half Of the government.
Owing to the small internal revenue receipts
for the past mouth, the debt statement for the
present month will probably show an Increase
of five millions OF dollars. Since the panic the
Government has been besiegcd by all classes OF
creditors, and while making heavy payments,
has had light receipts. Secretary Richardson
says il the amount does not exceed i've millions
he will not be disappointed.
The announcement of the failure Of Hoyt
Sprague Il Co. caused great feeling OF dcprcs-
sion in Wall street, in New York, yesterday,
and values were seriously effected. The stock
market was very weak, with rapid decline 10
prices, which was followed by reaction, and
a subsequent decline closing irregular.
\ proposition has been made for New York
State at the coming election, which might be
followed in all the other States which vote next
week. 1t is that they follow the example of
Ohio and have boy at each polling place in
scribed, Give dime TO the Memphis suffer-
ers.
W. II. Fay, Superintendent of the Boston
Young Mems Christian Association and Free
Employment Bureau, states that Boston does
not afford remunerative employment tor Que
out offifty of its idle thousands. He says it is
worse than useless for others to come there tor
work.
The last span of the great international rail
way bridge across the Niagara river at Fort
Erie was successfully placed yesterday. This
completes the structure.
On account of the death of Colonel Biddle,
the Age establishment. the only Democratic
newspaper in Philadelphia is now advertised for
sale.
The FIRE in Drummond Colliery, Nova Scotia,
is not yet extinguished. The mine will be
flooded.
Another attempted balloon ascent at Brook
lyn has failed, and the baoonist came near
losing his life.
THE South FOR MANUFAcTURING,-A pa
per has been published by Mr.. John B. Pal
mer, manufacturer of cotton yarns at the
Saluda Cotton Mills in South Carolina, in which
he undertakes to show that he can manufacture
yarns cheaper than can be done either at Low
: 10,
He gives detailed exhibit of his own costs
terials consurned-and shows that he can make
pound Of No. 90 yarn, estimating the cotton
at twenty cents paying freight and insurance
to New York, for %. cents. The lowest es-
Inmates he has seen of the cost Of manufactur-
ing yarns at Lowell, including the same items
except freight and insurance (the same cotton
there costing OF cents), is 34.S cents, That
is, he at the South can make FIVE cents pound
more than the Lowell manufacturer can upon
the same article, when both sell in the North.
Mr.. Palmer further compared notes with
manufacturer of cotton yarns In Manchester,
who gave him the cost Of manufacturing the
same grade of goods there. The result Of the
Manchester manufacturers calculation is
that pound of No. 20 yarn 1.-THE cotton
there costing "A cents costs him 50 % cents.
Now if we add freight and insurance from New
York to England to the cost of the southern
manufacture--that is, add l.5 cents to 1905
We find that MIR. Palmer can deliver his South
Carolina yarn in Liverpool ACT cents pound
cheaper than the English manufacturer can Of
fer his own there.
The New York Evening Post, referring to
these facts, observes that if the calculations are
correct-and Mr.. Palmer is practical manu-
ficturer and is in earnest--there seems good
reason to expect rapid development Of the
Southern manufactures of Southern products
especially ton.-LymchJurg Nctcs.
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD FISANCEs.-
COL Thomas \. Scott, president Of the Texas
and Pacific railway, and vice president of the
Pennsylvania railroad, returned to Philade-
phia Tuesday, after an absence in Europe Of
several months, whittier he had gone to nego
tiatc loans for the Texas Pacific railroad, 10
which he failed, though he effected arrange
mnnts by which the work will not be slsnend-