Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-02-03
NEWS OF THE DAY.
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company Is luueuleo w VIC SoIe"' Aoooi t0'
ton act Of Pennsylvania (passed in 1866 TOR
its existence This act provides for the wind
ing up and dissolution Of a corporation after 1t
has served the purposes for which 1t was Great
ed. A petition has been filed by the corpora
tors in the Court of Common Pleas praying TOR
decree dissolving the corporation known as
the Credit Mobilier and terminating It's e1ls-
te ice. as provided in the act of 1856. Judge
Allison dismissed the petition, and very plainly
intimated in the course Of his decision that the
Credit Mobilier ought to be kept alive until 1t
had paid its debts.
By invitation of the President, Mr.. George
WIN. Curtis and other members of the Advl-
sorry Board of the Civil Service met the Cabl.
net during last week for the purpose OF inter.
changing views rs TO the operation OF the Civil
Service rules. The capacity aud efficiency OF
those entering the service under the new syS,a
tenn were found to be superior, and the relle1
afforded BY the cessation OF the lmnortunltics
Of Office seekers was very great. THIS relief
from importantly extends also to members OF
Congress.
The Spanish Prime Minister stated in the
Cortes on Saturday, in reply to qucstlon,that
he regretted to announce that many excuses
were being committed by rowing bands OF Gar
lists, but the Royal troops were active and Wig
orously pursuing the Insurgents; that 1t was eX-
pected the instruction would soon be ended
AT Sturrioz conflict Of three hours had taken
place, at the conclusion Of which the insurgents
claimed the victory.
Among the bills passed by the House of
Representatives, Saturday, Was one for the re-
lief of the officers and crew of the Z. S. ships
Wyoming and Takiang. This bill appropriates
out of the japanese indemnity fund Sl2o,O0U
for distribution among the officers and crew OF
the Wyoming and those who manned the Tax
aing on the 5tb, 9th, 18th and Sth OF September,
1864 by way of bounty for the destruction OF
the piratical vessels at Slmonlsekl, Japan.
According to the bill for the admission of
Colorado US a State, the Territory contains
seven millions Of acres Of public land, subject
to cultivation, has immense deposits oil iron
ore, water power uncqualled in the Union,
and is larger than New England, with Ohio
added It's voting population IS twenty thous-
and; it has no debt, and levied no taxes last
year.
a terrible snow storm visited the British Is
lands on Saturday night Travel on the streets
of London was almost wholly suspended, and
scarcely vehicle of any description was to De
seen. In the north the snow drifts were seve-
raj feet in depth, and the gale ragged with great
fury throughout the costs Of Eng land and Ire
land, causing great damage TO shipping ano
fearful loss of life.
Mrs. Schumann, of Peoria, ILL.,, furnishes
case for the theological experts Her husband
died suddenly last November, and she pro6ted
thereby to the exteot Of $4,000 paid by the
company in which his lie was insured. On
Friday night her only son died exhibiting symp-
toms of poison. Mrs Schumaun has been ar
rested, and the chemists are experimenting on
the contents of the deceased boy 5 stomach
Stokes counsel submitted their bill of excep
tons to Judge Boardnan on Saturday, who
struck out some of the points. A number of
aflidavits in support Of the motion tor a new
certain Mary Bean, who sWears that she saw
Fisk waiting at the door Of the Grand Central
Hotel with pistol III his hand.
Political malcontcnts are dealt with in very
summary manner in IIayti A party opposed
to the present administration, and charged
with attempting to get up an lnsurrectlon, IN
order to prevent the election of President, has
been effectually suppressed by the arrest Of
sixty of the ringeadcrs and the execution OF
five of them.
Two scoundrels attacked pedar near Con
nellsville, Pa, on Friday last, and after beat
ing him and robbiug him laid him on the rail
road track to be run over by the locomotive.
Owing to delay i'll the train the poor man
himself from the track The Williams have been
arrested
The effort by Messrs. Doris and Fairchild
to hold "big talk with Captain Jack with
a view to peaccable adjustment of the Modoc
troubles resulted in an entire failure Captain
Jack, it appears, wanted the whites to come to
his camp, which they refused to do.
and as he declined going to them, fighting will
be renewed.
In the House of Representatives on Satur-
day, bill! was passed to secure more efficient
administration of Iudian affairs also bill or
dcrng the sale of certain japanese indemnity
bonds for the relief of the officers and crew of
the ship Wyoming The rest of the session
was devoted to the consideration of private
bills.
The trial Of John r. Platter, for the murder
of his wife, was commenced in Cambridge, Md,
on Saturday. After the opening statements of
the counsel, the State proved that the body OF
the deceased was that of the lady to whom the
accused was married, in 1865, in Botetourt
county, Virginia
Rev. II. a. Skinner, now Rector Of Trinity
Church, E;kton, publishes card in the Cecil
Democrat stating that ''he is persuaded that
Fairs and all such modes of obtaining money,
instead of being an aid, are positive hindrance
to religion, therefore he could never countc-
nance anything of the kind.
The Journal officicl Of Paris states that only
eleven persons were arrested by the police in
the Montmartrc quartre on Wednesday night
charged with being loternationasts, and all
were released, with two or three exceptions,
alter brief detention.
The Secretary of the Treasury has authorized
the Assistant Treasurer at New York to pur
chase one million dollars Of bonds on each
Wednesday, and to sell one million five hun
dred thousand dollars of coin on each Thurs