Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-03-17
NEWS OF THE DAY.
I. TO shoe the re1y age and body Of the Times. '

change, was destroyed by hrc. on oaturuay al
ternoon. The loss Of the goods is estimated at
Sc 900, but the whole loss, Of the building and
the damage to the adjoining building and stock,
is estimated at 100000. Stelhtcw, who Is all
eccentric person, aud known as "Brlgadler
General Jones'" was arrested charged with
frl"g the building.
Secretary De,no fluids, on consul alton with
the accounting officers Of the Treasury, that no
appropriatiou will be available during the pre-
sent fiscal year for the payment OF salaries aud
expenses OF the Indian inspectors, whose APP
monument is directed by a clause IN the last In
dian appropriation bill. The President will
therefore defer appointing any OF SAID inSpec-
tors until after the Both day OF next June.
Quite breeze appears to have suddenly
sprung up between Portugal and Brazil, and
in the Cortes at Lisbon, on Saturday, the MIN
lister of Foreign Affairs announced that the
Portuguese Consul had been instructed to de-
mand Immediate satisfaction OF the brazilian
Government for an outrage to the Portuguese
tlag at Para.
A Louisville telegram states that the Falls
CITY Tobacco Bank robbery ioots up S53o,OOO.
| The bank has offered reward of 800 Tor
rhe return of the bonds. OF twenty-five per
cent. Of the amount returned, and no questions
asked. 1t has also offered reward OF Souu
each for the capture Of the burg lars.
The Academy Of Medicine, Cincinnati, has
passed resolution forbidding its members who
are not regular life insurance physicians from
issuing certificates of the health OF their, pa
tents, except by the patients consent, and the
vaymcnt of five dollars by the Insurance. com
pany benefited.
Rev. DR.. j. p. Newman has been appointed
INSPECTOR of consuates abroad As the law
providing for such service expires June 10Th
next. it is presumed that his appointment Will
expire at that time When MIR. kelm held a
similar position he received a salary OF S5,OOO
and expenses.
The civil rights bill, which is in substance
the same with that of Senator Sumner, and
which has been before the Alabama Leg
islature for some time past, was on SATURDAY
killed in the House by nineteen majority. The
House is Republican.
Miss Sadie Wilkinson continues to press her
suit for breach Of promise of marriage against
B.ick Pomeroy He plead the statute OF lmI-
tations, but the United States Circuit Court
has oyerrulcd the plea, aud ordcacd the dcfun-
dant to go to trial on the merits OF the case.
The standing committee of the Protestant
Episcopal Church of Ohio has Informally resol-
we'd, in behalf Of the churches Of CINCINNATI,
with the consent of the family of Bishop Nell
vaipe, 10 bring his body home from Italy aud
to conduct the funeral.
Lewis Bogy was on Saturday introduced to
the Postmaster General and other officials 10
the Postotfice Department, as u. 5. Senator,
ly Colonel Aruot Arnold, the pioneer mail con
tractor, who drove the first mail coach over the
plains.
The ice goryes of the Susquchanna are be-
ginning to yield to the rising temperature and
the high winds. The Port Deposit blockade
has been gradually released, aad no fears are
now entertained as TO the safety OF the town.
Archbishop Purcell, Of Cincinnati, warns any
Catholic who connects himself with trade
union or kindred society that makes use Of an
oath in its initiation that lie thereby falls
off from the body Of the church.
The John Bull newspaper of London repeats
the report which was publish ed some days
AGO, that marriage is projected between the
Duke of Edinburgh ana daughter OF the En-
pcror Of Russia.
The first mortgage bonds of the New Iotk,
Boston aud Montreal Railroad Company
amounting to 5000, 900 were offered in Lon
don on Saturday and all taken at premium If
two per cent.
General Mcmillan and Ex-Governor Pinch
back. of Louisiana, coutesting u. s. Senators,
have returned home, the Senate not intending
IL IIu
session.
McElhancy, the Massachusetts wife-murde-
rer, will be hanged on the DIST instant. The
Supreme Court Of Massachusetts has denied
him new trial.
Alexander H. Stephens having again got
into political life has retired from journalism,
and has sold out his interest IN the Atlanta
Sun.
The British steamship Austrian, of the AL
Ian line, from Liverpool, arrived at Baltimore
yesterday.
A victory over the Carlists insurgents in
Spain is reported.
MP. CONFERENCE. In the Methodist Pro
testant Conference, in session in Baltimore, on
Saturday. East Capital Mission Of Washington
was recognized as one of the missions of this
Conference, and its name changed to North
Carolina Mission.
4 report Of the Committee on Foreign Mis-
sions recommends cooperation with tho Wo-
man Foreign Missionary Society OF the NJ. H.
Church by the formation Of auxiliary societies.
The reception of traternal messengers COM
ing up, Revs w. Wilson and Samuel Rogers
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, ad-
the greatest Christian feeling aud brotherly
love. \ resolution adopted by the Baltimore
Conference of the NJ. E. Church, South, ex-
pressing the heartiest wishes for the welfare OF
this Conference, was then read, and appropri-
ate responses made.
\ fratcrnal greeting from the New York Con.
ference Of the Methodist Church, now 10 session
at Patterson, n T., was received by telegraph
and responded to.
DR.. j. 4. Murray offered a resolution that
the Annual Conferences be invited to unite with
this Conference in the call for Convention