Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-06-29
NEWS OF Tx h; DA Y
" 10 shoso the very age and badly Of the Times

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The session OF the New Hampshire Leglsa-
ture on Friday was an unusually excited one,
and lasted until LIS o'clock on Saturday morn
ing The yeas and nays were called forty times.
The business was mainly that otremovlng Re
publicaus from Office and substituting Demo
Gratis. A number of officers 10 several COUNTIES
we're removed
On Saturday Gov Groome Of Maryland sign
ed the death warrants Of Ernest Smith, color
ed, convicted of an outrage 10 Talbot county,
aud Chas. Henry jones, coored, onvicted OF
the murder Of Ed. Berry, colored, Ill February
last 10 Baltimore The eth of August was
fixed as the day ol the executions to take
place.
A Halifax dispatch says that reports from
along the shore indicate that the recent gale
was almost equal in violence to the great gale
of last August. aud much damage has been
done to fishing boats aud gear. Three fisher
men were drowned by the upsettiug OF boat
off Ragged Island.
The German banking house Of Lassng, Wcis
T. Co., doing business 10 Chatham street, New
York, suspended payment on Saturday after
noon. An old partner claimed everything on
judgement, for money advanced. The present
partners have taken to fight, aud no assets arc
lett for the the creditors.
A New Orleans despatch says Milton 5. Pee
ler the Grant parish tax collector, appointed
by Governor Kellogg, who is under bond for
embczzing several thousand dollars OF the
State funds, has been rearrested, charged With
planning several robbcries and with forgery
The Car has banished the Grand Duke
Nicholas, for the theft of his mothers diamonds
to Caucasus for life, and has deprived him OF
the Cross of ST. George, which was bestowed
on him for his conduct in the khlva cam
palgn.
The nineteenth National Sengcrfest at Gle
vcland closed on Saturday with grand picnic
at the Northern Ohio Fair Grounds, about tive
thousand people being in attendance.
A Berlin telegram says that the report that
the conference of Roman Catholic Bishops OF
Fulda will eudeavor to make compromise
with the Prussian Government is not true.
The manager Of the Terrace Garden Theatre,
New York, obtained an Injunction last week re-
strainiug the police authorities from Interfering
with the Sunday entertainment.
About four hundred clerks will be discharged
from the departments at Washington on the
lst of July. All who will be discharged will
receive each two months extra pay.
Senior Sarmiento, upon his retirement from
the Presidency of the Argentine Confederation
will receive the appointment OF Minister to
Washington.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has instructed
the Assistant Treasurer at New York to sell
81 900, 900 gold on each Thursday during the
mouth Of July.
The Treasury Department several days since
commenced payments from the 81 100000 APP
propriated by Congress to supply deficiencies
The International Young Mems Christian
Association Convention at Dayton, Ohio, has
adjourned
Three children were bitten in Brooklyn and
two in New York yesterday by supposed mad
dogs, which were killed by the police
The New York Police Commissioners, have
handed their designations to Mayor HAVEN
eyer.
DR.. James McNaughton, President Of the
Albany Medical College, died suddenly 10 Paris
France, June 18th, aged ~.
The Boston irecstonc cutters, who have been
gu strike since the Goth of April, have resum
ed work at the old prices.
The customs receipts during this month are
larger than during June, 1873. There is also
an Improvement in the interest receipts.
The Sherwood House tragedy furnished
thems for number of discourScs in the churches
IN Baltimore yesterday.
Thorn as G. Wemyss, well known actor,
commit ed suicide by shooting himself Oh Sat
urday at bis residence, East New York.
Dispatches from Pernambuco announce the
death of the Primate OF Brazil.
The public debt statement Oh the lst of July,
will show slight decrease
The Government will pay out So, 0O0, 600
gold for July interest.