Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-12-26
NEWS OF THE DA r..
g To .hoo thevery age and body Of the Times

10 sHOO HeVoIy u9o o'S0 ooNS " "
In New York, on Thursday, King kaaSaua
was treated to sleigh ride III Central fark'
The roads were in excellent condition Tor sleigh,
ing, and the King aud his party eSpressseu
themselves delighted with their rue. hl'e[
being driven through the prlnclpa avenues OF
the park they were met at the ehtrance W
carriages aud conveyed 10 Normal College,
where after recitatious aud other exercises oy
,he scholars, and au address OF welcome, to
which the King could not respond 10 co6se-
oueoce of cold, the party went 10 the FRO
once Exchange. At 3p. ID. they visited the
Stock Exchange, and were Introduced to Some
of the promincut members At night the King
visited the Grand Opera House, aud Witnessed
the play of the Black Crook.
Three new suits have been brought by the
Corporation Council Of New York to lnvestl-
gate some of Tweed's transactions as Deputy
Street Commissioner and Commissioner OF
Public Works. Two of the suits are brought
against Morgan Juues for $350,OOO, and one
against Dannie Berriau for Sl75,'IO Inc
suits charge that the parties received these
sums from The city on fraudulent bills certified
to by Tweed.
The commissioners appointed to wind up
the affairs of the Freedmen's Bank are con-
sidsripg the propriety Of recommending to
Congress the appointment of receiver as the
bank is such complete financial wreck, that
the machinery Of commission Is almost use
less. The task of realizing upon the assets, 50
as to make dividends to the creditors OF the
bank viii be tedious process.
The will of the late S. s. Stevens, of Baltl-
more has been admitted to probate. He has
beoueathed $40 500 to different charitable in
situations, $4,000 of which goes TO the estab-
lishment of Chair of Theology 10 the Boston
University, and the remainder to various Bal
timore institutions in sums OF one thousand or
FIVE hundred dollars.
Mayor Vance, of New York, yesterday, re-
moved Myer Stern and James Bowen from the
Office of Commissioner of Charities and Cor
rection. and Edward L. Donney and Townsend
Cox have been appointed 10 their stead. The
reason for their removal was lenieDcy and priv
ileges granted to VIM. NJ. Tweed.
The various investigating committees OF
Congress will be busy during the holidays. The
first is the general committee on Southern at
fairs which has left for New Orleans the second
is that instituted to inquire into the late riots
in Vicksburg, and the third is to visit Alabama
to solve the Gubernatorial squabble.
An express train on branch of the Great
Western Railway was thrown from the track
near Woodstock England, on Thursday, and
precpitated down an elm baukment. Several OF
the carriages tell into the canal sklrtlng the
road, and sixteen of the passengers we're
drowned
About two hundred mechanics and laborers
on the foundation of the new custom house
and postofice building 10 St. Louis we're dis
charged Thursday, and work stopped on &C
count of the appropriation having been ex-
hausted.
Ia the case of Josephine Mansfield against
the executors of James Fisk for payment on
two notes, amounting to $20,500, payable to
plaintiff 10 1868 by Fisk, the jury, in New
York, un Thursday, gave verdict for Mans
field, with interest.
Both the Senate aud House Foreign Com
mittees will enter upon the consideration of
the reciprocity treaty with the Sandwich Is
lands immediately after the recess.
H. II. Goldsborough, defeated Republican
candidate for Congress III the First District
of Maryland, has been rendered the Office OF
Appraiser of Merchandise of Baltimore.
An explosion occurred in BignaIl Hill COL
liery, North Stafordshire, England, on Thurs
day, by which twenty miners were killed.
Thirteen bodies have been taken Out.
James Walker, D. D., formally President
of Harvard College. died Wednesday at Cam
bridge, Mass, aged eighty years