Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-12-15
NEWS OF IHh! DAY.
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The Stadt Theatre (Germau) in New York
was closed Sunday evening by the police and
large crowd went to another theatre, whose
INJUNCTION on the police had not run out. ~ I've
Gerulaua Theatre was also closed. fau' ralh
Theatre gave sacred CONCERT I'LL l. coch'
when theatrical performance began anu coq-
tipued until near clock, to a large crowd.
The Bowcry Theatre gave sacred concert,
which included 1.-The Pearl Of Savoy, to an
immense house.
The manager of the Cold Refining Works in
San Francisco tclegraphs 10 the Director OF tie
Mint that the recent discoveries on the Com
stock Lode are said TO exceed all former dcvc-
opmeuts. The production of bullion, being
limited only by the mining capacity, will prob
ably be forty millions Annually irom April
next, averaging forty per cent. gold, anu the
production Of portable gold will be from fifteen
to eighteen millions, depending upon the rain
fall.
A large public meeting was held IN Balt-
more last night, under the auspices OF the
Maryland State Temperance Alliance and the
Ladies Temperance Association, for the pur-
pose Of inauguratiug movement to establish
temperance restaurants 10 that city. Addresses
we're made by Prof Nathan Il. Smith. Hon.
Reverdy johnson, Rev. j. W. NJ. Williams
and Rev. Thomas l.. Pculson, aud a coLnnlt-
tee OF ladies was appointed TO take the matter
IN charge.
Mr.. Macarthur, of Philadelphia, has de-
clined the position of Supervising Architect OF
the Treasury Department. Mr.. Auett con-
sequently remains at the head of that Bureau,
aud will until some one is appointed who Will
accept the position. This will not be long.
however, as the appointment will be rendered
to some one in day or TWO. There are large
number Of applicants, whose petitions Will be
duly considered.
The troubles which have prevailed for some
time past in the Broadway Methodist Protest
ant Church, Baltimore, eliminated 10 lis vol.
uutary severance from the Maryland Annual
Conferences. A preamble and resolutions to
that effect were unanimously passed at a full
meeting of the male members Of the congrega
ton assembled III the lecture room OF tho
church last nj ght.
A dispatch from Pittsburg says that heavy
detacaton, amounting to about SIS: 00O has
been discovered IN tho accounts OF the financial
agent of the freight department Of the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company within the past
few days. 1t is stated that the deficit will be
made good by his boudsmeu, and no prOsecu-
ton will be made.
Thomas A. Scott, Of the Pennsylvania rail
road, made an argument yesterday before the
Conn ittee on Railroads of the i. 5. Senate,
In favor of the immediate construction OF the
proposed road to the Pacific Coast the IexaS
and Pacific railway, Of which he Is the Prcsl
dent
The 'Longshoremen' Association of Hobo
ken, n. j., numbering FIVE hundred and
eighty men, has dissolved. and their fund Of
$4,000 has been distributed among them.
Each man is privileged to get work where he
can.
The next session Of the Baltimore Annual
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
South will be held at the Mount Vernon Place
Church, Washington, commencing on Veg
nesday, March 5. Bishop Marvin will preside.
Yesterday, at New Orleans, an effort was
made to introduce five or six colored girls as
pupils into the Girls Upper High School of
over fifty OF the graduating class.
The pastors of the Omaha churches have
issued call to the churches Of the East sug-
costing special collection for the sufferers By
the grasshoppcr raid Oh Christmas Day.
Doctor Underwood, the well known pool
seller, died at Saratoga on Sunday trom hcmor-
rhage Of the lungs.
The steamship Mongo, from Shanghai for
New York, has been wrecked aud sixteen per-
sons lost.
w. w. Corcoran, esq, has had bis sight
completely restored by recent surgical opera
tions.
Gen. Sherman visits Washington to-day, at
the invitation Of Gen. Grant, to assist in enter
tanning King kalakaua.
There was destructive fire in Boston las,
night