Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-06-15
EwS OF THE DAY
To sho,o the very age and body Of the Times


A dispatch from Savannah, Ca, states that
the schooner Rover, from ludan river, Fla,
to Savannah, ran ashore on Saholo shoals, OH
Dobay, Sunday night, the 7th instanl, aud
vent to pieces in fifteen minutes Capt. lrott,
wife aud child, Dr. Garfield, passenger, and
two coiored men got in boat, but were swamp
I'd aud all drowned except the captain, who re-
turned to the wreck, where TWO other passengers
and the rest of the crew remained. Ihey
hoated 90 raft 10 ST. Cathariue' Island, and
were taken off by the steamer Carrie and
brought to Savannah They were four days
without food.
On Saturday night a fire occurred 10 Rich
mond, Va, iu the store of Messrs, Walter u
Blair 4 Co., grocers and liquor dealers. doing
business at the southwest corner OF Main and
Ninth streets. Although in very short time
che flames we're extinguished, the water aud
the heat combined had the effect of very SER
iously ipiuriug the stock Of goods iu the store,
except the whiskey. The loss will probably
reach 81 900.
Ga Saturday the floors of the frame factory
of G. Ford & Son, Lyuchburg, Va, gave Way
under the weight of tobacco which they were
bearing, and soon after the side walls and
portion of the eastern end Of the factory fell
outwards, leaving the building quite wreck.
The house was three. story one. aud each floor
contained nearly 100000 pounds OF tobacco.
The damage is about $4,000.
Dispatches from the Jacksonville (Ohio) min
ing regions report everything quiet Governor
Aliens private secretary has issued an order
requiring the president OF the Miners Unlon
10 restrain the members of the union from 20
ing to the mines and inducing or forcing color
ed men to leave. Tie order Is obeyed, and no
trouble whatever is apprehended now.
A suit is progressing at St. Paul, MIMI,
against the St. Paul and Pacific railroad, 90
application for the appon tment of receiver,
90 the ground that the road Is lnsolVent, and
that large amout of its tun1s has been divert
ed by the managers from the proper object.
| The managers deny all the material allegations
| of tue applicants.
The report of the Investigating Committee
on the District Government will be made to
Congress to-day. Washington dispatches state
| that it will sharply condemn the Shepherd adj
ministratlop, aud recommend that it should be
| legisated out of Office The dark lantern safe
burglary plot is to be handed over to the De-
parJment of Justice.
The weekly statement OF the New York
banks, issued on Saturday, reflects loss in the
net reserve Of the banks of $3.50, l25, and
they now hold in lawful surplus $lS,O23,l5O
The supply Of capital is abundant, the ruling
rates at New York on Saturday being 2a5 per
cent for call loans.
The lrigate Constellation, Commander *.
| Il. Breeze. havug on board the midshipmen
| from the Naval Academy, arrived at Fortress
Monroe, Va, yesterday morning. She VIII
cruise along the North Atlantic coast during
the SUMMER, making her headquarters at New
London, Conn.,
The pilgrims at Rome from America have
assured Cardinal Borromeo that upon their re-
turn to the United States they will advocate
the organization of pilgrlmages 10 Rome, 10 be
made at stated periods. The pilgrims have
purchased au immense number Of photographs
of the Pope.
President Grant accompanied by Secretary
Bristow, Senator Hamlin, Governor Shepherd
and humber Of others went to Cape May on
Saturday evening, and were the guests of j. +.
Cake Of Congress Hall. They returned to
Washington by special train yesterday evening.
A frightlul storm of rain, thunder and light
ming occurred on the night Of the 7th inst at
St. Joseph de Ia Beauce, Canada. The streams
were rapidly ovcrhowed and, together with
the wind, overturned several mills, barns, aud
dwellings,. Damage $4,000.
The great international race for the grand
prize OF Paris Was run yesterday Sunday near
Paris, and was won by the English colt Trent
The French 6ly SaItarelle was second, the
Eoglish colt Tomahawk third, and the Freuch
colt Bevile fourth. Fourteen started.
The National Reporter makes good show
ing of the condition of the growing wheat in
most of the Western States, but the outlook
for the tobacco is very bad. 1t is the general
suppostion that not more than oue-half to two
thirds Of last years crop will be gathered.
At the meeting Of the Pennsylvania State
Grange last week, there were over FIVE hun
dred patrons 10 attendance, and it was prophe-
sled that by next January there would be 10 the
State thousand Oranges with membership
Of $4,000.
All the officials connected with the recent
management of the Borrd of Indian Commis-
sioners have Joined with the majority of the
Commissioners in resigning. 1t is likely that
Congress will now abolish the Board entirely.
The Chinese laborers at Beaver Falls, near
Pittsburg, raised row with their superinten-
dent 90 Saturday. The police interferred and
the rlugeaders Of the riot were arrested aud
their passions are now cooling in jail
According to the new Chicago directory, the
population Of that city has increased $4,000 in
the last year. Taking the ratio of three and
ahalf persons to each name in the directory
the total population is 532 900.
Rev. James Miller McKim, the we'll known
anti-slavery pioneer and for twenty FIVE years
corresponding secretary Of the Pennsylvania
Ant-Slavery Society," died Saturday morning
at Oraoge, N. j., aged sixty-tour.
A great treshet 10 Schoharie creek at Pratts-
Vile, Greene county, n. Y, last week, carried
away houses and destroyed other property