Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-03-04
FOREIGN MEMS.

muvOr or he city presided.
BERLIN, March 81 In the Raichstag RIO.
ton was under discussion TO deprive thu Gov
eruor of A!sqce of the puw,r to declare = state
If siege. Bismarck made strong suClc.i 70.
d,v against tic motion. He declared Inc never
expec,ed Alsace would greet our institutions
with applause Alsace shared The rcspons.oi-
Nv Of war The mctivl was r. ectct by a v,le
| of lSS yeas to 1876 nays.
LONDON, March 3 midnight There Is. no
news from the Gold Coast OF later date than
| Gen. V olsecy's Dispatch In the absence OF
further advices all kinds of rumors are in cir
culation, and grave fears are felt thar some dl-
saster mag have occurred to the cXncdltlonaly
force on its march back 10 the coast. The aux
icty at the War office is such that Claiborne
Hardy stays there until late hour, and me
clerks remain on duty all night
\ steamer from Cape Coas; Castle was due
at Lisbon on the 18th uit. 1t Is possible she
nlry not have Intended to stop at Lisbon, AMI
is coming direct TO England, bur sucl eput>c
would be contrary TO rule.
NAGAsAKI. JAPAN, March 3.-The iuSur
gent forces, which appe; red before this city.
have been lately defeated by the Government
troops, and have disappeared.
SUIT In the District Court Of the United
States for the Eastern District OF Virginia, sit
Ting at Norfolk, yesterday, the following bust
Dcss was transacted:
In the matter Of Rock Antoui, III bankruptcy,
on petition in involuntary bankruptcy, by
Tobiason & Heilbrun, Of Philadelphia, cred
itors IL. Garden, Of Warrenton, for petition
ing creditor, r. I. Scctt Of Warrcnton, for
bankrupt.
The petition alleged as one act of bankrupt
cy that being merchant aud trader in The
town Of Warrenton, the said AntoDi was pro-
tested for the uon-payment Of u piece OF ne,
gotiable paper, which has remalnrl unpald
since the first of December, 1873.
Ii alleges as another act Ut bankruptcy, that
; the said Anon laid in stuck OF goods to tile
amount of So, 500, and some three months after
doug so, made deed of homestead, setting
5 apart the goods so purchased, for which the
purchase money remained unpaid, as Il home
stead for himself aud family, though h. had no
family, and was single man.
The language Of the general bankrup; act ap
plying to the case is Us follows:
Any person who being bankrupt or III
: solvent, or in contemplation of bankruptcy u
, insolvency, shall make any + transfer If
49, property = with intent by such
disposition of bis property, TO defeat or delay
, the operation ofths act = shall be deem
ed to have committed an act Of bankruptcy,
, < = aud shall be adjudged bankrupt Oh tie
) petition of one or more of his creditors, tie
aggregate or whose drbts shall be equal to
; $3.50
Counsel for Antoni demurred to those aver
ments in the petition which relate to The deed
} of homestead, and coutended that such irdns-
fer made under the Homestead PROVISIONS OF
the State Constitution and code id nlt c'D-
st,ute an act of bankruptcy.
The demurrer was 0verrucd by III" 'I.'u"t a:.i
, it was held that "thc SITTING apart 4, 1t SOM:
stead" of goods which had never been paid Ior
; with iutcnt, 10 defeat the operation OF tee
bankrupt act" which is to devote the ass:>
Of bankrupts TO the payment ot creditors, VS.
an act OF baukruptcy under the 5v.il sectl"n
of the general bankrupt law. :
The counsel for pcti,ioning creditors moved
to strike out 50 much oil The answer Of dricL-
dant as alleged that in Consequence IT an H.
Junction takeG out by one Of his creditors and
other judicial proceedings to which this pctl-
tioning creditor Was in fact, thongh not Oh tic
record, party, he suffered damages greater
than the demand Of the peutlGnlug crcd!tr.
which he was entitled to be- allowed as Il sci III
to the present claim.
The court sustained this motion.
In the matter of Tobiason Il Hell u:un ".
r. Antuui, the court adj urned at D. H.,
discharging the jury until II !. III TO morrow,
when the argument will be resumed -Nor3oHi
Iirginiau.
THE Ice CROP. As considerable interest is
felt in the prospect Of the ice crop. We give the
probabilities as 10 that great regulating centre,
New York
There is no proba' ,ility Of the price rising 80
high MS in 1870 or OF the sumo ial!Ilnc "cc ing
Thee may be an increase If twcnty. i've per CT.
in the price BUT none OF the representa- .cs
we're prepared to state with c"rtsnty the amount
of ice already III Stor, or, vi course, thc 4lh1.ty
expected. The Washington Ice Company dis
posed Of about 80 900 tons last year and ut pre-
sent have about hu.: that amount saved, but Nc
laying up additional quantities in kcnn"bcc,
Maine and have purchased crops on Lakes, con-
venient TO railroads, in order To meet AL de-
mundS ut rs low II rate rs possible The Nh, on
al Ice Company have about two thirds Of their
supply, and also hope To meet al cncrecnc!s.
The President Of tho knIckcrboctrr C,mptlly
states that they have saved $40 tons III prcStt,
and exncct t. add during the coming moth
considerably to their stock. He did not wish /"
state what private purchases were made or in
tended, as Spectators would Ito more IN il cr1ts
ing its price than nm ordi a:y scarcity, and ob
served that in 1870 the sensation created b. car
tain papers did moro injury than could Ne eas.
ly calculated. The Mutual Bci:ef Company
are equally certain OF no Inconvenience arising
from the past mi winter ana have something
more than half their usual demand saved. In
the few houses of the Consumers Company they
have &c, COO tons, excluding their store in Maine
and last year disposed of. about 3U,0uU tons
Much depends on the GOODNESS Of the rest of the
season to thicken the still tloatiHg ice US other
wise it is comparatively of no use, being wasted
in the carriage to the houses; also, gn the COM
ing summer if intensely hot, the Consumption
! will be greater and necessarily Il higher price =
NATIONAL. DEBTS. In 1915 the debts of the
great civilized nations Of the world amounted
to SIS, 500 100000. Now they amount to about
$24 0O0, 900, 900, an Increase which is attribu,-
cd 10 the unprecedented development Of the
Investing spirit and the aid given By govern
meuts to public works, and especially to the
occurrence of great aud expensive wars. OIL
the entire addition to the debt, nearly two
thirds have been Incurred by six nations, viz
France, the United States, Russia, Austria,
Italy and Spain and Of the remaining thild
/ / L. L. Ill