Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-08-13
NEWS OF THE DAY.
"1o sho,o the very age and body of the II

The Treasury Department is engaged in an
earnest effort to break up what is known as
fashionable smuggling" and to that end new
form of entry for the baggage of passengers re.
turoiDg from Europe has been approved by
Secretary Bristow, and will be issued to all COL
lectors Of Customs on the seaboard.
Admiral Wordon, com mandiug the European
fleet, announces to the Navy Department that
the Congress, now on the coast of Syria, has
been ordered to Tripoli to act with the Hart
ford in dem handing the arrest and punishment
Of the 1ripolian sailors who nsulted the Unit
ed States Consul there.
A force of police surrounded the Office of the
Central Pacific Railroad at Sau Francisco yes
terdsy, and after searching the place, succeeded
in capturing the defauIter and bgamist Wood
1utf, who was reported to have sailed for China
on the I'd instant. He was committed to Jail,
and bail fixed at S25 200.
Hugh Mcbride. alias McJ unkin, has been ar
rested in Philadelphia, charged with having
disappeared suddeo from Veoaugo county,
Pa, taking with him 50 $50 belonging to his
brother-iD-law, Marvin Mckinley. He is also
charged with bigamy, having, it is said, three
wives now living.
Yesterday was another interesting day at the
Saratoga races. The Kenver stakes, aggregat-
ing about $4,000, for three year ods, two miles
10 which SIX horses started, resulted 10 dead
heat between Ozark aud Miner 10 3.43a, and
the stakes were divided between them.
Theodore Tilton has sued Thomas KiuselIa,
Of the Brooklyn Eagle, for libel. The cause Of
the action is contained 10 an article in the Eagle
declaring TiltoD saturated with insanity, and
reporting that several Of mis- relations had been
insane.
The remains Of ex .Governor Graham will ar.
rive in Raleigh, N g., at two O'Clock today by
special train, and will lie in state at the capitol
until seven clock, when they will be removed
to HilIsboro' for interment.
The Omaha Herald has specials from nine
teen of the heaviest graiu-growiug counties OF
the State, giving most encouraging reports
The grasshoppers have entirely disappeared in
most places.
A report has been received at Omaha from
Fort Laramie that Red Cloud, Spotted Tai
and other Indians are near Harneys Peak de.
handing compensation for damage done theil
cOu0lry.
-Four men were arrested 10 New York on
Wednesday night charged with participation 10
the torgeries of the California aud Oregon rail
road bonds.
The President has signed the commission Of
Adam Badeau to be Minister Resident at Brus
sells, Belgium. Badeau was Grants pet adju
taut during the war.
j. NJ. Snyder, cashier of the Chillicothe
(Ohio,) National bank, is alleged to be de-
iaalter. The amount Of the detacation is un.
known.
The twentp-ninth annual session of the Su
prone Council OF Templars of Honor and Ten
peraace is being held at Chicago.
The extensive liquor establishment of s.
Adler & Co., St. Joseph, Mo-, was seized yes
terday by u. S. revenue officers.
The National Camp Meeting 10 New York i:
being largely attended from all sectious Of the
country.
The Sultan of Zanzibar, now visiting Eng
land, Is cross between negro and an Arab.
Snow fell at Pixies Peak yesterday.