Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-12-11
NEWS OF THEDAY.
ITO sho1o the very age and body of the III,

The Arkansas Legislature adjourned sine die |
yesterday.
slight earthquake shock was experienced |
at Nebraska City on Thursday.
Fifteen hundred soldiers will leave Cadiz on |
the 18th lust. tor Cuba
The extensive lumber commission house of
Il. u. Peters u Co., Of Boston, has suspended. |
The missing steamer Los Angeles arrived at
Victoria yesterday in "a disabled condition.
At North Hampstead yesterday Delaney the
murderer, was executed He made confession
on the scafold.
A proclamation is published summoning the
British Parliament to meet on the Sth of Feb
ruary.
George Horwing, engineer on the Macon and
Brunswick Railroad, was Instantly killed yes
terday by the explosion of boiler.
The Direct United States Gable is interrupt
ed one hundred aud thirty miles east of Nova
Scotia.
Senator Cameron is lying seriously i'll of cold,
and from bis advanced age his friends are ap.
prehensve of the result.
Chattanooga iron nets about $l6 so per ton
to the furnace proprietors This rate they
l.
duce them to keep their works running.
The raising of tobacco has proved success
10 Los Angeles county, CAL, whittier a consid-
cradle colony of substantial Western men went
several months ago.
The sum of $4,000 has been contributed by
the municipality OF Paris to the fund for the
statue of Liberty to be erected 10 New Y ork
harbor.
The Border City Mills, of Fall River have
received an order from Manchester (Englaud)
house Tor twenty-five thousand pieces of print
cloths.
A Vienna dispatch says that Gen. Kaufman
is receiving reinforcement which will enable
him to operate effectively against the Khokand
insurgents.
DR.. James A. Steuart, Health Commissioner
of Baltimore, states that that Department 10
longer entertains any fears from The SMALLPOX,
which 1t was at one time thought had devcl-
oped ln that city.
La the Iowa Senatorial canvass it is said that
secretary Bclknap takes the lead in popular
choice, distanciug, so far, Harlin, Price Nc
Crary, Carpenter, and others mentioned as 10
the race.
: |
was held last night, Rev. Henry Ward Beechcr
presiding. The annual report shows a present
membership OF ,, 100, Of whom 1875 are te-
males an increase during the year Of l76.
The statue OF Prince Albert, which is to be
placed 10 the memorial at Hyde Park is spoken
OF as not very satisfactory being sitting figure.
a hgurc With two right angles is rather awk.
word looking, but the sitting posture was adopt
ed because the Queen insisted on having it,
Ihc Pope has Oeen very much interested of
late in the very au liable work of erecting houses
for the working classes in the Piazza San Petro,
10 Aontorlo, and it would be we'll we're his ex.
ample followed BY others, as houses for the
poor are very much needed in Rome.
The Duke Of Modena, Archduke Francis of
Austria, died childless and iDtestate, leaving
fortune amounting to nearly $37 SOC, 900. This
will be divided equally between the Countess
OF Chambord the mother of Don Carlos, and
a niece of the Archduke.
The New York World says thai TRANSMISSION
of blood was thought of as possible remedy
tor Mr.. Charles . Cobor, but it was the opiu-
100 oil the family physician that that resort
would, at the most, prolong life but day or
two.
The Kentucky State Grange in session at
Louisville, yesterday passed resolutions asking
Congressional aid for the Texas Pacific Rail-
road and coDdemuiug the effort to Incorporate
with the CHANGERS the col ored Organization
known as the Council Of Laborers y
A Berlin dispatch says the late conference
between Bismarck and Prince Gort>chakotf re-
suited in an agreement for peaceful solution
Of the Turkish difficulty. Neither of them
were 10 favor OF al international conference on
the Suez Canal question.
A movement is now on foot to endow little
Julia, the child Of StouewalI Jackson. Give
her Christmas gift. 1t will gladden. the old
soldiers heart as he rests under the trees
over the river"
Information has been received at Washing
ton that Portuguese having been detected at
I okohama 10 attempting to negotiate flaudu
lieut. letters OF credit purportlng to have been
issued by the Japanese Government, he has
lied to either America or Europe. The amount
OF the fraud was three million dollars.
J Church property is taxed iu California, and
this was brought about by the heather. The
Chinese avalled themselves of the exemption
oil church property to evade taxation on their
loss-houses, which are very numerous and main
ly merely opium-s smokers resorts; and to pre-
vent this It Was necessary to make general the
taxation OF all real estate used for religious
purposes.
On the 18th instant it is appointed that the
Bishop elect of Deventer shall be consecrated
at Rotterdam (St Laurentius' church, by the
Archbishop OF Utrecht, the Bishop Of Haar-
lem, and Bishop Reinkens. If this should
Old Catholic Church of Holland of recur
renee to the old custom OF three Bishops as
oticlators at conservation since its separation
from the Papal authority.
ln consequence Of the failure of the French
Assembly to elect Senators on Thursday. the