Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-07-31
NEWS OF THE DAY
ITO shot0 the rsry age and body Of the Time.

Board Of Trade to investigate the circumstances
attending the loss Of the steamship Vicksburg,
of the Dominion lioe, have submitted their re-
port. They say thar had the Captain hove to
when the ice was reported Cd both bows, as
required BY the rules OF the company, the dis
asicr, 10 all probability, would not have hap
peued. They also lind that the boats we're not
launched IN time, aud are OF the opinion that
had they been everyone on the ship would have
been saved. The report shows that The crew
had not been exercised in launching she boats,
apd6p this tact is partly due the loss of life.
Acomuittec of the Catholic Total Abstinence
Union of America waited upou Papal Ablegate
Mgr. Roncettl yesterday morning al New York.
aud presented him with au address coutaiDiog
protestatlonS Of devotion and love to be con-
veyed to the Pope. The address was adopted
az a meeting Of Of the Convention held 10 Chi
cago October II, 1874. 4 latin address TO the
Pore from the clergy OF the diocese Of New
\ OK will be presented TO the Papal Ablegale
this evening, and the Papai Legation will sail
tor Europe to-morrow.
John Smith, a negro, was executed yester-
day at Charleston for the murder of a white
man in February last % E1iSto Island. Joe
Gibbs, his acoompllce, who was also sentenced
to be hanged, had his senteuc. COMMITTED, just
before the execution, by the rlored L;euten-
ant Governor, 10 twenty years Imprisonment.
The Secretary oithc Treasury has decided TO
MAKE no change iu the engraving or printing of
the new national bauk notes except that the
notes are to be printed on distinctive paper aud
marked '~Series of 1873 and will bear the sig
nature OF the present Treasurer of the United
Statef.
Another swimming match, for purse Of two
Thousand dollars. has been arranged TO take
place between Johnson and Coyle, over the
sanle course as tie last match, from Chester to
Gloucester, on the Delaware, to come of be.
tween the 18th aud 24,h of August. Both
men go luto training to-day.
Advices from Melbourne say that great op-
position had been developed 10 the Victoria
Parliament against the budget, the measure
having passed the preliminary stages by only
one maj rity. II was thought the Mioistry
would resign.
The report Of the surrey of the Napipi river,
for the purpose of making a ship canal acros.
the Isthmus Of Darien, is progressing uudr the
supervision OF Lieut.. Collius. aud will be com
plete1 10 about six weeks.
Henri Rochetort has CHALLENGED Paul de Cas-
saguac for structures published in lie Pays iu
1872, but the sconds of the parties being un-
able to agree on the terms OF the meeting, the
duel is Oft tor the present.
The Attorney General of the State of New
York has decided that investment of the funds
OF the savings banks of that State 10 the Dis.
trlct OF Columbia ) % bonds is illegal.
At a meeting Of the convention Of Irish socie-
ties 10 New York last night, a committee was
appointed 10 make arrangements TOR the celc.
bra;lon OF the birthday Of Daniel OCouncIl.
A dispatch FROM Eureka, Nevada, reports a
cave 10 at Eureka, consolidated mines, Ruby
Till. Five mluerS we're killed. TwJ bodies
have been recovered.
The postmaster at Sain: Luce, Canada, has
been arrested aud cyumittei Tor robbing the
mails.
Vim. Henderson, lumber merchant. Montreal
Canada, has made au assignment. Liabilities
$50. 600.
BALSToN. No singl locality of equal cx
tent 10 the State Of Virginia has made more
rapid strides towards resurrection from the eff
fects of the war than has this. Nice country
residences, With tasteful surroundings, exten.
slve fruit orchards and Vineyards, now over.
spread the plain Of icvcl country extending
from the river line Of bills opposite the city If
Washington to the lice of Munson's and
Miners Hills, some fve miles distant. This
plain was one vast camp during the war and
was left at its close almost as bare as a western
prairie.
Ii will enunerate a portion Of the improve
mepts which the laSt five years have developed
10 this v%iciuty. The North Arlington Viue.
yard, Of three acres Of Il. A. Phillips, was the
pioneer, and haa become famous for its contri
button to the Washington market. This was
followed BY that Of Y. T. Corbett, embracing
some three acres also a peach orchard of one
thousand trees. Mr.. Corbctt had also erected
the finest house in Alexandria county. tut
which was burned dow jl>t Oh the eve Of lis
Completion. }. {. Brnwu has built a hand
some residence aud covered II acres with fruit
and grapes; Captain y smith beautiful resi-
dence and a fine peach orchard A. P. Douglas
q large and conmodious house and extesive or
chard of snail fruits and vineyard of two or
three acres; Geo W. Bahc0ck a comfortable
residence, surrounded with fruit aud vines. G..
.. Wunder has planted within the past year,
three thousand grape vines, aud laid the ioun.
dltion for az elegant residence. Mr.. Hurlbert
put out a vineyard of ten acres, and has erect
ed a pleasant residence. Caleb Gushing pur-
chased the John B.. Brown place. kuowu as
the Glebe lands in old colonial days, aud has
made OF 1t an elegant retreat from the cares of
his busy prof4ssionaI aud diplomatic life. w.
h.. Robertson purchased the Judge Peck place
ADD built a tasteful house aud surrounded it
with fruit orchards. Mrs. Hayes has had erect
ed an elegant residence, ard extended her
green houses and orchards. Ira MunsoD's reat
cottage Commands a fne view of the city, and
Is surrounded By a peach orchard of one thous
and trees md a vineyard of two acres. Johp
Burch has extended his peach orchard until it
plumbers about one. thousand trees. +. II.
Sypherd purchased the Clark farm of one hun
dEed acres, bare as a prairie, aud erected there
on a comfortable house and planted GU, twelve
hundred peach trees, six hundred apple and
four bundrcd pear trees, aud three acres in