Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-11-02
NEWS OF THE DAY.
"7o sho,o the very age and body Of the Times.

The mountains in Western Pennsylvania are
covered with snow.
To-day ELECTION day. is a legal holiday in
New York.
An adj burned session of the Arkansas Gene
raj Assembly convened at Little Rock, yester-
day.
The Greek Church has sustained loss 10
the death Of Lycurgus, the Archbishop Of
Syria.
the W yes Of the FIVE thousand operatives in
Harmony Mills al Cuhoes, n. T., have been
reduced twelve pSr cent.
Gay. Bevrrldge hus ordered the First Regi-
uent Illinois militia TO be uuder arms, and 10
remain at the armory III Chicago to day.
The Spanish Government has declared quar-
aatine against all vessels FROM the port of New
Orleaus on account ot yellow fever.
a ire at Sherman, Texas yesterday, de-
stroycd several blocks of buildings, and was
still raglug at last accounts.
BY the destruction OF factory at Preston,
Eugaod, yesterday, two hundred persons were
thrown OUT OF employment
A New York dispatch says the Russian po-
lice have succeeded 10 arresting some thirty
Socialist workmen In village near Moscow
alter sharp resistance.
Advices from the Usage Iudian Agency say
that Agent Gibson has sent to Cheyenne for
one hundred cavalry, and with that support ex-
poets to force the Indians into submission.
Mrs. f. D. E. N. Southworth, the novelist,
who has been for several mouths under the
rs IL t,,l
has improved SO far that she is daily expected
to returo to her home 10 Georgetown.
The new cable from Key West to Cuba is
now completed. The old one has been repair
ed, thus restoring duplicate communications
with Cuba, the West Indies and South Am
erica.
'E.lerslie," beautiful country seat, co.,
tanning 100 acres, two miles from Petersburg,
Va, has been purchased for SIS, 900 by gen.
temau from New York, who coutemplates
making a stock farm of it. The place belong
ed to the estate Of tbs late David Dunlap.
A young tanned HANNAH, living in Coles
county, Illinois, had tooth drawn last week,
| AID the hemorrhage was 50 excessive that be
was unable TO leave the dentists office. All
efforts to check the flow Of blood failed, and be
died ou Saturday.
Miss Mary E. Van Waters, of Hamilton,
Wis, who was nominated for County Superiu-
tendcut of Schools, has declined to accept, say
ing that she was not consulted before the use
| OF her uame, aud Is neither capable nor desr-
Gus Ut hlug the office.
The French iron. clad Magenta, which was
destroyed by fire at Tou'on, Oh Saturday. is a
total loss. Several persons were slightly in-
jured by the explosion on board, and two other
v sseIs were set on fire but the flames we're e1.
tinguished.
Tbs eight men belonging to the crew of the
American ship John Pascal, reported burned
at sea, and who were detained at Plymouth,
England, on suspicion of having fired or de-
serted from the ship, were released, yesterday,
the underwriters agents being satisfied as TO
the truth Of their statement.
The severe storm in New England has caused
the Merrmac, in New Hampshire, to rise sew
era feet, and fears are entertained at Marches.
ter tor the safety OF the river wall, which IL of
solid masonry, fifteen feet high and nearly halt
a mile long About fifty feet of it has shown
slgos OF giving way before the pressure.
Harry Ghaul deliberately shot aud killed
Joseph Smith, alias Little Smithy," in a
Rochester, N. Y, saloon last night. There
was dispute about paying for drinks Ghaul
Was sent tor to settle 1t, aud brought revul-
yer with him, and as soon as he crossed the
Threshold shot Smith dead, the ball going
| through the neck aud spinal marrow. Ghaul
was arrested.