Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-02-10
NEWS OF 1'AIE DAY.

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10 s!ow the very age and body Of the Times
A number of fires are reported by telegraph.
BY the buruing Of tenement house III New
York TWO children lost their lives and their
father was fatally burned. \ factory IN Brook
lyn was destroyed and one hundred hands
thrown out of employment. AT Lexington,
Massachusetts, u residence was burned and a
large amount of money consumed, and Gaiu
able coiicctiur Of paintings destroyed. y coun.
~ almshuusc in New Jersey was burned; and
in PHILADELPHIA large launery was consumed,
with ,welve hundred toes of bark, as we'll as
the ,iatnagug of about two hundred sides OF
leather. lnSurauces amount TO S4s,ooo IN dlt-
ferent companies, which will cover the loss.
The funeral CT Senator Buckingham took
place at Norwich, Goun., yesterday. The cities
of Hartford, New Haven and New London,
the State Government and the Senate OF the
United States were represented by large OH
cial aud private delegations, aud the city was
I'ull to ovel flowing with people from the sur
rounding tcwrs. who came in notwithstanding
the Intensely cold weather. Business was en-.
tirciy suspended IN the city, and the lnf abb
tants all uriicd iy presence at the services and
by public expressions Of sorrow to show their
respect for the memory OF the deceased.
The Bishop Of Strasbourg having issued Il
charge to lis clergy in when he alleges that
the Church is prosecuted, the German author
tiles have seized the copies and forbidden the
PRONUNCIATION OF the document.
VIM. Cullen Bryant was presented to both
Houses Of the New York Legislature yesterday
and highly laudatory addresses were made by
the presiding officers.
The candidate Of he Bonapartists in the re-
cent election in the Cotes Du Nord has with
drawn from the contest.
The Invade Russo asserts that England has
supplied six thousand rifles to the Eastern Tur-
CONAN tribes.
A snow storm prevailed in the southern part
of England yesterday.
FEMALE SUFrRAGE-The female suffrage
question has reached the Supreme Court OF
the D. S.. where suit is now on trial involving
the question whether women are not,as citizens
under proper construction of the meaning Of
the i4th amendment to the Constitution, en-
titled to equal rights and privileges at the polls
The point has frequently been raised before
now. but has been overruled by all the judicial
authority which has pronounced upon it, and
now is brought up for 6nal decision by the
highest legal tribunal Of the country. The
case comes from Missouri, and is that of Mrs.
Miner against registration officer who refused
to receive her vote, aud in whose favor judg-
ment was given 10 the State Courts
The plaintiff claims that as citizen OF the
United States she is entitled to the privilege
common to all citizens of voting, particularly
at Federal elec.iuus The State Court decided
against the right under the Constitution and
laws of Missouri, and the argument here is
that the privilege Of voting for Federal officers
does no; depend upon State authority except
as to the right of regulating its exercise, and
as to that right the State cannot, under the
pretence Of regulating it. actually prohibit the
enjoyment by imposing Impossible conditions.
The Constitution of the State and the Regis.
tratior acts based thereon are repuguant to
and in violation of the Federal Constitution 10
many of its provisions, but clearly so in respect
of section | of the Fourteenth Amendment,
which expressly gives the elective franchise to
all citizens of the United States and protects
them in that right az against State laws and
State authority, and there being no limitation
of the right to male ci;zeos by its provl sloos,
or authorized by it, no Inferior jurisdiction can
impose one, and the courts must therefore de-
eide in favor of the right Of all citizens, nciud-
ing the female citizen. 1t is also urged that
by ratifying this amendment the several States
are estopped from longer claiming the right to
limit the franchise to males as State preroga-
tive, and that all legislation BY the States tend.
ing to that end is void. This theory is main
taued by ex-senator Henderson and John NJ.
krum, whose names are appended 10 the brlet.
The usual argument was made by francis
Miner, the husband of the plaintiff.
During the argument the following colloquy
occurred:
Mr.. Justice Fied-So you hold that citizen
ship coulerS the right to vote?
Couusel-Yes. sir.
Mr.. Justice Field--Have children then the
right to vote
Couose!--Yes, sir.
Without any further explanation the Court
generally seemed inclined to rally the counsel,
but as he either did not relish the plquant To-
and therefore purposely refraned
from replying, or was unable to respond to the
satisfaction of their hoDors, they soon ceased
to ply him with questions.
DEATH OF \ STRANGER-A man BY the
name of William Lewis travelling through the
on foot, was taken sick on the road
near the Poor House in this county and was
taken into the house OF negro anu kept some
eight days before it was kncwn by the white
people OF the neiehborhood. Dr. VIM S Alsop
was sent for, came and examined him aud pro-
pounced him able to be removed to the Poor
House. which was done on Tuesday. the I'd
February. He died on the same night. He
said be was az Euglishmau, by birth, but lately
came from Canada; aud had been working re-
ceply in Washington, D. G., where he had
friends. II any Of bis friends wish any further