Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-04-06
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log of apoplexy.
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"7o sho,o the very age and body of the Times
The vital statistics of the Board of Health
| for the District of Columbia for the last week
| showed a total OF SO deaths. While the rate Of
| mortality of the white population was twenty
| three aud sixteen huudredths per thousand
per annum, the mortality of the colored popu-
| lation was sixty-five per thousand for the same
| period.
Mr.. Beecher continued his testimony yester-
day, 10 which be disclaimed the sentiments i'm
puted to him 10 the Moultoo letter, and clearly
stated the attitude of Tilton, Mouton and
Bowen towards him. He also admitted that he,
Theodore aud Mrs. Tilton kissed one another
on certain OCCASION and that on another Mrs
Tilton kissed him.
The University Mouad College in San Fran
cisco was burned Sunday night. But few arti-
Giles of furniture Were saved No lives we're
lost One student Was suffocated, but was res
cued. The loss to the trustees is $40, 900 TO
$50 O00 The teachers and pupils lose from
S. 900 to $4,000 additional. The Insurance
is $4,000.
The Collector of Customs at Key West has
telegraphed the Secretary of the Treasury that
90 yellow fever exists OF has existed in that
place as an epidemic The cases referred to, he
says, if yellow fever at all, which is doubted
by experts, were simply sporadic in their char
acter.
During the stallion show at Paris, KY, yes
terday, Goldsmith's Abdallah, while going
around the track, was met by his full brother,
John Bright, and the shaft of the sulky drawn
by the latter entered his breast and came Uu;
near the top of his shoulder, causing death iu
few minutes. He was valued at $50, 600
Information received by the Bureau Of Sta
tistics shows that during the month of March,
1875, there arrived at the port of New York
GAIT immigrants, OF whom /, 203 were males
aud 2274 females During the mouth Of
March. 1874, 6O5S immigrants arrived, 4,Ol9
being males and 2,O40 females.
The annual report Of the American Steam
ship Line philadelphia shows that the re-
ceipts for the past year exceeded the ordinary
operating expenses by $l47, 900, but that ex.
traoI1inary repairs, agencies aud expenses OF
salvage suits caused loss of S4S,9l4 beyond
the total receipts.
An injunction has been obtained in the u.
S. Court at Charleston, s. g., against the i'm
position of tax, under the bill lately vetoed
by Gov. Chamberlain, which aims to burden
the State with liability for floating fraudulent
debts, but which Speaker Elliott decided to be
law because the veto came too late.
A horrible instance of fanaticism is related
from Cuba, where woman took out the eyes
OF her son and afterwards attempted to tear
out her own under the preteDse or hallucins-
ton that she was acting under orders from the
spirits.
COL Samuel H. Cover, a well-known and
highly esteemed citizen of Baltimore, died in
that city yesterday, aged seventy four yeals
tie had been for macy years engaged 10 the
auction business.
Advices from Calcutta 10 relation to difficult
ties between the Indian Government and the
King of Burmah, concerning boundaries and
other matters, state that the King is making
warlike preparations.
The commission Of Mr.. John G. New, of To-
diana, to be Treasurer of the U. s., to take
effect from June 80 next, was signed by the
President yesterday aod forwarded to MIR. New
at Indianapolis.
Information received at the Treasury De.
partmeut is stated to be to the effect that the
aspects for negotiating the new U S. bonds 10
the hands of the syndicate have considerably
improved.
The West Chester Grays. Washington Troup
and Delaney Guards of West Chester, Pa,
have received orders to prepare to bold them
selves in readiness to move at one hour no.
tice to the coal fields of Pennsylvania.
Spanish aud Cuban cigarmakers in New
York have struck, 10 consequence OF being no.
tilted by their employers that from this date
forward their rates would be reduced TWO dol
lars per thousand.
Gov. Smith, of Georgia, yesterday ordered
the sale Of the Macon ADD Brunswick railroad
to take place on the first Tuesday 10 June
next at Macon.
Queen Victoria has commanded Boyptou.
the American, to give an exhibition OF the
working Of his life-savnh apparatus at o.
borne.
The water of the Susquehauua river which
swamped Port Deposit, Md, again on Sunday,
has receded, and the streets of that town are
once more out Of the wet.
Six coDvicts escaped from the New Jersey
State prison, at Trenton, N. j., Monday morn
ing before day.
Gen. Sheridan is at New Orleans, probably
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