Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-09-13
NEWS OF THE DAY.
TO shoao the very age and body Of the II,


About seveuty-6ve sophomores at Lafayette
College, Easton, Pa, one night last week turn
ed out in masks and white gowns, paraded
the streets, entered the college, captured
several freshmen and sui jccted them to indg-
mites The faculty captured four Of the hazers,
Hoyt, Durham, Newton and Ayres, and inuef-
niteIy suspended them. The whole sophomore
class has since agreed to be suspended.
Moody and Saukey, assisted by COL Whittle,
of Chicago, Col Fairbanks, of St. Johnsbury,
VT, and D. w McWilliams, President Of the
Young Mems Christian Association, yesterday,
held services at Mortified, Mass. The number
at the mprnipg service was So great that the
Orthodox Church proved too small, aud Mr..
Moody spoke from the church steps TO an au
deDce of two thousand people.
The Commissioners of the Freedmen's Bank
deny that they have authorized any one to act
for or represent them in the matter of paying
dividends. 1t is proposed to dispense with all
agents at the branches, and TO pay dividends at
the Washington Office direct. 1t is not known
when they will be able to pay dividend There
is now on hand $5I5, 900 of the 100000 re-
quired to pay 20 per ct.
Three attempts at suicide by the use of lau-
danum were made 10 Baltimore 90 Saturday.
One case proved fatal, that of Mrs Amanda
Dc Ford, only recently married. She made an
attempt TO destroy her life about TWO weeks
ago. Before her death she stated that she
preferred to die rather than lead life of dis
honor, to which she had been subjected by Cir
cumstances.
A petition is in circulation in the diocese Of
Montreal praying the Queen to revise the de-
ciSion of the Privy Council 10 the Gubord
affair. A number Of volunteers on guard at
the Protestant Cemetery came 90 duty drunk
90 Friday night, and the Sergeant 10 charge OF
the regulars publicly requested them not to
come to his assistance any longer.
The propeller Equinox, from Saginaw, Mich,
for Chicago with cargo of salt, toundered sud
deuy in gale 90 Lake Michigan at az early
hour on Friday morning, and all on board,
twenty two iD number. are supposed to have
been lost.
The commissioner of pensions decides in the
case of Martha Hodges, the widow of deceas-
ed colored soldier, that her living with another
man as his wife does not constitute such q re-
marriage as to work forfeiture of her pen
sioQs
The Treasury Department has received in-
formation that macy vessels aud boats on the
Lakes, osteusibly engaged in fishing, are ex-
tcnslvely used in smuggling Canadian liquors
and other merchandise into this country
The steamer Rio Bravo, intended for duty
on the Rio Graode, which was disabled re-
Gently 10 gale on the Texas coast, has been
repaired at Galveston, and will be ready to pro-
coed to her destination next week.
|. The renewal Of political troubles liz Missis-
sippi, Oh the eve Of cotton picking, will, it is
feared, greatly Interfere with the successful
harvesting of that product throughout the
State.
The cattle disease is assuming alarming pro-
portions in England 10 one county 900 cases
have been reported. Cattle, sheep and pigs are
affected.
The United States Government has decided
that horses, harness aud personal effects Of
emgraots coming from Canada shall be admit
ted free of duty.
The Secretary Of the Interior has instructed
the Superintendent of Indian Affairs to supply
the Indians with neccSSarles at ouce and not to
RELY on Government supplies.
John Morrssey was taken so i'll on a Sara
toga train Friday evening that he had to be re-
moved from the cars at Poughkeepsie At last
accounts be Was better.
The second trial Of Wiutermuth for the MUIR
der Of General McCook has resulted in his &C.
quitta.
There was heavy frost in Port Jervis, N.
Y, Saturday night. 1t is feared that the buck
wheat, corn aud other late crops are Injured.
Dr.. Helmbold has sued out wits against
those who were instrumental 10 securing bis
arrest and incarceration 10 Klrkbride' Asylum.
The Jacques Cartier Bluk of Montreal has
resumed. The late cashier has been arrested
for making false reports.
The shoemakers of Cochituate aud Natick
Mass, who had been 90 strike for week, re.
sumed work Friday at old prices.
The New Jersey cranberry crop is estimated
at Is, 600 bushels as compared with 10000 In
1874 and ll6, 900 iD 1873.
Hon. Henry L. Blow, of St. Louis, died at
Saratoga suddenly of congestion, Oh Saturday
evening.
Presideot Grant and family are expected to
returO to Washington about the 10Th inst.
T.. Spicer Curlett is the r ,dcal candidate
for the House Of Delegates from Lancaster
county, and w. w. Rains will probably be the
candidate of the same party for Richmond Go.