Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-08-18
NEWS OF THE DAY.
ITO sho,o tie very age and body Of the Tim

NEWS OF THE DAY.
ITO sho,o tie very age and body Of the Times"
The Grand Lodge I o. o F., of New York,
is 10 session in New York The grand secreta-
ry s report shows s. 81 members were initiated,
and l,768 reinstated during the year. Que
hundred and thirty-sx thousand seven hun
dred and 6fty-seven dollars has been paid for
reliefs.
The assessment of Boston, just completed,
makes the value Of real and personal property
in that city $793, 767, 800 being loss on the
total valuation for the year OF 81 97S, $50. The
amount to be raised by taxation for expenses,
etc., Is 81 522 766 less than last year.
A carriage descending Mount Pleasant. Me-,
with party of excursionists. on Monday, was
thrown over precipice thirty feet high. Two
ladies and gentleman were badly injured, the
latter internally.
Parker, the defaulting ex Treasurer Of South
Carolina after his release, proceeded to his
house and subsequently, took the a. N. train
for Augusta, Ga, and the probability is that
he will DOT be again seen 10 South Carolina.
A Havana dispatch says that the insurgent
bands of Cruz, Bells and Cespedes had been
encountered by Spanish column 10 the juris.
| dlctlon OF Mauzanillo, aud six Of the former are
reported killed.
Returns have been made to the State Of Mas
sachusetts OF the amounts received under the
new license Law in one hundred and two towns.
The total is $463 456 SO The amount received
from Boston Is $50, 643 75
The British ship Bremen, from Liverpool.
has been towed iuto San Francisco, with all her
crew down with scurvy. Thirteen of the crew
died on the passage three died 10 sight of port,
and the rest are helpless.
No case Of yellow fever has appeared yet at
Pensacola, Florida, but one marine stationed
outside the quarantine line. near Barrancas,
died of the fever Saturday, and another is sick
at the same place.
A special from Vienna to the London News
says the insurrection in Bosnia is SPREADING
Three towns were reported to be 10 flames, aud
many Turkish mobiles have been slaughtered
Waddy Thompson was released from Jail at
Memphis, yesterday, on boud of $4,000 for
his appearance at the November term of the
! Criminal Court.
The second annual session of the High Court
of the Ancient Order of Foresters was opened
at Scranton, Pa, yesterday. by Jerome Buck,
High Chief Ranger of the United States.
1t is probable that the little United States
steamer Rio Bravo, which was recently strand
ed on the Texas coast, will be got off, and in
two weeks, all right again.
| Ex-Representative Jeremiah NJ. Wilson has
been retained as Special United States Attor-
ney tor the prosecution of the recently arrested
Treasury robbers
b. A. Grimes, a carpenter of Portsm outh,
Va, was run over and Instantly killed on the
Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad on Monday
evening.
The Sovereign CouDcil of Sons Of Jonadab of
North America has commenced its annual ses-
sion 10 Providence, R. |.
Rev. Cornelius Springer, one of the pioneers
Of the Methodist Church 10 Ohio, died at Z.ues-
vile Monday Dight, aged eighty.6ve years.
E. D. Smith, late teller in the Exchapge
Bank, Norfolk, Va, died suddenly on Mon
day.
10 Newburgh, New York, yesterday, Robt.
| Gibson attempted to slay Alfred Post, promi-
| nent citizen, for inducing his wife to leave him.
The death of Mr.. Alfred jenkins, aged &c
years, of the hardware firm of Edward jenkins
| d Sons, OF Baltimore, occurred on Monday.
The National Temperance Camp Meeting
opened at Old Orchard, Me-, yesterday, with
| Two thousand persons.
Cardinal MoCioskey arrived at Havre yester
| day. and proceeds to Paris to-day.
Hon. John B. Weller, Ex-Governor of Cali
tornia. died at New Orleans yesterday.
Prof Joel Parker, the eminent jurist, died
at Cambridge, Mass, last evening"
The thermometer registered one hundred de-
grees in the shade at Paris yesterday.
The suspension of the grocery buuse of Ora
ham, Bros, Il Co., of Baltimore, is announced.