Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-10-06
NEWS OF THE BAY.
ITO shoao the very age and body Of the Times

ITO shoao the Uery age and body Of the Times. "
The corrected census of New York city gives
total of 1856, Ills.
The National banks have surrendered S.
OOO, OOO of circulation since the lst of July.
Further troubles are anticipated iu Missis-
slppi. the negroes having threatened to burn
Friar's Point
The court of Alabama commissioners, yes
terday, announced awards ia tee cases, aggre-
eating SO 1888
Long Island Sound, Newark bay ADD Am
boy, N. j., are expected to yield 1000, 900
bushels OF oysters this season.
A tract of land situated twenty-five miles
west of Santa Rosa CAL, yielded this season
fifty bushels OF wheat per acre
1t is said that fully one-fftb of the English
hop crop has failed, and that the growth this
year Is not sufficient to supply the home de-
mand.
A meeting was held at Glasgow last night,
to protest against Vaticanism, at which let.
ter Was read from Mr.. Gladstone expressing
sympathy with the meeting.
Craft, the pedestrian, flushed walking eight
hundred miles 10 fourteen days at Schenectady
on Saturday night, two and a half hours ahead
OF time He was in good condition.
A timber merchant in New Orleans has on
exhibition cypress board from Alabama,
which Is Is feet long, 533 inches wide and two
inches thick, and is without knot or split.
The new census of Charleston, S. C., shows
tina, there are in the city 622 white voters
and 1922 colored voters. This is an Increase
since 1870 of nearly 600 in favor of the negroes.
President Grant and party arrived at Den
yer, Colorado, yesterday, and met with an en-
thuslastic reception. The party will to day
visit Colorado Springs, Pueblo and other points
of interest
There is a rumor current that Commodore
Vanderbilt has made proposal to erect "a
building somewhere in the vicinity of Thirty
fourth street, New York, 10 which Messrs.
Moody aud Sankey will hold their meetings
New suits were yesterday commenced in the
United States District Court for New York
against FL. B. Clafo & Go. for million dol
lars on account Of the alleged frauds on the
revenue for which the firm was indicted last
spring.
~ 4uSStiou Va suuCleuCy vi tue lOulCC-
ment against A. G. Buell. for alleged libel of
Senator Chandler, Of Michigan was again ar
gued before the United States Circuit Court al
st. Louis yesterday, and Judge Trent decided
to discharge the prisoner.
The fifth annual convention of the Roman
Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America
meets at Cincinnati to-day. The address OF
welcome will be delivered by Archbishop Pur-
cell. A large humber of delegates from the
States and Canada are present.
Judge Mckennon. in the United States Court
at Philadelphia, sustsins the claim of the gov
ernneut for el32 6lO agains. the estate of Jaw
Cooker& Co., due at the time Of the bank
ruptcy of that firm by Jay Cooke, McCulloch
& Co., London, of which fra the former were
partners.
! A correspondent of the Ausburg (Bavaria)
Gazette says that the Empress Eugene recent
ly asked Marshal MacMahou for permission 10
pass tWenty-four hours at Paris in the strictest
incognito, and that direct refusal was given
to the renuest an.