Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-08-10
NEWS OF THE DAY.
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According to circular from the Internal
Revenue Office, distilled spirits which have in
creased 10 proof while in warehouse, may be
reduced TO their original gauge upon proper
Dollhcatlon to the Collector OF the district IN
which they may be stored, who will appoint
proper officers to see that the change is made
10 accordance with the rules laid down in the
circular, and who will protect such spirits from
seizure while in transit, should the owner de-
sire to remove them from one district to an
other. .-..
A man giving the name of R. L. Hunt hail
ing from Oxford, n. G., was arrested in Phila-
delpbia yesterday, charged with endeavoring
to swinde several dry goods merchants and
others out of goods. which he ordered shipped
| to his address. A telegram from Oxford re-
vealed the fact that large quantity of goods
had been received there from New York con
signed to Hunt, who had not yet claimed them.
Glasgow dispatches to the London Standard
say that sixty rioters, many of whom we're bad
ly hurt, we're brought before the magistrates
yesterday morning and remanded to jail. Riot
ing broke out again yesterday, but the mob
dispersed on the reading Of the riot act. The
regular troops and volunteers were ordered to
hold themselves in readiness to suppress any
disorder
A great deal of financial stringeucy is felt at
present among business men 10 Montreal, no
less than twelve firms, who are perfectly sound
as to liabilities and assets, having been COM
PEELED, within the past week, to make special
arrangements with their creditors for an extern
sion of time to enable them to meet their en-
gagements.
A dispatch from Montreal, Canada, states
that on Sunday afternoon five young roughs at
tempted forcibly to enter the house of respect
able woman named Mrs. Downs, at Point St.
Charles. Mrs. Downs fred into the crowd,
shooting one through the lungs, from the eff
teots of which he has since died.
A fire broke out at Oshkosh, Wis, yester-
day, and for time there was much anxiety
lest another confagration like that of the 80 b
OF April should sweep over the towo. Fortu-
nateIy 1t was quickly extinguished where it
originated, and the loss, instead of counting up
Into millions, did not exceed $4,000.
Through the error of physician at Gardi.
ner, Maine, who left morphine 10 place of a
foaming draught, Mrs. Jane Yeaton, an aged
lady, was fatally poisoned, and nurse who
tasted the draught was with difficulty saved
from death.
A dispatch from Ottawa states that the rains
| of the last week in Canada West will cause
great loss to farmers. Heavy grain is lodged,
and IN many places it will rot. Thousands of
fields OF oats and wheat are 10 such condition
that they cannot be cut with scythe or reaper.
The papers filed by Britton, Gray and Drum
moDd 10 the Land Office at Springfield, Illinois,
laying claim to portion of the land upon which
Chicago IS built, we're received at the General
Land Office yesterday, but will not be reached
for action tor month or two
In New York, yesterday, on application of
Assistant States Attorney Fairchild, Judge
Westbrook issued an attachment againt Deni.
SOD, Belden d Co., canal contractors, for
SAT- 900, and an order requiring them to find
bail in 100000 each
A lady and gentleman who were on visit to
Niagara, yesterday went into the river below
the falls to battle, and being caught in the eddy,
were carried out and drowned before assistance
could be rendered them. They were soon to be
married.
The Leonardtown Beacon,St. Mary's county,
Nd, says that on application of MIR. Robert
Callahan and other creditors Of the Southern
Maryland Railroad, receivers have been ap-
pointed by the Circuit Court of Prince George S
county.
The Gloucester, Mass, Centennial Was cele-
brated yesterday by parade, dinner at Cape
Pond Grove, and speeches by Rev. Richard
Eddy, of Gloucester, Hon. Jobn q. Babson,
Maj. Geo. S. Merrill and Gen. Briggs
The liabilities of the commission merchants.
Archibald Baxter & Co., of New York, are es-
timated by Dwight johnson, the assignee, at
three hundred thousand dollars.
The gale 90 Friday was very severe on the
lakes. and several vessels were wrecked. The
tug Vulcan was lost, with raft Of 1000, 0OO
feet OF lumber, on Lake Erie.
An Omaha dispatch says thatimmense clouds
of grasshoppers have appeared 10 various Sec
lions OF that State, and are doing great damage
to the crops.
Reports received from Sclavonian sources say
that the Herzego vinian insurgents have defeated
the Turkish troops in several engagements re-
Gently.
The ladies of Detroit are about to erect a
Woman's Hospital and Foundlipg's Home
which will cost $4,000.
There has been another death from yellow
fever at Fort Barrancas, but no new case since
the report OF Saturday.
The American riAemen, with one exception,
Bruce will embark at Liverpool, Thursday,
for New York
The French Minister of Public Works esti.
mates the total damage to property by the in.
undalons 10 south of France at $4,000, 0OO
The consumption of postal cards for the pre-
sent fiscal year Third Assistant Postmaster
General Barber estimates at 100000.
A STRANGE STORY OF THE SEA.-The Lon
don Times OF Saturday. the 18th of July, says:
"A private letter received yesterday in Shef.
held from one Of the crew of the iron ship
Glance, of London, which arrived in the Thames
from Adelaide on Thursday, gives intelligence
Of a terrible event which recently occurred at
sea. On the 9th ultimo the Glance passed an