Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-10-19
NEWS OF E'sssi EpAY.
"To shn1s he uc2l age G1ul body OF the Times

Noe, was ARA gncd at New York yesterday.
Rogers Il l'urc' field very extensive iron
manufacturers Of Pttshurg, have suspended.
The creditors OF Ice 4 Shepard, Boston pub.
fishers, have agreed to accept 20 ccuts Oh the
dollar.
The trial of James Dsrraugh, who beat his
vile to death in Baltimore, some six months
ago, was commenced at rowsontuwn yesterday.
The Georgia State Fair opened at Central
City Park, Macon, yesterday, and will continue
t'r one week. Sen. El,wiey will deliver an al.
dress tom ,rroH.
y movement Is IN progress among some of
the Methodist ministers in Boston to petition
the President l"r the pardon of the rtferson
Borden mulneers now under sentence of death.
The PATIO Alto iron works, 50 long Idle, re-
sumed work at plttSburg yesterday, giving cm-
payment t. 500 tucn al Il reduction, however
oil % par c,nt Of prcvlou. wages.
\ Madrid dispatch says there are but TWO
thousand Cariists in Catalonia, and they are
about to submit to the Government or endea
Vor to escape into France
The Japanese government has turned over
fourteen OF lis steamers TO private companies,
and granted them heavy subsidies for Sundry
services, Including the training of cadets 10
navigation.
The steamer Sunia, FROM Hong Kong for
Yokohama with the European mails, struck on
rock III the China sea on the Al instant and
suck All the passengers and crew except
seven natives were saved and taken to Shan
gha!.
\ new Protestant Episcopal church, to be
6nowp as The Church OF The Holy Trinity, is
about being constructed at the corner of Pat
lcrson avenue aud GIimor street, Northwest
Baltimore
Sixty tons of smaarm ammunition are re-
ported to have been shipped from London as
merchandise and Landed at Shanghai, and the
British Government has ordered an invcs!ica-
ton into the matter.
A Havana dispatch says the draft of cavalry
horses for the use Of the army has been abol-
lshed, and tax Of ten dollars Tor every horse
that would have beeu taken has been imposed
instead.
Clarke Elmonison, the negro that was
charged with outrgglng white woman 10 Fay.
cite county, Haor.ia, was taken OUT of iail by
somc Two or t;ircc huadrcd PEOPLE, early Sun.
day morning, aud hung on the galI1ws that his
brother was hung Oh week before.
The ST. Louis Times 10 referring to the late
visit Of Jay Gould Sidney Dillon, Oliver Ames
and other railroad maguates to that city, says
the main Object OF their visit was to perfect ar
engagements to run through cars from ST. Louis
to San Ftancisco
Isaac McAlec, colored, Oh trial at Selma,
Ala, for causing the terrible railroad accident
on the Selma, Rome aud Dalton road about
one year ago by placing distractions on the
track, has been convicted aud sentenced to
twenty year, imprisonment. Two white men
are 10 be tried Tor the same offcuse.
a special agent the Treasury at New York
yesterday, seized $3.50 worth of lace, silk
and velvet trl mming, jet goods, beads, loose
goods, Ne, which were recently imported from
En-IanI, bur undcrvalucd in invoices presented
to customs officers. The capture of the oripi-
nal Invoices led to the discovery of the attempt
to defraud the revenue.
Al Montreal Oh Sunday pastoral letter from
Bishop BourSc vas read in all the Catholic
churches again warning the people not to TO-
terlcrc with the burial of Guibords remains.
and advising them to keep aIo0f from the cere-
mony. The letter states that the ground will
De cursed from the moment Guibords remains
are deposited there. The decree of the prry
couuell is acqulesced in, add is to be obeyed.
ClIURCHGoING HORSES. "A CORRESPONDENT
OF the Hartford Post relates the following incl
dents which came under his observation in
Lonemeadow, Mass: "A pair OF horses that
had been used during the week in teamwork
to springfield, 90 Sunday we're Larnessed and
driven to the door unhitched, and the family
icing her tardy that morning, as soon as the
second bel began to ring the horses started off
alone, aud with their usual Sunday motion
went up IN front OF the church, when, after
waiting the usual time, they quietly went
around uoder the norscshed. The next case
was this: The father of your reporter owing
to increasing ntirmties, rode alone to meetine
hail mile, driving an old gray mare twenty
years old, and had not failed IF going every
Saohath tor soule years. GA one occasion,
owing to fall, father could not 60 to meeting
ana on Sunday morning, as the time for meet.
lug approached, the horse, in lot near the
house, manifested great uneasiness, and when
the second DELL struck she leapad over the fence
and trottcd quietly to church, stopping at her
usual h'chlng- place, uuder an elm tree, until
the close Of the service, when the faithful ami
NAL returoed safely to the house.
The Journal of Chemistry warns the drink
crs OF water Of wells near dwellings 10 beware
OF tic typhoid poison, sure TO be foupd sooner
or later IN those reservoirs, if any of the house
drainage can perco!ate thGn. The gelatinous
matter often found upon the stones of a we'll is |
q poison TO the human system probably cans |
lng oy ITS spores fermentation of the blood |
with abnormal heat OF fever. Wholesome. nm.
tainted water is always free from all color and
odor. 10 test il thoroughly, place half pint
IL il clear bottle, with few graus of Iump
sugar, and expose il, stoppered, to sunlight, in |
widow. Ii. even after an exposure of EIGHT
or ten days, the water becomes lurbid, be sure
that he wafer has been contaminated BIZ sewer
age OF some kind Ii it remains pe,f ,ctly clear,
it is pure and safe.