Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-11-18
NEWS OF THE DAY,
ITO sho,o the very age and body of the Time!

Mr.. A. S. Gaylord, of Michigan, was yester.
day sworn in as Assistant Attorney General for
the Interior Department.
Two Italian girls have been arrested in Pa
terson, n j., for passing counterfeit $40 bills.
They are supposed to be the agents Of q gang
of counterieiters 10 New York
La Cronista, of Madrid, the Spanish Minis
terial organ, claims that King Alfouzo will have
force OF 100000 men 10 the field by the lst
of December, which will enable him to crush
out the Carlists.
Owing to the dullness of the iron trade,
Messrs. Bockow, Vaugn & Co., of Leeds, Eng
land, have been compelled to discharge be-
tween ;wu thousand and three thousand opera
tives.
At 8 meeting 10 New York yesterday of the
Stock of The Toledo, Wabash and West
ern Railroad a committee was appointed to re-
sist the foreclosure threatened by third mort
gage boudhulders.
A collision occurred 10 the harbor Of BalG
more yesterday between the steamer George
Leary and schooner Thos. Q. Worrell, resulting
III the sinking Of lie latter. There were no
lives lost.
The tower of the city hall at Louisville, KY,
took fire Yesterday, aud but for the effcrts Of
6remen the building would probably have been
destroyed. Water had to DE thrown $50 feet
high, compelling TWO engines to play toto the
same hose.
At meeting in Sprins field, Mass, the writ
ing paper manufacturers decided to shut down
their mills for FIVE weeks from the middle of
December if those not represented at the meet
ing will unite About three fourths of the mills
were represented.
Five persons have been arrested ut No. II
Elridge street, New York, charged with issu-
ing counterfeit five cent pieces Three hun
dred spurious live cent pieces and counter
felt mould were found. The children said their
grandmother forced them to pass the coins.
Their reported stepfather is already 10 the
State prison for counterfeitiug five cent uickels
The signal Office reports that at 4:35 D. %.
yesterday the weather was cold and windy
throughout the country The velocity of the
wind at Mount Washington, n H., at that
time was | IA miles an hour with the tempera-
ture FIVE degrees below zero. An Omaha,
Nebraska, dispatch says the thermometer at
Folt Laramie Tuesday night was fourteeH de
grees below zero, with four inches of snow on
the ground.
Don CARLOS LETTER. The Paris evening
papers of yesterday publish the text of the
letter written BY Don Carlos to Kiu1 Alfonso.
THE attitude Of President Grant," the letter
says lis prelude to war between Spain and
the United States if you do not recognize the
independence of Cuba. The revolution which
you represent is responsible for this parricidal
rebellion. Had | reigned it would not have
occurred, at least not gained strength. Now,
however, the Integrity Of the country is at
stake and all her children are bound to defend
1t. Should war break out offer you truce
as long as the contest lasts, but maintain my
right to the crown, as retain the conviction
that shall one day wear it. | canDot send my
loyal volunteers to Cuba, but | will defend
these provinces. The Cantabrian coast will
send out privatsers manned by the indomita-
BILE population ct that coast. which will pursue
the merchant ships of our eoemies and per-
naps, chase them iuto their own harbors If
you accept the truce, let US appoint represent.
atves to settle the conditions IF you refuse,
the world will be the witness that Catholic
Spain has nobly done her duty"
The Washington Republican says: There
is every reason to believe that the foregoing
letter is hoax; or, at best, mas no other foun-
datioD than a desire on the part of Don Carlos
to make capital for bis cause among the adher-
cuts of King Alfonso. There is the best au-
thority for the statement that no comuunica-
ton from the Uoitcd Stat 70 has been made to
warrant the assumption embraced in Don Car
los letter, and, further, that it is almost i'm
possible that Don Carlos should have received
any information whatever from any source re-
gardiDg the communications of our State De-
partmeut with Don Alfonso or the Madrid
Government
The Poor. -During times of depression like
the present there are always moro or less
deserving in our midst whom it is charity to
assist Euap in tha mnct an, - mao III, ,