Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-09-02
NEWS OF THE DAY.
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A letter has been addressed by President
Kennedy, of the Polytechnic College of Penn
sylvania, to General HawIey, President of the
Centennial Commission, requesting that 10
view OF the Invitation extended the English
and Irish R!fe Teams to partlcl pate in rife
match during the Centennial celebration next
year at Philadelphia, and its implied accept
auce, that the requisite measures should be
taken by the Commission for the preparation
of the grounds for the match.
La Lawrence county, Georgia, on Tuesday,
sheriff posse was resisted by squad of ne
groes, and while attempting to make an arrest
a negro placed his gun against the sheriff
breast and burst two caps. This cost the ne
gro his life, as we'll as one of his companions,
besides the wouuding of another. The negroes
are massed to the number of one hundred to
day, and are making threats.
Washington dispatches indicate probabii.
ty that Hon Stevenson Archer, of Maryland,
has a good chance of election as Clerk of the
next House OF Representatives IN the event of
the selection OF Mr. Kerr as Speaker of that
body.
The imports at the port of Boston for the
first eight months of the present year show an
increase in value of over 50 O0O,O 600 as COM
pared With the same period last year, the total
value being S34 100000.
A Berlin dispatch says that the Catholic Pill
grimage Committee have not yet abandoned
the proposed pilgrimage to Lourdcs, and the
French Government is making an effort to
have it interdicted by the Pope.
The National Board of Steam Navigation
opened its session at the Metropolitan Hotel,
New York, yesterday. The attendance was
small, and beyond the appointment of num-
Der of committees 20 business was transacted.
DR.. j. W. Betche and H. G. Walmer, who
were found guilty Tuesday of attempted abor-
ton; were sentenced yesterday, at Harrisburg,
Pa, the former to three years and the latter to
eighteen months in the penitcntiary
The Wamsutta Mills, at New Bedford, Mass,
which stopped running July 81, will resume
operations on Monday next, provided the opera
tives will 60 to work at the reduced wages paid
last winter.
The Bishop Of Padcrborn has been deprived
of his rights as German citizen for having
left tho city in which he was nterned without
leave.
A pawnbroker' establishment 10 Pittsburg.
Pa, was entered by burglars on Tuesday night
and robbed OF watches and jcwelry valued q,
81 O00
-Four children of Mr.. Wafer, in Ascension
parish, Louisiana, were poisoned yesterday by
eating French worm lozengers, and died 10 a few
hours.
The Secretary of the Treasury has issued a
call for redemption ofSl3, 900 900 OF 5 20 bonds
OF 1864, eight millions of which are for account
OF the sinking tuod.
The Secretary Of the Treasury yesterday or.
dered gold transfers at San Francisco to the
amount OF S550,O00, to be apportioned among
parties IN that city asking for such transfer.
The island of st. Thomas, West Indies, was
visited by shock of earthquake at O'Clock
90 the morning of the Sd uItimo, but the dam
age was trihiug.
The California Refinery is now parting fifty
thousand ounces OF silver per day, or about
sl,500,0O0 of bullion.
Mr.. BUMpAss, a Tennessee farmer, was
struck by lightning one day last week, while
ploughlng. A cloud completely eucompassed
him, and it was dark as midnight. Then
light above the brightness of the suu, the thuu-
der pealed and he became unconscious. On
returning to consciousness he found that his
horse was gone, the plough shivered into atoms,
and himself weak aud powerless. His left
shoulder was bruised and paralyzed, his left
hip bleeding, and the sole of bis lett foot shorn
of its fish, and the foot itself perfect wreck.
Aiken has colored deba,ng society. The
following arc the latest question discussed :
(Which is the most bene6cialist, the horse or
the COW 2? and (which is the mostest useful to
the white man, the negro or the North Ameri-
can Indian p After long and animated debate,