Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-07-26
NEWS OF THE DAY
To sho,o the rery age and body Of the Time

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Chicago The rectifyiog establishment of the
River Distilling Company bias been seized for
duplicate use of stamps and other frauds, and
it is stated that other seizures will follsw. At
Pekin, Ill, the distillery Of the PekiD Dlstil-
Iiug Company has also been seized, charged
with the duplicate use of stamps, and for hav
log fermentiug tubs concealed under ground
and Other frauds. The Grand jury of the u
S. Circuit Court at Milwaukee, have found
Indictments against aD ex Collector of Iuterna
Revenue, aod x-Deputy Collector, four gaugers,
seven storekeepers, .weoty-four rectlhers and
| twelve distillers.
The Attorney General of Louisiana has filed
an information against Chas. Clinton, State
Auditor, AotoiDe Dubuclet, Treasurer, 2. 6.
Desmond, Secretary of State, and Charles W.
Lowell. Speaker of the House, all members of
the Fuodng Board in 1874, charging them
with nisdemeanor 10 Office 10 funding FIVE
warrants for sl35,55L30, representing an i.
legal claim against the Stale. An Information
was also filed against State Senator c. F. Her
wig tor obtaining money, as Chairman Of
| the State Committee on Contingent Expenses,
Oh false pretences.
The Postofice Department has sent to the
| Department Of Justice the LANES of thirty-niue
Delinquent mail contractors, who are to be pros
ecuted under the revised statutes for failing to
| perform the service after their bids had been
accepted. The difference between their bids
and the amount paid by the Government after
releting for one year is S4l7.087. for which
amount they will be sued, and besides this civil
suits will be entered against them for damage
sustained BY the Government in providing tenn
porary service.
| The lockout Of the cotton mill operatives 10
Ashton, StaIybrdge, Dunkio6ed ADD Moseley,
England, commenced in some of the mills On
Saturday, aud unless the operatives yield by
| the eod Of the month the mills will be closed.
| The Worklogmen's Associations Of Lancashire
and Yorkshire have resolved to support TIE
locked-out operatives.
1t is reported from Berlu that Count Schon-
valof, the Russian Minister at London, has
asked to be recalled, on account of an assertion
Of MIR. Burke, Under Secretary of the Foreign
Department, made 10 the House of Commons,
that Russia had violated her promises with ref
ereoce to Central Asia, made after the Khiva
campaign.
The Attorney General has sent to the Presi-
deut an opinion adverse to the ChorpennDg
claim. he holds that the present Postmaster
General is DOT authorized to pay the additional
amount found due BY the late Postmaster Gen
eral, for the reason that Congress Repealed the
| resolution of reference before the money vas
| paid.
Once more the health officer of Key West
Fla, announces that yellow fever has ceased to
exist as an epidemic there Commodore Coop
err at Pensacola, says there are twenty -uine
cases at Barrancas, where women and children
are stricken down. The troops at Barrancas
have been removed to Fort Pickens
On Sunday afternoon Mary j. Conn, aged
Is years, living at Chester, while on visit to
her mother in the former city, was accidentally
shot and killed by her husband. He pointed
a gun at her. not knowing it to be loaded, and
the contents took effect in her abdomen, caus.
Ing instant death.
The President, accompanied by Lieutenant
Colonel Fred. Grant and wife and Jesse r.
Grant, has arrived at West Point, New York,
where he will remain until Tuesday. When in
New York Saturday he attended the fuueral
OF Templetou Strong at Trinity Church.
Don Carlos has taken King AlfoDzo to task
for allowing the civil war to be conducted with
such excessive rgor, aud urges moderation on
| the part of the Alfonzists. An attempted sur
prise of the AlfoDzst troops at Guetaria has
been vigorously repulsed.
A meeting was held at Birkenhead, England.
Saturday, to endorse Mr.. Plimsoll's course in
Parliament Several thousand sailors and
| worklngmen were present. Resolutions ex-
! pressing sympathy with aud pledging support
to Mr.. Plimsoll we're adopted.
| A writ of habeas corpus has been granted 10
the case of Captain Gordon, who was arrested
sometime since by Uoited States troops on bis
way to the Black Hills Gordon, who refused
to give bis parole, Is confined at Camp Sheri-
dan, and the writ is made returnabe at Omaha.
Two New York parties have instituted suit
at Memphis, Tenn, 10 behalf of the first mort.
gage bondholders Of the Paduca and Memphis
| railroad, to forecInse the mortgage Cd account
of alleged non-fu' fllment of certain conditions
contained therein.
.Swceny, McCuny & Co., of Wheeling, W.
Va, large glass manufacturers have failed
Their liabilities are $l5G 900; assets estimat-
ed to be Sl42,0 00 A meeting of creditors
VIII be called to try and arrange for an extern
| sion of time.
A dispatch to the London Standard from
Berlin says that Count D'Zemback, bis mother
ADD chambermad have been arrested at Ian
| deck, 10 the district of BresIau, charged with
plotting to assassinate the Crown Prince of
Germany.
10 the examination of Philip Cliugep
Smith at Beaver, Utah, on Saturday, 10 the
case of John D. Lee, nothing pew was elected.
The day was observed as holiday by the Nor.
MONS being the twenty-eighth anniversary of
the arrival of the pioneers 10 Utah.
The reports as to the condition of the cotton
and wheat crops in Tennessee and Alabama are
very encouraging. The stand of cotton is very
good, and the average yield will compare favor
ably with that of last year, while labor is much
better than heretofore.
Major Fulton, of the American rifle team,
received the Wimbledon CUP on Saturday from