Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-09-09
NEWS OF THE DAY.
'7o shoao the very age and body Of the Times.

10 NoD the UeTy age ana o0dy 81 the 1Wtes.
An explosion took place 10 the ceuloid fac
tory iu Newark, N. j., yesterday. About thirty
men were in the building at the time, but some
OF them escaped uuiuj nred. Three were taken
out by the tiremen, one of whom was dead and
the others are not expected to recover. 1t Is
supposed that twelve or more remain IN tn"
bulldog without hope Of rescue. The building
Was destroyed, together with three adjoining
establishments. Loss sI75,0OO.
A peach train going north from Wilmington.
Del, was run into by another peach train fol
lowing at II Is "Wednesday morning at Ches
ter, Pa. Six cars were badly broken and one
engine damaged. Several telegraph poles III
the vicoily were Knocked down aud commune
cation was interrupted 90 mupy of the wires
Until after daylight No one was hurt by the
accident
The sugar and moasses crop Of Louisiana
| last year was one of the largest on record-ll6,-
SCI hogsheads of sugar aud IL, SIG, S2S gallons
! of molaSses and this year crop is expected to
| exceed it. A similar report is made of this
year S rice crop, which is estimated at l04 963
barrels, and cotton will probably do as we'll.
A colored man, named Robert Gilmore, was
shot through the head and instantly killed yes
| terday by officer Joyce, Of the Brooklyn, n
T., police. Gilmore had been arrested, with
two others, for drunkenness and iisorderiy
conduct, and attempted TO escape from the sta
tion-house.
10 the examination Of VIM. Westervclt, at
Philadelphia, yesterday, sensation was pro-
duccd by the testimony of Lucretia S. Peers, OF
,vb H.,3 b,t ,bo
the prisoner on the 9Th of July in a horse Car III
that city with child resembling Charley Ross.
The Board of Health report in New Y ork
| city up to last Saturday indicates a marked in.
| crease OF diptheria, seventy two cases being re-
ported, against thirty nine during the previous
| week. As an offset, however, smallpox has
fallen off fully one-half.
Sir Edward Thornton, umpire of the United
States and Mexican Claims Commission has
given decision 10 favor of George l.. Hamme-
ken VS.. Mexico for 100000 on account OF
damages to the Mexico and Tacubaya railroad
during the Miramon administration.
The U. S. District Court has been in session
in Atlanta, Co., three days, and during that
| time eighty-three persons have been convicted
| and sentenced for violation of the Internal rev.
enue laws, principally illicit distillibg.
The American Pathological Society has be-
gun its fifteenth biennial session at Chicago.
There is an attendance Of nearly three hundred
members, representing every State in the
Uuion and the provinces of British America.
The Madrid government has determined 90
the immediate reduction of Estella, the strong
hold of the Carlists The Alfonsist General
ClueSada has moved his forces from Victoria to
iafalIa.
The Committee of Foreign Missions and Sus-
tentaton of the Presbyterian Church in the
United States has transferred its sittiugs from
st. Louis to Baltimore.
Eight wolkmen we're buried by the tumbug
down of new brick wall of store in jackson,
Michigan, yesterday. Three had been taken
out at last accounts badly injured.
A special dispatch to the Louisville, KY,
Ledger from Granville, KY, reports that the
bank of +. B. Hancock 4 Co. was robbed of
$27, 900 several nights siuce.
1t is now stated that the Bank of California
will open the same time as the Bank of Nevada,
on the 18th inst. The stock boards will open
at the same time.
monster meeting was held last night in
San Francisco iu memory of Ralston the late
bank president.
The amendments to the New jersey Consti-
tuition have been carried by twenty thousand
majority.
w. A. Cumming & Co., -four and commits
sion merchants, Spears wharf, Baltimore, sus-
pended payment yesterday.