Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-07-07
NEWS OF THE DAY
ITO sho'o the very age and body Of the Tn,'

mas e1ected Junction With General Qucsada.
The Dlario says it has reason to believe that
Dorregaray's army has retired from Cautavieja,
crossed the river Ehro, and is now marching
into Catalonia San Sebastian is being be-
sieged by the Carlists who have erected fresh
battaries against it. A French gunboat had
arrived to protect the interests of French sab
Jects. There is rumor that the Afonzsts
have captured Cantavicja, and that the Carlists
have cut the railway between Huesca aud Bar
celona. A British gupboat has sailed from
Portsmouth to look after British interests in
the ports threatened by the coHtending parties.
A Fall River, Mass, dispatch states that a
party of seven lads bathing at the junction of
Wautuppa luke aud Quegucchan river yester-
day joined bands and walked off sand bar in
to deep water, where SIX of the number were
gave the alarm. 90 Rockaway Beach, near
New York, while the surf was alive with bath
ers, Monday, great wave swept out VIM. f.
Goodwill, Of Brooklyn; John Gusmao, Lena
Ritz and Arthur Lloyd, of New York. Lloyd
regained the beach, but the others were
drowned.
The melee in Vicksburg Miss, colored
peoples meeting, Oh the 9th of July, was a
very mixed affair. 1t originated in difficulty
between two white men, in which a colored
politician inerlerred and was badly beaten.
Another white aud black fight followed, iu
which u colorcd mans skull was fractured 4
shot was then fired by colored man, who was
riding by in hack, which was returned from
the crowd. During the melee two negroes
were killed and one seriously injured
Frank G. Turner, aged twenty-thrce years,
son Of Prof A. J. Turner, of Stanton, Va,
was thrown from horse and killed in Fluvanna
county on Saturday last. He had tied a fan
behind his saddle, and whilst in the act Of
mounting, the wind caused the fan to futter,
which made the horse plunge forward. dashiDg
him against tree, crushing bis skull, and
causing his death in few hours
The College regatta at Saratoga takes place
on Tuesday of next week, and all the crews,
except that of Williams College, are now at
the lake and pracicing for the struggle Of skill,
muscle and endurance. Nobody yet names
even the probable winner with any degree of
certainty, the unexpected victory of Columbia
last year tending to unsettle specuIatons.
Two heavy thunder showers occurred Mon
day night, at and near Worcester, Mass, and
serious damage to crops and highways is re-
ported. Houses in Worcester Shrewsbury,
Uxbridge, Wcstboro', East Templeton and
Southbrldge were struck by lightning and fred.
The damage is heavy.
Gambetta declines to fight De Cassagnac, the
Partisan duelist and politician, on account OF
articles published in the Republique Franchise.
tie has other duties to fulfill, he says, toward
his party, France and the republic.
During the month of June 1859 immi-
grants arrived at New York, of whom, 3,264
came from Germany, 1892 from Ireland, 2, o46
from England, and the remainder from foreign
countries.
A dispatch from Matauzas says that Cortina
sailed yesterday morniug from Bagdad for
Vera CrueZ, en- route for the city of Mexico
Tor trial by military commission.
The grand jury of the July term of the Chi
cago Criminal Court has been impannecd, and
consists OF eight negroes and sixteen white
men.
0 6. Griswod, of Port Jervis, N. Y, eject.
ed his drunken stepson from his house Monday
night, and the latter soon returned and shot
and killed him.
During thunder storm at Portsmouth, Va,
yesterday, two boys were killed by lightning,
besides damage to property.
1t Is said that the bureaux of the Left in the
French Assembly will next week introduce a
resolution for the dissolution of that body and
Tor general elections in November.
The trial of ex-Treasurcr Parker, of South
Carolina, charged with fraud against the State,
commenced yesterday.
Germany is to have a naval hospital 10 San
francisco for the use of its squadron in the Pa
ci6c.
Geo. r. Vickers, an old and esteemed citi.
zen of Baltimore and highly successful bust
ness man, died on the 9Th inst.
Alex. Dupata, a Cuban, has been arrested
at Boston. charged with outraging his own
daughter, aged seven years.
-Four fatal accidents by the bursting of cannon
Oh the 9Th of July are reported from Maine
and New Hampshire.
A dispatch received at the Navy Depart.
mcDt yesterday from Key West reports one
death from yellow fever and two new cases.
Letter from Prince William Co.