Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-07-19
NEWS OF THE DAY
"7o shoao the very age and body of the Times

troversy In regard to the Grand Division 10
South Australia by empowering the granting
OF second national division, covering the col
onies of Victoria and South Australia, and such
other territory as may be mutually recommend
ed by the national divisions of North America,
Great Britain and Australia. A new badge was
adopted consisting of a triangle and star, the
circle of fraternity lnclosing the world by the
colors red, white and blue, and the inscription
1.-THE world our field. -
The contest for principal chief of the Chero-
kee nation is getting exciting. Iu popula.
ton of less than 10000 sixteen men and two
women have been murdered within the past
sixty days 10 the feuds between the parties
The contestants are W. 2. Ross and Ooceltet-
ia. Jesse Foreman, Mr.. Buokeyehead, Jack
Doubletooth and Dick Fields, (auditor of the
natlonl, all prominent politicians, are among
those assassinated, the last named in church.
There is trouble threatening between the
coffee shippers aud the runners who are en-
ployed in unloading vessels at the Baltimore
wharves. The meo have protective union,
and the rules which it has established render it
very difficult for the employers to have the
work satisfactorily attended to. A personal
alteration that occurred on Chase's wharf Oh
Saturday may possibly lead to strike by the
Union.
While young lady, Miss Pauline Ruben
stein, was engaged in the drying room in the
Treasury Department, in Washington, on Sat
urday, her clothes were caught IN some of the
machinery and she was being drawn in when
her shr!eks attracted the attention of a colored
employee, who seized her, and by great pres
ence of MUD rescued her from impending
death. AS it was she is considered to be iu.
wardly Injured.
The application of prompt measures for res
plration saved the life of John Worth, an actor,
from Philadelphia, who sunk exhausted while
bathing near Atlantic City, N. Jon Saturday.
DR.. Nicholson, of England, happened to lie at
hand with other gentlemen, and Immediately
applied what is known as the Sylvester pro-
cess for artificial respiration, restoring the man
to life.
The annual dinner of the Golden Club took
place at Greenwich Saturday night. M. Michel
Chevalier, the eminent French economist, pre-
sided, and was toasted by the Marquis of Hart
ington, who presented him with a gold medal
Speeches were delivered by Right Hon. Mr.
Forster, General Mcdowell and MIR. Nathan
Appleton, of Boston.
\ violent rain and thunder storm passed
over the sections of country east and northwest
of Toronto, Canada, on Friday. At Belleville o
man and boy were struck by lightning, the
man being Instantly killed. At Harriston o
steam planing mill and a cabinet factory were
struck by lightning and burned to the ground
A severe storm of rain aud wind swept over
the country from Newark, Ohio, to Wheeling,
w. Va, Saturday and Sunday morning. At
Cambridge Ohio, some chmneys were blown
down and buildings considerably damaged, but
no loss OF lite is reported. Damage to crops in
the path of the storm is thought to be heavy
A letter from the Red Cloud agency, dated
the 9Th inst, states that strong, we'll armed
and equipped body OF Uocapapa Sioux are on
the war path 10 the Black Hills. They have
had two encounters with white men, (miners),
aud killed seven in one and three in another
party.
The Comptroller of the Currency has been
advised by the National Bank of Berre, Yer
mont, that thirteen hundred dollars of it's un-
signed notes, which we're received Oh the even
Ing OF July 6, we're stolen from the vaults of
the bank the same evening By gang of mask
ed burglars.
A whale, supposed to be the one which
came in contact with the steamer Scythia, off
Roche's Point, in the Irish Channel, by which
that vessel lost part Of her propeller and was
otherwise damaged, was lowed into Queens
town on Saturday. 1t measured fifty -four feet.
The trustees of St. Andrews Church, at
Hamilton, Ontario, have been empowered by
the congregation to lock out Rev. Mr.. Burnett,
their pastor, who has refused to enter the
United Church along with them.
The President of the Round Lake Camp
Meeting Association and several other minis.
tiers have sent telegram to Moody and San
key, inviting them to hold ten days meeting
at Round Lake in September.
The Connecticut House has passed bill pro-
viding that all theatres, public halls, churches,
school buildings, etc., where fifty or more per-
sons congregate, shall have all their exit doors
open outward.
From all accounts the aeronaut, Donaldson,
and bis companions of the Chicago press, who
made a balloon ascension from that CITY 90
Thursday last, have been drowned 10 Lake
Michigan.
Capt. Fades was recently in Washington on
business connected with the jetties which he is
constructing at the mouth of the Mississippi
river. The improvement il progressing at the
rate of nearly 200 feet day.
John Rigby, Of the Irish Team, tied Major
Fulton in the shooting for the St. Leger Stakes
on Saturday, making IS points. The contest
will be finished to-day.
Sewe & Co., of St. John, N. B., who sus-
pended sometime ago with liabilities of 81 ,OOO,-
600, have made settlement with their credi-
tors, aud will resume operations.
The extensive furniture factory of Mitchell
4 Co., St. Louis, was destroyed by fire Sunday
morning. Loss estimated at $50 900; insurance
about $4,000.
The smallpox is quite prevalent in Whining.
ton, Del, and several deaths have resulted
from 1t within the past few days.
1t is said that ex-senator Carpenter has been
retained by the city of New York to assist 10
the prosecution of Tweed