Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-07-23
NEWS OF THE DAY
ITO shoao the gerry age and body of the Times


10 the swimming match at Chester, Pa, yes
terday, between Coyle and johnson for the
championship of the world, the latter won,
swimming ten and half miles 10 three hours
and ten minutes. johnson was quite fresh
when he left the water. while Coyie was taken
on board the boat in aD apparently liieless con-
dition, and last night grave fears were enter
tanned for his life.
A sanguinary political conflict is raging in
the Cherokee Nation between the Ross and
Downing factions. A fight occurred on the 18th
instant at Skin Bayou in which three men
were killed, one of them receiving no less than
one hundred and three wounds. % the night
following about thirty men OF each faction had
| another fight, but none OF tina particulars have
been received.
Some fifteen or twenty persons were serious
Iy, and some fatally, burned yesterday at New
ark, Ohio. by the premature explosion of coal
oil, which took fire from wooden building
which had been erected in the town for the
purpose Of testing new fire extinguisher, and
| which had been saturated with the explosive
material. Among those burned was the Mayor
of the town.
Information has been received at the Depart
ment of State to the effect that circular has
| been issued by the Spanish Government, with
a view to the rigorous enforcement Of the ex-
listing laws OF that country requiring the exhl-
bition of passports by persons entering and
leaving Spain.
The floods in England continue and cause
much damage to property. At Burton-on.
Trent part OF the town is impossible and the
water is still rising. The Great Eastern Railway
| between St. Ives and Saveseye, distance of
over three miles, is submerged, and traffic is
| stopped.
A meeting of the National Race Course As
ISOLATION was held at Washington last night. al
which it was stated that $4,000 had beer
pledged fer the purchase of suitable grounds
1t is proposed to revive the old Nationa
Course.
The convention of Southern railroad official.
met in Atlanta, Ca, yesterday. There wa
large attendance. The subject of pooling
! freights has net been settled so far as South
Carolina railroads are concerned.
Messrs Fletcher, Faulkner and Harris, mem
bers of the Indian Special Commission, LEFT
New York last evening for Red Cloud Agency
| to commence their investigation into Indiar
| frauds.
The next meeting of the Presbyterian Coun.
Gil will be held in Edinburgh in the summer
Of 1876, and the succeeding one in the United
States
The health officer at Key West, Fla, says
that the yellow fever epidemic has about ex
pended its force there. No new decided case
have occurred in about five DAYS
The Democratic Convention of the frs
Mississippi District has reuominated L. @
9. Lamar by reclamation as candidate to
Congress.
Gen. Jos. E. Johnston, of Georgia, has beer
elected President of the Arkansas Industrial
University.
The Cotton Exchange Convention at Green
brler White Sulphur Springs, yesterday, adopt
ed constitution and bylaws.
Chas. A. Macy, of the banking firm of Howe:
& Macy, New York, which failed in the las
panic, died in that city Wednesday,
Hard money, free trade and home rule IRE the
three cardinal principles 10 the platform q the
Maryland Conservative Democratic Democratic party.
Inc FrenfS Assembly, yesterday, by vote
,lbf 40 to l55, agreed to adjourn from the 4th
of August to the 4th of November.
The Boston Herald states that the clothing
house of George II. Lane & Co., in that city,
has suspended.