Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-07-08
NEWS OF THE DAY
ITO Sdo'o the rery age and body Of the Times

'7o Sdo'o the rery age and body Of the Tines"
With reference to the rumored connection of
Chief Clerk Avery, of the Treasury Depart
ment, with the recently discovered whiskcy
frauds, 1t Is stated that up to this tine no for
NAL charges have been made against that officer,
and his relations with the Treasury Depart
nent remain unchanged. In the meantime Mr..
Avery protests his innocence.
The failure is announced in New Haven, Con.
necticut Of Tyler, Frost l. Co., Wholesale gro
GERS and dealers 10 liquors, with liabilities be.
tween ) $4,000 and 100000, and of w. II.
Brady Il Co., carriage manufactures; liabilities
about $3.50 900. 1t is probable that both will
continue business.
The warehouse Of the Langley Manufacture
Ing Company, near Augusta, Ga, containing
300 bales of cotton and several hundred bales
manufactured goods, Was struck by lightning
yesterday. Two steam engines from Augusta
rendered assistance. Loss $50 900; 20 insur.
ancc.
At pigeon shooting match at Hendon, Fog.
land, yesterday, between A. H. Bogardus, of
New ork, and George Rimmel, the champion
or Eugaud the former was victorious, killing
thirty six birds OUT OF fifty, to his opponent S
thirty.
The amount Of National Bank notes redeem.
ed during the year ended June 81 was $780,
322, 945, ofw which $ll5, 100, AS we're DESTROYED,
belug uult for circulation, and Sl5,2l3, 500
were forwarded to the banks issuing them, be-
ing 10 good condition.
The enforcement Of the new license law was
commenced in Boston in earnest yesterday. At
the opening Of the Municipal Court some thir
ty dealers were either h1ed 500 each, or
placed under bonds for their appearance.
The fruit crop OF the Maryland and Delaware
Peninsula is very heavy. The Old Dominion
Steamship Company are running line of
steamers between Lewes, Del, and New York
and Boston
Recent heavy rains have so swollen streams
IN Southern Ohio that nine bridges have been
carried asay Oh the Portsmouth branch of the
Marietta and Cincinnati railroad. The track is
badly damaged
Among the late promotions in the u S. Pa.
tent Office are those of Mrs. Columbia N.
Payne and Miss Eugenia WASHINGTON, Of Viz.
glula who will receive salaries of $1,000.
4 dispatch from Brownsville, Texas, saws
that nineteen Mcxicans crossed four hundred
bead Of cattle into Mexico, nine miles below
Rio Graudc city, Monday
The Ohio Democrats have decided to formal
ly open the campaign at Gallipolis on July p,
with speeches by Governor Allen aud MIR.
Thurman.
Spanish troops at San Antonio, Cuba near
Saoctl Splritus, recently dispersed party of
insurgents, killing ten Of them. The Spanish
loss was five killed and three wounded.
No deaths from, and no new cases of yellow
fever have been reported at Key West within
the past tWeuty-tour hours.
The father OF Don Carlos, who has been or.
dercd out Of France, goes to England, and
thence to Norway.
The Minnesota Democratic State Convention
met at 81. Paul, yesterday, ADD nominated
State ticket.
The sentence of death of Lowell. the Angus
ia, Ga.,wite murderer, has been commuted to
Imprisonment for life.
Fernando G. WilIett, of the American LIE.
CATION at Mexico is dead.