Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-10-23
NEWS OF THE DAY.
ITO shoao the uery age and body of the Tim

1t is believed at Madrid that the Cars, lead
ers will shortly hold meeting to decide Oh
their future course OF action.
The Northwestern Gas and and Wa.erpipe
Company, at Bay City, Michigan, has failed.
Liabilities $3.50, QUO; assets NOT stated.
The registration in Brooklyn has increased
six thousand over last year. 10 New York city
it has falleo of.
A Berlin dispatch to the Pail Mall Gazette
says the estimates of the German Empire for
1867 shows deficiency of l5 OO0, 600 marks.
| 1t is now finally decided that weiss beer is
subject to tax of 81 per barrel of thirty-oue
gallons
Gov. Allen leaves ChilIcothe next week for
| Pennsylvania to take part 10 the canvass 10 that
State. lie will make his first speech at Pitts
| burg.
The town Of Vermillion, Ohio, was almost
wholly destroyed by fire yesterday Three men
were arrested, charged with setting Fl re TO the
place.
The Treasury Department has received in
formation of the arrest, near Fulton, ILL.,, of the
notorious Ben. Boyd, one of the most sKiIltu
engraVers OF counterfeit plates in the country.
Arumor is 10 circulation that Secretary Chan
dler will tender the position of Assistant Score
tary OF the Interior TO Mr.. L W. Barber,
Third Assistant Postmaster General.
The London Times says that Manchester
| firm has begun to import calicocs from the
Unlied States, and it is said the goods are Of
| much better quality aud appearance than those
OF English manufacture.
The failures Of Cumberland G. White. Chas.
Ii. Ward, 4. j. Fuller and Howard Twins,
brokers, was announced to the New Y ork Stock
Exchange, yesterday. The parties were all short
| of stock
The Canadian loan OF two and half millions
sterling, three lifts OF which is guaranteed by
the Imperial Government and two 6tths issued
on CANADIAN credit, has been put on t be London
market, and has been favoraby received.
The Secretary of the Treasury has ordered
that the circular of October OH, reducing the
drawback on refined sugar, shall be so modified
as TO exempt troU Its operation sugars purchas-
ed Tor shipment at price fixed before tie pro-
mitigation OF the circular in pursuance Of valid
previous contracts.
henry Brown, the negro who, on the night
OF the 18th OF May last, killed Philip Pfarr, a
German, living few miles from St. Louis, and
then ravlshed and robbed his wife, was hanged
ID the yard OF the Jail at ST. Louis at one clock
Yesterday. 10 brief speech made on the scat
told he admitted having struck Ptarr the blow
which caused his death, but denied outrayipg
Mrs. Ptarr.
It's BOYS NATURE. The Charlottesville
Jefersonlan says:
We picked up on pow i'll church the other
! night something that only boy could have con-
coetcd; 1t was very simple thing, yet it was a
thing that man coming in contact with nigh,
discourse of III 'thoIghts that breathe and words
that burn" 1t WAS nothing but nm S or. tack
driven through q small piece of wood to make
1t SIT up strong. As We held it in our hand and
| contemplated it, we seemed to be transformed
INTO boy ourself rs the ludicrosity of that
| boys scheme swept over mind. We could
SOC him, after he had deposited his vile iustru-
ment, sitting in 3 pew whore he could command
MS operations, looking as innocent and rs meek as
lamp, until the church began I'LL ny rapidly;
| and when great big hurley fellow came in and
crowded the tack, he suddenly remembered that
ne had toIg often to take off his overcoat, and
stood up quickly; then he sat down again, and
got up quicker than before, to arrange ts vest
and coat comfortably, and tiled it again, but
appeared to bolt from the seat as if spring were
under him, and 1t occurred to him that the pew
WAS too crowded. And his face was that red
with suppressed indignation that the words he
could nave spoken, If the place we're admissible,
wGu :a nave arrested the attention of the most
indifferent. Aud the boy, where was he? Oh.
ne mad gone out to get some water and when
Inc sexton saw him hugglng tie lamp post, and
asked him if he was i'll, he replied, 'Neve felt
o t'? IN my life its bet.ern'n breakin' out
VIII wlnder ASS with slung shot, and he Rugged
| rs II he wanted to kick all the laugh out of him,
NOW, that boy ought not to have done that way.
CHESAPEAKE AND Quo RAILROAD. Re.
Gently, GU the application of certain parties
CALMING to be creditors of the Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad for unpaid interest on secured
| bonds, receiver was Appointed by Judge
bond, OF the U. 5 Circuit Court, 10 the per-
sou OF MIR. Henry Tyson, of Baltimore To-day
| the case came up 10 review before Judge
Bond, OF the Circuit Court, and was heard on
the answer of the company succin,t, com
pact, explanatory and plain exhibit of reasons
why receiver should not be appointed, and
arguments of counsel. There were represented
before the court about eight millions first
mortgage bondholders, about ten millions sec
ond mortgage bondholders, and twelve millions
dollars OF stock by holders. All these asked
| the appointment (lf such an official should be
found necessarily OF Gen. Williams G. Wick
| ham, vice president of the road, as receiver
The Virginia Board of Public Works appeared
| by counsel, also representing $lOO,60O and
| asked the appointment Of MIR. Isaac H. Car
rlngton as receiver. Judge Bond reserved his
| ecsion.-Rich. State Journal of yesterduy
| STATISTICS OF FAILURES. 1t is stated in a
circular published by Dun & Co. Mercantile
Agency on the Goth instant that business fail
ures IN the Uulted States from January to
September 30 OF the present year have amount
ed to 8, 1874, with total liability Of Sl3l, ILL.,.
0OC. A comparative statement shows that the
failures for similar period in 1874 amounted
to SIG ,429, 900, 10 1873 to Sill, $4,000, and
10 1872 to S90,794 900. Of the failures this
year Mary and is charged with eighty. fve with
liabilities amounting to SO, 324, 666, nearly half
of which sum is involved in the failure of Stir
ling, Ahrens 4 Co. 10 the District of Colum-
bla during the same period there were sixteen
failures, liability $780, 924; 10 Delaware fifteen,
liability sl54, 500; in Virginia aod West Vir-
GINA ninety. liability 81, $50, 1916; 10 Pennsyl.
vania four hundred and nineteen, liability $l3,.