Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-12-14
NEWS OF THE DAY.
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named Rome.
A. B. Bowering has been reappointed a
school trustee for Fredericksburg.
Mr.. John r. Samuel has purchased Ill
acres of the 'Green Hill'' farm for $444.
The statue to General Baker, for which Con-
gress appropriated $4,000, has been shipped
from Italy.
The grain trade in Europe continues steady,
with some improvement 10 the French prov
ncea.
a telegram from San Francisco announces
that the great $3O, 900 race will take place on
Christmas day.
Among the conGrmatioDs by the Senate yes
terday was that Of Daniel D. Pratt, of Indiana,
as Commissioner Of Internal Revenue.
The Citizens party Of Boston has nominated
Samuel G. Cobb for Mayor. with eight Repub-
licans and four Democrats for Aldermen.
George Eot's new work is a story of English
life of to-day, more dealing with the higher
sphere OF society than is her won't
Mayor Stokley has beeu fairly stunued by
Texan who applied to him for permission TO
| arrange bull-fght in philadelphia.
L
burg and Connellsve railroad, at Piltsburg,
| yesterday, the lease Of the road to the Balti-
more and Ohio Company was consummated.
The Methodist preachers OF Baltimore, at a
regular meeting held yesterday, repudiated the
utterances of Bishop Haven, Of Boston, 10 re.
gard 10 the third term.
Hoo. George H. Pendletou was sereuaded at
Atlanta, Ca, last night, and made an eloquent
response to an immense crowd. Gen. Gartrel' S
nomination of Pcndleton for President was re-
ceived with applause.
An open letter has been addressed to Con-
gress by David Murray, Of New Jersey, advo-
eating the return to the Japanese Government
OF the Indemnity fund amounting, with accrued
interest, to one and quarter million dollars.
Representative Jones, OF New Hampshire,
will have the finest establishment in Washing
ton this winter. He has rented an elegant
house. and has taken with him five horses, one
pair Of which cost him $4,000.
! There is good authority for the announce
ment that Evarts and Longfcllow have not as
yet been definitely settled upon as the orator and
poet OF the Centennial Notwithstanding positive
statements to that effect.
The friends Of Cassius NJ Clay, of Kentucky,
are said to be already at work trying to get his
name put on as second on the Democratic Pres
idential ticket, with Tiden as first. and thew
claim that the Kentucky delegation is unit in
favor of the scheme.
The Newburg Journal says: The father of
the wife Of VIM. B. Aston, the New York mil.
lionaire who died recently, was Major John
| Armstrong, the man who wrote the Newburg
| letters urging Washington to make himself
king at the close of the Revolution
The monument to be erected over the re-
mains of the late John R. Thompson, poet and
critic, and at one time resident of Richmond
and editor of the Southern Literary Messenger,
has been completed, and will be put in its place,
IN Oakwood, during the Christmas season.
The grand jury IssSt. Louis has uucarthed a
stupendous fraud, which promises to eclipse
the operations Of the whskcy ring. Discoy-
cries have been made that false deeds for some
twelve million acres Of land 10 Missouri aud
Arkansas, valued at twenty-five or thirty mil
lion dollars, have been issued through agencies
iD this country and England.
A cable dispatch from London states that a
report from Bremen conveyed the information
that the passenger who attempted suicide after
the explosion Of dynamite had made comics.
sion that another case Of the explosive material
had been smuggied on board, and that the
original intention had been to explode the
dynamite when the steamer Was at sea. The
story was, however, subs quently denied The
steamship Saer, Of the Lloyds line, takes the
place Of the Mosel.
a motion was made yesterday in New York
to have the six million suit against Tweed s. t
for hearing on the 9th. In the Court of
| Oyer and Termincr the district attorney moved
to forfeit recognzance Of Tweed, to which
counsel for one of the bondsmen objected, on
the ground that the bond had been released by
the civil suit and delivery Of the criminal to the
custody of the sheriff, from whom be escaped.
Decision was reserved.
The American Church of St. Paul, at Rome,
Protestant Episcopal, is to be consecrated
March 25, 1876, on Annuociation Day. Bishop
Llttlejohn, of Long Island, is to preach the
sermon, and he will be assisted in the service
by the British Bishops of Derby and Gibraltar,
Dean Howsoo. and Rev. DIR. H. G. Potter, of
New York. Representative services will be
given by preachers of the four national churches
every day for the week following. The church
"as upuei ooVeI NoVGulDer 10, ana IL Is re-
garded as fine building alike in beauty and
strength.
The assessors appointed by the Corporation
Court in Fredericksburg have made their re-
turns, and we find that on houses and lots lag
gregsted) there has been reduction made Of
values as compared with the assessment iu
| 1870, by W. 1. Hart, Of $S,4S2 The reduc.
| ton is really greater than is apparent by the
| figures, as this year the assessors were directed
to assess the value of road beds of railroads add
canals, which was not the case 10 1870. The
remarkable fact appears that nearly one-rwelfth
| OF the realty in town is not liable to taxation,
being held as church property, or for bcnevo-
lent purposes. Of this class there is property
whose assessed value would reach S9l 1850. In
| 1870 it was put at $4,000
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