Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-02-18
NEWS OF THE DAY.
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Gov. Kellogg, Of Louisiana, yesterday sent
to the Legislature his veto of the bill appro-
prating SlSO,000 for per diem mileage. aud
contingent expenses OF the General Assembly.
He alleges that this is $50, 900 more than the
amount necessary, and that several OF the pro-
visions of the bill conflict with the recently
adopted constitutional provisions limiting the
debt and expenses of the State. The House
sustained the Governor veto by vote OF Ii
yeas to fl nays.
A court of inquiry at Hong Kong has found
that the burning of the Pacific Mail steamer
Japan was owing to spontaneous combustion.
The chief engineer is cnsured for misconduct
in the presence of danger; the other officers
are exonerated. The restng-place OF the
wreck, with tit is supposedly the mails and spe-
Gle, is unknown.
The new directory of San Francisco shows
that city to have population of $780, oO. Dur
ing 1874, 1900 buildings were erected at
cost of SIS, 900, 600. aud $2000000 were ex-
pended in public improvements OF substan
tiai character Two banks have just been
started, one with a capital Of O.00O, 900, and
the other with a capital OF S5,UUO,OOO.
TIE Senate judiciary Committee is inqulrlng
into the constitutional question involved IN the
repeal of the Pacific Mail subsidy. Some law
yers are of the opinion that the bill granting
the subsidy, in consideration Of the carrying OF
the United States mails to China aud japan,
is in the nature of contract, which Congress
cannot invalidate.
The manufacturers of friction matches are
opposed to the removal of the stamp tax OF
one cent per box, and have sent deputatlon
to Washington to protest against the clause OF
the new revenue bill that repeals this tax
They contend that the one-cent stamp on each
box protects them against foreign competl
ton.
A telegram from London speaks of the en-
thusiastic reception of John Mitchell by TIE
people Of Tipperary, and says that be has de-
cared his intention to continue the contest TOT
Parliament if his last election is annulled.
LIE Pays, Paris, in an article on the gradua-
ton of the Prince Imperial at Woolwich, says ::
Hcuceforth the Prince will Wholly devote him
self to the direction Of the lmperast policy.
Mr.. Staylor was yesterday expelled as a
member of the Second Branch of the Balt-
more City Council By the required vote eight
The failure of the straw goods house of Vyse
4 Co.. New York, was announced yesterday.
Indebtedness, it is said, will reach million OF
dollars.
A dispatch from Huntington, W. Va, says
that Gov. Jacobs will not veto the bill passed
by the Legislature removing the State Capital
| from Charleston to Wheeling.
The Canadian Government will advance
100000 towards paying the passage Of 5000
families of Mennonites who will settle in Can
ada on that condition.
A fire breaking out on the 18th instant in
Port.au-Prince destroyed 500 houses and was
still raging on the 18th, the date of last ad
vices.
The annual session of the Virginia Confer
ence NJ. E. Church commenced 10 Portsmouth
yesterday.
G. W. Wheeler of Charlottesville, Va, at
tempted suicide Saturday night by taking an
ounce of laudanum.
A Berlin dispatch says Prince Bismarck
takes vacation of six months at the request
of the Emperor.
Two of the japanese students at the Naval
Academy at Annapolis have been withdrawn
by the Minister of Japan at Washington.
Dispatches from Berlin report that the En-
peror William is udisposed. It is denied that
General Won NIotke's illness is serious.
DR.. Dekoven has signi6ed his acceptauc Of
the office Of Bishop Of the Diocese OF Illinois.