Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-12-03
NEWS OF THE DAY.
ITO sho,o the gerry age and body of the III,

10 sho'o the gerry age and body of the Times"
A Council of the Spanish Cabinet has de-
cided upon the formation of TWO new armies.
At a late hour last night Mr.. Chas. O. Conor
was still living, but his condition was very low.
VIM. R. Castle, Of New York, has been ap-
pointed Attorney General of Hawaii by King
Kaakaua.
The newly appointed officers of the Spanish
Cabinet took the oath of office, yesterday, be-
tore the klug and entered upon their duties.
Nlnety-two thousand immigrants have ar
rived 10 this country since January |. or
these 25,6OO were Germans.
The official statement of the Bank of Am
erica, which suspended in New Orleans on
wednesday, shows the assets to be S6lg, 900:
liabilities, $685., 900.
The Egyptian troops have occupied the Dis
tricts Of Juba and Kismayo, disarmed the
I4uzlbar forces there and hoisted the Turkish
flag.
The Board of Education of the Methodist
Episcopal Church met in New York, yester.
day, and elected officers for the ensuing year,
Bishop James being chosen President.
Collector Comfy, Of the Philadelphia Gus
tom House, yesterday, discharged fourteen
employees from that institution, and made a
reduction of the salaries of all the minor Off
GERS.
The Centennial Committee on Opening Ccre-
monies have selected VIM. NJ. Evarts as ora
tor, and Il. W. Longfellow as poet for the &C.
caslou. A grandson Of Richard Henry Ice,
OF Virginia, will read the Declaration of indie
pendence.
Reuter- telegram, dated khojend, says
the kptschacks, alter their defeat at Namang-
han, assembled on the left bank of the Syr
Darla to the number of twenty thousand, and
were there attacked BY the Russians who de-
teated them with great slaughter.
The Pennsylvania Railway turns out to be
the purchaser of the Philadelphia Navy Yard,
which was sold, yesterday, for 81 900, 900.
President Scott has stated that it would be
utilized as much as possible for railway Dur.
poses
The committee appointed by the Young
Mems Christian Association of Baltimore to
invite the presence of Messrs. Moody and
oankey tor series OF religious meetings re-
turned to that city, yesterday, after an unsuc.
cessfui negotiation with the great revivaists.
Captain Waddell, of the Pacific Mail steam.
ship City of San Francisco, and during the
war Commander of the Confederate cruiser
Shenandoah, has been compelled to resign his
command, being threatened with arrest by the
Honolulu authorities on account of his destruc.
tlon OF Hawaiian vessel while 10 command of
the Shenandoah
At the sale, yesterday. of the Shurtleff lib.
rary, In Boston, copy of the Bay Psalm
Book, said to be the first book printed 10
New England, was offered, when an Injunction
of the Old South Church, who claim that it is
the property of that church, from which it
mysterously disappeared.
WEIGHT OF BRAIN-It has been mentioned
that Vice President Wilson'S brain weighed
4e3 ounces, which is rather above the average
weight, that being, in this country, probably
about A or Is ounces Daniel w ebster's brain
has been mentioned 10 a newspaper paragraph,
puolSned some years ago, as having been found
10 weigh o5 ounces; apparently an error, as
Appleton's Cyclopedia Ia very accurate work
gives the weight of Webster and Napoleon's
Drains as an ounce or two less" than the
French surgeon Dupuytren's, which weighed
So ounces Cuvier, the great French natural.
list, seems to have had the heaviest brain of
any famous man; it weighed between SO and
81 ounces" according to Appietons, and 638
ounces according to the newspaper paragraph
above referred to. But what shall be thought
of the avoirdupois test of intellectual greatness
when the fact appears that the brain of Lon.
don cartmao was found to weigh more than
Culver for that was fact. Perhaps, if
the brain determines intellectual power, it is
tne quality, not the quantity, and its union to
the right temperament which indicate supe
rlorty.
PRICES FOR PoRK-Pork is selling at S.
per hundred, but those who buy from middle
men are compelled to pay S.. 50. The ouant;
ty that has come forward thus far is less than