Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-10-30
NEWS OF THE DAY.
"T0 shoao the very age and body OF. the


The receipts from internal revenue, yester-
dav. were 1891, 70S. Sc, and from customs S34S,-
ia 62.
Messrs. Kattergell 4 Campbell, merchants,
of London, have failed, with liabilities amount
ing to - 100000.
The plumber of cases of yellow fever at New
Orleans during October was eighty.four of
which lorty-slx proved fatal.
Sixty Christians are reported to have been
murdered by the Turks 10 Bihacz, a town near
the Dalmatian frontier.
1t is said that Archbishop Ledochowski will
be expelled from Germany on the expiration
OF his telm Of Imprisonment.
severe storm oil SHOW and wind prevailed,
yesterday, throughout the section at and near
Guiana, Nebraska. Snow fell to the depth of
two inches Many trains were delayed.
DIR. Strousbcrg, noted railroad contractor
OF Russia, has been arrested al ST. Petersburg
aud sent to Moscow. lie is charged with
swind!iug bis creditors.
The Journal dc Paris tOrcauist) says at the
comm cnce mcnt Of the session of the Assembly
the Ministers vii! deal with Bonapartlst pre-
tensions as th'y deserve.
Ata meeting Of the creditors of the Amcs
Plow Company, al Boston, yesterday, it was
decided that the company should continue
business.
Sixty-seven manuscrl pts Of plays founded on
the American Revolution have baeu handed in
TO the committee appointed in Paris for com
| petition Tor the prz: offered last April.
The Attorney General Of New York has re-
ceivcd Il certified check for $500. 435 "a, pay
able to the State Treasurer, being the proceeds
from the Watson estate 10 the Tweed suits
The libel suit Of G.. o Pott against the Bos
ton Herald for calling the Cardiff Giaut" a
fraud, was brought to close, yesterday. by
the jury rendering verdict for the defendant.
Charles Weston, colorcd, was last evening
found guilty, at New York, of the muir Ter OF
Abraham Weisburg, at West Farms, aud sen
teuced to be hanged December II, the day his
acconpiiccs, Ellis aud Thompson are to be OK
ecutcd.
In a wrestling match at Philadelphia for
$780, between Audre ChristoI, Of Paris, and
Emlle Rcgnier, Of Nevada and Mexico, Chris.
| toll Won III three rounds out OF four. The first
round lasted five minutes aud the Others from
ten to fifteen minutes.
The subscription book for the Rapid Transi
or Manhattan Railway Company" was opened
at the New York Corn Exchange, yesterday,
and 10 a very short time the entire amount OIL
81 OOO 900 Was subscribed, five per cent of the
whole being paid IN cash.
The Carlist committee 10 London claim tina,
Gen. Perula gained an important victory over
the Altouslsts at Lumber, 10 Navarro, Oh the
IS lnstaLt. The AItonssts, however, say that
40 attack by the Carlists on Gen. Rciuas posi-
ton n Lumber was repu!sed.
Au accident occurred to the $50 a. N. train
from Washington at Beltsvle, uu the Wash
lugton Branch of the Baltimore aud Ohio Rail
way, yesterday. caused by Il misplaced switch
The fireman, John Taylor, was seriously, and
probably fatally scalded.
A cable telegram announces the shooting oil
a mutnous sailor On the Norwegian bark Pribds
Oscar, which sailed from Baltimore on the 18th
of September ult. The man was named Robt.
Fisher. lie attacked the captain, aud the lat
ter shot and killed him. The body was suisse
quenlIy buried at sea.