Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-11-01
NEWS OF THEDAY.
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"7o sho'o the uery age and body Of the Times"
Counterfeit five dollar bills on the First Ma.
tilonal Bauk OF Aurora, ILL.,, are 10 Circulation.
The corner stone of Free Methodist Church
was laid 10 South Baltimore yesterday.
Advices from Uruguay say the revolution
has virtually ended 10 favor of the Govern.
ment.
The meeting IN the Brooklyn Tabernacle on
Saturday morning was not 80 crowded as pre-
viously.
1t is estimated that two buudred mariners
were drowned 10 The North Sea luriug the gales
OF the past three weeks.
Judge Dillon, Of the United States Circuit
Court of Iowa, has ordered the for, closure OF
three railways Tor the amount of SIG UUU, 600
large shipment Of raw tobacco from New
York has been seized at Montreal on the groupd
that 1t Is manufactured article.
The French iron clad Magenta took fire on
Saturday at TouIou, and was blown up, TIE
crew escaped
A British expedition up the Congo river, in
Africa, has burned several villages aud killed
many natives 10 retaliation for the murder of
English sailors
A leading feature Of religious interest yes
terday was the general observance n all church
es OF the Lutheran faith of the 35s!h auoiver
sary OF the great reformation iu Germany
The Secretary Of the Treasury has Instructed
the Sub'Treasurer at New York to sell two
million dollars in gold during the month Of No.
vember, $5D0,O00 on each Thursday.
The troubles in the Hanson Place Baptist
Church, New York, resulted last night 10 the
| resignation Gifts pastor, Rev DR., Fulton, which
was formally rendered by him at the CONCLUSION
| OF last evening service.
ln the great ejectment suit of Calhoun VI.
Derlnger vs.. Coke ct al. at WiIkesoarre, Pa,
! tor Goa! auds valued at 81 OOO 900, II yer.
diet was rendered Saturday in favor of Der
iuger
There is much excitement al Uuou Hill, N
j., IN regard to the vote OF the Board of Edu-
cation on Friday night last by which the read
Ing OF the Bible 10 the public schools is to be
prohibited, aud trouble is approhcndcd 10 con-
sequence.
81. Stephens R,man Catholic Church,
Brooklyn. New York, was dedicated yester-
day. High mass was celebrated by Bishop
Lynch, of Charleston, aud sermon was preach
ed by Bishop Luughiu of Brooklyn. Rev. L.
j. y Reilly Is pastor of the Church.
Rose Murray, who killed Captain Joseph
Green, last SUN mer, 10 New York, by stabbing
him with pair of scissors, having been con-
vcted OF maoslaughter, was brought up for
sentence Saturday, when the Court decided
under many extenuatng ciscumsta noes 10 post
pone the sentence Indefinitely
Dispatches from San Francisco say that
building is going en- rapidly 10 the burned dis
trict Of Virginia City. Work is pleoty wages
high, and relief is comiuy in freely from all
quarters. |. is confidently expected shat all the
mines will be in full operation in about twenty
days.
Robert Hance, bright aud promising boy
of twelve years, was accidentally shot and killed
by his brother Abraham, aged ffteeu, at Point
Pleasant, n j., 90 Friday The latter was
Fastening through the house with gun to shoot
at q flock OF wild geese which was flying over
the place.
A dispatch from Kansas City, No., states
that extensive and destructive prairie fires are
raging 10 Southern Kansas, along the line
of the Fort Scott Railroad At one place in
Cherokee county the ties on three miles of track
were burned. The fire caught from locomo-
uves, and at last accounts had swept over
miles OF country, destroying houses, feuccs and
barns.