Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-09-22
NEWS OF THE DAY.


y SNOU ttc very Nyo u7EL OOIy OF LRc I31neS.'
The silver manufactory of the Whiting
Manufacturing Company of North Attleboro',
Mass, was entirely destroyed by fire last night
Less estimated at $500 000 The building was
also occupied by f. s. Draper & Co. and Smith
Il Ginnodo, jewery manufacturers, who loss
abou; 1000 each. all pretty we'll Insured.
Over three hundred men are thrown out Of
employment
The Mechanics Bank, Of Montreal, has sus-
pended, owing 10 the discovery of serious de-
tacations, which Interrupted the negotiations
IN progress for analgamatiou with another
bank. The directors say that the interests of
blll-holders and deposltors are fully protected.
The suit of j K. Hubert against B. T. But
Ter, 10 the Lamar cotton seizure cases. involv-
log counsel ices amounting TO $50 900, which
was decided in favor Of the plaintiff. is to be
carried to the Uolted States Supreme Court,
on writ of error.
The invitation Of the merchants and business
men Of Cincinnati to Carl Schurz to address the
people of Ohio 90 the fuaDcial question is pub
lished, and also Mr.. Schurz's reply, In which
he says he will speak in Cincinnati on the even.
log of the 9th lust
A pllvate library, valued at $4,000, owned
within twenty miles of Boston, aud including
some Of the most rare and curious books ever
brought TO America, has changed hands recent
~, number Of the gems of the collection hav-
lug been bought by a Boston bookseller.
At the republican caucus in Worcester,
Mass, last evening, thirty delegates to the
State convention were chosen, all of whom,
| With possibly two or three exceptions, desire
the nomination Of Charles Francis Adams for
| Governor.
Mrs White, of Marlboro, N. H., widow
! lady, while temporarily Insane. last evening cut
! the throat Of Mrs. Gerould, a lady visiting her,
and afterwards cut her own throat with scythe.
Neither are expected to recover.
A number Of New York banks have joined
the PHILADELPHIA banks in contributing toward
| department iD the Centennial Exhibition in
| which the currency and coin from the earliest
times 10 the present shall be exhibited.
Stirling, Ahrens & Co., the recently sus.
pended Baltimore firm, yesterday made an as
| Segment to Enoch Pratt aud R. t. Baldwin,
| vino will take charge Of the affairs Tor the bene-
| I'll Of the creditors.
The German Government has sent to prison
for five months the editor of the Germauia, an
| UitramontaDe journal, for publishing an arti
Gle Insulting TO the Chancellor and melting dis
| obedience to the laws.
The signal service reports that three inches
Of snow had fallen at Colorado Springs, G. T.,
since Monday afternoon. Snow was still fall
lng there yesterday morning.
The Convention of Insurance Commissioners,
DOW 10 session iu New York, urge upon Lsgis
latures the enactment of stringent building
laws as protection to property.
The death Of VIM. n. Boyd, a prominent
merchant of Baltimore, occurred yesterday.
The deceased Was 10 the sixty year of his
age.
Reports FROM the districts around Quebec
say that the standing crops were seriously in-
jured by the late gales.
statue to the memory of the veterans of
the Seventy New York Regiment was
unveiled at Saratoga yesterday.
Col. John a. Joyce, ex-revenue agent, has
been arrested at St. Louis for conspiring to de-
fraud the government.
Yesterday EOS, 900 was Withdrawn from the
Bank of Eogand, e25,OO of which were for
shipment to this country,
The trial Of the Jefferson Borden mutineers
was commenced yesterday at Boston, and will
probably last four days.
No positive time has been set for the OPEN
iog Of the BaDk Of California. 1t is expected,
however, that it will resume about the 9th.
Unusual fluctuations in the corn market have
beeu noticed for several weeks. Yesterday the
price fell to GU cents.
The cattle disease has broken out in Massa-
chusets.