Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-06-21
NEWS OF THE DAY
"To sho,o the very age and body Of the Times

loss of life along the coast. A large plumber OF
boats engaged 10 salmon fishing pear Port lie
| Preaux, N. B., were caught by the gale. One
boat, which contained six young men belong
ing 10 Musquash, N. B., was found bottom up
| Sunday morning aud lowed into LIE Preaux.
The crew is supposed to be lost.
Messrs. Moody and SaDkey having express
ed the intention of visiting Elton and holding
religious exercises for the benefit Of the stu
dents, the announcement has provoked coDsid-
erabe controversy 10 the newspapers. Mt.
KualchbulI Hugesson has formally asked the
| College authorities to refuse their sanction to
the services
Sixteen Ururuayan exiles have arrived al
Charleston, S. G. The Havana authorities hay.
ing refused them permission to andthere,they
were brought to Charleston, aud will 60 by rail
to New York. They consist Of journalists. dep
uties, Que Senator, and several army officers,
and we're suspected by the government OF a po-
litical conspiracy.
The engineers Of the North Chicago rolling
mills are on strike because their employers re-
fused to reinstate one of their number, who Is
President of their Union. and who had been
discharged. The places Of the strikers, nifty
six 10 number, have been filed by an.l-uulon
men.
Accounts from Southern Nebraska state that
the grasshopper ravages in that quarter have
been exaggerated Reports from Kansas are
to the effect that the crops will be Immense, and
that the only apprehension Is that !aoorers
enough cannot be obtained to save them all.
VIM. Garbick has been charged. at Chicago,
with murder, arson, aud defrauding the Brew
ers' Insurance Company Of milwaukee,. 1t is
alleged that he set fire to house, which was
burned, aud Miss Sarah Davis, aged sixteen,
persisted. Garbick protests bis innocence.
Mrs Sarah Daniels, a laboring woman, was
shot in Lowell, Mass, Saturday, by her hus-
band, who also shot himself twice 10 the head.
Both are supposed to be fatally wounded. Jeal.
ousy and drink on the part OF the husband
caused the tragedy.
George B. Reynolds one of the Mormon
leaders, has been finally convicted in the Unit.
ed States District Court, at Salt Lake, of biga-
NV or polygamy, under the United States law
Of 1862 The case will 90 to the Supreme Court
} of the United States.
The fire of Friday night 10 Dublin destroyed
thirty-6ve houses and FIVE thousand casks of
Euuor. Three persons died from the effects of
drinking the whiskey which flowed through
the streets, and several others are in the
hospital.
The Postmaster General Will, soon after bis
return to Washington, invite the managers OF
the leading telegraph companies to meet him 10
conference on the subject of a reduction OF the
rate at present charged the government.
A FIRE at Grand Rapids, Michigan, Saturday
afternoon, destroyed sixty buildings, occupied
below for business and the upper part by fami-
lies. The losses amount to about $l5O, 900; 10
surance 100000
The tax resisers 10 New Orleans having fail.
ed against the State have reorganIz ID under the
name of the Property Holders Uoion, and are
now exercising their influence in obstructing
the collection Of the city taxes
A few days ago, three young men caught q
little GIRL twelve years old,iD lonely place, near
Wilkesbarre, Pa, and outraged her. VIM. Gun
ton was arrested and imprisoned, the child
recognizing him as one of the number.
A dispatch from Tucson, Arizona states that
Brigham Toung is anxious 10 establish colony
in Sonora, his great desire being to get away
from from the Influence of the public schools 10
the Uoited States.
The liabilities of Z. D. Jcwctt & Co., whose
failure is announced at St. John, n. B., are
nearly Sc 900, 900 Losses in the lumber trade
and railway investment are at the bottom OF
their failure.
Jerome J. Hines, who has been on trial for
some days at Washington, on charges connect
ing him with the Texas mail contract frauds,
has been acquitted.
Tweed still remains prisoner on BlackWell's
Island, New York. 1t is believed he finds un-
expected difficulty in obtaining bail 10 his other
cases.
The Turner'S Association of the Maryland
District embracing West Virginia, the District
of Columbia and Maryland, lis holding its annual
session 10 Baltimore.
The yacht Octavia, letely detained by custom
house officials at Brooklyn, New York, sailed
Yesterday for Aspinwall The SpaDiards insist
that Cuba is her destination.
A dispatch from Rome says that the Pope
suffers much from umbago, but is not confiued
10 his bed. He holds audiences as usual, but
anxiety concerning him prevails.
A private cable dispatch received 10 New
York on Saturday says Lady Franklin is danger
ousIy i'll 10 London and r, quests the Churches
10 America to offer prayers for her.
The Car, when ne returns from his visit to
Warsaw, will pass through Bohemia. The
Emperor of Austria will greet him at the from
tier.
A dispatch from Wellington, Kansas, says
four horse thieves were hanged last Thursday
night by the vigilantes.
The one hundred mile walk at Boston for the
pedestrian championship of New England and
$500, was won by Haydock, EagIishman.
The book keeper of Babcock & Son was rob-
bed of s., 900 at the bank 10 NcwArk on Sat-
urday.
The Americas rihemen yesterday attended
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