Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-11-20
NEWS OF THE Nay,


Yesterdays ioreign mails hom New York
was sd, CHS letters and 60 bags Of papers.
WeiliniorDed cotton men say the present
cotton crop, if it eau be gathered, will be the
largest since the war.
A dispatch from ,Evaos ton, Wyoming, yes
terday, reports snow three aud a half feet deep
and continued showing. -.-.-..- -...-..-.
At las last night O Leary had walked 425
miles and Weston 1888 10 their pedestrian match
at Chicago.
The New York canal commissioners have
passed resolution to close the canals in that
State on the lOthot December next
The executive committee of the 1nterna-
tionaI. Association for the Protection of Game
ard Fish was held at Philadelphia yesterday.
The settlers Of Manit ba are complaining
of the incursiops of. the Sioux, and say that
unless projected they will be compelled to leave
the country.
A resident, of Pike county, Pa, has organized
a colony of the natives Of AIsace and Lorraine
which he expects to locate in that country
early IN the spring.
found presentments against the proprielresses
of l76 disreputable establish ments iG BaItl
more.
Henry Nicholson was hanged at Coushatta,
La, yesterday, for the murder of Marcus
Young, a Jewish peddler. He died protest
Ing his Innocence.
The Assistant Treasurer at San Francisco
has been authorized to redeem $4,000 of the
notes OF. the First National Gold Bank of Pc
| taluma, California.
-Four noted burglars were arrested 10 re-
| spectabe boarding house 10 the central pant of
the city of Philadelphia, yesterday, where
| they had taken rooms.
Egypt will probably 5000 become an import
ant exporter Of salt to Iudia. Since the first
of May last 5000 tons of that article, produced
| by the new salt pans at Suez, have been ex-
| ported to Calcutta
The Womans National Temperance Con-
ventoD, which has been holding itssessious in
Cincinnati during the past week, adjourned
yesterday after adopting series of resolutions
embodylog Its views 90 the liquor question.
The terms for the purchase of the entire
railway system Of Upper Italy have been ar
| ranged BY the Government, aud will shortly be
submit ID to Parliament. The amount of the
| purchase is about Esq, 100000.
A grand fete was given in the Palace din
dustrle in Paris, yesterday, by the Franco
American Union 10 furtherance of the subscrip-
ton to the proposed monument in New York
harbor. The affair Was great success, and
was attended by many distinguished persons.
The recent floods 10 Eogand cost the Bur
ton brewers 100000. Bass and Alsop, how
ever, would hardly mind that Messrs. Bass
produce S25, 900 worth of beer day, or mil
lion barrels a year. The Allsops follow with
$50, 900 barrels.
W. r. Davis, ex-Mayor of Carrollon, Ill.,,
blew his head nearly off With shot gun,
Thursday, during the funeral ceremonies of
Paul Wright, who shot himse at St. Louis
| two days before, aud whose remains we're taken
| to Carrol'ton for burial
The cowmandaut Of the Philadelphia Navy
Yard has received orders FROM Washington TO
hurry up the completion and equipment of the
new sloops- ol-War lyjnging in the Delawure, and
to put number Of monitors 10 condition for
service.
A dispatch received from Fort Brown by way
OF Galveston says that party OF State troops
came upon horde Of Mexican cattle thieves
yesterday who were crossing stolen cattle into
Mexican territory, and upon the refusal of the
authorities to surrender the stolen stuck, they
crossed the border and had fight with some
four hundred Mexicans, 10 which four of the
latter were killed. The United States troops
We're ordered not to cross into Mexico
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