Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-07-29
NEWS OF III DAY
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A dispatch was yesterday received by the
Secretary of the Navy from Commodore Coop
er, Commandant of the Pensacola NAVY Yard,
that the yellow fever had not yet ap-
peared at that place or the villages 10 the vi
cinity. There we're six additional deaths and
Que new case at Fort Barrancas, the latter be-
Ing DR.. Sternberg, Post Surgeon. There had
been no new cases reported from Fort Pickens
for thirty-siX hours.
Wm. 0. Avery, late chief clerk of the U. S.
Treasury, was arrested in Washington yester-
day on a warrant based upon the Indictment
by the grand jury Of the United States District
Court at St. Louis, charging him with corrupt
ly couSpirl' & with the "whiskcy RUG of the
latter city to defraud the revenue. He was
balled in $4,000 TO appear during the present
term Of the court at st. Louis.
Reports from various parts of Ontario, Que
bee, New Brunswick, Prince Edwards Island
and Nova Scotia are to the effect that fall wheat,
although below. a0 average, will be a larger crop
than was at one time expected. Spring wheat
is above an average, and oats, barley and peas
are heavier than tor many years 10 proportion
to acreage.
Rev. Mr.. Hudson, a Presbyterian minister
from Williamsport, Pa, with his sister-in-law,
Miss Brys0n, were thrown from. a carriage at
WatsontoWu, Pa, yesterday by the horse rue
ping OFT. Mr.. Huisou's back was broken and
there is 20 hope Of his recovery. Miss BrysOn
Was badly injured about the neck.
Thirty one cotton mills have been closed at
Dundee, and twelve thousand persons are thus
thrown out of employment. Should the DID,
ham strike extend to all the mills Of the dis
trlct, thirty thousand employees will be locked
out. Both the operatives ADD employers are
equally resolved not to yield.
1t is said that another swimming match be
tween j. B Johnson and Thos. Coyle, the anna
teur, has been arranged at Chester, to swim ten
miles,. from Chester, Pa, to Red Bank, for the
championship and q purse Of $4,000, on Au.
gust %.
A freight train going north Oh the Louisville,
New Albany ana Chicago railway yesterday
afternoon went through a trestle forty feet
high, between Putnamyille and Cloverdale, Ia.
DIANA, killing the engineer, conductor and head
brakeman. The fireman had one arm broken.
Dlscouraging reports of the effects of the re
cent heavy aud protracted rain storms come
from Indiana and Ohio. 10 some instances the
cut wheat crop has been entirely destroyed.
Railway transportation has been Interrupted al
various points.
Ex.prlest Gerdemann delivered his lecture
10 Philadelphia last night on "Ien Years il
the Priesthood, y before an audience Of two
thousand persons. Every prccaution was taken
to prevent disturbance. and with perfect success
At Huntington, West Virginia, on Tuesday
night, an empty store-room of Walker Bros.
and a large building, belonging to Mr.. Smith,
were burned. Loss SIS. 900.
Tits reported that Col. VIM. P. Ross, prin.
clpal chief of the Cherokee Nation, has beer
assassiuated by a party of his political oppo
nents.
The race at Cleveland, Ohio, yesterday, for
horses of us class, purse Sc, 900, was won by
Judge Fullerton. Lady Maud second, Nettic
third. lime 2.2O4, 2.lS, 2.l94.
The Indian Commissioners are 10 session at
Long Branch, considering the subject OF Iudiau
management, supplies and frauds. They vii
have a conference with the President to-day.
1t is reported at Madrid that the Carlist gar
rison at SEQ de Urgcl have mutinied aud spik.
cd their guns. The bombariueut of the city
still continues.
Moody and Saukcy are on a tour through
North Wales. They will assist at the laying Of
the Cornerstone of a Presbyterian church at
Roseth on Monday uext
The Georgia State fair is to offer prizes for
the best rifc-shootiug and the best drilled mill
tary companies.
The First and Second Internal Revenue Dis.
trlcts of Pennsylvania have been consolidated.
Foster Blodgett, late of Georgia, has sued
his father-ln-law, John Pool, for $25, 900.