Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-04-19
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FIR several DAYS past heavy foods have great
ly inlerferred with travel on the Uuion Psc.fc
Railroad. b. sides causing large amnuct OF
damage HE entIre extent OF the & ,uded dis
trct Is 10 leugth abou, y hundred aud seventy
i've miles, though the damage is ouly at occa-
slona' places Lines ofstages and other horse
couveyauccs nave been employed for the pur-
pdse al forwarding passengers aud mails.
"Alatame Laug returned yesterday mornipg
t" Baltimore from Lancaster, Pennsylvania,
where she bias been engaged in telling ''for.
tunes and maklng Collections of jewellery, etc.
Snc Was escorted to fillmore by two uthc rs
vi lie lice force and yesterday spent the day
at the Western District Police Station. An
Indictment has been found against her by the
grand jlry.
" mectiog of ex-Confederale soldiers in
M"uphis, Tenn, to arrange for decorating the
graves Of Couedrrates on May 22d, "a resoluti N
"as UNANIMOUSLY adopted asking all ex-lederal
s~lilcrs to participate III the ceremonies
Among those present at the meeting were ex-
President jefferson D4vis, tx Governor Isham
u. Harris, aud Generals Cotton, Green and
Gprdau.
\ banquet was given at the Parker House,
Boston, SATURDAY, by the Commercial Club of
that cry, to President Grant aud members of
bis cablDct while eu ruute to Concord. One hun
drcd aud tweuty-slx guests were present. Alex
h Il c., president of club, presiding. Secreta-
ries II 'l'esou, Belkuap, Fish, DeIauo, and Post
nIaster G.ueral Jewell were present
GeLeral james e. Blunt, aglinst whom
jndsmeat was given 10 the United States Cir.
cult Court for the W stern district of North
Carolina, III 1872 Oh charge OF conspiracy TO
d fraud he government, was discharged by
Judges B 'nd and Dick, at Greensboro, N. G.,
thursday, after arAumcnt on questions Of
error.
Fleet Surgeon Sud,lards, of the North At
lan'c squadron, wrt les To the Navy Department
an unIrnnising account Of the prospects of
pl,vll'ucc of yellow fever at KY West during
tue approaching summer. H. arguss that there
Is ground tor the giaVesl appreheDsous of a
very >lcklY StasuD.
Ii the U 'ted States District Courl at Little
K OK on Saturday, Judge Dillon placed the
Mississippi Ouacbita ADD Red r yer, and the
llue Bluff and Cticot Railroads, IN the hands
ut receiver, who was selected by the Boston
bod ulucrs
tar1hur Pcil alias Biaucks, German woman
nnercn years Old, was arrested 90 Saturday at
tile Nassau Bauk, New prk. while attempting
to CAST forged check "t Sl4 600 purpprring to
rave been drawn by Weude Mitchell 4 Co.,
oi 5 i'rlnrheld, Ohio.
The steamer Nova Scotan, a, Halifax, n S.,
Saturday, from Liverpool, reports In latitude
Al 81 met field of ice and passed 100 miles TO
southwark to clear it, Saw several large vessels
10 II.
An explosion of illuminate at the Winchester
Arms factory, New Haven, Conn, killed John
Douahue, nanglipg his body terribly. HIS heart
was torn from his boiy, aud when picked up was
still Boating.
Mr.. Willard Carpenter, ofEvansvile, 1udi-
aua, has deterniocd to donate 81 600 900 for
the founding ola fire. college for poor students,
vino are to be fed, clothed and educated gra-
tultously.
The Concord and Lexington anniversary will
be celebrated to-day Yesterday was devoted to
religious services in the two towus, aud in Bos.
ton at the Oh North Church.
The Government of Newfoundland intend
constructing railway across that island. lwen-
ty-twu lives have been lost Ia the Cauada Pacific
hallway survey
\ Berlin telegram says that the Government
bill Withdrawing the State grants from the
Catholic Bishops passed lis SIC md reading lU
the Prussl.n Chamber OF Peers on Saturday.
Tomorrow the adj burned meeting the Val
ley Railroad authorities takes place at Stauu-
ton Va.
Ii is reported from Havana that the insur
gent ColoDel Pepils Gonzales has died from
lock- w resulting from wounds received iu &C.
ton.
l. is estimated that three thousand operatives
will be out OF employment at the l. ,well, Mass,
factories.
Snow fell several times during yesterday 10
Baltimore and vicinity.
Mrs Pix, widow OF Bishop Polk, died iu
New Orleans 90 Saturday night.