Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-03-16
NEWS OF THE DA h I.
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Attorney General George H. Williams has
furnished President Grant, under date 18th
inst, an elaborate opinion upon the subject OF
the responsibility of the Genera Government
for the payment of interest and principal on
the 365 bonds of the District Government.
He concludes that practically the pledge gwen
By the United States considered 10 the light
of a security, may be regarded as an unqua!l-
fed guaranty.
A thrilling juvenile tragedy occurred in St.
Louis yesterday. A boy who, it was alleged,
had killed another with brick, was being tried
10 the Criminal Court, when brother OF the
victim, about sixteen years of age, stepped up
to the accused, and charging him with the
murder, plunged butchers knife into his a6-
dOnen. The accused fell MORALLY wounded,
and the youthful avenger was placed in jail.
The Louisiana committee terminated its pro-
ceedngs 10 New York yesterday. The claims
of eighteen or nineteen contestants are report
ed to have been passed upon, aud the award
of the arbitrators was to have been sent on 10
the Governor at New Orleans last night Sub
sequent action OF it will be as is deemed expe,
dent by the Governor and House Of Repre-.
sentatlves.
On Monday night the gauge of the North
Carolina railroad for ninety miles was changed
between j o clock aud. daylight, to correspond
with the gauge Of the Atlanta air line. This
opens through line trou New Orleans to New
Y ork and no change OF cars between New W.
leans and Richmond.
Captain NJ. A. Birdsong, conductor on the
Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac rail
road, has received from Senator Nye's daugh-
ter, 10 New York, a handsome set of massive
gold sleeve buttons, in return for his treatment
Of her father under circumstances already
kaown to our readers.
In the Beecher- Tilton trial, yesterday. John
W. Hartman and jackson S. Shultz gave testi-
mony respecting Mlton's assertions that his
wife was as pure as an angel, and Archibald
Black related interviews with Moulton, 10
which the latter told him that Beechcr was
not guilty.
Vice President Wilson has written a letter
concerning his vote for the Bounty bill. He
goes at great length into history of his con-
uection with the army and the soldiers, and
deliberately defends the various provisions OF
the bill, and the justice Of the claims OF those
tor whose benefit he supported it.
The "Cousistory" was held at the Vatican
yesterday, and Archbishops Manning, Leodo-
chowski, McCloskey, Deschamps, and Monsg-
Dori Glannelli We're made Cardinals. Philadel-
phia, Bost Oh and Milwaukee were raised to the
rank of Metropolitan Sees.
Another delegation from Baltimore visited
Washington yesterday for the purpose of urg-
ing the removal of Collector Booth, and the
appointment of Mr. Robt. Turner in his place.
The President declined to be interviewed on
the subject
The Secretary Of the Treasury has decided to
return to the old method Of redeeming mutt
lated United States currency, by which de-
ducton is made proportional to the part OF the
note that is missing. The change is to take
effect on the lst OF April
The town of Rieuzl, Mississippi was visited
by tornado on Sunday night which demo-
ished many buildings aud killed four persons.
A storm prevailed over other portions Of the
State, which did considerable damage to rail-
roads aud telegraph lines.
An insane man named McCulloch threw him
self into some heavy gearing at a power-shop
in Bank street, New Y ork, on Saturday, and
his body was ground 10 such small fragments
that they had to be collected with broom and
shovel.
An attempt was made to test the civil rights
law in Trenton, N. j., last evening. a colored
barber went to the Trenton House billiard sa-
loon, and was refused game OF billiards, and
thereupon obtained warrant tor the arrest OF
the proprietor.
A London dispatch says that Messrs Moody
and Sankey, the American lay preachers, are
attracting immense crowds to their meetings.
Twenty-three thousand persons were 10 attend
auce last evening.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has
issued circular to supervisors and collectors,
urging them to increase their vigilance under
the increased tax rates on distilled spirits.
A London telegram says the Hamburg
American and the Eagle steamship lines have
effected consolidation of their interests in the
transatlantic service.
A dispatch from San Francisco announces
the arrival at Honolulu, Hawaii, on the 18th
of February, of the u. s. steamer Pensacola,
with King Kalakaua.
A London telegram says that natives of AS
sam had massacred surveying party COM
manded by British lieutenant and consisting
of sixty three sepoys and coolies.
The liabilities of the Morris River Coal Com
pauy, which made 40 assignment at Syracuse,
N Y, yesterday, are $S,00O,O00, assets over
S3,00O,000.
Demonstration in Washington.
About two thousand colored laborers together
with comparatively few whites, marched iu
procession to the Executive Mansion between
eight and nine o'clock last night, tor the pur-
pose, it is said, of making complaint that Ger
tain money appropriated by Congress for the
use of the District Government had been paid
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