Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-04-16
EwS OF THE DAY.
"To show the very age and body Of the Times

New Haven and Hartford Railway Company,
the company, under penalty OF
$40. 900, from allowing State or Federal othcials
to pass over that road without the payment OF
the regular fare, will render it necessary for
the President and Cabinet to pay on their trip
to Boston and return on the occasion OF the
the centennial anniversary of the battle of
Concord.
meeting of theatre managers in New
York, yesterday, arrangements we're complet-
ed for ben IFS at each of the p aces of amuse-
meut 10 the city, the gross receipts 10 be Invest
ed for ne sup lrt aud education OF the child
rem of "Dlu Bryant" The family, it is stated.
we're left by the death Of the actor 10 poor Cir
cumstances
Edward Duffy, of Philadelphia, on going
home to dinner, found his wife drunk aud
nothing prepared for him to eat. Becoming iu-
ceused at her conduct he BEL upon and beat aud
kicked her 10 brutal manner until she Was To-
sensible. Upon being removed TO the hospital
she was found to be in dangerous condition
Duffy is under arrest.
Gen. Barry, U S. A., 10 command at
Fortress Monroe, was thrown from buggy
ia which he was riding, on NJ 'uday last, with
his daughter, and knucked senseless. NJ 1888
Barry was also Injured about the face. They
are since reported as doing we'll.
The breaking of a kerosene amp in Herkl-
mer, n. Y, yesterday, res ultcd 10 the de-
structiou of the Flower Block" of buildings, iD-
GLIDING the Offices Of the Western Union Trle-
graph and the American Express Company.
Total loss $4,000.
At meeting Of Baltimore Bank Presidents,
yesterday Committee was appointed to COO
suit wit officers of banks of other cities relative
to the Philadelphia Centennial the commit
tee to meet 10 Philadelphia at date TO be fixed
hereafter.
The number Of females present in the Brook.
Ign City Court, yesterday, WAS largely aug.
mented Many Of them in the reserved seats,
it is stated, Wore tick wells, which ettac'ually
concealed their faces
A memorial mass meeting 10 honor OF John
Mitchell WIS held at Charleston, 5. &, last
Dight, aud was participated in largely by Caro-
linians as we'll as lrShmrn. Appropriate reso-
lutions were adopted amid great enthusiasm.
Several companies OF cavalry have left Chey-
enne, w. L., during the past week for Fort
Laramie, FROM which point they will be sent to
guard the entrance TO the gold fields 10 the
Black Hills.
Affairs IN Hayti are said to be very much
disturbed. Several persons have fed to the
British and American coDsuales for pro-
lection against arrest by the Haytien gov
ernment
The monthly meeting of the Maryland Hor-
ticultural Society was held y,scrday. The
display of plants and cut Il ,Wer5 exceeded any
thing of the kind ever offered in Baltimore.
The origin of the report that the Coolie labor
ers 10 Jamaica had rebeci and were burning
plantations was spark from locomotive which
Set fire to some woods.
Hon. Reverdy JohnSon will give dinner
to the Uuit,d States Supreme Court Judges,
at Wizards Hotel, Washington city. on the
22i iostaut.
The Charleston News states that the Cover
nor has d. cided to veto the oncrous tax bill
passed by the Legislature at its late session.
The extensive paper mill of Ycatmau & An.
dcrsou, Ciuciunati, Was destroyed by fire shortly
before midnight last oight.
A dispatch from Montreal announces that the
Detroit and Milwaukee railway has been placed
in the hands of a receiver.
Canadian dispatches report general open
ing OF navigation on the St. Lawrence river.
"a DEAD CITY. "-Seoator Morton, who
has lately made tri p southwark as far as New
Orleans, speaks Of it as dead city. II that
is true it is the result in great part, of the
IF n r
Morton is the most conspicuous advocate. 1t
may be that, in addition to tLese Influences
the great railways of the West and South have
diverted trade which New Orleans formerly
enjoyed. She is still, however, the ninth city
hundred thousand. The last reported cotton
larger than the year before the war. The to.
tai value of the imports in New Orleans for the
same year was more than one hundred millions,
aud the value OF all that went out through that
port, foreign and coastwise, over six hundred
millions. More than oee-third of the cotton
passed through New Orleans. The authority
as to this immense Commerce is the valuable
work of Edward King on The Great South. "
A city which sends out from its ports more
than six hundred millions Of dollars year
must still have life enough in it to afford vau-
able pickings to the ct-baggers who con-
tioue to fight SO 6erccIy for the control Of
Louisiana. So long as the Mississippi pours
it's treasures into the lap OF New Orleans, she
may, despite the persecution, cupldity and
of Mr. Mortou's friends, be able
to cxclaim, :" still live. " Nothing, however,
but the vivifylng energy ofthe father OF wat
ers could have kept tile Crescent City alive
under the political pressur: to which she has
been subjected. = Baltimore San.
WASHINGTON PREsBYTERY.-- In the Wash
ington Presbytcry, yesterday, DR.. Nourse ask,
ed on behalf of the representatives of the
churches in question, who were absent, that
The elders of the Manassas aud WakesviIIe
churches be allowed to supply their own pull
pits. The request was granted.
1t was announced that the New York avenue
church had donated the SUN Of 81 200, 10 be
distributed amoug the Heruon, Hyattsville,
Balls Cross Roads and NJ ,uassas churches.
judge Drake said that il was not right for