Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-12-07
NEWS OF THE DAY.
"7o sho'o the very age and body Of the Times.


To sho.o the very age and body Of the Times"
Mr.. Johns. Hope, of Kentucky, was found
dead in Washington, yesterday, where he has
spent bis winters for several years past, and
arrived on Monday last and took rooms at the
Imperial. On Saturday evening be retired com
planning Of feeling unwelI, and remained in his
room all day Sunday, during which time he
sent to drug store for audanun, a total of
about one and a half ounces. Yesterday morn
ing about 10 o'clock the chamber maid entered
the room and was surprised to find that the
Major was dead, although the body wac still
warm. he was born in Lynchburg, Va, where
for years his father was editor of the Lynch
burg News. During the war he was in the
Confederate army, where he served with dis
tnction 90 the staff of Gen. Breckenridge and
Gen. Dick Taylor, and as reward OF valor
he received from the Confederate Government
tinguished services. His permanent residence
was Paris Kentucky, where he leaves wife
and two children.
The court of inquiry to try the charges
against Gen. Babcock 10 connection with the
whiskey frauds will consist of Lieutenant
General Sheridan, Major General Hancock and
Brlgadler General Terry, and they will meet
IN Chicago Oh Thursday, December 9. Major
Asa Bird Gardner, Professor Of Law at West
Point Academy, has been detailed as Judge
Advocate. Attorney General Pierrepont has
teegraphed to the United States District At
torney at st. Louis that the appointment Of
the court OF Inquiry is in no manner to stay
any proceeding that the Court authorities may
deem necessary in Gen. Babcock' s case.
An accidental discovery Of great importance,
if verified, is announced by French veterna-
rian, who noting that the "toot-and- mouth
disease, seems invariably to spare cattle affect
ed with COW pox, has vaccinated number of
oxen as preventive measure, with the re-
suit that mot one of the twenty five beasts sue
cesstully lnnoculated has up to this date shown
any sign OF toot-aud-mouth disease, although
living among aoimals largely infected with it..
The Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs has
notified the Papal Nunco that he is open to
negotiations on the proposals of the Vatican
relative to the Concordat, but he rejects the
principle upon which they are based. The Car
list General Trist any is reported to have entered
Catalonia, and issued a proclamation calling Oh
the inhabitants 70 rise.
The agents of the Government are iuvesti-
eating the frauds alleged to have been perpe-
trated by certain Philadelphia pension agents,
AMI 1t Is said that they will shortly assume gi-
gantic proportions. Considerable distress has
been caused by the suspension of payments to
those whose claims are in the hands Of the sus-
pected parties.
10 the United States Equity Court, at New
York yesterday, in the CASE of Iran G. Micbaels
VS.. Postmaster James, being an application for
mandamus to compel the Postmaster to re-
celVe third class mail matter at one cent per
ounce instead OF two, asrequired by Law, j I'D ge
johnson decided that the law was constitutions
al, and the application was dismissed.
The Deputy United States Marshal of Utica
City arrested Calvin add Seely and George
Davis, at Camden, yesterday, for manufacture.
ing and passing counterfeit FIVE cent nickles.
Moulds and metal were found 10 their possession
They have been operating on a small scale for
the past year.
At a sale of short horns, draught horses, and
Cotswold sheep at Toronto on Saturday, the
three highest prices paid were $4,000 for
Seventeenth Duke of Airdrie," $4,000 for
"Kirkleghton Duchess Eighteenth" and S..
TOO for Oneida Rose" The total sum realized
was $4,000.
The Sovereigns Of Industry of the District
of Columbia have just provided themselves
with about thousand bushels of "the very
best and largest potatoes, purchased in New
York State, and deposited at their several
residences for, on an average, the little sum OF
SO cents per bushel.
A special from Berlin says that Russia will
propose an international conference on the
Suez Canal question, and if the demand is
refused she will claim freedom of action in the
East.
The Attorney General has been informed by
telegraph from St. Louis that no indictment
has been found against Gen. Babcock up to
Saturday evening.
A Vienna dispatch to the London Daily
News says that snow has fallen in such quan-
titles as to interrupt communication between
Italy and Hungary.
The report that Khohand was surrounded and
several of the smaller Russian garrsons mas.
sacred is contradicted.
Gov. Hartranft has appointed Geo. B. Lear,
of Bucks county, Attorney General of Penn.
sylVania,
A telegram from Alexandria says Egypt
does not desire to annex Abyssinia, but mere
y desires security for the protection of her
frontier.
The Centennial.