Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-03-20
NEWS OF THE I)AH.
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"To sho,o the very age and body Of the Tlmes"
The management Of the New York canal sys
TEN is just now undergoing an overhaullDg BY
Governor Tildeu, who, in special message to
the Legislature, calls attention to various abuses
for private benefit at the public expense, and
especially to numerous glaring frauds in the
contract system He shows that in some ln-
stances the State has paid nearly four times the
amounts called for by the terms OF the contracts
uuder which the money was paid.
At roll call of the recently surrendered Chcy-
euues, at the Cheyenne agency, few days
since, Catherine Gcrmaine, one Of the white
girls recently held captive by that tribe, identi-
fed four Of the Indians who murdered her
father, mother and sister, including "Nlediclne
Water" who shot her father, squaw who
burned one Of her sisters, and two others The
remaining thirteen Of the murdererS were not
found.
The lobster question is the present direct is
sue between Canada and the United States.
Attention being called in the Dominion Paria-
meut to the fact that the Uuiled States has
been imposing duties on canned Holsters in
contraveutiorr of the Washington treaty, the
Premier announced that the attention Of the
United States had been called to the matter.
Cherry Hip and Salem" two tracts Of
land 10 Stafford county, containing 800 acres al
together we're sold on Wednesday last to Chas.
Barker, esq, of New York, for $4,000. The
sale of Sherwood Forest" the property Of
Henry Fltzaugh, esq, 10 Stafford county, has
been indefinitely postponed.
In Boston efforts having been made to pro-
cure the pardon Of Jesse Pomeroy, the boy
murderer, by petitions signed by ladies, dele
cation oil ladies, numbering about twenty i've
waited on the Governor aud urged the exacu-
ton Of the young barbarian as u measure oil
safety to society.
Serious outrages we're perpetrated Nednes-
day by some turbulent coal miners at Straits
Vile, Ohio Several persons were brutaily
beaten, and many others forced TO leave the
town at peril of their lives 1t is probable that
military force will have to be used to SUPPRESS
the disorders.
The French Ministers stated at meeting OF
the Bureanx, yesterday, that the question OF
dissolution was subject solely to the decision oil
the Assembly, bat that it would be dangerous IL
foreign and domestic relations to hx the date
long before the event.
A strike of street car drivers has taken place
on the Third Avenue line, New York, in cou-
sequence of a reduction The company has
put on new drivers, and the liue Is strongly
guarded by police.
The corrupt element in the South Carolina
Legislature is endeavoring to nullliy Governor
Chamberlain s veto of the bill to increase the
floating debt of the State. So fas the Governor
is triumphant.
Jim Ferguson and Turner Washington have
been arrested and committed to Jail at Bowling
Green, Caroline county, on suspicion OF rob-
bing the mail at Guinea station.
The Alabama Claims Court which has been
sitting in Washington for the past sixty days,
Yesterday finished all the business before it aud
adjourned until the 18th Of April.
10 the Prussan Laudtag, yesterday, all The
clauses of the Ecclesiastical bill were adopted,
and the bill passed its second reading.
u. s. gunboat TaI!apoosa, recently rebuilt at
Baltimore, leaves there for Washington on
Monday.
Gen. Carlo, the new Segnudi Gabo, and seven
hundred soldiers, arrived at Havana yesterday
from Spain.
The London Times Of this morning says the
Prince of Wales will 90 to India during the
next cold season.
The President yesterday appointed Henry NJ.
Atkinson, Of Nebraska, TO be Commissioner of
Pensions.
Vasquez, the famous leader OF q gang Of
California banditti, was hanged at San Jose
yesterday.
A London telegram reports that Belgium and
Portugal have ratified the Postal Convention.
The failnre of Gross, March & Co., tea and
coffee jobbers, New York, is announced.