Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-07-15
NEWS OF THE DAY
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| ''To shoU the gerry age and body of tie Times"
A dispatch from Shawneetown, ILL.,, says the
heaviest rain fell Tuesday that has fallen for
years. The track of the Springfield division of
the Ohio ADD Mississippi Railroad 10 be viciu-
lty OF Mill Shoals is covered with water from
three inches to two feet deep. Ii put out the
fire Of the engine yesterday as the train came
through it. People 10 the bottom lands along
the Ohio and Wabash rivers are seriously alarm
ed on account Of the threatened overflow. A
great many farmers have lost their entire crops
by the foods.
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs is in re.
ceipt of a telegram from General Sharks. at
present in the Indian Territory, explaining the
delay 10 the removal of the KIowa and Conan
che captlvcs to the Quapan reservation. He
says that the Indians haviog been released by
the military. they consider that they have been
already punished, ADD will not 90 to the reser-
walton without force.
An organized band of horse thieves arc re-
ported to be running off stock in the Arkansas
Valley and along the Kansas border of the To-
dian Territory. Dc Monday ten of the band
we're brought into Wichita by party of SOL
dlcrs. Great excitement prevailed, and it is
quite probable that some of the outlaws will be
lyDched.
The National Division Sons of Temperance
OF North America met in Providence yesterday.
Ninety four representatives were present and
twenty seven representatives we're initiated
John Straham, representative of the National
Division of Great Britain, was introduced and
welcomed in speech by the Most Worthy Pa
triarch.
The trial of State Auditor Clinton, of Louisi
ana, charged with misdemcauor in issuing war
rants TO the amount of $4,000 to George w.
Bcnham, 90 the 29th of August, 1874, the
Same being unauthorized by law, commenced
| before the Superior Criminal Court in New
| Orleans yesterday morning.
Bell & Martain, grain merchants of Mlwau.
kee, Wis, have failed, being unable to fulfill
| contracts for delivery of wheat to the amount
of two hundred aud forty thousand bushels.
Another large house could not respond to calls
tor margin, but it is claimed will be relieved
from its embarrassment to-day.
The Connecticut Senate yesterday passed
| resolution repeating the charter of the Ameri-
| can National Life aud Trust Company of New
| Haven, unlcss the Company shall, before Sep
| TENDER st, make up the deficiency 10 its assets
and provide full reinsurance upon its policies
in force.
A storm Tuesday night did considerable dam
age at West Point, New York. Trees were
uprooted, carriages overturned and several per
| sons slightly injured At Highland Falls a
horse was struck by lightning aud several child
| rem Injured, none seriously. At Little Britain
hail damaged the vegetation.
A singular drowning accident occurred yes
| terday at Mill Creek Station, pear Pottsvile.
A young girl. while washing floor, was seized
with an epiIeptic fit, and falling forward with
her head 10 pail of water, was drowned be-
fore assistance reached her.
The recent heavy rains in England have
swollen the streams in the valley of the Severn
and cused serious foundations, number of
dwellings IN B!ackeney having been submerged.
The waters are still rising, and considerable ex.
element exists.
A convention in the greenback interest has
been called to meet at Detroit August 25th,
and b. E. Butter, W. D. Kelly, Moses W.
Field and others are expected to be present
The Secretary of the Treasury has issued the
twenty second call for the redemption of five
twenty bonds. The amount to be redeemed is
zen million dollars in coupon bonds.
The meeting called by the London Radical
clubs for last night in Trafalgar Square to pro-
test against the grant for the Prince of Wales
lndlan excursion was failure.
The Cape May races are declared off. Neither
the sweepstakes nor the steam yacht will be-
sailed for.
Moody and Sankey sail from Liverpool for
New York on the 4th of August in the steamer
Spain.
Z. NJ. Pettiugill's vinegar factory, at Boston,
was yesterday seized for the illicit manufacture
of distilled spirits
John Wells. formerly merchant of Atlanta,
ga, committed suicide Tuesday night. Cause,
financial troubles.
The trial of Lee and Dame for the Mountain
Meadow massacre is set for the l9 b instant at
Beaver, Utah.
Smith College for Women was dedicated at
Northampton, Mass, yesterday, in the pres |
ence of large crowd.