Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-01-08
NEWS OF THE DAY.


county in this State, but cow Of Georgia the
chairman of the Canal Committee appointed
by the National Board Of Transportation and
Commerce, has arrived in Washington His
object is to meet the ether mcnbers of the
committee soon to arrive, and present to Con-
gress the action o! the Convention at Chicago,
held last December, and urge the construction
OF the water lines recommended by the Senate
Committee on Transportation Routes. The
view ofthe Convention was that the eSpendi
lure Of liberal appropriations along these lines;
would not ouly result in the revival of com
merce. but relieve the present necessities OF the
people 10 sections Of the country whore there
is the most distress resultiog from financial
emDarraSSmeDls.
a number Of beautiful flags which nave been
purchased by the ladies' OF Boston as souvenirs
of the Bunker Hill Centennial celebration were
on exhibition in that city yesterday. They are
designed for presentation to the Washington
Light Infantry of Charleston, the Norfolk
Light Artillery, the Fifth Maryland, and the
Washington Light Infantry, of Washington,
District OF Columbia. A committee of ladies
and gentlemen will leave Boston in few days
TO make the presentations in the various
cities.
On Christmas day plumber of gentlemen in
the urighborhcod of Darlington, Maryland,
engaged in tox hunt. The chase led them
TO Covers Mill, Oh ID ar Creek, where an &C
cdcnt occurred to TWO OF the hunters By the
failing Of their horses. O0e of them, Mr..
Frank j. Worthlugton, sustained fracture If
one of his legs, and also had three ribs broken
the other, Mr.. William Hopkins, jr, received
severe brulsc upon onc Of his feet.
The people Of Sumter county. South Caro-
lima, mctln very large numbers on Monday
last, and unanimously adopted resolutions in
iorslng the action oftiovernor Chamberlain 10
refusing to commission Moses (whte) aud
Whittier (colorcd) as judges The resolutions
| also denounce Noses as "notoriousIy corrupt
| and declare that "hc shall never take his seat
as judge 10 Sumter county, unless placed there
| by Federal bayouets.
Not long since President j NJ. Butter, OF
Abingdon, lIl.,) College, great favor,e with
the students, was removed, and Rev Q. Pirkcy,
brother OF Rev. john Plrkey, Of Stras-
burg, Va, appointed 10 his place. There vas
much opposition to the new appoutcc, and 90
| New ears eve: at Church sooiable held in
the College building, three druuken rowdics
attacked him, aud with club gave hun what
IS feared will prove mortal wound.
The experience of the city OF Boston under
the stringent license law which went into ope.
ration last May has recently been made public
from which It appears that the places where
splrituous liquors arc sold are less by nearly
seven hundred than they we're last year, auC
the arrests for drunkenness have fallen of
twenty per cent, while $l64 442 II have beef
paid into the city treasury for license tees.
The New Jersey Railroad war has termina
ted, the Chancellor having decided that Tie
frog is to be put in so that the Mercer and
Somerset trains can pass, and that the Bound
Brook locomotive is t. be removed from the
track where it was placed to obStruct the pas
s:g1 OF trains.
The subject Of employing female physicians
is now occupying the attention Of charitable in.
stitutions oftown and country. Some of them,
at the North, have employed female doctors,
and the experience Of two or more years has
proved that they acted wisely.
The throng at rhe revival meetings Of Moody
and Saokey continue to augment in numbers.
The doors were closed against further admis.
slons at one o'clock Yesterday, whcu twclv.
thousand were present.
Gen. Forest, the famous Confederate caval.
rgman, joined the Presbyterian Church at
Memphis, Tenn, last week