Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-11-16
News of the Day.

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yesterday, Bishop Aues presiding, 10 make
concentrations for various missionary fields tor
the wear 1878. The appropriations tor dis
tricts for 1878 will not materially differ from
the amouots appropriated for 1877. The fol-
lowing amounts were fixed as the appropIla-
tons For China missions, East China. REQ
Choo, sl4, 600; Central China, hinkiang. SO, 6O0;
North China, Picking, 50 900, slight increase
on last year. for Germany aed SWitzerIand'
500, 900: Denmark, IS 600, with ID per cent.
to be added for exchange. ln TACT, to all ap.
preparations made Is per ccnt. has to be added
for the expense Of seodiDg the money to Its
destination. For Norway, $1,000, Sweden,
s2l 900; for the North Indian Conference $685.
900 were appropriated, the same amount as last
year; $4,000 Was appropriated and put at the
disposal Of the Board to aid any distressed mis-
sionaries 10 Bulgaria. 1t was reported that at
least one missionary has been slaughtered b.
the Turks.
A number of quick, successive earthquake
shocks We're felt al Council Bluff Iowa, about
l2:l5 p. m, yesterday, apparently east to west,
andl asting about two minutes. No damagcre
suited, although for tine the destruction OF
some high brick bulldogs was threatened, and
| at he high school there was slight paDlc
Dispatches from Iowa City and Western Iowa
| say the shock was generally felt, but 10 scrl.
Gus damage occurred in that quarter. AT Uma'
| ha, Nebraska, three distinct shocks we're iclt,
fasting about teu seconds about % minutes
before r. 10 Columbus, Neb., bells 10 pub
| lie buildings sounded, and in North Platte
casts in printing Offices were overturned. The
weather was very pleasant.
The Charleston Courier says :-"From the
county press OF this State comes an almost
universal cry for The reestablishment Of the
whipping cost. Larceny, highway robbery and
burglary have become such common crimes
that, in many parts Of the country, no man s
property il safe; and, in fact, there is hardly
any par; Of the State where it is safe. The
chickens in the coop, the crops 10 the field, the
very clothes that a man pulls OF at night 10 The
expectation OF putting them 90 again in the
morning, BECAME alike he prey OF the mid
night pro"ier.
Iu the United States Senate, yesterday, Mr..
Eaton Introduced an amendment TO the Con.
stiulion providing for the appointment of a
tribunal by each State Tor the decision of all
contested issues arising in the choice Of cleo
tors Of President and Vice President. The ap
pontmcat shall be made by the Governor CT
each State with the advice and consent 81 the
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Presidential election, CT not less than live per
SOUS, who shall decide all such questions one
month before the meeting of the electors.
The Trustees OF Amherst College, finding
that the report OF the treasurer showed bal
ancc Of seven thousand dollars over the run
ming expenses. advanced the salaries CT the
professors five per cent. The Rev. Thos d.
Field, y. D., WAS elected Professor Of Bib
liology.
Eight Of the engineers of tho Boston and
! Maine Railroad who took part 10 preventing the
running OF trains during the railroad troubles
last suuirner, have been convicted OF coDspi'
racY.
Geo. kerby aud Ia. Crane, who were tried
10 the Criminal Court, Baltimore, for riotinE on
July 20, at the Sixth Regiment armory, have
| been convicted.
John Morrisscy sailed from New York yes.
tcrday, for Savannah, 10 the steamship San
Jaclnto TO regain his health.
The gold now in the United States Treasury
amoDt7 TO fifty seven and & hail millions OF
dollars.
MEN WHO Could NOT LIVE IN HOUSES
Schamy ben Eaddin, the CircassiaE-hcro chief
tain who was captured by the Russians 10
the winter Of 1864, was carried to N0Vgorod
and imprisoned in an apartment in the city
armory, which resembed comfortable bed
chamber rather than dungeon, and was other
wise treated with more kindness than the Rus.
slams arc wont to show their prisoners, as the
Government hoped to use his Influence Tor po'
| litical purposes.
But week after his arrival 10 Novgorod the
captive mountaineer demanded an Interview
with the commander OF tho armory, and offered
to resign his liberal ratiOrs and subslst Oh bread
and cabbage soup like the private soldiers OF
his guard, and also to surrender some valuables
he had concealed on his person, on condition
that they would permit him to sleep 10 opon
air. One more week OF such nausea and head
ache as the confinement ia a closed room had
caused him, would force him to commit suicide.
he said, aud if his request was refused, God
would charge the guilt Of the deed % his tor
mentors
After taking due prccauton against all pos.
sibility Of escape, they permitted him to sleep
on the platform in front Of the guard house;
and Colonel Darapski, the commander OF the
city, informed his Government in the following
spring that the health and general behavior Gi
his prisoner were eXccllent, but be had slept ~
open ir every one CT the last hundred nights,
with no other covering than that of his worn-
out mantle, and wooden CAP he had purchased
from soldier Of the guard to keep his turbau
from getting soicd by mud and rain.
General Sam Houston. the liberstor Of Texas,
who had cxicd himself from his native State
in early manhood. and passed long years, not
as q captive, but as voluntary companion OF
| the Cherokee Indians, Was ever a(terward un-
able to prolong his presence in a crowded hall
or i'll ventilated room beyond ten or twelve
| minutes, and described his sensation 90 enter
| ing such locality as one OF "uneaslness, ln-
crcaSiog to positive alarm, such as a mouse
may be supposed to feel under 40 air pump. I"
SUPREME Court DECIsION.- New York
Lille Insurance Company vs. Dlvls-lIrror 10
the Circuit Court for the Eastern District Of
Virginia-rhis was IN action On policy OF 10.
surancc issued by the company upon the life Of
Sloman Davis, resident Of Petersburg, Va.
The last payment was made on the policy in
December, 1860. being the premium in advance
for the next ensuing year. Prior to the war
the company had an agent in Petersburg, and
premiums were maid To him in the usual wav