Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-03-06
News Of the Day.

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will now be- satisfied with Solemn promise
from Turkey, 10 the form OF an international
obligation, so that the powers shall have such
4 collective right Of control as will guarantee
the effectiveness Ct reform at the time which
it is proposed 10 grant. lu bri,f, the demand
for direct control is to be given up tor general
right Of coutroi to be used by The powers at
he conclusion Of the delay accorded the
Turks 1t is, however, declared that they
will reject any arrangement which does not 70
clude the obligation on 10th sides to dlsarm
Immediately. They seen to know full well
that years respite without this condition
would be ruin. A Vienna correspondent 10
Il he STANDARD of this morning reports that the
Council of Ministers at St. Petersburg have
decided that the idea Of granting the Porte
| long protection Cannot b. seriously dlscu SEQ.
| The pcople of the Russian provinces say 10 the
| Gar that, though they have 90 desire Tor WAL
| they would prefer it to q mere temporary SET
Element Of the question.
A question of preccdeuce at the Republican
court occurred at the inauguration yesterday.
In going from the Senate chamber to the east
| front there was a cropping out oil the OLD time
iealouSy between the Supreme Court ladies' and
| the Srpate ladies'. The deputy who had charge
Of the wives and daughters of Senators %.
| ! cicd 10 the Supreme Court ladies moving on
uatIl all the Senate ladies bad passed. Inc
Snurcme Court ladies were highly indignant.
and called to the rescue deputy marshal OF
the court. who defended their rights 10 80
COURAGEOUS manner that the Senate deputy
sergeant at arms Sucnumbrd and the Supreme
| Court ladies swept on 10 triumph. Ii is eG'
pected that the Electoral Commission will be
called upon to ascertain the constitutional meth
cd Of settling all questions OF precedence.
Quite an excitement has been created lately
ia Bosnia by a report which appears to nave
gained some currency and to have madeits way
into the official newspaper at the Capltal. IL
was to the ctfec that Austria Was concentrating
troops Oh the frontiers preparatory to an lnVs'
sion of the province. Active measures were
at once taken for defence, and all males between
sixteen and seventy years of aye were called
out ''to serve under the Holy Banner" But
il proved to be a false alarm entirely. and 1t
was ascartained that not a man had been sent
TO the troutcr beyond the regular relief OF the
garrisous, and that for near TWO years Austria
had rot spent penny 90 the whole southern
line 10 military preparations aud conceDtra
| tons.
VIM. Welden, who shot Packard 10 New
Oreaus Oh February Is, was admitted to ball
10 the SUN Of SIS, 900 by Recorder Stats, of that
civ, on Thursday last and arrived IN Phlla'
delphia in company with his father, Rev. u.
f. Weideu. on Sunday m0rnlng. Welden
thinks he would have been shot dead by Pack
and astendantS after the assault had 1t not
been for that individuals interference IN his
behalf After the shooting he was attended
by Gov. Packard's own physician, and his
treatment, he says, was kind and humane uur-
ing his confinement In prison.
AT the meeting of the Direct United States
Cable Company in London, yesterday, the ma
joriy, uuder the decision of the Master OF the
Rolls, appear to have pushed their measures
most uncompromisingIy. The conference com.
rpittee was appointed entirely from the amalga-
mationists, despite the appeals OF the minority
to be allowed representation on 1t.
The telegraph reports terrible disaster 10
the burning Of the Batemau House in Butler
county, Pa, yesterday morning, Wherein Mrs.
BatemaD aud her four daughters, with one or
more guests, were burned to death. Her hu'.
band, with his 500, escaped from the flames,
though the latter is said to have been fatally
| burned.
At Galveston, Texas, yesterday, the demo.
Gratis carried the municipal election by nearly
5000 majority, and elected eleven of twelve
aldermen. Many negroes voted the democratic
ticket, and iu one ward where the colOrcd pop
ulation predumioated Il leading negro politician
was badly defeated b. white democrat.
The Raleigh, n e., Sentiocl, an old and
formerly Influential paper, has sold out to the
Raleigh Observer, which paper will fulfil the
contracts for advertising and subscription made
by the Sentinel.
After the January freezes large numbers of
fish were washed dead on the shores of the
James river. The fish were mostly chuD, and
of large size. 1t is supposed they were killed
by the protracted and intense cold.
MIR. }. Hayes Shields, cousin OF President
Hayes, is 40 applicant for the Richmond post
Office, as is also Miss Van Lew, the present &C.
cupaut Of tie position.
In the proposed amendments to the French
press law, President MacMahon insists upon
the clause il regard to defamation Of foreign
soverelgns
The accepted plan for tuuncling the Detroit
river conemplates tubular iron pipe laid upon
the river bottom.
There is great excitement in Mexican county,
Pa. over recent and valuable discoveries of
petroleum.
The coorcd B,ptists of Richmond are erect.
iag church which is to cost over $40 OO0.
MIR. James Gordon Bennett is spending the
early spriog in AIgicrs,
The grave of Stephen A. D,uglas is not yet
marked by monument.
The STORY Ofan Empty Gown.
| WASHINGTON, March 5.-Justice Davis ap.
pcared on the bench of the Supreme Court
this morning and participated in the proceed
| ngs. % the adjournment Of the court be
went to the robiDg room and removed bis gown
preparatory to accompanying the justices to tho