Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-09-25
Foreign News.

entertained General Grant at a lubcheou yes
terdsy, and presented to him al address. Gen.
Grant was met st Sunderland railway station By
the Mayor and Mcssrs. GaurIey AID Burt,
members Of Parliament. The day vas observed
as almost general holiday. Nearly 10000
members of trade and friendly societies march
Ell 10 procession. G'n. GRAFT Was present at
the laying Of the corner stone of the library
and museum. Replying to an address OF the
friendly and trade societies Gen. Grant said
be would simply renew what he had said resa-
tive 10 The way 10 which labor was regarded 10
the United States, and the way in which be
personally regarded it. 10 reply to an invita-
ton from the corporation of Stratlord Oh 'AvOD,
Gen. Grant has in,inated his intention to visit
the town on Friday peXt. He will be escorted
to Shakespeare birth place by the Mayor aud
corporation Of that town, and will subsequently
be entertained at luncheon at the town hall.
10 consequence of strike % the Great
Southern and Western Railway 10 Ireland the
Postmaster General orders steamers from the
America 10 laud only theItish mails at
Queenstown aud carry the others to Liverpool.
The City of Berlin was the first steamer af-
fected by the new regulation. The strike has
lasted some time. 1t is confined to the men
employed 10 repairing the road. All night
travel has lately been stopped.
Intelligence from Havana is TO the effect
that the strike Of the cigar makers at the larger
| factories is increasing. The cigar makers de-.
maud in some instances % per Ct more wages
The government appears to be very anxious to
| keep the strike secret. The effects Of heavy
taxation are making themselves felt. About
two hundred shops and small establishments,
il is said, have been temporarily embargoed
| BY the g0vernment to compel them to pay
taxes.
Advices from San Domingo to the 10th say
within the last fortnight matters have assumed
| q serious political aspect ia The northeastern
province called L,vega. Many bloody ercoan.
ters have taxed place between the revolution,
lists, headed by General Burgas, ADD the gov
ernmeut troops. The latter were badly beateo.
| Parizans Of eX President Gonzales have raised
| q rebellion in the northwestern provinces, com
| mencing by capturing the seaport Of Monte
Christi The whole Republic is 10 state OF
excitement. Many prom inent citizens have
been arrested Oh suspicion. The tobacco crop is
estimated at 500, 900 scroons Of good quality.
Prices are firm at 50 to $40 per quintal.
A sensational telegram is said to have been
| received from Santo Domingo saying the ashes
| of Christopher Columbus we're discovered there,
with authentic proofs OF their genulneness, and
that therefore the supposed ashes Of Columbus
in the Havana Cathedral are that Of his son
Diego.
Advicas from the city Of Mexico TO the 18Th
Instant have been received. The American
| residents are anxious for the recognition Of
Diaz, ard evi0csd it by scattering Aower5 10
his path during the celebration OF the an
niversary ct Independence % the lG:h lost.
In ludia plenteous rains have fallen, improv.
ing the crop prospects in that fAmne-stricken
land 4 Paris dispatch says that the river Nile
has attained its normal he ght, which insures
the average crop from Egypt.
| The United States Consul at ' era CruZ and
MIR. Fisher are about to develop valuable mines
| 10 Mexico with California skill aud machinery.
One hundred and torty-two deaths from yellow
fever had occurred at Vera Cruz during the
month of August.
The Great Eastern railway handicap was ruo
to-day at the Newmarket first October meeting
and was won by Mandarin, with Polly Perkins
second and Bay Athol third,
LONDON, Sept. 25.-The weather is tiaa,
but unseasonably cold. Similar weather pre-
walls in various parts Of Europe. This is be.
lieved to indicate an carly and severe winter
ED1NBURa, Sept. 25.-The Scotsman cores
pondent, writing from Car!o7a, under date of
September Stb, says: The MesGrs. Geshoff,
the Bulgarian merchants WHO are under sentence
of death, were still imprisoned when | left
Philipopclia but was able to leave their casa
10 more powerful hands than mine. Mr.. Calvert,
the British Vice Consul, consented to tempo
rariIy represent the Interest Of the United
States, whose vic, consul one Of the Geshof's
is, and to bis charge confded the papers With
which was entrusted Before starting | got
away safely by private hands az urgent note to
MIR. Schuyler, the American Consul at Con-
stantnope who is not likely to let grass grow
under his feet ia matter of such moment"
AN INHUMAN MONSTER. james Rose Haw.
kins, the negro who committed an outrage upon
a little white girl as she was returning iron
school near the Relay House. was tried ,ester.
day at Ecott City, Maryland, and roDyicted,
Ida Sehaefer. the Injured girl, being placed
upon the stand, swore thu. she reoos nizad the
prisoner at the bar az the man who seized her
with violence 10 the woods OF the way from
school about half:past four o'clock the 23d OF
April and perpetrated an act that Der iips could
not name. She knew him, and had been familiar
WIN LIS ldCc luuS U-4OIe lne tlDe 10 question.
Her way to schoo! lay by the fields wbero be
was employed piowing, and she frequently saw
him as she passed by going to a1d returning
from school. She usually had girl com panions,
but whenever she was alone and saw Rose
Hawkins she felt afraid; she could not tell whg,
Once he approached her, and 20. knowing what
10 do, she asked him the time of day, and being
told, said she was late for sc,nool, and ran. On
the day in question, as she vas going to school
by the St. Denis road, she saw him following
the pillow 10 the heid'. She lett the school at
four O'clock in the afternoon to 20 home. aud
when within 9 few hundred yards of the
house where Hawkins lived was overtaken
by him. She nodded when be called her
by name, ard quickened her pace. He bur.
rled after, aud she asked him if there were any
COWS IN sne road ahead. The child was afraid
OF these animals, aud it was very natural that
she should make this Inquiry as an excuse for
hurrying her footsteps. Hawkins q, ibis
caught her in his embrace from behind, and
sought to pull her toward the brush wood. His
house was in sight, but not 10 bearing distance.
She STRUGGLED with him in vain stran which