Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-05-30
Npuk ul GHe DEY.

The Milers National Association, 10 session
Yesterday 10 indianapolis, authorized It's Com
mittee on Brands to issue circulars warning the
trade against every person or hrm approprlatlug
the brands of other m!lers A resolution was
also adopted recommending that Congress be
ask ed to pass law compelling mlllers to brand
their -four with the name and place OF manu-
facture, and to punish nlllers defacing or
craslng the brand of another miller. An amend
ment of the insurance. committees report was
made striking out the admission that Hour dust
was explosive. An Investigation OF the true
cause of the Minneapolis explosion was ordered.
A resolution was adopted author:zing the Exc,
cutige Committee to examine the validity OF
patents, report the usefulness OF inventions,
and to negotiate terms Tor the use OF such by
the members of the Association =,
Social circles in Washington have been .ex,
cited over the marriage of John q. Fremont.
IT,, az ensign ir the United States Navy, aud
son of General John Z: Fremont, aud Miss An
dersou, of that city. Enslgn Fremont has been
ordered to Paris and was 10 New ork await
ing his vessel. Mss Anderson and her mother
left Washington last week for New York, to
take steamer for Europe, and while IN that
city the young lady and Eoslgn Fremont met
% Tuesday the Eosigp called on Miss and
N1rS h0QerSOD, aDu tuNllSN tbO oauSupOi W
take walk. The offer accepted, and the
couple remained away from the mother several
hours. Late Tuesday afternoon The brother OF
Miss Anderson received in WASHINGTON, dis.
patch stating that his sister and the Easgn had
been married.
A verdict has been rendered against the
widow of General Mausfa!d for 81 $50 90 &C.
count of her husband having been surety for
Paymaster Wade, of Cincinnati. whose ac
counts showed defalcaion Of So 600 after the
death Of the General, who was killed ut Antie-
tam. The existence of the bond was ouly re
Gently discovered, after an interval of fourteen
years. Al exception vas taken for an appeal
to the Supreme Court.
A sale Of II 900 packages of domestic goods
took place at New York yesterday Cortiuen.
tai G.. brown cotton brought 81 g. Il and e cts.
| per yard, and Winthrop to cents per yard;
PeppareII Sc inch beached jams 9sa94; Pep
perell 30 inch ine blue jeaos 65; Popperell
satten corset jeans. medium ass ment, dark
assortment 10 bleachery. satlo, bleached leans,
solid brown and solid black jews, 8; LesDla
| browns 53s6, do. IS inch AS cents.
At a meeting OF the vestry Of St. Ann
church, Brooklyn, yesterday proposition was
| received from member Of the congregation
Offering TO give $50. 900 10 addition to $4,000
| already subscribed 90 the Conditions that the
| SIS 900 required to extingu!Ih the whole in
debteduess. be raised and thai the church be
| made o free cturcn.
E,khard D3rwcis, sign painter, committed
suicide in Baltimore yesterday evening by
| shooting himself at his residence. His wife
| had gone out Of the house for few minutes,
| and was horr!fi ID UPON rcturnlpg to find him
lying dead upon the f or which was covered
with blood.
Three hundred colorcd men will leave Wash
| ington for Brazil next week. They 20 first to
Philadelphia, where they will em bark on ship
chartered by Mcssrs. Collins e. Co.. the COD,
| tractors who are oostluc,ing the Madeira &
Manore Railroad, 10 the building of which
these men are to be engaged.
The Right Worthy Grand Lodge of the
World Of the Oder Of Good TempIars is hold
ing it's twenty fourth session 10 Boston. Del
egates are 10 attendance from all parts of the
United States, from England, ireland, Scot
land and Cauada.
Congress ball. at Cape May, was sold yes
terday at Sberiff's sale, aud bought by John
Dobblns, of Philadelphia, for $66 900.
There are now twenty Russian officers in
Philadelphia in connection with the cruisers
fitting out there.
Miss Mile Rose, the pedestrienue, complet
ed her ope hundred mile walk in 26 hours, Is
minutes aud Al seconds, at Buffalo, last night.