Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-05-15
News of fh0 DGy.


Tho bill reported for the support of the army
appropriates $40 .929,47l. This is decrease
from the estimates of $7,l59, 46l.55. The e5
Inmates are for 10000 men the cavalry regi'
ments are reduced to six, and the Infantry to
fifteen regiments, and these reductions are to
be effected By transfers and consultations. The
President is authorized in bis discretion honor.
ably to discharge from the army officers who
may apply therefor on or before the lst of Jan
uary next, With certain allowances Of pay. No
new appointments are to be made except to bill
vacancies.
At Rondout, N. Y, on Monday afternoon,
horse car driver attempted to cross railroad
track in advance of an approaching train. The
car was knocked twenty feet away and over
turned, lady passenger was caught 10 the
COW. catcher, rolled to the track and her head
severed from her body, while another passenger
made nsrrow escape by jumping through a
| window.
The steamer Wyoming, which sailed from
New York yesterday, took cut GO head of
horses for the English Government. Fifty more
will be shipped to day and thirty on Saturday !;
seventy were shipped on Thursday last and
| thirty five on Saturday. They were purchased
| 10 various parts Of the country. aud are genef-
ally large farm horses.
The General Conference of the NJ. E. Church
South, now 10 session at Atlanta, yesterday
adopted some minor changes 10 Church dis
clpllne. A resolution to receive the traternal
messengers of the Methodist Episcopal Church
at 10 o'clock a. m. on Thursday was upani.
mously passed.
The Smithsonian Institute has received a
| fine Atlantic salmon, weighing l9a pounds,
caught in drift net near Spesutia Island, in
Chesapeake Bay. The salmon DOW received
| is the first to indicate the return from the sea
of the salmon planted ia the SuSquehaDna
several years ago.
At Westminster, Nd, last Saturday night,
Horace Ward, livery stable keeper, shot VIM.
| Chinp, colored man, who bad hired horse
| from him and called him liar when he told
| him of it. The bullet struck the skull bone
but was unable to pierce it, and 80 but little
harm was done.
| It is reported that the RussiaH Government
has made contract with the Providence Too
Company for 100000 Peabody Martini rifles
and their works, which have been idle several
months, started up yesterday and expect to be
running full time within few days, turning
out thousand guns per day.
TIE national convention of tho Ancient Or.
der of Hibernians convened 10 Boston, yester
day. One hundred and twenty five delegate!
arc present. The order exists in twenty sever
States and has total membership OF 49, OO0
The reports of the committees we're discussed
during the day.
1t is suspected that the new steamship Cali
foruia, to be launched tomorrow, at Philadel
phia, has been purchased for a Russian cruiser
Alterations have been made in the arrange
mcnt Of her upper deck, going to show tina
sho is not intended for commercial business, al
originally intended.
The powder mill of Miller & Brother, al
Sumneytown, Pa, was blown up yesterday
| VIM. SWartley, SOD of the foreman, aged 70,
was blown three hundred yards without being
killed.
The Senate Of Pennsylvania has confirmed the
nomination of John B. Linn, of Centre county
as Secretary of the Commonwealth, in place o.
NJ. 8. Quay, who resigned to take the Office o.
recorder of Philadelphia few days ago.
A fire this morning destroyed the Picker
! building attached to the Portsmouth Manufac
turing Company's Cotton Mills, 10 South Der
wick, Maine
The Syndicate have subscribed for ten mil.
lions Of the four and a half per cent. bonds tol
August and September under the contract o.
April lltb.
The Pennsylvania republican State conven-
ton met at Harrisburg to-day to nominate
ticket.