Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-01-08
.S.EU,S OF THE ia i.

Mas d. Co., o small GfH CT e'tNH HitH''-'
in New York, have suspected.
Spooner g. Colps, CIR wheel aud pig l'ch !
dealers OF ST. Lcuis, have made an assignment. !
MIR, Alex Murdoch, prominent merchant
of Baltimore, died very suddenly ycsterdoy'
There has been great suffering among the
pco- of Atlanta, Co., who ere beiog rci!cVeG
By the municipal authorities.
A meeting Of republicans to attempt Eeaf-
gariza,icu ct the party 10 Maryland Was 10 nave
been held in Baltimore to-day.
The Brazlau Minister at Washington gave
the first diplomatic Gisner reception Of tic sea-
Bon on Monday evening.
". N. Castle, defauliug city clerk Of Ssn
Jose, Californis, on being arrested at AssoIii,
Oregon. Monday, blew out his brains
The Baltimore Association for Improving The
Condition of the Poor is supplying at this
time upwards of hundred fauits daily With
coal and wood, and others with provisions.
A furious sncw storm set in at St. Luis
Yesterday afternoon and oontiruad all night.
There we're six inches of STOW on the ground
at 90 early hour.
A telegram from Memphis says 30 maiboa's
are moving on the Mississippi river. north CT
Vicksburg, nor on the Arkansas, White, 81.
Francis or the Upper Ouachta.
At the Cabinet meeting yesterday oil toe
members expressed qualification ct th9 success
Of resun ption, and saw 90 reason Why i: should
not be msiotaiued successfully.
The Maine State receipts for the pas! year
we're 81 200 900. expenditures 81 213 600. ii1c
liabl:ites OF tho State are S. 3IO,551. Re'
sources, including cash iD the treasury, 81
$50 955
Taere is skating at Atlanta. Ga, fer The first
time 10 twenty years. Thousands Of pounds
of ice have beon saved, the first lime that
such thing bas ever been known iG TIA:
section.
Business men Of Baltimore Interested ii the
sugar trade arc prepriog to renew at o4ce
before the Ways aud Means Committee of tic
House Of Representatives. the effort to procure
| reform in the tariff.
Collector Pratt, # NeRpcf;, Il. l., las rs-
osived orders to dispatch tho cN!'tr oamue!
Dexter 10 search Of the Handkerchief Snca
| light ship. which went adrift 90 the il seut
| with full crew aboard, aud Iot:)icg has slac2
been heard from it.
Rstore the yellow fever commission, ia sc=,iou
| at NeR OtlcaEs yesterday, Col. y. L. R?5ia.
SOC, superintendent c. the Mobile ard New
| OIlC2QS 1lell!Uuu, lc5I!ucu ttitt thu ibs-~' W
| that road by the quarsutae sad epidemic, we're
! from $500, 600 to $500 0C0.
Two unknown mc1 drove up % Goldsmith
paWpbroHkipg establishment, in cutter, II
! Ch;o.go yesterday evening, aui wtlIo oce
| locked tho door the other broke ia tie sfo"
case acd absracIed tHo trays Of diamo5G5 Val
u.d at $1,000 The tGo then re entered lie
cutter aud drove rapidly away.
The Teller committee at New O:Ieaus ca1..
mauced yesterday the Investigation "ri acts ct
violence and intimidstion' iG Louisiaoa. j.
Earnest Brcda testified to his beiog driven fcooi
Natchioches on account Of bis republican poll
tics before the late election, Similar ''testi-
mouy" was given BY Y. 4. Barron, jain e.
Lewis asd Others.
Tho Dutch East lhdi:. Company, a tFaGiaS
association organized in Holland fly yc.rj agc,
nnd # world wide reputation, has taken steps
for tie st time 10 establish al sgedc' 10 New
York. The company ha5 paid up capital Of
fourteen and bali million dollars. The pro
posed establishment OF an agency CT The Gem
pauy 10 ths country iodic,tes rcviva! OF thai
Old trading spirit which at one time covered tie
high seas With the ships Of Nothelli5dars.
Besides dealing 10 merchandise generally, tie
agency Of the company 10 New York will add
TO its functions banking and ioaoo!cl broke.
eye business On large SCALE