Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-07-31
FGREEGS ITEMS.

The GoodEood cup was won to day by
lsonomy. Bear second, Parole third.
Arrangements are being made for bringing
homo the British troops 10 Ll!u!aad.
A canon on German cuuboat exploded yes
terday, killing five end W0uodipg twenty i've
men.
Garriba!di's suit for the snnu!nent ct bis
marriage With Sirnora Ra;mouda will be
brought before the Rome Court CT Appeals oo
the 7th Of August.
The iron masters 10 IT,. Cleveland district, IN
the north of England trade. yesterday, gave
notice of 6vo per cent reduction of the wages
Of their employees The matter will be referred
10 arbitration.
The Odessa Chamber of ComneIc it is
said has manifested much concero at the extra
facilities afforded to the United States tor ex-
porting whest by the deepening ct the mouths
OF the Mississippi.
Prof. Rohlf, who is 10 charge Of the exped;I
ton sent out by the German African Society TO
explore Central Afic,, has, later adVioes state,
recousidered his determination to resign the
command of the enterprise.
Intelligerc, received from s.. Petersburg
announces that sbou. hundred persons we're
| arrested last Sunday on the estate Of the Grand
Duke Constantine brother Of the Car at
Pavosk, near ST.. Petersburg.
A Berlin dispatch, says: The kblrgese, owing
allegiance to China, havt made fresh raid on
the Russian district of Ssrgbispol. The Cos.
sacks pursued them twenty miles beyond the
frontier, took fourteen prisoners and recsptured
tho booty.
Official returns show tha! twenty officers aod
four hundred men died Of cholera aud other
diseases on the return march from the Afghan
cam paiqp, while OILY about one hundred meu
we're killed in action on the British side during
the war;
The causo Of the death of DGko William,
brother of the Grand Duke of Mecklebburg-
SchHeriD, which occurred recently at Heidcl-
berg, was 40 unsuccessful surgical operation,
nee. ssitsted by Injuries he received during the
Franco German war.
The North Germao Gszatte argues ic favor
Of the propose! that Germany should purchase
some islands in the Southern Pacific. The Der
liz correspondent Of the L)udop Post says this
may be taken as 90 Indication that, potWi;h
standing the many official declarations. there is
alter all. prospect cf Germany acquiring some
colonies.
The 60al decision of the German Govern
meDt 90 the religious questions at issue with
the Vatican has bseu communicated to the lat
ter. 1t is as fellows: AL OF tie cXi,cd clergy
| who ak permission will be allowed 10 retur1 to
Germany. The May laws viii be taci,y sus
pended provided the clergy obey tho common
law and ell fresh nominations are to DO submit
ted to the Government. The Pope is satisfied
with thoao tormz
Some conservative members OF ,uu D.,;sh
House OF Commons. who IRE out to take lopC
| Journeys, have been assured that they need Dol
fear general election 6urog the auIunu CT
| winter Mr.. John Gilbert Talbot, parliamentary
secretary to the Beard Of Trade, speaking st
Greenwich, last hight, said ha was 10 no posi-
| ton 10 state whcu dissolution CT parliament
woul d take place, but he personally thought
| the later it should occur the better
TIE * RENE left 10 the French Chamber oil
Deputies yesterday. abstaioed from voting WI 90
the estimate Of the salaries Of the B shops W.:
| submitted. AS losi than half Of the chamber
| voted, the vote was iovaled. The extremists
| may repeat the same c)urse TO day. The object
OF the delay is TO o0erco tAe Senate into passing
| the anlrJ Jesuit clause Of NJ. jules Ferry's edu
| cation bill under pain of seeing the cccesiasli
cal salaries Stopped. The Senate referred the
bill for razng tho Tuierics not to a new com
| mitsee but to one appointed some time ugo to
consider the question CT rtclnstrucriug that
building. This committee will probably cot 10
port before next s;sSoo.