Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-11-18
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p.caldGGt ;ceis g received LIST seek ;aE IA.
AoIs. College gi:fs nmoG1:!Hs n Sip3 t'A !GT
the benefit cf tie college.
The New York Graphic Sey S there is lumor
coming from we'll Informed sources that Mayor
Cooper is abou! to be suspended.
This year wheat crop il Kentucky Is greater
than that Of last gear by - .000,0O0i the to-
tac,o crop TIC Per cent. lees,
Yesterday President Hayes took part III the
dedication Of the Seventh Regiments armory,
Now York.
Tho lottcry agents in Nav York have begun
suits against Postmaster James OF that city for
stopping their mails.
There were received at Memphis yesterday
s G27 bales Of cotton, tho largest receipts for
one day ever known within tho liitory OF tho
city.
The coCrcd peoples fist industrial cxposl-
ton OF North Carolina opened IN Ealllgh yes
terday. There was good attendance and
large number Of entries.
The final splice in the COW FfeEch cable was
made eff North Eastham Mass, yesterday,
end coneratulatoiy d;spa cits we're iutcrchanged
with France. A dispatch was also sent to Sec
Rotary Evarta.
Sunday morning several largo blocks Ct rock
from The cliff Immediately above tho spot
where GGucrGl hl0Gl&5m2ry lcl', at Qucbtc,
loc5ened doubtless by recent heavy ia'Bs, clm.
down into the street below Hith crash.
+. &. Btaman. reoaEt'y appcintod United
Siatne Sanal0r to fiji the unrxpircd term Of the
late Senator Chandler. of Michigan. hes de-
eincd on account Of iIl.hcalth, and Governor
Crosswoll has appointed exGoverner Horny Z.
Baldwin. Of Detroit, to fill the vacancy.
The erard jury of Washington, Yesterday,
found and ind ciinent ag3iGst Johu iliZ, la.e
president, ard James l. PrenliS', late cashier
OF the German Na,inual Bank OF that city, for
embt 2zilng $50, G20. II in cash and $4,000 10
The stock ttthat bank, en- or about JuBe i, 1878.
lncondiaram ia abrosd 10 tho laaG The large
barns On tic farm Of Oscar Dunn, Susst y
county, N. j., wtIc burned Sunday night with
q large quantity OF hay, gralG, CARRIAGES. tArm
implements. thirty -cno cows and ihrca horses.
The school house in Phirsbu?g, Pc, that has
stood lor sixty Sgaro wts huracd iii Saturday,.
The Louisville Courier journal j SPECIAL from
Csnioo, Miss, says Ella PiukSton. Of Rcurn-
ing Board notorcty, WaH arrested on Saturday,
charged with mnrdcilng her husband, who died
suddenly on the 18Th i0staat. They hal frG-
qucpt qu1rfnlA and separated tHO weeks ago.
They met and guarded on Friday. md he died
on Saturday.
The cases ag4ina lVr managers 81 rgstfatinD
at Charleston, :. g., airfs!o1 last week, were
dismissed yesterday Ivy thn United States Cam.
missioner IN tho ground that the United States
Supreme Court had decided that the act of
Cdnera>d or Which section 3, jO1 Revised Stat
utts was taael il unorihoIiacd, end therefore
Unconstitutional.
During the lWO years cndod Juno 80, 1878,
the rcc>lps from aalcG Of pos:sgc stamps in tho
U0ifsd Sta!tA amnunIcd 10 $jG, SO, l02, and
the ager' gate sum paid into The hands Of poat
masters Tor NANCY orlnra vas SIiS, lj4 CPS.
All this was accounted llr tn tina department,
except S3,0ll, riven up rs bad debts" and
S9d,22S III sult. The per cont. Of lols ia ono
twentieth OF ono rtr cent.
Tho report Of llGratio G.. Burtharl, director
q the mint, last submitted, shows that during
he fiscal year tho total deposits of gold and
SILVER, lEcudinc silver purchases, amounted to
81, lIo,654 E5. of which $I2 1850 wtro
gold, and S'22S 92j, i97 IS were silver. Tho coin
ngo during tho yCa7 amounted to Sos, 3l2,
392 50. md ccnsi7'cl OF gold, $40 9SG, 9l2; sl-
yer, 81 221I $50 50, md minor coins OF tho
nominal value OF $yT,TQS