Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-02-01
latest FOREIGN Eeyys.


| ATHENS, Feb. liking Goorgeios las j:'
msly thanked the Frcnc: M!o!s;cr OF behalf
CT himself and the Greek u.tioa !oc &c c!i"Ts
| Of France in favor 0! Gr.cc1.
Tho proceedings OF Tic TG!co ur1c!, tct!ri
| talon commission arc a2aln d2isped.
| ROME, February 1.-The ltailaG JGanIb:T i
Deputies yesterday discussed ;Ea es':nl'fs itr
foreign affairs.
Sguor Dapretis, .rs5!2a. c. 10 uoa2si!,
announced that il order 70 iso:!ita'e Ito lta'!so
expedition to Central hrric, diplomatic asant
would be seot to Shos in A5sssi0l3, snd :'"H
! sulato established 6. leila, sea pert ,cHn u
Adel. lear the ifoatier Of hbg:sris.
| Signor Visc0nii Ve1osta, referring 70 The
Brush occupation Of Cyprus, dGEiet tia: i.
would pr, jldice ltalg's Commercial relations
with E4glagd. lie cendcuaad $40 ltas ;:i2
dents aeIaticn aud urged the government 10
re.es:ablsh aud maintain good relations with
Austria.
SUFz. Feb,u1ry .--Ez President Gr.at a0;'
patty sailed to day for Bombay.
EDINBURGH Feb. 1.-The High Cou:! q
Justicary to day pass21 s.D.ehas uaan itc
directors Of The City Of Glasgow Dsik, E5h2E:
Sumner Sir2uach and Lewis Potter 2iG'l:taG
Of fraud, theft snG 1E:5 2z,2:leni, Wa;c SEN
teuced to eighteen L QUITS Imprisonment. he
! Eve other directors, john St"Tlg!, E,5egt Sal
tnond, William Taylor, llaaTg loc'is !"o j1ilr
innis Wright. ecGve!ed o. uterigc 'a'5o ~
s!rscs Of balauce sheetF, VIZ s.L;cGc.f 20
eight mouth imprisoa
LONDON, Feb. IA Gisn.'ci .roa .j:a
| hursb, published in iha cTering cci'll2 q tie
! Standard, says: The s.1tcCcrs iaip3,g1 apou
the directors Of the City tr tiis-sow Blk
created considerable surprise Oh &C III, Of rhsr
eoieucy. Lord Ju:ic, M0lcti2tI, the n::sii
! inc u lgc, 10 passiog the IlEnent d -: o2u:t
said they Considered the ciIclrst sut; That ia"
prisoners had cot falsiied the a3:oUDts %: th@r
Own personal benefit bu: il tie :'S.ah"a !",a
! that it was for the pubiic COOS.
The ARLINGTON CASE The Washington
correspondent OF The Baltimore Aru8Ticaa Sep
says:
1T is tho general opinion among swSGr: e..
niisr with the subject that the A!rngtt:. ,iecL'
| meGt suit, which the United states District Gcu;t
has just decided in fsvCr 0! The ltc estate, w!i
also be decided by tho United states Supreme
Court, to which it has been apposlcd. il favor Of
the plaintiffs. The judgment Vi the lower court
restores the estate 10 General Leo, and calls to'
the eclment of all tenan's who have eeen N
possession since tic transfer o; tho css 10 uEder
tax sale IN 1863 This includes thu dated states
q, tenant Ct the National Cemetery, ihe iitlccn
Thousand bodies CT desd Union soldiers tha. 50
therein, and the government signal Cii!ca &!d
station at For. Wnipple. This deci:ion ui.co"tt-
eddy will give encouragement 20 lie managers III
tho bill now pending, which proposes t.st Goa
gross shall purchase tho property IL Is just -
General Lee 10 sly that 10 h.s 10 desire 10 G!a.
turb the patriot dead or 10 reSnin pcasc.son q:
that part Of Arlington Cemetery proper wnjc:
ID but tri1ing portion o.! the whole rs;ate. Gen.
Lee has only wished TO establish lis entire FTOI-
ertY rights 10 the lands in question, aud /. quite
willing to surrender that portion OF tho esi.sc or
the whole Of it 10 the government: IL lair va,u
alton. This decision snoWs that the courts hgve
been unwilling to sustain one OF tbs most a-hl-
trsry acls Of the great War Minister, Sccrel.sy
Stanton. 1t is certain that he declined - re.
GIVE the tende. Of taxes made pIiJr 20 tho aisle,
by n oIthern relatives CT General Lee. Oh Il"
ground that General Robert e. Leo Was rebel
and no relatives should be permitted 10 redeem
his properly. Secretary stanton, the court says,
had no authority to do this. and i: - practically
upon that &C. alone that tho whole case turned"
THE TORNADO N MISSISSIPPI A dispatch
from Iuks, Mis-, says that II seven o'clock OF
Tuesday evening the place Was via!!c! b. u ter.
riblo storm. i cEno from tae scu!hweat and
took northeast course striking the soushe3s.
portion OF the town, Oh BILL mostly occupied
By colored people, ins family killing one cOlorea
woman and her child ana t0ur other colOrad
children, two Of whom we're not found until We'd.
nesdaY, and then quarter OF mile from home,
the head of ona being severed from TIC body.
Eight other colored persons. were wounded, one
of whom died on Wednesday morning. Tne
others who were wounded are doing well, though |
one had his thigh broben and another his arm.
-Four houses we're blown down and one church !
A wagon WAS carried about milesnt embedded !
in the ground. Tho tornado lasted but g few
m!nntes and its track was not over two hundred |
yards in width. II swept everything before it, !
lis course WAS toward the Mississippi river, where
it struck Newport badly damaging that town |
and breaking chlG's arm. Some oltne tiulbera |
Of The HOUSES blown away were found Two miles |
distant !