Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-06-17
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Six huodrcd British eu.i2raa;s arrived Ct
Montreal, Carada, Tuesday eight, 90 route to
the West.
Ex Governor IlsriIsuit. who. through The
Influence OF Senator Cahtron, vas not confirmed
as Collector at Philadelphia, Ii reaprointcd
to-day.
b. B. Lewis, OF Alabama. HIS rendered lis
res;g oaticn az member CT Cor gNSs TO the
Governor of hl4bima, to thke eff C. On tho lst
Of October.
In a couple Of weeks at tho tur!hcst the
Presidential campaign will have c)mmCnoed 10
earnest, and from that time 10 tho close OF the
struggle 10 November b, contest promises to
be an animated and exciting one
tx Gov. Hendricks expresses tho opi1ion
that tic enthusiasm for Gen. Garfield is mere
apparent than real and that it comes from
s,nsc Of victory on the part Of tho anti Grant
mco over their opponents.
The total population of Philadelphia. as re.
turDed by tho enumeratolS. IS o42, 42S This
result IS disappointment, IS total OF 900 600
was confidently an,ioinated. Tho population
of Baltimore is about 900.
The dwelling Of Fir. W. j. Grantbam, near
MiGdIcway, Jeffetaon Co., w. Va. together
with Lis barn and other ou,buildngs, with
their cootcnts, were nearly all destroyed by fire
Oh Saturday last, involving loss of $4,000 or
81 900.
The dsbursinR clerk in the ofios Of Dr.. Bill
lines Assistant Surgeon General, OF Washngs
tou, has disappeared With the key of the safe.
There Wss 90 cash on hand, however, and it is
not thought probable that Ery money was made
way with.
Gel. VIM. Terry, who has just been appoint
ed to the Supreme bauch 10 Louisiana, is ma
two CT Portsmouth. Va. lie went to Mexico
tied at Nctchioches, louisiana, wtcro he cdi-
ted paper.
TO day Kentucky will Sctc! "a delegates to
the dtmccteto national convention ard North
Carolina 20. All the State conventions will
then have been held. Seven hundred and
thirty eight delegates will c,npcs, the coDvon-
ton.
The following rather curiously wordcd death
notice appears 10 the New Orlesns City Item {:
"At twelve ocock Sunday night. June 49,
1880, j. 7. Donovan, aged zinc moths aud
twenty five days. youngs: son Of j. j. DonC-
van AID B. A. Mitchell"
Cbll has not much more 10 DO TO flash up
tho var ~ith Peru and BJliVa. The capture Of
Arcs and TacoI places the whole Of the south.
Gro Peruvian sosooaet in her grasp. and cnts the
only remaining communication between Bolivia
and the Pac Gc ports.
News has been re lived 10 Now York Of the
conviction 10 London OF the notorious sneak
bond.robbor, Dan Noble aud Of lis senteI c, TO
20 years imprisonment for forgery. Noble is
regarded by detectives IS the most skilifu thief
in his particular liuc that eVir dis9rec,d
Amtrcl.
The eleventh annual meeting OF the Society
Of the Army Of the Potomac took plac, at B II
llugton, W., yesterday. A letter from General
Fi;Z.J Ihn Porter 1Gs read protesting against
the irj1s:ic1 whch had botn done him and as.
seriipg his lUnGcCtc, Of tho charges brought
against him.
a terrible sooursc, Ic22mLling dSs2n,ery, is
prevailing in Adams. Mas, which, SO far, has
bttli,d tic skill Of Ihysicia:s. Oyc- 900 per
sons, old hud ycung. have bonH stricken down.
There is ii,t!a doub. bu. that tho cpidemi, is
occ,sloHcd ny The impurities of tho water 10
the RESERVOIR.
Tho Continental Guards, Ct N5w O.lcans.
arrived 10 B&s:on yesterday. Tho Depot was
crowded with cit,z.nr, who heartily ohecrod
the Vis;!o,a. The National Lstc!rs escorted
them through the llincusl Srscss to their
armoly and thorco 10 TN lt;voTc House. whcro
they were qisTilr.d.
ACillsnt General Townsend has boeu retired
end Gen. X. g. Drum, who rose from the ranks,
sutc,tdS him. Ii is understood that as soon as
the SUCCESSORS 20 Qlartcrmaatcr G9neIal
MciSes. lpspt cor general Marcy, Surgeon
Gcncral Barnes aad Judge Advocate General
Dunp, Of tho army. arc determined upoo thu y,
officers will be relieved. Al OF them nro be-
yond G2 ycsIs Of age.
A g,ug OF tramps attacked O freight lrua on
the Lebanon Valley Railroad 10 Pcn1sylvari,
en- Tuesday, the design being to pluuder. A
number of special policemen were acorcod on
tho train, AID Two Of the gang wcro captured.
They beIof to gang 10 the mountains Or
ganizod for train RI b5eres. Doc OF them made
40 attempt 70 escape, but was shot, rtcipturcd
and lodged 10 the Trenton vi.
Mr.. CART. II was soronetel 10 Washpeton
last light and responded in speech, the tenor
of which was 10 excite tho animosltias of tho
Uoon soldiers against their Southern brethren.
Speeches were ns) made BY Gen. Arson Nc
Cook, CT New York; Gen. G. A. Sheridan, of
tho District of Coumbis; Mr.. Paigpsr. OF ,uth
Carolina. aud Representatives Haskell, lcp-
dersoo, williams AID ShalonbcIg r.
A tragedy Ct q Singular na,ure is reported
from suburb of CbicsRc, where the body Of q
boy that had beea missing for oesry month
has been found a. the bottom OF cistern at.
tsched to Lis fathers residence. As toe cisttrn
was rec ,n.lg searched without discovering tho
c,rpse. the detectives reason that the body was
substq lcnt2 placed thero by he lad S murderer
but suspicion seems to be divided bctwtco q
cr ~ womtn aud rumter Of malicious neigh
bors, the latter bciOg accused CT sn attempt at
abduction.
Gutrage-Greenbackers.
LITTLE Rock. ARK, June ia whito
woman namcd Stevens, living ono milo from