Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-04-20
IHEN-S OF TIE UEY.

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TIC House Ct Representatives yesterday
passed the New York CeDtenra Expendi'
ture bill.
The track Of the Central Pacific r. r. through
the mouutairs was cleared yesterday ard trains
arc now runpipg through.
s. w. PiIIsbury improvised guiln!ine at
Chelsea, Mass. and cut Of bis head on Sunday.
lie was temporarily insane.
B. Oppenheimer & Co.'S wholesale dry goods
house 10 Sao Autouio, II yas, has filled. Liza.
billties S2CO geo; assets $50 GOO.
A bill was intro dnced in tho Htus, of Rep
r. s,ntatives Yesterday by Gen. Johnston, au
thorzog the Commissioner of Internal Revenue
to furnish tobacco manufacturers with stamped
labels or wrappers Of such denominatiors uud
90 sucb conditions es be may deem eXpedient
and necessary.
Cs,hariue Hill. colorod woman, residing 10
Philadelphia, has filed application for pen.
sion, on the ground that sbe enlisted and served
| 10 the Uoioo amy three years during tho war,
| uuder the pane Of ucuiy Williams. She
| says she WIS wounded during az eogageme Mt.
AID declares that her Sex was never discovered d..
The survivors Ct the Sixth Massachusetts
Regiment. whose march through Baltimore on
April 10. 1861, resulted in riot ard serious
loss Ct lie, went to Blilimcro yesterday, and
celebrated the Lioeteenth anniversary Of their
| march By a reunion With the Graod Army of
the Republic thcro.
The Spati-h government has prUbit ted the
Importation OF pork ircm the Uti:ed States
and Germany iuto Spain on account of richuia.
Ii is alleged that pork from the United State S
C pDta'Us ir CHINA ia greater proportion than
thot Ir,n, Tbo Uollar; =,
government has prohibited the Introduction al
| pork toto its territory from any s,uroo.
Lewis equity. w. Va. is excited cvsr The
| doioGs Of some uukoLwo msoreant or mscrcants
who commit mysterious murders. Last Friday
man named lleIatr Was shot by 40 unknown
| pels,n while sitting GO kia porch. and now the
| news comes that man rsmed ohm Shrrve has
| been icuod dead, concealed 10 o fcDcs corner.
| Tho clIlzsDs are Ia king OF torIupg vigil luoe
| committee.
Reports from the Cam leo and Atlantic rail-
road 10 New Jersey, sly tho forest fires are
| ooursicg line side ot the to.os of Ham
uontop. E!Iwood aud Etg Ilarbor. A disss
rous forest fire his swept along Millvie,
Manumuskin, B4llo Plain and Mcuot Pleasant,
Oh the esp, May and Miilvile railroad. Tbs
woods axe Of heavy pine timber and very vaIu
able. A house, barn and a charcoal pit arc
reported destroyed bcar The Maurice river.
Tho seventteoth annual meeting Of the
Friends Ffeejucn's Association was held iu
| Philadelphia yesterday evening. Mary inter
Rsllag snet c'c' were made, particularly az 10
FreDds' seDool work, which, it was urged,
should he enlarged 10 Virginia aud Ntr.h Caro-
| lima. Doe sneaker from EoeIand mentioned
I that Richmond surpassed every other Southern
city 10 efforts for the education Of tie coorcd
youth.
10 the IIcus, Of Repre- altall9es yesterday
Mr.. Gibson, Of L3uisaoa, iotroJuoed a bill
which Was referred to the Con uittec 90 The
Library, arptoplatiog 500 000 for tho erection
of brolZ, statues 10 WASHINGTON Of Jane;
Madison, Thomas j fTarson. Alex ander Hamll
ton, j oho Adams, John Marshall, Borj,miu
FfaLk!lo, Edmund Randolph, Charles Plnck.
uey, DIDlel Webster, aud John Z. Calhoun
the money to bs txpaudnd under the dii e,tior
ct the Secretary Of the latcIi9r.
! Yesterday morLioa William Hewitt. abou'
. years Of tgc, was iuo over and killed ues1
Perryviilc by train on the Port Deposit branch
Of the Philadelphia. WILMINGTON aud Baltimore
railroad, Youog Hewitt was of weak intellect
and made living ty li,hing. The engineer oil
the train states that the msu ctmmittc suicide
The train, be says, was going ct tho rate of &C
miles al hour. and Hewitt. Wailiog until it was
too near him 10 Ec stopped. threw himself upon
| tho track Tho eDaiue struck him with terrible
| force, suvtriug his head and both lr, from hi:
| body