Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-03-29
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The Stockholders Of the Seaboard and
Roanoke Railroad Company, met at Ports
mouth, Va on Friday last. The net reve-
nue. for the past twelve months was reported
to he Sl07 900 :. VI. Wilson, ESQ.,, was re-
elected president, and Geo. X. Nickcrs esq,
one of the directors. The resolution prohib-
iting the issue of through tickets with any
road south Of Weldon was repealed.
The Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer says:-"We
hear reports, which can hardly DO otherwise
than correct, that fresh importation Of AZ
rican negroes has been made somewhere ON
our Southern coast At least. Il large pro-
portion. if not all, of these negroes have al.
ready been conveyed far from the place Of
landing, and are safe beyond the reach of
! Federal officials. Ii would seem as if an
underground railroad" had been establish
ed through the South, which promises to do
~ hourishing a business as the older ins,itu-
tipns If that kind at the North.
A fearful ease of poisoning occurred at
New York on Wednesday morning. at the
boarding house of Mrs. Emily Beetham, cor
ner of 18th street and 18th avenue. Nearly
the whole family after partaking of break
fast, were seized with symptoms of mineral
poisoning Some eight or nine persons
were thus affected, some of them seriously,
others slightly. and three not at all. Mrs.
Beetham died, from the effects of the poison,
Thursday afternoon and MIR. Robinson on
Friday night Suspicion appears 10 rest up
on Margaret Burke, the cook, who had been
arrested and committed to prison. Mrs.
Beetham was widow, with two or three
children, and kept boarders, some Of them
medical students.
The trial Of Stephens. in New York, for
poisoning his wife. has resulted in his con-
yiction His counsel, Mr.. Ashmead, gave
notice of a motion for a new trial. and said
that at the proper time he would present a
grave charge, that of tampering with the
jury. against certain parties. The prosecu-
ting attorney moved for sentence, which was
postponed. lie then moved that James
Hanna Susan Hanna, Isabella Bennett and
Maria Hanna. witnesses for the defendant.
be arrested for perjury on the trial. The
Court postponed the consideration of the mo-
ton. The prisoner bore the announcement
with great torttude.
Aman chopping in the woods near Lexing-
ton, Florida. was attacked by ferocious
wolf, which, at the first signal, grasped his
victim by the throat. The wife, standing in
the door of the house saw the position Of her
husband, and. running d seized his axe,
and with one blow upon the back of the wolf
SO disabled him as TO make release his hold
4 few more blows finished him entirely, but
not till the wolf had succeeded in cutting the
throat of her husband 50 that he expired al
most Immediately v.
Two female shop-lifters from New York.
visited Boston last week, and under the pre-
tence Of shopping, plundered several stores of
silks. &C.. 10 the amount of 81 POO. They
were detected at one establishment, arrested,
and the goods found in their trunks. The
women gave their names a. Julia Hall and
Mary Davis: the former says she is thirty
wears old, and the other gave her age "a
twenty-five years.
The Odd Fellows of Cincinnati, intend to
celebrate by parade and au Grafton the ap-
preaching forticth anniversary of the estab-
lishment of the Order in the United States.
The day for the festival is the 26th of April.
The Grafton will he pronounced by the Roy.
DR. Jas McCabe, Of Baltimore.
The Annapolis Republican states that an
insane female, supposed to be named Polly
Paine, from Prince Georges county, was
found on Tuesday evening last. i'll the woods
of Philip 4. A. Hammond. Of Anne Arundel
county She has been placed in the Jail at
Annapolis.
The verdict in the case of the late horrible
accident on the Great Western iCanada) rail
way is, mo body to blame Of course not.
1t is Nobody that is eternally TO blame. 1t
was Nobody that drove the train at the rate
Of thirty miles an hour, on a dark night, over
a track inundated by frcshet.
The father of young Busch, who was nc
quilted of murder in Chicago, day or two
since, gave the jury whV cleared him a
champagne supper OH the evening after the
verdict was rcdeercd. Eleven of the jurors
attended.
A frightened yisiter at Troy. dnring the
recent land slide, left by the next morning
train declaring that YOU couldn't make him
live in city where the hills were running
after folks.
The heaviest snow storm ever known In
California has occurred in this winter Sierra
county. Snow was fifteen to twenty feet deep
on the mountain side.
Mr.. Smith O'Brien arrived at Augusta,
Ga, on the 18th of March. He is to visit
Senator Hammond's plantation, at the inyi-
tation of that gentleman.
1t is said that Mr.. Washington Irving has
completed the fifth volume of his Life OF
Washington.
By constitutional limitation, the lottery
system of Maryland will expire on the 3lst
inst, which is next Thursday.
Wreck Of British Msn-of.Wsr.
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