Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-04-29
SNEWS7 OF TIE ia 7.
's7o shop the very aye and body Of the times.


track. The coupling broke, and the car was
thrown upon its side There were only nine
passengers in this car, none of whom were very
seriously injured. Several of these were ladies',
who were terribly frightened
Additional evidence taken before the House
Judiciary committee in the case OF Surratt
which has just been published, shows the
groundlessness of Mr. BouwelPs charge
against the President, accusing him of revok-
ing the order Of reward for the prisoner S
capture. Secretary Stanton has assumed all
the responsibility for this revocation.
The Tallahassee Floridian says that John An
derson, Magistrate of Madison county, has been
brought to that city under arrest by the mhta-
ry authorities, upon the charge of neglect OF
official duty in not appointing some one, III the
| absence of the proper officer, TO execute the
warrant for the arrest OF young Pope for shoot
ing his scbool-master.
A carpet bag containing three counterfeit
plates, $4,000 in counterfeit fractional cur
rency and $4,000 in State money, was dug up
on Staten Island on Thursday, the secret OF its
burial place having been divulged by convict
| named Stewart, now serving out ten years
| sentence in the Albany PeniteDtiary.
The people in many portions Of Louisana
are, owing to the great floods and other causes,
in q trightlul state Of restitution. The lber-
vile South says: There never has been 4
people more entirely in distress than ours. --
Another crpyasse has occurred in the parish OF
Ascension.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
has made an arrangement by which physicians
desiring to attend the Medical Convention at
Cincinnati on the Eth OF May can obtain round
trip tickets from Washington and Baltimore
at SIS, just half the price of the regular fare.
The annual parade Of the Charleston, 5. g.,
fire department came off last Saturday, Some
feeling was oeoasioned by military order for
| bidding the procession from moving without
being headed by the national flag. The order
was complied with.
A letter from jacksonville Fla, says the
speedy establishment Of the great telegraphic
enterprise between the United States and Cuba
| is now regarded as a certainty. Immense coils
| of wire have gone up the St. Johns toward
| Ocala, and large lots have been forwarded via
| Gainesville.
| A case Of cruel punishment has just occurred
in the Dwight School, Mass. A young boy
| was whipped nearly half an hour, until his
clothes were cut as if by knife, and until his
teacher strength was exhausted. The teach
or resigned and fed, but constable is after him.
G.. a. Sherman has obtained 4 verdict OF
$4,000 damages against the Western Stage
| Company for the loss Of his wife, child and
mother, who were drowned by the npsettlng Of
one of the Companys coaches while crossing
Boone river, in Iowa.
The strike Of mule-spinners ia the mills al
| Lewiston, Maine, has ended. The mills
| have run all the time, and now are run
ming with the usual amount OF help, The
result being that some of the spinners are ont
of employment.
The Imperial French yacht jerome Napo-
leon in returning to Havre couple weeks
since, brought on her deck from England 4
small sailing yacht of about ten tons burthen,
which Prince Napoleon had built at Cowes.
Two citizens of Newport, Maine, have been
fined Sc each for carrying Southern sympa-
thizer, to the Town Hall and compelling him to
make public apology for expressions OF Joy
al the assassination of President Lincoln
On Sunday last q German locked up his
house in Louisville and took his family to one
oe che summer gardens. He returned and
found the house ransacked and $4,000 gone,
which had been hidden under q carpet.
The Treasury Department has received from
General Swayne report of the capture OF j..
NJ. Pnrkman, President Of the First National
Bank at Selma, Alabama, charged with rob.
bling that bank recently Of 100000.
Two sealed envelopes were received at the
Treasury Oh Saturday, one enclosing 81 900 and
the other $1,000 in greenbacks. The enyel-
opes we're post marked Cincinnati, Ohio, but
contained no word of explanation.
The English papers announce the death Of
distinguished naturalist, ohm Prdeaax Selby,
of Twizelle House, Northumberland, aged
eighty seven years Mr. Selby's name IL
familiar to British naturaliss.
The Postofice Department is about to make
sale of aboutsix thousand daguerreotypes, am-
brotypes, &c, that were sent through the
mail, were nevar called for, and finally got into
the dead letter office
Our national naval contribution to the Paris
Exposition will be the war steamer Franklin,
commanded by Admiral Farragut. The Frank
lin will probably 60 from Boston to New York
and start from there
DR.. Blackburn, who during the war was
charged with attempting to introduce the yell
low fever into the United States has asked
leave to return to the country and to take his
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