Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-01-29
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

nalm for sleighing matches: On Wednesday,
i6th, race of furty-two miles was contested
m the road. between Charles Branch's mare,
RIack Maria, and Wu. Annis' sorrel horse,
Canada Joe, for a purse of $1,000. The dis
tsnce was traversed in the remarkable time OF
three hours and twenty-five minutes, Black
Maria winning the race. Such contests are a
severe and cruel test upon the enduring quail
ties OF horse. : .1.-
! dispatch from Chicago says: Ristorl
states that her receipts at her performance
Tuesday eveuing at the opera-house, were
the largest since her debut on the stage,
amounting to 81, 500 Moscow ranks secood,
and BROOKLYN third. OF the $4,000 her per-
s5nal share is $4,000 Her own personal re-
ceipts since her arrival in this country, IN Sep
tcmbcr last have been $780, 600
An official letter from Florida says the In
dams in the everglades Of that State are deter
u.inel to keep the neg,oes III their tribes as
saves. DENYING that the white men 5 laws are
apolicat,e to them on the subject of slavery.
The negroes have claimed their liberty, and
have appealed to the military Tor assistance.
Tn the Cri,nina! Court in Boston, Henry
Waite. charged for the third time with selling
aduiterated milk pleaded guilty, and Judge
Russell sentenced bin to the House OF Correc-
iou for the term Of sixty days. Subsequently
the sentence was revised, and the nilkman was
left off on paying fine Of $50 and costs.
4 bill has been presented in The Legislature
OF New York to secure to the poor needle
wopen and other working women in that State,
and especially in the city of New York, the
wages that they earn, and that are too fire.
quently withheld, it Is said, by unscrupulous
and avarlclOus employers.
From certain extracts from Canada papers
thar We now sec passing around, VIC Judge
that there is to be new effort to puff up the
Nana.iian gold mines, and to delude credulous
people to go there gold huutiog.
The trial of thirty ladies' at Greenfield, Ohio,
for robbing liquor dealer, was concluded on
Thursday, the jury returning verdict OF So
Tor the plaintiff.
The steamer City of New Y ork sailed yester
day for Liverpool, taking out $4,000, the
Vile de Paris s370, 1000, and the Bremen
sl70,000.
The St. Augustine (Florida) Examiner,
speaking of the great crop Of oranges, says that
sixty thousand will be picked from one grove.
ABOUT BANKs.-A bank has fducial
character 1t has no right to risk its funds
wantonly and unnecessarily to accommodate
anv of its customers It's capital is not the
property ofits President nor it's cashier, nor
of any of its officers They simply act as the
agents and trustees of the stockholders and
depositors, and are bound to be even more
careful of the funds entrusted to their keeping
that If they were their own exclusive property.
1t is gross breach OF trust Tor any officer OF a
| bank to certify the check OF any party who has
not sufficient securities to cover the amount
within the reach and control OF the Institution.
Least of all should they certify large overdrafts
by stock brokers, who stand much in the same
position as gamblers and whose large fortunes
Of to-day may be broken down and swept away
tomorrow by some sudden change in the
market. An unexpected rise or fall in fancy
stock, to any material amount will often turn
the millionaire of one moment into the pauper
of the next and the very fact of a stock broker
needing to make heavy overdrat on his
banking account implies that be is plungiog
into a speculation which chance may make
remunerative or ruinous. The reckless manner
10 which many of our banking institutions con-
duct their business is notorious, and this IS
especially the case with banks connected with
the stock jobbers and spectators of Broad
street The stockholders and oepositors is
such institutions are entitled to some protec-
ton, and if it is not to be found in the pru-
dence. integrity and frmness of those who act
in the capacity Of presidents and cashiers, it
should be secured by some stringent legislation.
The officer who certi6es an overdraft in any
banking institution should be held responsible
in his Individual property tor any loss that may
ensue from his act.-N. I. Herald.