Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-01-14
NEWS or THE d. I.
$50 shoe the vc1y oge and Jody Of the tiinc$

The jury in the case Of john O. Harris VS..
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, have rendered
q verdict for the plaintiff, and assessed his
damages at S. $50 The action was to recover
damages for injuries sustained BY collision or
the road, and which the plaintiff claimed was
caused By NEGLIGENCE. Or 4 former trial the
Jury had rendered a verdict Of 500, coo DANA
ses.
The Queen Of skaters in the word Is said to
be s. ISIS Z. A. Moore, the "Ska'ing Queen,
as she is chilled! Her home is philalelp hia
Her appearance at the Park each afternoon
makes her the "ohserved of ell observers. J"
Tn skating circles the performance ard appear
aucc OF Miss Moore form the topic If genera
conversation.
DR. Archdeacon, at Fonau meeting in
New York, said that he had OILY lately arrived
from ireland, and he assured them thai gigan-
tie as were the frauds praciiccd here, they
were nothing to what had deem done in Ireland
He believed the whole Of the tcnian leaders
there to be traitors 10 the cause and in the pay
of the British government.
Mr.. Bedford Brown, who is chai!men Of the
North Carolina delegation now vim Washington,
was in the United States Senate from 1929 to
1910. Ofthose with him in that body, during
his first year of service, but one Is }iving Judge
Sprague, of Massachusetts,, who at that time
was Senator from Maine.
A railroad from Hagerstown, Nd, to Mar
tinsburg, Va, is projected and will soon be I'm.
der way. It is to be al extension of the Cum
belrandV alleyRoad running now from Harrison
burg, Pa. down to Hagerstown. The distance
is only nineteen miles and the route entirely
practicable.
A Charleston, s. c., letter says - Many
of the sons of families formerly wealthy, and
still proud, fill The places Of conductors on the
cars, and seem rejoiced to obtain paying &C.
cupation. The city police force, too, is filed
up with young men of respectable connections.
"Johnuy Steele, the young oil prince Of
Vcnango," succeeded in 1854 to $4,000 in
ready money, aud daily idcomc Of $1,000
To-day he is almost pcnniless He has lost a
dozen fortunes at faro, and the rest went into
the pockets Of friendly vampires.
Young America must hereafter be content to
celebrate Christmas and Independence Day
without the usual fusiladc Of Chinese crackers
The tariff bill introduced into the Senate by
Mr. IessendCn, contains clause forhlddinS the
importation of fire. crackers.
Work on the Southwest Pacific railroad
which has now become link in the Atlantic
and Pacific road, is being vigorously pushed
forward, and will in few days be completed to
the Gasconaic river, one huaared and twenty
five miles from St. Louis.
\ succession of heavy northoasters are re
ported, BY vessels, as prevailing around Hat
tcras during the past two weeks. All reports
concur in their severity and the delay occasoa
ed to uorthward bound sailing c1aft.
Major Gamble, United States army, second
in command Of the troops detained or the
Is,hmus Of Nicaragua: died o! the cholcra-as
it is supposed. His effects were brought home
On the steamer San Francisco.
The Supreme Court Ct The District OF Co.
lumiia has Crcrru!ad the demurrer in the case
u Conover, indicted for perjury before the
Judiciary Committee Of the House Of Repre-
sentatives.
The Charleston rapers say that the com
merce Of that place shows signs Of gradual and
sure advancement to prosperous future.
The steamships City Of Baltimore, Pericre
and Hansa, left n Y. yesterday, for Europe,
taking 1852, 600 inEspccic.
Fix Confederate General Sterling Price, &C
companied by his familg;Y arrived at St. Louis
| Oh Friday last.