Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-10-15
NEWS OF THE DAY 2.
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On Sunday, iu a church in Canton, Ohio,
Ferdinand Hoffman, recently discharged from
the penitentiary, approached u young woman,
who was some time since divorced from him,
and demanded kiss, and while she was in the
act of complying, he drew a, large butcher knife
and plunged it into her person several times.
inficting fatalwoulds. Hetben fed, pursued
by an excited crowd, and upon being arrested
was with great difficulty, saved from summary
execution by the lenraged populace. 81,
The St. Louis Dispatch learns that aprllca-
ton will be made to the u. S, Supreme Court
for nlandamus to compel the Treasurer OF
Missouri to pay the. interest due on certain
State bonds out of money now in the treasury.
In the U. S. Court judgment by default was
rendered in favor of W. S. Alley, of New York,
against the city of Hannibal, Missouri, Tor one
hundred and eighty thousand dollars, for bonds
issued by Hannibal in behalf Of the Pike Coun-
ty (Illinois) railroad t 80.
The q. S. Marshal has made another raid
upon the illegal distilelies near Philadelphia,
and captured sixteen stills The D. S. SOL
diers present with the Marshal, overawed those
who we're disposed to make disturbance, and
prevented riot H1j tI..i.
Gen. Sickles' court OF inquiry will not be
granted. tits argued that be has already had
his hearing in the mode selected by himself-by
the publication of his correspondence with
General Grant, and his own expose offacts
as he understood them.
Dr.. Silliman Ives died in New York on Sun
day He was at the head of the Catholic Pro-
tectory Orphan Asylum at Westchcster, New
York lie was formerly Episcopal Bishop OF
North Carolina.
A break in the levee on the Mississippi,
three days ago, eighteen miles above New Or.
leans, is doing great damage, and some fear is
expressed that the country viii! be nundatc |
for miles around
Some conscience stricken individual has sent
from Urbana, Ohio to the Treasury Depart
ment notes and bonds to the amount OF nineteen
thousand five hundred dollars, without any ex-
PLANTATION whatsoever
The Judiciary Committee of the House OF
Representatives yesterday began its investIga-
ton concerning Maryland S form OF government.
Francis Thomas is chairman Of the sub. com
mittee. e.. So s. .....
The yellow fever is abatlng in New Orleans.
The number of fever interments to six o'clock
on Sunday morning was thlrty-two, and yester-
day thirty-three. The weather is cool.
A Castine, Maine, fishing vessel was wrecked
on the coast of New Brunswick on Monday
last. The captain and crew, seventeen in num-
Der, were drowned. 1885.
The newspapers report secession in the
family of Senator Sumner, on some of the
grounds taken by the South 10 its late conflict
with the North. ..G:
Returns to Gen. Mower headquarters show
that State convention is called by more than
10000 majority in Louisiana The returns are
nearly in.
Mutilated National bank notes must be pre-
sened for redemption to the bank of issue, and
by the bank to the Treasury Department.
The fever is severe at Victoria, In Texas
Major Lathrop, commanding the post, died on
the 9th instant, with eleven others.
John 3. Cough is fifty years old and twenty
five years sober; he delivered Fact and Fic
ton" in Philadelphia last week.
The Pacific railway directors, it is reported,
have resolved to use petroleum as Il fuel for
their locomotives.
The Italian Opera in New York is most
successful this season. :,
It is said 4. IT, Stewart intend; founding a
great public library, in New York.
The Grand Jury in New Orleans is composed
Of half blacks and half whites.