Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-12-23
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one of the most tormy political meeting, ever
he'd in Tennessee. Nearly two thousand oe
groes were present, and the Convention, after
adiourning from the Court. house to the Capt.
tol, broke up without making nomination for
Attorney General. III II. Harrison was ncm-
mated Tor Chancellor, John II. Smith for
Criminal lourt Judge, land E. Cory for Clrcnlt
Court Judge While Cory was speaking, he
was knocked down by judge NJ. NJ. Brien an
opposing candidate in the Convention and pres
ent Circuit Judge Both were arrested Cor
ry is Northern man.
Joseph and Josephine Brown were brought
to Albany from Hartford yesterday, on re-
QUESTION from Gov. Fenton The man is
charged with having murdered child and hr-
ing house in Canaan, Columbia, county, N.
7. ;, the motive being to secure $4,000 lnsur,
ance, which he had in a life policy on the child.
The woman accuses Brown of the crime, and
says he had also affected an insurance OF So
600 on her life, and she believes he intended
to destroy her.
A fire occurred in the Cumberland county,
Pa, poorhouse on Saturday night about seven
o'clock, which destroyed a portion of the
building in which the insane aud colored PEG,
pie were housed. Three persons-a white
man, Il white woman and a negro-were burn
ed to death The white man, who was insane,
was chained to the floor.
The M L. and n l. Railroad Company's
grain eleVa OF, in Toledo Mich, was destroyed by
fire on Saturday night. About eight thousand
bushels Of grain, mostly wheat was consumed,
with the loss of $500, 900, on which there IS an
insurance of $2OS, 900, nearly all in New Eng
land companies.
A despatch to the Northern press states that
J. H. Sullivan, from Louisiana, is understood
to be preparing for an argument IN test case
to be heard in the Supreme Court, which Will
involve all the issues raised by reason OF the
military orders issued in the South since 1861.
Gen. A. H. Glatz, Cap. NJ. Frey and j. S.
Heitland, of York county, Pa, recently re-
turned from hunting expedition in Virginia,
with two hundred and fitty-seven cartridges
and ten pheasants the proceeds of two and a
half days shoe ing.
The tu1er.l of the victims Of the recent
dreadful railroad accident on the Lade Shore
rad, near Angola, took place at Buffalo, N. T.,
yesterday. The charred remains of the unior
tunate dead were placed in nineteen boxes. -
An immense crowd attended the funeral.
A new organization Of the Attorney Gener-
ais office is generally approved, the object be-
inc, as far as p articahle to bring solicitors and
all law officers in the various departments
under the general control of the Attorney Gen
eral.
-Four large tlistilleries were seized on Sa:ur-
day, in Philadelphia, by Collector John Miller,
acting under orders Of the Revenue Board, on
the charge OF derauding the Government by
making false rc'urns.
The funeral of Admiral Palmer, whose re-
mains had been brought to the u. S. in the
60 ernmcot steamer Susquehanoa took place
on Saturday from the commandments house,
Br Ok lyn navy yard and was largely attended.
Fraocis Warrington, alias Hattie Howard,
who killed herse f in New York, confessed to
having a so given poison to her fa'hless lover,
Augustus Strauss, who survived. y
Five thousand head Of Texan CATTLE it is
stated, will lie brought to and slaughtered at
Cairo, ILL.,, during this winter. They will be
shipped east for market.
Dickens closed his readings in New York On
Friday evening last after brilliant SUCCESS OF
two weeks.
Two hundred der have been shipped East
from Toledo, Ohio, during the past week.
Lesunii, the new Captain General of Cur a,
has arrived at Havana
The father OF Horace Greeley, died at Fort
Wayne Pa, on the 18th instant.
SERIOUS CHARGES. In our court proceed
inss yesterday the fact was announced that
Aholiab Sawy r, witness in the case against
Henry johnson, charged with the murder Of
Thomas Smoo', had been surrendered by her
surety, and Committed to Jail as witness in the
case. In connection with this circumstance
statements have been made which reflect ser
ousy upon the official conduct of Mr.. Huestis
the warden Of the JAIL 1t is said that MIR. II.
B. Brown, Mr. Huestis' predt cassor as warden
has been before the grand jury, and there
presented Mr. H. on charge of maIfeasance
in office, 10 that he has concerted with ) ohm
son to induce the Witnesses against him to leave
tie city Mrs. Aholiab Sawyer, one of the
principal t"eses, and in whose house
the homicide occurred, states 10 Mr.. Brown
that she bad received considerable sum OF
money from NJ. Hues is to induce her to leave
the District Another 0! MIR. Browns charges
before the grand jury is, that Hues:is, acting
as the agent for johnson, has offered to divide
two farms, owned ny the laCCer IN virginia,
among the witnesses, provided they will also
make it convenient to be absent when the case
is called Tor trial. Another statement with
regard TO the above, and which charge also
comes from Mr. Brown, IS that johnson has
given to Mr. Huestis the title deeds to some
valuable real estate upon consideration that he
will get the witnesses out Of the way 50 that
they will not be forthcoming when the case is
called for trial. = Vashmg ton ErpresS.
WASHINGTON ITEMS. The case of Mr.
Snitbson VS.. Stanton, for false imprisonment
during the war, is now before the District
Court
The recent discharge Of about eighty meehan
les from Government employ at the Navy
Yard, and the fear that retrenchment orders
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