Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-11-05
NEWS OFqHE DAY.
$40 sa0sO the very age and body Qfthe Times -

all arrearageS or salary must. be pald before
they would furnish any music. Ihey got
their money. On learning the successful striSe.
the bill poster made similar RAID, CLOSELY 10:
lowed by the members OF the company inls
was too much for the treasurer. lie picked
m his box and fed. The result was swindled
audience, and prodigious howl otindlgnation
Last Thursday boy named Pike, nine years
old, got his arm caught in cane mill, IN op-
GRAFTON on his fathers farm, near Campbells-
vile, Kentucky. His mother few to his assis-
lance, and, having stopped the horse, was en-
deayoring to extricats him, when the horse
again began pulling, and Mrs. Plies arm was
also caught In the machine. Both mother
and son received such injuries that the boy
arm was amputated between the elbow and the
shoulder, and the mothers q little above the
wrist.
1t comes out in connection with the inaugu-
ration of DR.. McCosh as President OF Prince
ton College, that as soon as 1t was known
that DR.. McCosh would accept the position, the
friends of the institution bestlrred themselves
to raise fund which should secure him
sufficient and permanent salary. The movement
resulted in subscription amounting to sou
900. and the interest of this is entirely devoted
to the object named.
On Thursday last Mr.. Daniel Bedel, of New
Bridge, Long Island, while trolling for blue
fish, off Jones inlet. had his boat capsized and
completely wrecked by whale. The monster
rose up under the stern OF the boat, which 1t
completely tore off, the mast falling back and
staving hole through the bottom, and render
ing the little vessel entirely useless. Mr. Bedell
was saved from drowning, with much dlttcuty,
by some other boats near by.
A New York correspondent of the Philadel-
phia Ledger says An evening paper oracular-
" announces that now that the election is over,
it can do no harm to announce that A. L.
Stewart, the dry goods merchant, is to be
either Secretary of the Treasury in President
Grants Cabinet, or Collector OF the Port
This is not the first time that story has been
told but Mr.. s. himself says he knows moth
ing about it,
An engine attached to westward bound
freight train on the Central Ohio division OF
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, exploded
near Claypool Station on Tuesday, instantly
killing Robert Brown. the engineer, ADD fatal
" injuring John Hurley, fireman, and a
brakeman named Gardiner.
Savannah dispatches say that one Of the
policemen shot on Tuesday is dead and another
dying All the blame of the disturbance is at
tTibuted to the colored people, who are repre-
seuted as organizing tor an attack upon the
city.
Gen. Grant received the election returns at
his own residence in Galena, and not at the
residence of Mr.. Washburne, as in October.
A telegraph wire from the main office was run
l. Il. I - anH fho
in rapidly.
Stock growers in Texas are much troubled
By thieves, who kill their cattle and steal the
hides. They have, therefore, determined to
shoot every one found thus employed; pecu-
liar method of preventing depredations.
1t now takes $40, 900 initiation fee to enter
the regular board of the New York stock ex-
change. A resolution to this effect was adopt
ed on Friday, at a meeting OF the board. The
fee was heretofore $4,000 -4
Ex-Governor j. Madison Wells, Of Louisi-
ana, who was removed by order of General
Sheridan, has brought suit for the recovery of
the salary accruing during the term for which
he was chosen.
Brevet Brigadier General Wallace, by Sc
niority of rank, succeeds to the command OF the
Departm ent of Washington, made vacant by
the assignment of Gen. Candy to the command
of Texas,
Eighteen inches of snow now covers the
summit of Mount Washington. A number
of the workmen near the terminus of the
mountain railroad had their ears frost-bitten
few days ago.
As fruit disillers are exempted from the
$500 government tax, it is wondered whether
they will find out and recognize this fact when
they come into market this year with apple
brandy.
A horrible murder occurred Tuesday night
in Thompson street, New York. Maggie Muir
ray, white woman, cut the throat Of Upton
Murray, a negro man, with whom she had been
living.
Lucy Stone and Mira Blackwell, her mother
in-laW, offered their votes in the eleventh
ward. Newark, New Jersey, on Tuesday, but
the judges refused to receive them.
The New York Post says, that on the ground
of fraudulent votes" Hoffman's election as
Governor of New York, will be contested
The imports of sugar into the country dur
ing the present year have been considerably IN
excess of those OF 1867.
VARIETIES OF SUMAC TRADE, &c.-The
trade in this article in this section Of Virginia
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