Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-08-19
4NEWS OFssQ:HE DAY.
"golsAowstbe reryoge and body oftAe Times"

ri river, and placed under command OF zen.
Harvey. Tie Cheyennes, Arapahoes, hloWas
and Comanches are given q reservation lying
between Kansas, Texas, Arkansas ana the
lOOth meridian, and are assigned to the COM
mapd of General Hazen. Gen. Getty takes
charge ofthe Nayajoes, Maj. Lamotte OF the
Crows, Gen. Augur of the Shoshones and
| Snakes. The duties Of these officers will con-
sist chiefly in aiding the Indians to reach their
| reservations. and to obtain payment OF their
annuities. 1t is hoped that this system may
ultimately develop into an efficient military
government over the tribes. 49,. l.s..sG Il e..
r Washington dispatches state that MIR. Rol-
| Inns, the Commissioned Of Internal Revenue,
would have had,an interviewwith Secretary OF
the Treasury to-day,wbe definite action would
be taken on the appointment Of Supervisors OF
the Revenue now pending A number OF store
keepers and about eighty guagers have been
appointed under the new Tax law. At the
Cabinet meeting held yesterday the instruction
to the new Ministers to Austria and Mexico
were agreed upon The President announced
that he would leave Washington on Thursday
for an absence of two or three weeks. lie
will probably visit Tennessee Z: e. 2l."
The New York Evening Post, in speaking
of the recent fall in New York Central Rail
road stock, says: ''The fact that the wife of
Commodore Vanderbilt died last night was
made use of to depress the stock. " It seems
that nothing is sacred from the gamblers OF
Stock Exchange. A mans domestic bereave-
ments are looked at only as they put prices up
or down. ...,.-.........., .aall-- III
Some Philadelphia roughs yesterday beat,
stabbed and bit the nose off a policeman who
was attempting to rescue a German upon
whom they had made an assault. A second
policeman, who went to the assistance OF the
first, had head his broken; and a third who drew
pistol, had it wrenched from him. The party
then escaped The officer stabbed will proba-
bly, die. o. az, ,e. ."
The Toronto Globe processes to have positive
information that extensive preparations are
being made on the other side for Fenian
raid. It also states that furloughs have been
withdrawn from the regular officers, and the
forces 10 the garrison have been ordered to hold
themselves in readiness at a moments notice.
An insane man nsmed McGlauchlin, living
near Romney, West Virginia, murdered
neighbor OF his, Mr. Presley N. Rector seven
ty years old, on Friday last, and afterwards at
tempted to kill his sister, but did not succeed.
He was finally arrested and confined IN jail Tor
safe keeping. IL a, ....:-
A private letter from California mentions
remarkable horseback race against time at the
Bay View Course, near San Francisco: The
rider made 300 miles in twenty hours and won
his bet. He had thirty horses for relays, and
got through without killing any ofthem.
Returns from all but FIVE small counties in
Kentucky, for Governor, show the result to
be: For Stevenson, democrat, Ill ,45l, and for
Baker, republican, %, 500: democratic maiorl-
ty 1925. G4IA, Il |C">
Mrs August Belmont drives lovely pair Of
cream colored ponies, in low basket phaeton;
value of ponies, $4,000 Her husbands four.
finland light bays, Is hands high, is said to be
the finest team at Newport. .. ..ss :....
The cattle disease has found its way to
Massachusetts, and is creating great e1ctemant
among the farmers and the butchers. ,t.-sg
i Nova Scotia holds out in her determination
not to be included in the Federal ion Of Prov
Sinces. uaz-...j 49,, ! .l>.4 1s,g
Nothing has yet been done in relation to the
appointment of Collector ofCustomS either
tor Alaska or New Orleans, & IL g.
SUICIDES. In New York, Yesterday, a
German named Louis Fuuck, residing on the
second floor Of the premises, No. 232, Avenue
B, committed suicide by blowing his, brains out.
with loaded revolver. Deceased was 40 years
of age, and had been drinking rather freely for
some time past. Yesterday morning while his
wife and three children were in the room, he
was observed by little fellow OF 7 years to
take revolver from the mantel piece, and,
opening his mouth, placed the muzzle OF the
pistol between his teeth The child screamed,
but was too late to render any assistance, as the
unfortunate man pulled the trigger, the ball
and powder blowing off the root Of his head,
and be fell lifelesS corpse on the floor. Ills
wife rushed to the Frustrated form, but lille
was extinct.
Between tour and five o'clock yesterday morn-
ing German named Henry Oentricb, who Tor
the past eight or ten years has been keeping
restaurant on Eleventh street, in Washington,
near the avenue, committed suicide by shoot
Ing himself through the head. His friends
noticing the house closed, effected an en-
trance, and by forcing the door of his room
found the body on the bed dead, with
the pillows and upper portion of the bed all
covered with blood. He was lying on his back,
in his right hand he held q Colts revolver, all
the barrels of which were loaded but one
His torefnger still remained On the trigger,
and the end of the barrel was clenched firmly
10 the left hand. He had evidently placed the
muzze of the pistol in his mouth and discharg-
ed the contents into his brain, as the ball came
o,,t +br,,rb tho ton IF the head On his hill
rsau were found three letters, addressed to
friends, giving directions as to the disposition
Of his property.
THE PARAGUAYAN WAR.-The Allies are
manifestly heartily tired of the Paraguayan
war. The Argentines have shaken themselves
clear of it, and the Ruenos Ayrean Minister,
at tie last Meeting of the Legislature of the