Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-12-29
.NEHS OF THE DAY.
~ show ths very age and 6odv Of the Times,

SON and on account Of which several persons
were arrested, developed the fact that tne
poison in drinking water, gathered from the
lead pipes through which It passed, was 10
great extent the cause OF his death.
The facts regarding The refusal of the steam
shin lines from New York to Great Britain to
carry the u. :. mails ct reduced rates ara,
that they have notified the Postmaster General
of such decision Mr. Creswell IL negotlat
inc with other OF the steamship lines Tor the
service, but no conclusion has yet been arrlV-
ed at
While Washington announces World
Exhibition for 1871, its competitor upon the
banks of the Mississippi st. Louis, follows
with 4 similar move. A committee OF St Louis
citizens have determined that such fair in
their city duriug 1871 is not only practicable,
but desirable.
Ga Thursday night Steve Bennett and Tom
Judson, colored, had an alteration at Bells
Station, on the Memphis aud Louisville Rail
| road, during which the former was murdered.
| On Monday night party took ,)udson from
| the custody of the constable, carried HIM to
the woods, and shot him.
A motion was made by Gen. Buffers agent
in the New York Superior Court, yesterday,
| to vacate the order Of arrest against him Tor
! the alleged taking of property belonging to
| Rowena Lawrence, during the war, ON the
ground that the taking was under orders
| of the Il. s., aud that there was no CONVEX
| sion
| A serious riot occurred at bearing, Column
bia county, Georgia, Monday afternoon, IN
| which two men were shot and killed, aud
another wounded. Whiskey was the cause OF
| the affair, and the quarrel was entirely Tree
from politics.
On Friday last, Oliver A. Morgan was hang
cd at Terre ilautc, Indiana. There was the
horrible scene OF a scuifla on the scaffold, and
| the spectacle Of deputy sherifs pulling the
| wretch up and down through the trap.
| The Governor has officially announced the
disestablishment aud disendowment OF the
Church In Jamaic4 One OF the effects will be
that many clcreymen will have To resort to
manual labor Tor 4 livelihood.
Rev. Father Dunn, of ST. Johns Catholic
Church, IN Philadelphia, died yesterday in his
Gl,t year. lie was pastor OF 81. Phillip, DE
Neri Church, Southwark, during the Native
American li0iS ol 1871.
Frederick Cozzens, who was 50 widely
know NJ the author OF the humorous Spar
rowgrass Paper" died in New York last
| week.
A bundle containing G.001 worth Of bonds
stolen fifteen years ago, wl5 left at one III the
police stations in New Y Ork yesterday by a
boy who escaped arrest.
Dispatches from Washington say that L, s.
Senator Pratt, OF Indiana, will soon send in
his resignation. Judge Richardson, Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury, will soon resign,
The Manistca boats report tire a: Mans
tee, Michigan, yesterday. The Tyson House wa
burned. also the block opposite. The losa Is
about 100000.
The thirteen Spanish runboats which lett
| New York a week ago are ut Charleston. and
| last night their officers were entertained by
the municipal authorities OF that city.
THE AVER. OLIVER TRAGEDY. From let
ter in the Richmond Enquirer on this subject
we extract the following:
Now will introduce the accused. Look at
him. You see before you light haired man
| Of fifty two year. OF uec, dressed ina plain suit
Of gray cloth He is rather under the ordinary
heieht-about five feet eight inches high, Is
robust and vigorous, and possesses c1unte
nance that would attract any bcholder. HIS
nose is large and prominent, his eyes large and
piercing and his mouth oil medium size
| His Is one of those faces that plainly tells you
its owner is a iir~t.rate man to have tor TREND,
| but a terrible one to have tor an enemy. tIrm
| ness. decision, and tenaclty OF purpose are III
dicated by his features, and these qualities are
so shaded and soitencd by an expression OF
good humor aud genahty that at hrst sight 1t
makes one like the man,
The lawyers in this case talked good deal
about cooling time, and an argument was
made by the Commonwealth attorney to
show that the period which INTERVIEWED be,
tween the time when the accused first heard OF
his daughters condition and the time when he
killed her seducer was sufficiently long to pre-
| vent the provocation from being effective as Il
legal justification Of the homicide; that the
frenzy OF mind, the monomanIa which one OF
the witnesses said the announcement OF his
daughters dishonor produced in MIR. Aver,
would have cooled down and died out, and
consequently could not serve legal excuse
for his act.
1t may have been so with some persons whose
| mental organization was different from his, but
it is not so with Mr.. Aver. There was no coo
Robertson that the fru of passion AND MD r,vonas
which this deep sense Of shame and dishonoI
had aroused 10 his bosom would have become
hotter and hotter as time moved on. This
was the opinion formed Of him from his APP
/ earance and from conversations with him, and
it was strengthened and confirmed by the state.
ments of gentlemen who had known him long
and intimately, and who We're qualified to
Judge % his character.
This is remarkable ease as we'll as a sad,
sorrowlul one. The seducer was an Engllshman
who had recently come to Virginia, and had
already gained in high degree the conf
dcnce and esteem of the people among
whom he had made his home. Great sympa-
thy is felt for his innoceat ttmd!y. The sven-
ger is also an English by birth, but he has
resided from childhood in our State, and has
| acquired wealth, reputation and affection,
among tho people with whom he has lived, Us
has been clearly exhibited by the presence OF
many of his friends from the counties of Eau,
quier, londoun, Fairfax and Culpeper, 10 ex.
press their sympathy and coincidence for him
in his unhappy situation.
| There eau be no question of his aequittal
upon his final trial Judge Robertson stated
| that there had brcn twenty. nine prosecutions