Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-03-01
NEW.S OF TIE DAY.
10 shoro the uery age and body Of the Times. ="


Another engagement between the u. s. re
gulars and the Indians took place between the
18th and Goth of January, at point ten days
travel west Of the Wichita Mountains. Our
troops were successful, and totally destroyed
an Indian village, besides killing eieh savageSs
Colonel Evans command gave the Indians q
thrashing" on Christmas Day. The newseomes
through Indian carriers, but zen. Oherldan
considers 1t perfectly reliable
DC Robinson, of the fir,n Of Wood & Robin
son, brokers, N. York, is reported By his partner
to have absconded with $4,000 in five twenty
bonds of 1867, three certified checks OF $1,000
each, and three hundred shares Of various
kinds of stock, valued at $40, 900. Mr. Wood
offers reward of $4,000 for his arrest and the
recovery of the securities.
Gov. Randolph has sent message to the
Legislature Of New Jersey, recommending the
abolition of the transit duties upon passengers
and freight passing through that State, and
| the assessment of tax equal to the amount
| now received by the State from transit duties,
upon the Railroad and Canal Companies OF
| New Jersey.
Reports from plantations in Middle and
Southwestern Georgia represent that extraor-
binary activity is prevailing. Every hand is
| EMPLOYED and paid liberal wages. Every acre
will be planted which can be properly tended
| A Macon paper says that ten thousand more
hands could obtain employment in the black
belt Of Georgia.
Mrs. Blackwell, an Old widow lady about
sixty years of age, living in Caswel county,
n. C., was murdered week ago in her own
house. 1t seems that the house was entered
in the Light by several negro men, who COM
mitted the foul deed, it is supposed, tor twenty
dollars which it was thought the old lady had
in her possession.
Its learned from official sources that in the
next House of Representatives there will be
some twenty two or twenty -three contested
election cases, which, under the practice which
! prevails of paying both the successful and I'M
successful parties, will cost the government
| from seventy tC hundred thousand dollars.
By fire 10 New York yesterday w. II.
Amcs & Co., paper Dealers lost $4,000 (;
Baldwin & Rose, leather merchants, lost $40,
| 900: G. w. Baker, manufacturer OF enve-
lopes, lost SO 200. The building was owned
| by the OCOnnor estate. 1t was damaged to
the amount of $4,000. Fully Insured
The President OF the Erie Railway Company
announces that on and after today the Erie
Railway Company will run the Express trains
over the entire line of their railways, as the
United States Express will stop running on
| tnat date over the various roads and branches
owned by the Company.
The reports from Cuba 10 regard TO the In
surrectiou are too conflicting and mcagre to
ford any reliable information Of the real posi-
ton of affairs A Havana dispatch gives the
lumor that an expedition from the u. S. in
| aid of the insurgents has landed on the island.
| The Southern papers state that Dr. Sears,
the agent of the Peabody fund, is now limited
to sixty thousand dollars per annum in his dis
tributious to eleven States, the tine in which
the trustees were allowed to use the principal
having expired.
Bangor, Me-, is the fourth in rank Of the
cities of the Union engaged in tie lumber
business. Chicago is the first, Albany the sec.
on1, and Burlington, W.. the third. Bangor
sells more lumber than Burlington, but OF a
poorer quality,
A dispatch announces the ratification Of the
new Constitutional Amendment by the Legis-
lature Of Kansas. la the House there were
but seven votes in the negative to sixty four
in the affirmative. La the Senate the vote for
| the amendment was unanimous
| A velocipedist 10 New Haven, while crossing a
street, ran into horse and knocked him down.
The horse was so Injured by the fall that the
owner was obliged to Kill him, and he now
holds the velocipede rider responsible to the
extent OF $500
A gentleman 10 St Louis, day or two
since, lost $4,000, for the recovery Of which
he offered reward of $500 On the subse,
ouent day he received through the pOstofice
the sum he had lost, minus the reward. No
name or note accompanied the enclosure.
Professor Wilcox was on Saturday before a
sub committee of the House committee On
Territories on behalf OF the Universal Fran
chise Ass, citation, to urge the passage OF Mr.
Julian's bill for the en!rauchlsement ct the
women of the Territories.
The California overland mails and about two
| hundred passengers are still showed up IN the
| Black Hills They manage to get enough to
eat, but suffer greatly from the cold. There IS
! an accumulation OF over two weeks mail at
| that point.
| Wells and Rounds, tso Of the schooner
Brave uuIderers, have proiessed religion aud
confessed that all tour were ready participants
| in the awful murder. The two others still de-
muir They are TO be executed On the 9Th Of
March.
Albert CLARK, workman in Butler 4 Per-
| RIGGS planning nil, in Baltimore, was CAUGHT
in belt of the machinery on Saturday. His
left arm was Torn from It's socket and his hight
arm was dislocated He died 10 few hours
The Park Savings Bank, Of Brooklyn, was
rooted on Saturday Of small tin box con-
tanning $40 900 in city bonds, and 5000 IN
money. No arrests.
The rumors OF the dangerous illness of Mir.
| +. NJ. Stanton are exaggerated. He is suffer
ing under bronchitis, but is otherwise in good
| health.
| The Senate Postofice Committee have de
cided to report in favor of the establishment
of postal telegraph system
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