Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-08-19
NEWS OF The DAI.
$40 ,ho,o tn, rc,y age and body the Tine

DIO9uWdS, ANch ioIh, was VII A"'
robbed OF tin cash box containing Si2''oo
in bonds, cash, and checks On Monday morn
ing the cash box containing the unnegotiap'1
bonds was found on 4 sto0p IN twenty -'hiu
street, whence policeman took 1t to the STA
ton house. The president OF tue COMPANY
having been called IN, identified the VaiiaDles
as his property, but SAID there was some s9'oOo
missing, These consisted OF u. ,. Donds' cur
repcy and gold coin, with which the thieves
had made OIL
The miners strike Is now spreading through
out the entire coal regions OF Pennsy lVania. -
At HaZleton it has assumed serious aspect.
The strikers are laborers who are employed by
the miners to assist them III loading and re
moving the coal after it has been blasted. -
They have stopped tho pumps IN nearly, IL
not quite all. the mines The Sheriff has
gone from Wiikesbarre with engineers to run
the engines in the mines. aud few others as
assistants.
Gen. John A. DIX, late Minister to France
was arrested In New York on Tuesday At the
instance OF John Mitchell. "the Irish Patriot,
who charges him with illegal imprisonment. -
Mitchell, it will be remembered, was arrested
IN that city aud imnrisoned at Fortress Monroe
BIZ Gen. Dix in the summer Of 500, and upon
this fact he brings suit for $25.0 900 damages
Gen. Dix gave security in the amount OF So
600 to answer the charge
A man named Bowen, former employee OF
the Erie Railroad, has made confession IN
which he declares himself the author OF the
terrible disaster at Cars Rock, in April, 1865,
whereby twenty or thirty persons lost their lives
He says he displaced rail- thereby causing
the accident.
In the National Labor Convention at phiIa-
delephia yesterday a lengthy address was de-
lvered By Isaac Myers, one Of the colored del
ecates from Baltimore, during which he en-
dorsed President Grants Administration, and
denounced population and new political par
ties
Captain James e. Dobbin, son of the late
Hon Jas c. Dobbin who was Secretary OF
the Navy under President Pierce, was killed at
Fayetteville, n c., on the 18th inst, by falling
from window Of his residence. He was thr.
ty years of age, and young man OF marked
ability.
An active interest is being manifested III dill
terent portions of Maryland in regard to the
education Of its colored population. Meetings
have been held and others ara contemplated
on the subject,
A Baltimore correspondent writes from New
York that he fluids that city a dangerous place
TOR strangers, in Consequence OF the Peter
Funks, those designing spiders who entice un-
suspccting flies from The pavement into their
parors.
The schooner Mary Jane, from San Domin-
go for Boston, was picked up at sea on the 10Th
instant. and towed into New York. The cap
tain and two Of the crew Ia died, and the
remainder of the crew were ia dying condi-
ton.
The Japanese coloaists i'll FL Dorado county,
California, are Furnishing fam ously. Herr
Schnell, the leader Of the colony, purpose re-
turning to Japan soon to bring out more emf
grants and a fresh stock of mulberry plants.
Another capitalist has invested in Long L.
land lands to the extent Of 1000 acres, which
he proposes to put under immediate eutlva-
ton He will also erect Il town for labcrlng
men on his tract.
4 resolution va, discussed by The National
Labor Convention at Philadelphia yesterday,
proposing to prevent any act Of any legislative
body from becoming law until it has been SUBJ
mitted to aud approved by tho people.
4 conspiracy among disaffected former EN-
plcyces to burn all the bridges on the Central
Pacific Railroad east of the Sierra Nevada
Mountains, has been discovered, aud measures
have been taken to prevent it.
4. Mrs. George Wilson alas l.ousia Davis,
wcu, to iai in default Of bal at st, Louis
yesterday, charged with stealing eight thou
sand dollars worth OF diamonds from lewelry
store.
President q rant aud party yesterday visited
the Schylkill coal regions. lie made bret
address, and underwear, a continuous hand
shaking with the miners until the tram started.
The reunion gathering at Gettysburg next
week promises 10 draw thither large number
OF distinguished citizens Including many Of
the surviving heroes OF that bloody battle field.
Quite controversy is waging among those
medical men Of Paris who believe that tuber
Giles are infectious, and those who believe the
contrary.
The National Labor Convention, now in SEES
sion in Philadelphia refused to admit Miss An
thony az delegate.
Late accounts from Iayti represent Salnave
still before Aux Cages, which expected to sur
render at any moment.
The quantities Of peaches that como to the
Philadelphia market seem without limit.
CUMBERLAND vs.. ANTHRACITE COAL.-Tho
Newark IN. J.) Advertiser notices the circular
issued by the different agencies of the Cumber-
aud coal companies, which are now delivering
coal at Baltimore, placing it in vessels at 81.
O. per ton For two and half years they have
not varied from these prices to a greater ex
tent than fifty cts. ton, while during the same
period the price OF anthracite has fuctuated
nearly one hundred per ct. There have been
no strikes at the mines, no advance in wages
nor any disturbance to the industry of the
Cumberland coal region. The business has
been conducted with entire regularity and with.
out any complaint from consumers, upon an
Increased demand and production Of about 60
per ct. above last year. This healthy condition
of business has enabled them TO keep their coal
in market at the prices named at the shipping
ports. The Cumberland coal is adapted both
to cooking uses and to steam generation. It's
used exclusively BY the Cunard steamers and
by the Baltimore and Bremen steamers. If it