Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-01-30
NEWS OF The DAY.
TO sho,o the very age and body ofMe Times. ;

Burlington, in Illinois. The case is that of a
young girl, fourteen years of age, named Nina
Rasche. She told her parents she was going
to sleep, and that they must not bury her, as
she should not be dead. Then she apparently
died, but since that time for nineteen days she
has been in this state of trance In her colin
No trace of life can be discovered about her,
but that there is no sign OF decay, only sink
ing away of the cheeks, as there might be IN
any case from so long an abstinence from iood
The case is attracting great attention.
The annual meeting of the Massachusetts,
Anti-Slav Society was held in Boston yes
terday. John T. Sargent presided. Resou-
tions were adopted declaring that the work OF
| the Society was not accomplished until the ne
gro everywhere In the United States has his
rights. Also asking Congress, even at this
| late hour, to impeach President johnson, and
calling upon the churches to show more sympa,,
thy with the cause. The speakers repudlated
| the idea Of combining this movement with that
of woman suffrage.
A Salt Lake dispatch to San Francisco
paper says that Brigham Young has been at
tackled by apoplexy. 1t adds ''He was strick-
| en- down in his private office, and it was some
time before assistance could be rendered him,
| from the fact that the mishap was not known
| to the clerks in the outer room. He was I'M
! mediately conveyed to his residence. He has
| rallied once since the attack, and it Is thought
that be will survive-this being the first OF the
usual series of three attacks the last one prov
ing fatal.
The movement in ST. Mary's and Charles
counties for building the Southern Maryland
Railroad from Point Lookout, or other locality
in that quarter, up through those counties
toward Washington and Baltimore, Is quite
earnest. The State appropriation to those
counties for internal improvements aggregates
$34S, 900, and it is understood that Charles as
we'll as ST. Mary's will apply her wholeShare
of the fund to the work.
The Washington Star says: The average
cost of being elected to Congress nova days
may be set down at about $500. At least
| Don Piatt says he was sitting at table with
! five members OF the House not long ago, when
| the question arose as to how much seat IN
their body cost. Each one responded, and the
prices varied from two to FIVE thousand dollars.
The contest for the skating championship OF
the u. S. and the gold medal, 50 600 added
| to it, took place on Tuesday evening at the
| jersey City Rink Fully three thousand peo-
pie were present. Excellent ice was provided.
| The contest began at $780, and after a long
trial of skill of two hours duration, Frank
| Swift, the pres ent champion, was declared the
victor. -
Four colored men and white man, charged
with the crime of stealing the body ola Colonel
Williams from tomb about seven miles from
Kingston, North Carolina. were taken from the
Jail in that place, where they were held ior
trial, few days ago, and murdered by band
| of thirty or forty citizens OF the place.
| A combination has doubtless been formed
among the outside representatives of the follow
ing roads, viz: the Northern Pacific Southern
Pacific, Kansas Pacific, California Pacific,
Atlantic and Pacific, and international Pacific,
none of whom seem just now practically dis
posed towards the temper of Congress relative
| to their several schemes.
About 100000 is set down as the annual
amount expended in the city of New York for
false hair. Between five and six hundred
! hair merchants distribute the hair purchased
| by this immense amount Of money at both
wholesale and retail establishments through
out the city and its envirous.
Superintendent Johnson publishes card, in
which he says the reported outrages by the
Ku Klux, in taking possession of the train at
Barnett, on the Georgia railroad, on the night
Of January llth, as published ia the Chronicle,
Of Washington, and the Press, Of Philadelphia,
| are fabrications, no such occurrences having
| taken place.
The Baltimore City Councils in convention
on Thursday elected the following gentlemen
as directors on the part Of the city in the Bati-
more and Ohio railroad viz: Charles Webb
Thomas o. Sellers, William A Dean, John +.
Wiley, John Mcfarland, John q. Mcdinger,
and Henry M. Warfeld.
Com. Hugh Y. Purviance was attacked at
his residence, in Baltimore, on Wednesday night
by three desperadoes, knocked down and rob
bed of valuable gold watch and pocket book
containing ten dollars. He is now on the re.
tired list. The physicians say he is dangerous
ly, ii not fatally Injured.
The Savannah Daily Advertiser, of Friday
states that shipment of three hundred tierces
OF Carolina rice has taken place at that port by
steamer for Liverpool, being the first to Europe
of any moment from the South since the war.
Mr. Manton Marble has bought out all other
owners of the New York World newspaper,
anu IL now us SOtc propTtttor' nc pIl0S p'tt'i
for one quarter of the stock was one hundred
thousand dollars, 81 exclusive oil any real estate.
Mr. Van Wrinkle, from the Senate Commit
tee on Pensions, has reported favorably resO-
luton granting pension TO Mrs. Lincoln. The
amount is left blank.
A serious disturbance took place in New Y ok
yesterday between white and colored persons,
during which white man was fatally wounded.
SHOCKING SUIcIDE.-Isaac S. Davis COM
mitted suicide in New York on Thursday, by
shooting himself through the head. He was
married man. but about twelve months ago
had been separated from his wife. Since that
time had been cohabiting with Augusta Clarke.
Davis had been boarding at POI Fast Broad
way, and usually met Augusta at 1875 Crosby
street. At about o'clock in the evening,
while Jeanette Grant and Honora Clarke
we're in the room, Augusta demanded some