Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-11-12
NEVIS or THE DAY.
We .ho,o the very age and body Of THE 7'n'e'' "

About week since Mr.. and Mrs. George
Hanson arrived ct Marshalltown, Iowa. va
The evening of the 9Th Hanson commenced
abusing his wife in most dlsgraoefui manner.
He at last seized and struck her seVeral blows,
wEercupon she drew revolver and discouraged
six barrels at him, three. Of which took ettsot,
laying him dead at her feet. Hanson was a
gambler, and formerly kept gambling saloon
at Duluth, Minnesota. He was desperate
of the most cruel kind.
Thomas a.. PEBBLES, Senator elect from
Maury county. Tenn, on Thursday, was shot
and killed near Spring Hill, by l.. A. Pointer.
The difficulty was OF personal character
Pointer acted 10 sef:detence. 1t is reported
that on Wednesday night party. of masked
raiders took black man from his house at
Normandy Station, on the Nashville and Chat
tanooga Railroad, and shot him.
At Wheeling. yesterday, the trial Of Miss
Matte Batham for the murder OF w. y. NC
Nash was concluded. The verdict OF the jury was
mot guilty" About year ago Miss Batham,
who had been seduced by McNash, went to
his boarding house and demanded fulilment
of his promise to marry her. Upon bis retns
ing to do so she drew pistol and shot him
dead.
A panic recently prevailed on the coast OF
Connecticut, near Stonlngton and Mystic, IN
reference to an immense tidal wave, which 1t
was predicted would oyerwhelm the inhabitants
on November 9th. Many persons retired miles
back into the country, whore they renamed
until after the appointed time, when the prom
ised disaster failing TO come to time, they re-
turned. .,...
The Rev. VIM. f. Muusey, whose eloquencc
is 81 famous, has accepted call to the paste
rate of the Central Methodist II episcopal Church
South, 90 Lexington street IN Baltimore. His
congregations are the largest IN the city and
to hear him morning or evening, you must be
Oh hand at least an hour before the time at
which services are to commence.
On Thursday train of passengers cars on
the Greenville and Columbia Is. e. Railroad,
fell through bridge about twelve miles from
Columbia. Several cars we're preclpltatcd to
the ground, and number Of lives were lost,
and many seriously wounded. 1t was terri
BILE disaster. Tho cars fell distance OF twcn-
ty-fVe feet.
Ed. Moore, barkeepcr on the steamer Fable,
quah, was shot and killed by John Lecroix, ia
Now Orleans yesterday. The murderer escaped.
The revenue cutter Wilderness has gone to
Baton Rouge to remove the riot prisoners to
place of security. Donaldsonvillc IS quiet.
There was but little damage BY tire.
Commissioner Wilson, Of the land Office, de-
mics that be will resign on December lst. or any
other date. Secretary Deano has removed
Mai. Hennessy, oiRichnond, Va. who has been
acting as special agent Of the pension bureau,
and also turned out of Office MIR. Fred. A Al.
ken, on the ground that he was democrat.
Nlr. George Hayward, to whom the Foun-
ders' G old Medal Of the Royal Geographical
Society was awarded at the last anniversary OF
that body, was assussinated and his property
pundered about the !beginning of last August
by the followers of the Chief Nicer Waite Khan
of asslm.
The Legislature of Delaware, just elected,
has to choose United States Senator in place
OF the Hon. Willard Salisbury, democrat.
whose term expires on the 4th OF March next.
As the Legislature is unanimously democratic,
a Senator CT that political persuasion will, OF
course, be elected.
The Southern bound train on the jackson,
Mississippi Railroad, yesterday ran of the
track at Wesson. The train got on again and
ran eff the track two miles south OF Book IA.
ven. Three persons were killed and several
wounded.
Charles Calls, who murdered man in Bos-
ton on the 10Th of July, mas been arrested in
Mcrphis by Boston detective, who traced
him there trou2 Chicago by trunk which had
been shipped. G'hc dotcctvc lei: i0r boston
with the prisoner.
The 100000 plizc in the San francisco
Mercantile Library lottery was paid yesterday
The holder of the ticket authorizes the dis
hursemeut OF 80 900 for charities; $1,000 IN
San Francisco and $4,000 in New York.
Ger. Burnside charactcriz?s Paris as = mad
house inhabited BY monkeys The spectacle OF
q c!ose'y-besieged city, warrcd upon both
Without and withip by hostile elements, il ll-
deed pltiatle one.
The Presidcn yesterday received dispatch
from Alabama stating that the Radicals will
have majority Of the new Legislature on
Joint ballot. This will secure the election OF a
Radical to the U. S. Senate.
The Women's Foreign Missionary Stciety
had their first public meeting yesterday in
New York, Bishop James presiding. Bishop
Simpson. in an address, advocated that women
should carry the Bible to the heather.
Admiral Porter is said to be preparing. q
history of the American navy. 1t will be
printed as public document to accompany
the annual reports of the departments.
UCQ. EarNSWOCtu, VI InluOls, lcicSiaPho tn@ U
he has not been defeated, but has majority
of nearly 5000.
One of the spans of the bridge across the
at St. Louis, Missouri, fell ycster.
day, killing six men and wounding nine others.
The Pope has fixed his compensation for the
made by him in Rome at 81
O00,00OA,
The Mary Mohrman murder case in PhiIa.
dcpbia was continued yesterday with rebut
ting evidence by the prosecution.
Browns majority as Governor OF Missouri
will reach tbirty.fi7e thousand.
President Grant passed through Baltimore
last night on his way to Philadelphia.
VIRGINIA NEWS.
The two companies of u. S. artillery LETT
Richmond, Va. Thursday, and the Richmond
Enquirer says Though brought here to