Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-03-30

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A DOUBLE MURDER From the Elnira Ga.
zette. We arc in possession OF facts connect
ed with the worst murder ever committed in
this section ofthe State. The circumstances
are 50 horrible that it seems almost impossible
to believe such state of depravity could be
reached that would lead to the preparation OF
crime so daring and horrible The scene of
tie unparalleled crime lies in the county of
Tompkns. The first intimation Of tragedy
named Lunger, on Sunday night last, and the
discovery in the morning of the charred re-
mains OF the man, together with the half.
burned body of his wife.
1t was soon discovered that the daughter of
Lunger, young girl Of about Is years of age,
was missing, and also young man by the
name OF Ferguson, who is said to be nephew
OF Lunger, the man found dead The girl was
found yesterday morning at Swartwoods Ho.
tel, where she stayed all night with the young
man Ferguson. From her lips terrible story
OF crime and Villaipy was learned. She says
Ferguson came to her fathers house on Sunday
night and killed her father and mother with
an axe. She states that she was a. bed at the
time, and was awakened by noise in her
fathers room. Getting up and going to the
% hor{ of hoo af ofr
from the bed, and Furguson near him with
an upIlfsed axe. She saw him strike her
father on the head, she says, killing him with
the blow. Ferguson turned to her and swore
he would kill her also If she did not run away
with him. She could do nothing but comply,
as Ferguson seemed determined to kill her also.
Her mother lay in the bed with her head cut
open, dead, Ferguson first having killed her
with the same axe with which he dispatched
the old man, who was awakened by the noise
made in killing his wife, and met the same
terrible fate. Ferguson. so the girls story
goes, set fire to the house, and, inpclled by
lear, she went with him. The cause Of the
reported double murder is that the young man
was in love with the girl and that her parents
refused to countenance his attentions Out OF
revenge it is supposed he committed the hor-
rible deed He has been arrested.
In the u. S. Supreme Court on Monday -
The First National Bank of Louisville VS.. The
State OF Kentucky; error to the Court OF Ap
peals of he State of Kentucky. The question
in this case is whether State may levy a tax
on the shares of national banks and enforce its
collection through the bank. This court holds,
Mr.. Justice Miller delivering the opinion, that
the property in bank called q share ls distinct
from the capital of a bank, and that such
share as the property OF the shareholder may
be taxed, although the stock OF the bank may
be all invested in United States securities. The
law requiring the bank officials to pay the tax
does not make it tax on or against Its stock.
A national bank as an Instrument OF the gene
raj government may within certain limits be
liable to pay such tax, otherwise such an In
strumept might be SO created as to invade the
rights of o State. These BANKS arc subject to
State laws in respect OF the tax on the shares
of shareholders, and they may be compelled to
nav il. They could be guaranteed tor per-
sonal debt of stockholder and to make them
similarly responsible for this tax Is the virtual
effect of the State law The judgment Of the
State court was affirmed, the Chief Justice
dissenting.
THE LABOR QUESTION. every section
of the country comes the complaint that there
is a scarcity of labor, and yet the number OF
acres titled do not amount to very little more
than half the amount in cultivation before the
war. Now the question is, what has become
of the colorcd people, if labor is so scarce that
it does not meet the demand, when the mum,
her Of acres in cultivation is not near so large!
la this State we are certain We hazard nothing
in saying, that at least twenty thousand Wnlte
persons are now engaged IN tIhng the SOIL N
excess cf the number before the war, and yet
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we are confident that not much more than
half tho number of acres are in cultivation
There is At least vacuum of forty thousand in
The coIorcd labor force in tho agricultural
branches. Then what arc these people doing,
taking it Ior granted that the population OF
This race in the State is the same as before tue
war; The only solution that We can render 10
this nroblem is, that they are lying about the
cities and large towns gaining precarlouS i've
lhood in them.-FTed. Herald.
B7sMARcK.-A recently published llte OF BIS
marck says that one day, In Berlin restaurant
the Young Count heard L person near nun
talking in very abusive language OF member
Of the royal family. Spr to his teet, nc
cried out to the scandal monger, Qult thls
tinished nv beer, | will break the glass on
your head - Then he sat down again, and
sinped his beer calmly. The other party to
the quarrel waited in defiant attitu ude
When the Count had swallowed the last drop
of his beer, he rushed at his adversary, beat
down m his guard, and smashed the glass into a
thousand pciccs on his head. The man iell to
the Aoor. The Count turned to the waiter,
asked calmly, "How much to pay for the beer
and the broken glass p paid the smouut, and
sauutcred out OF the room.
Ooe OF the "revo|vers' whose appearance
before the Recorders Court in New Orleans
is expected "a an average twice a a week, goes
by tie uame of Becky Sharp. She possesses
some Of the ingenuity Tor making tae oeSe % o.
supcious circumstances when uls'luSu.suiia .i =,
lG.b ;nst On = charre OF intoxcatiou, she de-
',rsj +, the court that she was sick,
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