Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-04-30
NEWS OF THE DAY.
"7e shoD the ve,y age ant body Of the 7a"'e'

Ia accordance With the decision rendered 10
the u. s, Circuit Court for the Maryland Us"
trict, Yesterday, by Judge Giles, the baltimosSs
City Passenger Railway Company are Ieqult;,u
to carry coored people on the lines Oh !ntl Ill
way in the same class OF cars proVloeu loi a."
other persons. The Company give notice.
therefore. that on and after Monday next sep
arate cars will be provided for the accomnoua'
ton of colored persons.
The testimony of five witnesses was gwen lor
the prosecution in the Mcfarland trial IN Ne"
York, Yesterday, all to show that the accused
was addicted to intoyioation, and that he had
mu6e several threats to shoot Richardson. Inc
prosecution announced that it would close 10
two days. After the adjournment Mr.. Graham
made some disparaging remarks to y Judge laws
and personal encounter between the TWO came
very near taking place.
The residence of Charles B. Reynolds, IN
Hoboken, was entered and robbed oil silver
ware, money, &C., to the value Of over 5 600;
Tie BURGLARS had previously chlorotormed
the occupants. Herman d. Brlnker. produce
dealer at Washington market, New ork, was
robbed at Frcnchs circus, at Hoboken, last
night of 81, 050 The circus seemed to nave
been invaded with New York robbers
The railroad land subsidy lobby has turned
up again, recruited in numbers and with
plcthoric purse. These lobbyists move about
the Capitol with a make-yourset' at home ease
and the manner OF great monarchs OF all they
survey. The door keepers and ushers OF the
House give them wide berth for passage with
in the Hail.
The pulpit of the Franklin st. Presbyterian
Church, in Baltimore, filled for the past nine
wears by the Rev. DR.. Bullock, and made va.
cant by his transfer to Alexandria. will be filled
by Rev. W. L. Murkland, who has, since the
first of January, assisted acceptably in the ser
vices of said church.
The new quarantine act, Just passed by the
CaliforniaLegis lature, requires every Chlnaman'
before landing, to be vaccnated, for which slO
is to be paid to the officer and another PROV
sion forbids the removal from the State OF de-
ceased Chinaman, under penalty OF $50.
Ia Raleigh, North Carolina, on Thursday,
woman of bad character, dressed in mems
clothes, went to the house of Spencer WOOD
and was shot and killed. A dispatch says she
went for the purpose OF mischief, but doe:
not give her name or any other particular.
| General Sherman states that hostiltes have
not vet commenced in the Sioux country, bu
he is expecting dispatches to that effect. Gene,
raj Sheridan has gone to the front, and vii
communicate at once 10 detail the state OF at
| fairs.
Ground has been broken for the connection
at Baltimore, of the Northern (Pa.) Contra
railway with the projected and partialy-con
structed Baltimore and Potomac road.
The General Committee Of the "Granc
Army of the Republic metin New DIRK city
Yesterday, and designated May 3Oth as the day
on which soldiers graves shall be decorated.
John T. Nixon, of New Jersey, has beer
confirmed by the Senate as United States judge
for the district OF New Jersey, vice, r. S. Field
resigned
The Marlboro Gazette says that work is be
ing pushed forward with renewed vigor on the
Baltimore aud Potomac railroad.
| The President who is on u brief visit to New
York and West Point will return early mex
week.