Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-08-01
NEWS OF THE DAY.
"7o sho,o the very age and body ofthe Times

A terrible tragedy took place yesterday at
London, Shelby county, Indiana. Henry Filing
ton, for some time al unsuccessful sutton OF
Miss Lizzie Smith, made final proposal Tor
her hand, and being rejected, attacked her,
throwing her to the ground and stamping upon
her. He then took brick and beat her head
aud face in shocking manner. severng one
ear and breaking her jaw. He then fled to the
woods, leaving her for dead. An alarm was
raised, and he was pursued and captured by the
neighbors.
Luther p Gay, living about six miles from
Medina, Ohio, was robbed on Saturday by two
strangers, one wearing policeman's uniform,
who approached him as he was walking IN his
| garden and pretended to arrest him as coun-
| terfeiter putting his hands in irons They
then blindfolded him, blew open his safe, and
robbed it of $4,000 in bonds and currency
and then made their escape.
r. B. McGee prominent citizen OF Mem
phis, Tenn, and prior to the war President
of the branch State Bank at that place, has
been arrested charged with passing counterfeit
money. On searching his baggage 81, 200 OF
counterfeit U. S. notes were found. His arrest
has caused considerable sensation.
The head of the Bureau of Statistics esti-
mates the annual product of the whiskey stills
of the country at g., 500, 900 gallons. The Con
vention of Distlers, some time ago, placed the
product at 216,00 gallons daily, which tor 3l3
working days is about Ct COO, 900 gallons. The
| figures are not far apart.
Among the graduates at the recent COM
mencement of the Ohio Wesleyan University
was John S. Vancleve son Of Rev. l.. +. Van
cleve, of the Cincinnati Conference. The young
man is totally blind, and yet has passed success
fully through the entire College course and re-
ceived the degree of A. b.
Rev. John Forsyth, d. d., Of Newburgh,
New York, who has been appointed by the
President, Chaplain and Professor Of Ethics and
Law at the Military Academy ut West Point.
is one of the most able and learned men in the
Presbyterian Church.
The Prince of Wales and suite arrived in
Dublin Yesterday evening, anu was greeted
with reception by the people. The demon
STATIONS were not as enthusiastic as seems to
have been expected, which is ascrbed to the
weather being unusually cold.
Capt David II. Todd, formerly Of Lexington,
KY, brother of Mrs Abraham Lincoln, died
at Huntsville, Ala, on Sunday night Of con-
sumption. The deceased was an officer of the
Confederate army during the war.
The National Commercial Convention holds
its session this year in Baltimore, meeting on
the twenty-6fth Of September. Extensive pre-
paratons have been made by the City Council
for the proper reception Of the delegates,
The steamship North American yesterday ar
rived at Baltimore from Liverpool with 4 num-
| bar pf i,Dmir rpho ImmnHiotnIv DrOrnp1 ed
West.
4 New York dispatch says that cotton is
being reshipped to that city from Liverpool
Dealers and operators probably understand the
movement and the dispatch.
Counterfeit twenty dollar notes of the u. S.
National Bank of Washington were in crcula-
ton yesterday in New York.
Small-po and scarlet fever are prevalent in
New York and Brooklyn.
COLoRED LABOR AND EMIGRATIoN.--We
are informed that numbers of colored people Of
both sexes continue to find employment in the
North and that inducements are offered to at
tract them thithcr. Mr. j. = Justis of this
city, labor agent. tells US that he is constantly
written to by IN association in New \ ork city,
to engage servants OF certain classes, and that
the coored man is becoming the tavorIte Of
the weather. classes in the metropolis. This
past week he has shipped a cargo of them to
New York, Tor all Of whom homes had been OBJ
tanned before they started on their emigration
| trip.
1t seems that in New York there is tho
roughly organzed association composed ofladles
with president, secretary and I'LL the usual
| off al ,vbio l. pfr
colGred people there.
We also learn that the planters in the far
South continue their efforts to induce the colo
red people to come to that section Of country as
laborers In Louisiana particularly, where the
sugar crop is represented to be larger and more
promising than at any time since the war,
there is great need of additional labor to assist
in saving the crop and manipulating it for mar
ket. AS the rolling season, as it is termed out
there, approaches when the cane is cut down
and gathered to be crushed by the ponderous
machinery used to express thej juice and saccha-
rine mater, the planters fell anxious to secure
the needed help. Mr.. Justis is already receiv-
ing orders and filing them away to be filled
carly in September In some instances high
wages are offered, so necessary is it deemed to
increase the number of hands, in order to rea-
lie the hattering prospect and render the
planting profitable. 1t is stated, also, that the
cotton crop promises fine yield, and we may
expect agents here when the picking season
comes on. Observation teaches, however, that
in many instances the colored migrant returns
to Virginia, and it is probable that for some
time, at least, there will be no great decrease of
the colored population in the State. We pub
| liSh the facts to show the present tendency of
this change-loving race as well as the efforts
which are being made to attract them both
North and South. Rich. Wing.
The WASHINGTON RoUGHs. During the
last two or three months the excursion boats,
which leave this city on trips down the Potomac
have on several occasions been madn the scann