Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-07-28
NEWS OF THE DAY.
"7o sAov the very age and body oftte Times.

Mrs. Wharton, according to dispatch from
Baltimore to New York paper, converses
freely upon the subject of the alleged murder
| of General Ketchum, and the poisoning OF MIR. |
Eugene Van Ness. The letter of her sister-in-
law charging her with the murder OF her broth
er-in-law and her niece, she pronounccs false
| in every particular. Mrs. Wharton is perfectly
calm and collected, and complains that she rs
the victim of the most unfortunate circumstan-
| tial evidence.
Honora Greater, an old woman who for the
past fifteen years has traversed the streets OF
| New York harnessed to hand-cart, and col
lecting rags and bones from the cutters and
| swill tubs died suddenly in shanty yesterday.
Investigation proves that although she died
from exposure, she had nearly $4,000 deposited
in the North River Savings Bank. This
money she bequeathed by will to little girl
eight years Of age, who lived with her.
A remarkable bed of Ignite has been struck in
the excavation of the Baltimore and Potomac
Railroad, on Dr. Hall 5 place, about one mile
west of Baltimore. 1t is carbonlZed wood or
coal-wood, the component parts being substan-
tially the same as bituminous coal, but the fibre
of the wood still remains 1t is very combusti-
BILE, and emits peculiar odor when burning.
It is not known how wide the deposit is or its
depth. 1t is covered by fourteen feet OF earth.
The Fulton (NIo Fair Play of the Goth, says
portion Of the bridge on the Louisiana and
Missouri Railroad being built over Anvanse
river, eight miles north of Fulton, fell last Sun
day, carrying with it nine men, 100 feet 10 the
bed of the river below. Only one man was
killed, and one fatally injured. Geo. Brem-
ington and William Brothers suffered severe
internal injuries and will probably die. The
others were not seriously hurt.
A dispatch from Gen. Griersou, at Fort Sill,
to the Indian Bureau, states that lone Wolf,
a son of Santanta, the Kiowa chief, now III
limbo, paid visit to the Angency at Fort Sill
for the purpose Of finding out what had become
Of his father He had been instructed by the
military authorities to bring back some forty
mules that had been stolen, but inasmuch as
the mules were not forthcoming, Gen. Grer.
son declined holding any conference with him.
Frederick Grant left Long Branch yesterday
for the West, to enter upon the appointment he
has accepted as civil engineer on the Pacific
Railroad The President accompanied his son
as far a, Philadelphia. Young Grant has re-
signed his position in the regular army. 1t
was but the other day, that it was stated that
he was not to resign
The Asiatic crowds upon the African in
Louisiana, which Stale will soon have large
Chinese population. One thousand laborers,
in addition to those already there are engaged
by an agent in China, and it is believed that in
q short time Louisiana will have tens Of thou
sands of Mongolians performing the labor hith-
erto done by colOrcd men,
Constantinople is to be connected with the op-
positc Asatic coast by a railroad tunnel, con-
sistug of sheet-iron double tubes, under the
water of the Bosphorus. The tunnel is to be-
come about POO feet long, 10 feet in diameter
in the clear, and to be placed &c feet below the
level Of the water, in order not to obstruct navl
CATION.
4 letter received at Washington from Alex
audria, Egypt, states that ex-Sccretary Seward
passed through that city recently, on his way to
Constantnoplc While in Alexandria he was
the guest of the Khedive, and the reel pient Of
ostentatious attention. 1t is thought that he
and his party will at once set out on their home
journey.
The murders committed on Tuesday night by
the collision Of freight and gravel train on
the Toledo and Wabash Railroad, are now
charged to diSobcdience OF orders on the part
Eight men were killed by their negligence. The
guilty parties have fled.
\ letter from Rev VIM. Wright, missionary
in the far West, speaks of the immense tide of
emigration that has set in all along the line of
the Northern Pacific Railroad, and states that
the reports hitherto current are by no means
exaggerated. The influx from Canada is es-
: pecialy heavy.
Gen. Ewood H. Hallowell, who commanded
the 54th Massachusetts, (colorcd regiment after
the death of Colonel Shaw, died at Medtord,
Mass. yesterday. aged "a. He was member
of Governor Clahin' staff at the time of his
DEATH
The first bale Of new cotton from Texas was
received per steamship Austin at New Orleans
Yesterday. 1t weighs nearly five hundred
pounds was raised on the Guadalupe river.
1t was classed middling and sold for twenty
seven cts per pound.
The Maronite and Melchite patrlarchs, the
Mechitc Archbishops of Aleppo, and thirteen
Hungarian Archbshops have forwarded to
Rome their submission to the dogma of intalll-
bility
A dispatch from Norfolk ays:-"The brig
Muscovado, before reported ashore on Body 3
Island, has gone to pieces. The cargo is total
loss
The telegraph yesterday advised that the
loan for the construction of docks and piers in
New York city had been taken by the Inter
national Bank of Hamburg.
Baltimore and vicinity was last night visited
by one of the heaviest rain storms known in
that city fer many years.
PUNIsiIED.-A pleasant piece Of poetic justice
isreported from town in Oregon One morning
a man called upon the editor of the only paper
in the county and asked permission to look at
the flies of that paper for 1869 1t was granted.
While the editor was in bed waiting till his
wife could wash his shirt, that young man
carried away the file, nor was it ever seen again
| until lnu-,