Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-08-28
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The recent succession of storms on the South
Atlantic coast has been very disastrous to ship
ping, and number of disasters are reported.
Many vessels have been wrecked on shore or
abandoned ut sea, and the losses are probably
greater than We yet know Of. Except i'll the
wrecking of the steamship 14odona, We hear OF
but two or three lives lost
BY the aid of divers, Com. Braine, u. S.
N, has recovered four bodies from the wreck
of the Weehawken, which sunk in Charleston
harbor in 1860. They were found in the engine
room, and are supposed to have been engineers
MCGOWAN, Merriam, Nitchell and Spongbergh
They are to be taken to New York for inter
ment.
The New York papers state that Geo. S.
Cobb. OF Atlanta, Ga, WAS arrested at the
Grand Central Hotel, in New York on Friday,
charged with the larceny Of $4,000 from the
office of the Southern Express Company, at
Atlanta, Ga. on the goth of last May. Cobb,
at that time. was money clerk in the Atlanta
Office
An application for the remission Of 4 fine
imposed on Il vessel for not showing u lighted
torch when approaching another vessel at
night, as required by the new law, has been
approved and the money returned by order OF
Secretary Boutwell,. In some cases it is I'M
possible for sailing vessel to comply with the
law.
Nothing has been received at the War De.
partment in relation to the killing of Gen. Geo.
H. Crook, commanding the department of Ari-
IONA, whose reported murder by Apache lu-
dams was published heretofore. The officials
at the War Department give no crelence to the
report.
The Internal Revenue Bureau has decided
that profits arising from the sale of banking
house are not taxable if such real estate was
purchased within the year Of sale or within two
years previous to the year for which the eStl-
mate of profits is to be made.
The North Missouri Railroad was sold at
auction on Saturday, under deed Of trust, in
St. Louis. Morris n. Jcssup, Of New York,
was the purchaser at 81 600, 900 cash. A pc
ttion has been filed in the City Circuit Court
to set aside the deed as fraudulent.
Accounts from many parts of the counties
of Eastern North Carolina give gloomy reports
Of the prospects Of the cotton crop 1t will,
it is said, be- cut short fully i third by drought
and rust.
Attorney General Akerman has decided that
there is no vacancy in the office of Deputy
Commissioner Of Internal Revenue, and that
MIR. Douglass is still filing that Office, being
only Commissioner I'D interim.
4 recent democratic county convention at
Canton, Mississippi, adopted d resolution that
one half the offices should be given to colored
men.
Nearly ~, 600 has been contributed in New
York for the relief Of the yellow fever sufferers
in Buenos AyreS
The Grand Lodge Of the independent Or,
der of Odd Fellows of the L. S. will meet in
Chicago on Monday, September 18th.
The Cheney difficulty in the Episcopal Church
at Chicago is Tar from being settled.
'DASrARDLY OUTRAGE. "A man calling
himself Smith, aud haliug from Abingdon,
CAME to Bristol on the j clock train on Sat
urday last, aud made dastardly attack upon
one of our oldest aud most respected citizens.
by the name Of Jones, By knocking him sense
less on the platform with pair of brass knucks.
preached Smith and said, "What does this
mean? What did you knock me down for ?
l don't know you; Lnever done anything to
you"
"Yes yer did, replied Smith, yer one Of
the very fellows what opposed the Kentucky
road going to Abingdon.
MY God, stranger" answered Jones, that
question was settled before the war, more than
thirteen years ago
Il don't care d. retorted Smith, in
towering rage, 81 never heard anything about
it till saw the Abingdon Virgiuian this week,
and now, if you don git up aud git, III snatch
these here kuucks from under your ear agin. -
Smith escaped into Tennessee pursued by