Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-03-20
NEWS OF THE DAY.
"To sAo,o the pcry age and Lody cfthe Times

On Saturday night, as the telegraph operator
at Indiana, Pennsylvania, was entering his
office, which is in the same room with the First
National Bank, he was attacked by four men
! with blackened faces, knocked down, dragged
into the bunk, gagged and handcuffed. One OF
the party sat by him with revolver, while the
others went to work to break open the safe
! Shortly afterwards they became frightened and
! left, getting no money excepting eighty dollars
from the operator.
Darrell Ellis and wife were murdered in their
house in the village of Jacksonville, near Ypsl-
lanti, in Michigan, on Saturday morning. The
bloody deed was done with an axe, which was
| found near the bodies. The murderer Is sup
noscd to be Franklin Ellis, son of the deceased.
| Tic was arrested at Ipsilanti last night, 1T is
| supposed waiting for Il train on which to es
| cane. He has for some time showed signs OF
mental arrangement.
| Yesterday morning the extensive carriage
and wagon factory of Bodily & Co., in Wheel
ing, was discovered to be on fire. These large
works were entirely destroyed with the excep-
ton of large blac ksmith shop. When the lire
was discovered it was burning in three different
places. showing it was the work of an inccn-
diary. The loss on finished carriages, wagons,
| wa on stock, lumber, machinery and buildings
is estimated at $4,000.
Chinese advices by the steamer Japan say
the Imperial authorities have paid 100000
taels indemnity for the French property de-
stroyed at -Tsin, and appointed French
man to the position of Imperial interpreter,
w.th salary Of $4,000 per annum, which
concessions are regarded as full settlement OF
the Tien-Tsin claim.
Judge Busted decided in the U. S. District
Court of Alabama at Montgomery,on Saturday
that under the Enforcement act the State
Courts have no jurisdiction in cases OF con
spiracy to deprive any person OF the rights
guaranteed by the Constitution.
i. W. Nisbct, former Judge of the Su-
prcme Court of Georgia, member Of the U.
S. Congress in 1888 and 1910, a member of the
| Confederate Congress, and lawyer of dlstlnc..
| ton, died in Macon, Ga., on Saturday, aged
| 6S years.
A correspondent of New York journal says
that Napoleon intends mo\ ng his household
to America shortly, and that Eugene is already
preparing to depart from England TOR New
| York as the advance guard OF the imperial emil
grafton.
1t is stated that Rev. Byron Sunderland will
not accept the call rendered him in New York,
his congregation having raised his salary to
| sufficient figure to induce him TO remain III
| Washington.
An attempt was made on Saturday night to
blow open the safe of the Bank Of Commerce,
co, ,er Nassau and Cedar streets, New York,
but the burglars were frightened off, leaving
all their tools behind
Mike Kennedy in Lor'syi''e last night, stab
bed his wife nth pair of shears and then
stabbed himself in four Or five places. Neither
arc dangerously hrt.
The Hebrew New Year commences OH Thurs
day next, and extensive preparations arc being
| made by our Jewish fellow citizens fer the OBJ
scryance OF the festival.
The Williamsport (Md.} Herald says there
are rumors ola disposition to reduce freight
on coal on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
The Commission for the examination OF the
claims of Southern loyalists against the U. S.
VIII meet at Washington Oh the 10th Of April.
! Very dressy bonnets, to be worn late in the
season, are made of the Frou Frou gauze
brought out last year.
The Secretary of the Treasury is engaged
perfecting plans for CO ing in very soon large
amor1t of the fve-twenty bonds.
The po':cc authorities of New York have
inaugurated determined war against keno
Adjustments.
| In the Sandwich Islands it is death for
mans mother-in-law to visit him without per
mission.
General Robert Williams LETT Washington on
Saturday for his post in the West.
There is a merchant in Chicago who has his
| life Insured for S250,000