Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-02-11
NEWS OF THE DAY.
70 Sho,c the rny age and hoiy Of the Times

queen w TctSnn Vi Il NIoldlloH vi lhC n~'.i.
laws. in the Vice Admiralty Court. Judge
Sir VIM. Young in pronouncing Judgment cx-
pressed his regret at the painful duty
imposed upon him. but the evidence of diSln-
terestcd witnesses in both cases was So .concln-
sivc that he could not refuse to believe 1t. In
the latter case he expressed a hope that the
Dominion Government would act literally and
remit the penalty. in whole or in part. \ no
t;co for apneal in both cases was given by cnnn-
sci for the owners
Passengers on the Eric Railroad had 4 mar
TOW escape Yesterday near Port JeryiS. y
train coming this way was suddenly stopped by
the engine and tender running of the track;
On examination. the locomotive was found
almost wholly destroyed. the tender having
been forced through and over it 50 that the
fragments of both We're intermlngled. The
engineer crawled out from the debris. badly
hurt. The accident occurred while the train
was passing q broad culvert. but the car
wheels hung by the fanges on the tlmber>
parallel with the rail. otherwise I terrible havoc
might have occurred
The Senate Committee Oh Appropriations has
agreed to recommend that the salaries orJudgc,
ofthc Courts be fixed As follows after July ].
1871. viz: Salary Of Chief Justice. Slo.3Oo
Der annum Associate Justices. 10000 each;
Circuit Court Judges $7.jm Chief Justice
of the Court of Claims and Of the District OF
Columbia Court. $G.5n0 each /: associate
Justices of the Court of Claims and Of the SUI
prcme Court of the District. SG.'tH' each and,
District Judges $4,000 each.
4 dispatch from New York says Last
night as the Cincinnati express train entered
the east end Of the Bergen tunnel: fire was dis
covered in one of the Adams express cars.
The train was stopped and half carload OF
silks. ribbons and varieties ablaze were thrown
out, Loss 1000 to $1,000. The fire caught
from the locomotive. sparks entering the side
door of the express Cur. The goods were con-
signed to Philadelphia and Baltimore
No intelligence had been received at the
Navy Department up 10 yesterday concerning
the steamer Tennessee. 1t has been suggested
that perhaps the Commission resolved to COM
mcnce their examination in part OF the Island
distant from the capital OF San Domingo m
tending finally 10 visit President Baez. This Is
given as the only reasonable exp PLANTATION OF the
delay in hearing from the Commission.
Supervisor Emory sent to Franklin county
Tennessee on Wednesday revenue officer ard
a deputy /. S. marshal, together with squad
of soldiers to arrest FIVE persons for Illicit DIS
tilling The parties We're arrested. and yts:er-
day. at Winchester the supervisor Tor the colln-
ty WAS surrounded by 800 armed men. the
prisoners released the property rescued and
the men maltreatcd.
The monthly report OF the bureau OF statistics
shows the state Of orr foreign trade Tor the
eleven months ended November 3oth last. rs
compared with the corresponding period OF
1869 In the latter period the excess otlmports
over exports was $7:I.I:i:j.Glo. Excess Of I'M
ports for former period $lj,9lo. III. showing an
improvement over lSG9 OF S5!G43. 494.
Since the leasing Of the Fountain Hotel in
Baltimore to Mr. Coleman for ten years. at
SAC, GOO Year. arrangements have been partly
NEGOTIATED with Mr. H. D. c. Carroll for a
front on Baltimore street. II concluded. rs
they will in all probability be. Mr.. Carroll will
reserve for himself three l. foot stores on Bal
timore street. leaving an cntracc nearly Ten feet
wide to the Hotel.
The amount Of lumber shipped from VIII
Transport Pa. during the past year foot> up
the enormous total Of go. "a, 01S feet. The
shipments b. railroad for nine months Of $50
show an increase Of IT, 1913 over the cores
pointing pc(lpu vi I'V' allI lilt sLiPHi'H'3 ~
canal last year show an increase Of S:99. %2 feet
over the previous Year.
Mrs. Martha Haincs But, Ecunctr died Of
Pneumonia in New York. On Thursday. The
lady VIA, better known as Martha Hainas Butt,
Il Virginia authoresS, and was greatly admired
everywhere for her remarkable beauty Of face
and form. She was an occasional contributor
to the periodical press Of the country.
The United States Of Germany are said TO
contain twenty five States. including four king
dolns. three free cities. and the residue in
duches Grand duchic> and principalitieS. The
total area is 204: 100 square miles. and the
population IS 800. nn1: with .tl<acr and Lor-
raine 4U.WEIIidu.
In Maryland Yesterday three, human be-
ings were hung John Howard was hanged at
Cumberland for the murder Of of his employer:
Mary Wallis at Upper Marlboro for killing by
poison an innocent babe: and John Martin at
Frederick for violating the person Ola woman
eighty years OF age.
One hundred and forty applications from Er-
rope and this country have been made 1T the
Treasury Department for agencies for the nego-
tiation of the new bonds to be issued under the
act Of July l4th, 1870 These bonds arc being
prepared for the press as speedily rs possible.
On Thursday last key ofpowder exploded
in the coal mines fifteen miles from Cairo,
Richie county. West Virginia Three men
were killed and several others covered up in
the mines Their fate is rs yet unknown.
1t is currently reported in Cincinnati that
the Pennsylvania Central Railroad has deter
mined to make connecting link from or near
Dccrfcld via Lebanon to Dayton, by which
they will have Il through route to Chicago.
The long-lnoked-for remedy for strikes has
Chinee 1t is proposed to introduce him into
the Pennsylvania coal mines
Letter from Richmond.
Correspondence 81 the Alexandria Gn-cttc.l
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