Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-08-22
NEWS OF THE DAY.
$40 shoy the very age and body ofthe Times.

The Coroner's jury in the case of the West
field explosion, set an example regarding holding
officials responsible for disaster caused by reck-
lessness or neglect, that the jury on the tug
boat boiler explosion at Staten Island have
followed. They accuse the Captain and Engineer
of causing the death of the person killed, and
have issued warrants for their arrest.
A man named Gilbert, 'said to be leading
member of the Ku-Klux in Kentucky" has
been arrested and placed in the custody Of the
u. S. authorities at Louisville. IT. said that
he will turn State S evidence and the Gov
ernment expect to obtain some important reve-
lations through him!
+. O. Wakeman, an old Californian and a
veteran of the Mexican war, and highly con-
nccted, has been arrested in San Francisco, by
i special detective from Washington on a
charge Of forging the endorsement of soldier S
bounty warrant. He has made written con-
fcssion Of guilt.
What whiskcy may do is shown by the St.
Louis Democrat, which describes how a Deputy
United States Marshal got drunk, lost prison
or, was himself arrested by the police, was dis,
missed by the Marshal, was put of a train OF
cars, and was run oyer and killed, all IN one
day:
\ pittsburg firm have erected complete and
extensive shops capable Of employing between
70 and 50 hands, for the manufacture OF light
and narrow gauge locomotives. This enter
prising firm deserves the success that comes
Of taking time by the iorelock.
The recent order from the War Department
retiring Gen Geo. Stoneman with the tn
rank of major general, has been revoked, and
he has been retired with the full rank Of colo
mel. This has been done to comply with the
law
The New York Yacht Squadron races com
menced yesterday at Newport The selection
Of Yacht to race against the boat that Ashbury
will bring from England, willprobably DE decided
by this week contests
Commissioner Douglas instructs that officers
of the Revenue Department have no authority
to grant any extension Of time for the payment
of taxes, and that with dellnqucnts they must
pursue the course pointed out by the law.
Subscription to the new gold loan yesterday
amounted to nearly twelve hundred thousand
dollars. The Second National Bank OF Baltl-
more is reported rs having taken another
$36O0(W.
Tom Thumb stuck penknife into the eye OF
Il little girl in Australia recently She was
peeping through hole in the tent, when the
bloody Thumb drew his trenchuut blade and
smOtc her.
Gov. Warmoth, Of Louisiana, has appointed
j. Sella Martin, colored, formerly Of Washing,
ton, superintendent of the fifth district, in that
State in place OF Gen. j. McClery, recently
elected to Congress.
Mrs. Mary Jane Owen, wife Of Robert Dale
Owen, died last week at her home, in New
Harmony, Ind, after an illness Of little more
than 4 week.
At Cleveland, Bradley county, Tenn, last
Friday evening, colored man charged with an
outrage on white girl, was taken from prison
by masked men and hanged.
The recent death from reported cholera, y
in New York, is said to have been produced by
4 SutJcH of peaches, cantelopes, and water
melons.
After the first of October the rate of postage
for single letters between the u. s. and Ger
many will be reduced from ten to seven cents.
Forty fourvcssels gauging 80, 900 tons, passed
through the Sucz canal in June. One steamer
had touched sixty times on the way.