Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-02-24
NEWS OF THE DAY.
80 shoe tie vefy age andJody Of the Times

The stockholders of the Northern Central
Railroad Company held their annual meeting.
Yesterday in Baltimore. A resolution was pas
sed authorizing the Directors to pay on at ma
turity the mortgage bonds Of any OF the = ra ~
road lines leased by the Northern Contra! hail-
way Company, and to aid other companies IN II
the completion Of their works. The report OF
the President of the Company shows the total
earnings Of the road for the year to have been
So, n8S. GA So the total expenses, ~; Ool:
I4-making the net revenue, ST ,21l 1921.
A contrast is drawn between the present con-
dition of the road and its condition III 1860.
when its present Directory assumed control.
The policy of the Baltimore and Ohio COmpa-
ny in the matter of refusing to agree. to sys-
tenn Of through tickets was referred to. MIR.
Cameron is quite tacetious in his references to
Mr.. Garrett.
The night express train Oh the North
ern Central Railroad, between Baltimore
and Elmira. struck broken rail few miles be-
low Williamsport about 0 clock yesterday and
was thrown froul the track down forty feet
embankmcnt The engine: baggage and first
passenger car cleared the rail in safety, with
out leaving the track The second and fourth
passenger cars and third. 4 sleeping car,
went down the embankment. The fifth passen-
ger car was thrown from the track, but did not
20 down the embankment. The first passcn-
ger car made three complete revolutions IN 60
ing down the bank. and was a complete wreck
In this car one man was killed. In all there
were seventeen persons more or less injured.
The ship Golconda, of Baltimore, from La
IBERIA for Boston, struck on Bass Rip: Nan
tucket Shoals, on Monday evening. The cap
tain sent his wife and child and some passen-
gers ashore in the ships boat. and they safely
Landed at Nantucket On the following morn
ing the steamer Island Home left Hyannis to as
sist the vessel, but after cruising through the
Shoals and around the entire Island OF Nantuc-
ket no trace of the ship could be found. 1t Is
supposed she hoated off without much II amy
damage, and proceeded No tidings have Yet
been received OF her.
There seems to be revival of the recent
coumotion caused by frequent arrests OF ladies
at Mays store, in New York, on charge Of
theft. Those previously arrested We're Of high
social standing and responsibility. and were &C
Quilted. Yesterday another respectable look
ing lady was brought before Justice Shandley
charged by James Armstrong; clerk at Macy 5;
with having stolen two bottles OF clarct wine OF
the value Of 80. She was held for eNami-
nation.
An effort will be made in the House next
week to pass the Cobb bill prepared by But
ler) for federal commissioners in every county
in the South to try the So-called ku Kiux tor
violating the very stringent provisions OF the
act Among other things, it makes it penal
offense to discharge colored man from en-
ployment, provided the latter swears that ne
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possible? .....
A novel event for Santo Domingo has occur
red in the Supreme Court of that country
For the first time in its history an American
was admitted to plead in case OF considerable
magnitude as principal counsel. Upon apphca-
ton from an American, Colonel. William Nc
Michael, of Philadelphia, who accompanied the
Commission, consented to undertake the case,
and won it.
President Baez has called the attention Of
the San Domingo Commission to the fact that
the second payment for SANTANA Bay has not
been made This violation of faith, rs it is re-
garded there, has seriously embarrassed Baez,
and lett nearly all his officers without pay: The
opinion of the Commission seems decided that
the money Should be paid Immediately.
The New York French Relief Committee of
the Gambler of Commerce have decided on pur-
chasing 300 barrels of flour for immediate
shipment to France on the storeship Supply An
effort will be made to start the vessel of i'll Il
few days, with the laudablc ambition that she
should reach France before the vessel charter
ed by A. IT. Stewart
.Advices from San Domingo City to the l4th
instant and from Sanawa to the 18th, have
been received A thorough investigation OF
the country, its resources etc, is being made by
the Commissioners and the scientific gentlemen
accompanying them The middle Of April has
been fixed as the time for the return OF the
Commission to Washington.
Ashocking accident, resulting in the death OF
one man, and very serious, perhaps fatal inju-
iuries to another, occurred at the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Companys rolling mill in
Cumberland, Md, on Tuesday morning. The
men were engaged in repairing the belt which
drives the saw carriage.
The Raleigh papers announce the death on
Sunday last Of George W. Mordecai, one of
the best and most useful men who ever lived
in North Carolina. For years past he has
held the position of President Of theBank OF
North Carolina.
A wedding took place at Lagrange, Indiana,
on Sunday morning last. On Monday morning
the young wife was seized with commissions,
proceeding, it is thought, from brain fever,
which continued at short intervals until Tues
day morning, when she died
The question whether the position Of belli-
gerents enabled the Confederate State to pass a
valid title to property sold by them ut sale in
confscation was yesterday argued before the Su-
preme Court in the case of Knox against Lee,
from the Circuit Court of Texas
Mayor Fox, eff Philadelphia, in a message to
the Council of that city, complains that the
Navy Yard there has not been improved by
the General Government in the manner promi-
sed before the property was given the Govern
ment by the city.
A dispatch Of yesterday from New York
says: The Subcommittee of the Methodist
Book Concern Investigation are in session for
the selection of eynarts for the examination of