Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-07-21
NEWS OF THE DAY.
$40 shoo the very age and body ofhte Times.

\ very bold robbery has come to light by
which it is alleged traveller stopping at
depot in Harrisburg, Pa, was robbed Of
satcbcl containing $4,000. He had careless
X left the bag under the seat of the car while
he went to ret some refreshment. No trace of
the robber has yet been discovered. This Is
rather curious The money, 1t Is SAID, was
afterwards found on the street, by boy who
ran off, as soon as it was taken from him
\ day or two since Mr.. John Preston, OF
Trostburg, Nd, whilst taking q ramble along
the mountain side, just west of that town, came
upon q nest Of rattlc-snakes, and succeeded IN
killing twenty of the reptiles in ! few minutes,
all at about the same spot Thlsls the largest rat
tle-snake killing the Cumberland News has
heard for some time.
\ lady calling herself Mrs. Hortense Watsou
alleged to be the wife of Judge Watson, OF
California, was prosecuted BY the proprietor of
the Coleman House, in New York, for her ho-
tel BILL Having no means of payment Judge
Shandey sent her to Jail for two months She
swooned on hearing the sentence.
The Cumberland News of Wednesday says
that. Tuesday was an old-fashioncd day at the
canal. as forty boats cleared, carrying Sc. %
tons of coal This looks like business and II
the trade has fully recovered from the prostra-
ton Of the recent strike, all hands, we think,
should feel rejoccd.
The Davis Creek bridge, on the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railroad, five miles west of Charles
ton West Virginia, fell yesterday while, the
workmen were putting on permanent tlmbers.
Thirteen men fell with the bridge; two were
killed, one probably fatally injured, and SIX were
seriously injured.
Archbishop Purcell, ofCincinnati, dcnouHces
the course Of the city authorities of New York,
who were responsible for the recent riot. tic
thinks there can be no question IN this country
about the right OF all sccts and parties to hold
paradcs.
\ statement of the lefalcaton in the Savan-
nah Custom House is given. Deputy Collector
Welman coniesSes to having appropriated to
! himself IS, 900 of the public money, but exc
ncrates Collector Iobb from any share IN the
transactions The amount iscOvercd BY suretles.
4 Government agent is abroad. charged to
ascertain whether any European Power Is con-
niving at or perpctrating any violation of inter
| national law in the shipment OF raupcrs OF
criminals to this country.
\ party Of editors from Virginia and Fast
Tennessee arrived in Baltimore yesterday by
the steamer Louisiana, ofthc Bay Line, un,
der charge Of COL Edwin Fitzgerald, Agent OF
the Virginia and East Tennessee Railroad.
President Grant was in Poushkeepsle short
time yesterday, and while there reviewed the
Forty-scventh Regiment, of Brooklyn, which
was in that city on 4 visit. He left there Tor
| New York in the afternoon.
| The Lincoln Monument Association have
money enough on hand to complete the monu,
mcnt ut Springfield, with the exception OF the
contemplated four groups Of statuary, iol
| which $4,000 additional are needed.
The boiler Of locomotive on the l&hIgl
Valley Railroad exploded ut Coalport, Pa,
Yesterday Six employees were instantly
killed.
The steam-tug i. II. Webster, which sailed
from Baltimore recently with Il cago of arm:
for Aspinwall, put into Charleston Yesterday
The remarkable child, brought from Ohio
for exhibition in Boston. having two heads and
four arms died in Boston on the 18th inst.