Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-11-04
NEWS OF TIE DAY.
"7a shop tht rey aw nn1 bo'y Qt h~ Times.

tee! bv him. in New York, Yesterday, against
the Mercantile Fire Insurance Company, and
DISCHARGED the receiver it being proved that
the cumpauy's cash assets above the capital Ut
500, 900 arc S42 so. and that at the worst,
alter paying all claims. - per cent, of the capt.
tai will he intact even after rclSurlng.
judge Barnard. in New York, yesterday sta
ted in court he was determined to stop, as far
rs he could. Imprisonment for debt or rs wit
nrsscs and that there can be no doubt that
the lnurlcrers Of Nathan and Rod gers would
have been discovered, but that there is fear on
| the rart of some who have seen them, OF indie
flute imprisonment
Last night mob collected about the Jail in
Jeffersonviile Indiana, with the intention Of
lynchng Il negro named John Washington,
| who attempted Il rape on 4 little white girl,
and whose father died from excitement produ.
ced by the outrage. The prisoner was slipped
out by the back way and conveyed to the State
Prison, learning which the mob dispersed.
James l.. Mccormack, the Baltimore coal
merchant, who's charged with having, while
inso!vcnt, frauducnty disposed of 1000 tons
of coal to prevent it from coming, into the
hands of Montcll 4 Co., his creditors has
been held by Commissioner Shields IN New
York to await warrant OF removal from
Jud re Blatchtord.
The Commissioner Of Pensions has returned
TO Washington from Philadelphia, where he
has been investigating the deficit in the case Of
COL Forbes, the suspended Pension Agent III
that city The Commissioner reports hat his
investigations show clear case Of dcfacatlon,
amounting to So. 900. and without the slight
est mitigating circumstances.
\ fire broke out yesterday at Newark, New
Jersey, i'll Bathgatcs tannery, and before the
tircmcn could operate upon the flames the bull
ing was nearly destroyed causing Il loss OF
$75.0OU The property was insured for 49,
600 and had made application for $4,000 adj
ditional Insurance. The fire originated in the
engine room.
Marion was, by a clerical error, substituted
for Union county, in the Presidents proclama-
ton susprnding the writ Of habcas corpus in
certain counties of South Carolina. by a
proclamation issued yesterday the corrcc-
ton was made, and Union county is now en-
braccd within the application OF the ku-kux
law.
The stockholders Of the Drum Poin Rail-
road held meeting yesterday morning in Bal
timorc, and organized themselves into q corpo-
ration By cIccting President, Board Of Dircc-
tors. Secretary and Treasurer and Executive
aud Financial Committee. Daniel AlagrudcT
was selected as President, to serve for one year;
The Superintendent of the Insurance De-
partmcnt in New York has, at the request Of
the Continental Insurance Company, investiga-
ted its affairs, and finds its capital unlmpalred
and that it holds a large surplus above all
claims for losses by Chicago and otherwise, III
Guiding an ample insurance fund.
Gen. kryznowski, for two years past super
visor of internal revenue for the district of
Gcorsia and Florida, has been suspended from
office in consequence of complications grow
ing out Of the uct;llc;,tun of Gould: ono Of his
collectors.
Montreal has contributed $l03, 900 i'll gold,
aud large quantities Of provisions, clothing
&c., for the relief Of Chicago. The mum Der Of
destitute receiving aid has much diminished,
many having obtained employment at good
wages
Charles II. Ward Of the late banking firm
Of Mcllen, Ward l. Co., Boston, sentenced to
three years imprisonment in June 1870, for
cmbcZzng Government funds was to-day re-
leased on pardon from President Grant.
The tanneries in the State Of New York, it
is reported, arc rcccding farther and Elrth-
or northward into the Wilderness. as the sup
ply Of tan bark is gradually becoming eXhaus-
ted.
The New York papers Of yesterday state
that there has been Il union Of all the candl
dates in the city opposed to the Iammany
| Democracy.
There is a story ahoat in New York that an
euleayor is to be made to transfer the Nor
mons from Utah to Santo Domingo. If the
Mormons move off, they will, probably, 60 to
Mexico.
Gov. Bowie of Nd, has issued his proclama-
ton appointing Thursday, the 30th day of No
vcnIhcr a day of THANKSGIVING same day
as selected by the President
Brazil has applied to the Educational Blu
rcau for information relative to the organize
ton of free schools at the South since cmanci-
| patton.
Cardoza, the colored Secretary Of State of
the State Of South Carolina, has resigned to
accept profcssorship in the Howard UNIVERSE
ty at Washington.
Much complaint has been excited in Chlca-
20 by the action of the Underwriters in increas-
Ing the rates of Insurance on grain IN store
II IS NOT True, as reported in the Washington
and other papers, that Rev. James B. Done
Ian, formerly pastor Of st. Matthew's Church
in that city left bequcst OF ten or twelve
| thousand dollars, or any other sum, to George
town College but he did, some time before
his dcccaSc, express to his brothcr-n-law, J.
H. Durry, and others that certain amount of
his means should be devoted to the education
of young men for the Priest hood in the Socic-
| ty of Jesus. The property, formerly his, that
is to be given for this purpose, will 60 to
Woodstock College, Howard County, Mary.
land, which is general Seminary for the diff
terent Jesuit Provinces of the T. S. George.
town College will derive no special benefit from
the generous bequest. -GcorgetoWN Com1cr