Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-06-27
NEWS OF THE DAY.
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the Tennessee river, some distance below
Knoxville, on Thursday last, when Capt
Fritts stepped out of his pilot-housc with
Spencer rifle and shot Captain Coker, who fell
and died few hours afterwards, but not until
he had made a well, providing, among other
things, that $1,000 should be expended i'll
prosecuting Capt. Frtts.
On Sunday last panty Of men attacked a
house in Lawrence county, Indiana, occupied
by four old men, an old lady, and hired man,
throwing benzinc and explosive shells into the
house. The latter exploded and set fire to
the bcnzine, which aroused the family, when
an indiscriminate fire with revolvers was open
cd into the doors and windows. Dangerous,
and perhaps fatal wounds were inflicted on
several of the inmates. The assissins escaped.
ku Klux-aot in the South.
An inspection through \. II. Stewards im-
mense retail dry goods store, in New York, dis
closes some of the latest improvements in the
work of dressmaking and making millinery
goods On the fourth floor are about five hun
dred females and small number Of male as
sistants, engaged in various branches of cutting
and fitting female apparel The majority OF
these employees arc operators on sewing ma,
chimes The machines arc ranged IN rows and
are moved by steam
There arc six labor reform members i'll the
New Hampshire House of Representatives,
who hold balance Of power between the even
ly divided republicans and democrats. This
'little six" have nominated their own State
secretary and treasurer, and the great parties
have made haste to endorse the nominations
The ''Httle six have good thing of tin a
partisan sense but such political trading de-
Dauches politics
The first application by a Heather Chnec"
for the register of trademark at the Patent
Office, was received there yesterday. The ap-
pcaton is made by Lee Ping, of Canton,
China, and Pom Jib, Of San Francisco, Calitor-
MIA, partners under the firm name of kwong
on Chcong, residing in San Francisco, and Gu
gagged in the importation and sale OF tea.
y motion has been adopted in the Toronto
(Canada) Diocesan Synod in favor Of taking
steps by which the concurrence Of the Irish and
Scottish churches and the Protestant Episcopal
Church in the United States might be obtained
for the work Of revising the English version Of
the Bible, now going on under the authority OF
the Canterbury Convention
Girls selling newspapers in competition with
the smart gamins of New York, are now an es-
tablished fact Of metropolitan lie." Nearly
all these girls arc under twelve years OF age,
and the character Of their occupation Is said to
be very dcmoralizing to them, while their earn
lngS arc very small.
The Industrial Exhibition Company chatter
ed by the last New York Legislature, has Sc
cured Il site for its new crystal palace, enl-
braciug % acres, or four flu blocks at the cor
ncr of Fourth avenue and One llundredth
street, New York. The Palace of Industry
will be built.
A fire at Northampton, Mass, has destroyed
the large building occupied by the Clement and
Hawks Manufacturing Company and the North
ampton Pegging Machine Company. The loss
Of the former is $l50,00O; insured for $C4, 900.
Loss of the latter, $35,000; insurance for
$25 900.
Another great fortune that has gone all wrong
is that Of Sir Francis Drake, and those who arc
to set all right again arc, Of course, Americans.
Some 500 brakes have met together IN New
York to decide how to get at the tempting
plum Of 1926, 900 which has somehow been
diverted from its rightful posSessors
a letter from Fort Griffin, Texas, June 7th,
says:-"I suppose you have heard Of the great
slaughter of Indians here. The cavalry met
some two hundred men, women and children,
and showed them no quarter, killing al they
could lay their hands upon" QD
The State Department. in reply to letters
asking for the Cundcrango plant, the recently
discovered cancer remedy, informs the appl-
cants that the supply received Is exhausted. The
success Of the remedy in all cases in which it
has been used is reatfrmed.
The placing Of the Atlanta and Chattanooga
Road in bankruptcy, according to the decision
of the u. S. Circuit Court, was yesterday re-
vcrsed in the Circuit Court Of Montgomery,
Ala, and the road ordered again into the pos
session OF Staunton Il Go.
Mr. Albert Schumacher, one Of the leading
shipping merchants of Baltimore, President Of
the Board of Trade, and Agent for the North
German Lloyd line of steamships, died sudden
ly at his residence, in Baltimore, yesterday
afternoon.
A dispatch has been received from New York
stating that the Board Of Methodist Bishops
refused to concur in the action of the Commit
tee suspending DIR. Lanahan. Bishop Ames
cast the veto vote against the Committee.
Jacob Mueller of Cleveland, the Republican
candidate for Lieut. Gov. of Ohio is native
of Bavaria, and came to this country in 1913.
lie is Il lawyer and Secretary of the German
Insurance Company Of Cleveland.
Suggestions in relation to the new loan have
for some time been reeeivelby the Secretary Of
the Treasury, some of them advising that Ger
tain amounts Of the issue of 1867 be replaced by
the new five per cents
The opening OF the Baltimore, Washington,
and Pittsbu,g Railroad was yesterday celebrated
by an excursion from Baltimore to Pittsburg,
participated in by 4 large number Of prom
inent citizens
Development of species, said IN old bill
discountcr; don't talk to me about develop
ment of species The only thing worth study
ing is tho development of specie.
\ dispatch from Boston announces the death
of rnmmn1o E,n - Rl,lo :. ratirod n,v,l