Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-08-07
NEWS OF THE DAY.
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Henry w. Rogers, Of Baltimore, on Satur-
day instituted q suit against Mrs. Wharton for
the recovery of IS, 700, loaned that lady some
months since, on promlSsory note. Si,OOO
has been paid on the note since Mrs Whar-
tons arrest. The Philadelphia papers of Sat
urday publish despatch, dated from Wash
ington, charging Mrs. Wharton with having
attempted to poison the wife Of 4 wcll-known
merchant of Baltimore. The lady referred to
is now in Europe.
The Ku-Klux trial before the U. S. Com
missioner, at Memphis, in which four men
were arraigned for the murder of man named
Garrett, who was taken from Jail in Saul sbury,
Tenn, last June, terminated last week in the
discharge Of the prisoners, the Comm ssloner.
being satisfied the prosecution on the part OF
the principal witnesses was malicious and their
testimony untrue Two of the witnesses were
arrested for perjury and committed to Jail.
John Pickrell, of New York, who was recent
ly arrested in North Carolina, charged with
frauds in railroad bonds, has been brought out
Of Jail by habeaS corpus. After hearing the
case the prosecutors agreed to enter nollc
proscqui and submit al questions to arbitration
prov .dcd PricErcn would not sue them for
damages. The proposition was accepted by
Pickrell, and III the parties rstrrncd to Will
mlngton.
At a meeting of Germans in Cincinnati reso-
lutions were passed declaring that a day of rest
is Il moral and physical necessity, and that
every sanction should be employed to enforce
its observance to the interest OF the labOrlng
man.
The Italian demonstration in honor Of the
unity Of Italy and the occupation of Rome by
Francisco yesterday The procession is dcs-
cribcd as hay ing been tasteful and brilliant
No offensive incrIptlons were displayed.
A white man and colorcd woman visited
Snow Hill, Nd, on Thursday for the purpose
of being married. No prca could be
found to portcrm the ceremony
The friends Of the late Clement .Eallandig-
ham held 4 meeting at Daytonla, week, and
appointed a committee to report i plan for
erecting L suitable monument to b. memory.
CHANGES IN PROPERTY. liter from
New York says:-"Onc illustrate n Of the pc
cular manner in which property cha ngcs hands
may be offered by the following occurrence in
one of our suburbs on the Hudson. \ man OF
large wealth, needing somebody to instruct his
child, employed a gOvCrncSs whom he Subsc-
qucntly married. lie was advanced in life and
survived the marriage but a few years. After
his death, it was found that his will not only
provided handsomely for his child, but gave the
widow an independent fortune. The money
which he had accumulated by prolonged indus
try md economy now passed into the hands of
Il woman, who but few years previously was q
stranger to him. The once poor teacher found
herself independent, and after the proper sea-
son Of mourning was over, she resumed her
place in active society. Being we'll educated
and we'll endowed she could not fail to attract
admirers, and 4 young physician sought and
won her hand. They were married and lived
very happily, but soon the recent bride was at
tackled by fatal disease, and last week she
died. 1t is now learned that the estate goes in
to the hands of the newly made widowcr, who
thus takes 4 fortune earned by one whom he
never saw, and who little dreamed that such
change would be so quickly wrought in his
property. But such arc among the strange oc-
currcnccs which come beneath our notice.
RIOT IN DUBLIN, IRE1AND.-A dispatch
from Dublin, dated yesterday, says, that in
spite of the prohibition by the authorities, the
friends of amnesty, attempted to hold a meet
ing in Phoenix Park. Smythc, member of Par
Lament, Sullivan, editor of the Nation, and
John Sullivan Byrnc, entered the Park with
large crowd \ Police Superintendent stand
ing on the Wellington Monument, ordered
Smythc and his followers to dcsist, when he
vas hurled from the monument and badly NAL.
treated A fearful riot ensued. The police
charged upon the mob, beating men, women
and children Unfortunately The fight lasted
half an hour, when the police having been re-
inforced, succeeded in dispensing the rioters.
Smythe, Sullivan, and man named Nolan,
were badly wounded. Over one hundred in
iured have been taken to hospitals The au-
thorites arc firm in their determination to pre-
vent the meeting, and the leaders Of the at
tempt to-day will be prosecuted. y