Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-08-30
NEWS OF THE DAY.
$40 sho,o the ue,y oge and body ofhe Times.


weeks ago TWO men giving their names as Sam
Stevenson and John Stratchen, engaged board
at the hotel, and announced their intention OF
going into the watch business-whlch they did:
Their business prospered and they were voted
good fellows; These good fellows had
taken in quite number OF watches and clocks
las we'll as the owners, when one night last
week they decamped very suddenly, borrowing
without permission) sail boat belonging to
one Of the citizens, valued at about $500, and
set sail down the Chesapeake for parts un-
known.
Captain } Theodore Adams, well known
dry goods clerS, employed at Messrs Seessel L.
Sons, in Memphis, Tenn, was killed yesterday
by j. w. S. Brown, an expressman. whose
daughter Adams had seduced: Brown called
Oh Adatus and demanded he should marry the
girl, which was refused. Brown returned with
shot. guu and fired at Adams, who was crouch
ing under the counter, the charge taking effect
in his right leg, the only one he had, having
lost the other in Petersburg, Va Adams lived
about three hours. Brown surrendered.
At Union dock, Baltimore, yesterday, man
was detected in stealing rope, and shot while
trying to make his escape. He died in five
minutes after receiving the fatal wound. Ihe
deceased had served several terms III the City
Jail and one term in the Pcuiteutiary for tho
offence he was committing stealing rope from
vessels in the harhor-uhen shot and was at
that time under bail for his appearance on the
same charge.
\ forged. certified check for. $4,000 WAS
passed yesterday on +. II. Smith, of New
York, by man named Van Saun. Smith
had sold Van Saun gold to the above amount,
and took the certified check in payment On
presentation at the Continental Bank the Ger,
tiication turned out to have been forged, and
the check worthless. Van Saun has dlsap-
peared and the gold with him.
The man BuckhorSt, who was three times
tried and ultimately convicted and sentenced to
be hanged for numbering ueighbor at White
Plains, New York, and who came very near
MORALLY woundng his wife also: has been re-
spited by Gov. Hoffman. There appears to be
some doubt of Buckhorst's sanity.
Last nights dispatches from Charleston
state that few new cases of yellow fever have
been reported, and there have been three
deaths since Monday Whether or not the dis
ease will become epidemic is still matter OF
doubt and contrary opinions.
One boat $ crew from the ship Linda, wreck
ed on the Florida coast, has been rescued at
sea, but there is still ano ther boat FROM the
ship, of the fate Of which nothing Is known
Twenty one persons were lost by the wreck OF
the steamship l.odOna. and twelve we're saved.
The Building Committee Of the Baltimore
City Hall, yesterday awarded Messrs. Bartlett,
Robbins e. Co., the contract for constructing
the mansard roof on the new City Hall. The
price fixed is $60,75O.
Detailed reports Of the railroad slaughter at
Revere, Mass. on Saturday night. are given.
Thirty.two deaths have occurred So far, and
some of the patients in the hospitals are be-
yond hopes of recovery.
A Pennsylvania pork packing company has
this year erected at Des Moines. Iowa, Il pack
ing house with capacity Of cutting one thou
sand hogs per day, and will be ready for opera
ton at the opening Of the packing season.
Cramp T. Son have laid the keel Of the first
iron steamer for the Pennsylvania Railroad
LIVERPOOL line, on Pctty's Island The keel for
the second will be laid immediately vat the same
place.
Samuel j. Valley. late Collector Of the Port
of Buffalo, has been tried before the i. s..
Court for that District. and found gull ty OF
malfcasance in office.
Another bidder for the French Communists
has appeared. This time it is the London
Worklnen's Society, which wants them with a
view to colonizing Lower Canada.
The Mobile reports place the number Of kill
cd by the explosion on the steamboat Ocean
IL,
but their bodies have not been recovered.
The remains of the young girl packed in a
box to be sent from New York to Chicago
have been identified as those Of Ruth Billings,
of Boston.
SANDY SPRINGS, Mp.--A correspondent of
the Cincinnati Commercial gives pleasant
account of 4 recent visit he made to Sandy
Springs Montgomery county, Md: and Of the
kind reception and entertainment he received
there from its inhabitants, who are mostly of
the Society OF Friends. He refers especially
t. the families ur the NIillers, and Stablers,
ands Haowel's to their thrift and industry
and hospitality-to the beauty Of the country,
and the excellence Of their farms and con-
cludcs with the following ''rcminiscence" of a
Quaker Julep' -
My Quaker friend SOON returned with a
pleasant smile and sincere manner. In his
hand he held a cut-glass tumbler, half full of
ice, with small wine glass full Of some dark
amber-colored liquid. A silver bowl Of sugar
and Il spoon were in the other hand, and with
those kc sat down on the rustic seat beside me-
Presently Il colored girl bought some mint,
and my Quaker took few spears OF it, put it
in the tunltler crushed it slightly against the
glass, put i'll spoonful or two of sugar, filled
the tumbler viii, water, shook it up in IL lively