Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-10-02
NEWS or TIE PAY.
$50 sEo,g the rery aye and body 4ffhe Tin'es

$50 sho,p the rtfy age and body fhte Times.
Geo. O. Evans, the Agent Of Pennsylvania,
who is charged with having detrauded the
State out of s29l 400. which he retained as
commission on disallowed and suspended claims
against the General Government, was arrested
in New York on Friday last, on requlstlon
from the Gov. of Penn. On Saturday under
writ of habeas corpus, he was brought before
| Judge NIcCunn, and his release asked on the
Ground that the resolution Of the Pa. Legsla;,
ture authorizing his appointment as Il Special
Agent provided that his commission should not
be more than ten per ct. - The amount nc
had retained was just ten per ct. on the sum
which he claims to have collected, to which he
contends he is entitled. Decision reserved until
this morning lie claims to have collected
nearly 5000, 600, whilst the State Treasurer
makes the amount but SGOO,OO
4 destructive fire broke out in Chicago, on
Saturday, in building known as the Burllng-
ton Warehouse, one part of which was used Tor
the Storage of merchandise, and the other
part as 4 Government bonded warehouse. In
| the first department were goods belonging To
nearly two hundred firms, and valued at
SSO000O, all Of which were destroyed, while IN
the bonded warehouse were goods worth
$3,OnU,OOO, all of which escaped injury by rca-
son of thick iircwall. On the goods de-.
stroyed there is III aggregate insurance OF
100000.
Harvey Sandusky, Of Catlin, ILL.,, disappear
ed from the Chicago House recently with 4
large amount Of money, anu it was supposed
that he had been murdered 1t is now lScer-
tanned that he left his hotel with James lahcry,
who says that Sandusky bought Il new suit OF
cloths, and then proceeded to i lumber yard
and changed his cloths. Leaving his old ones
and throwing his hat into the river. he took q.
train for Lyons, Iowa His life WAS insured
for Sc, 900, and he had conveyed all his prop
erty to his sons.
\ frightfu accident occurred yesterday at
Wheeling. One Of the cables Of the old SuSpcn-
sion bridge, broke with nine persons on the
bridge, five OF whom fell thirty feet. Two were
killed outright, another is since died and three
others are badly hurt The otherlhrcc chung to
the other cable and got off. The bridge has
| been unsafe for some time and was closed by
order of the City Council, but the employees
Of the iron mill had removed the distractions
for their own convenience.
The yacht Livonia, which arrived at New
York last night, made the run from Cnwrs III
twcnyuine days, three hours and thirty mu-
utcs. She reports left CowcS 'scptrmbcr > at
halt-plSt five o clock p. III. Her voyage was
unusually stormy; was hove to for thirteen
hours on the l4th and 18TH, and Tor thrty-tllrcr
hours in hurricane.
The type foundry of Mackcllar II .I'lrlan, IN
PHILADELPHIA, Was rublcd yesterday u! ;2,loO
in grrcnbackS, by four men, one I'll whom en-
gagged the attention nt the cashier while the
others made of with the funds. An unsuc-
cesSlil) attempt was made Saturday TO ROB tue
messenger of the First National Bank, of Phil
! dcphia.
The report Of the New York Board OF 'har-
nacy shows that ont Of two hundred and fifty
druggists and one hundred ANA ninety clerks
examined by the commissioners, sixty druggists
and ciehly-onc clerks failed to give sufficient
proof of the qualifications necessary.
George II. Mumt0rd, a prominent citizen of
Rochester, n. y, and for many years officially
connected with the Western Union Telegraph
| Company, died suddenly yesterday lie Was
attending to business in the morning.
An infant i few days old was thrown from
the Orange County New York, express train
on the Eric road Friday evening, while pass
ing through Patterson, and died almost instant
y. There is no clue to the criminal.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has given in
structions at New York to purchase $2,000,no0
of bonds each Wednesday, land to sell s., 900
of gold on each Thursday during the present
| month.
The course Of Vincent Collycr and the Peace
Commissioners in thwarting the campaign Of
Gen. Crook against the :ApachcS is denounced
ly the whole press and the public Of California
and the Pacific coast.
Alcutan Islanders have killed $4,000 fur
seals this season, but they were unable to sell
more than half Of the skins, and threw the
remainder, worth $685. if properly cured,
| into the sea-
The month Of September has been the hot
test month Of the season in California. The
heat continues undated. The Sacramento
river is Il foot lower than ever before known.
\ case Of yellow fever has occurred in Gin
cinati The victim was gentleman who had just
returned from NatchGz, where he had been to
visit sick brother who died of the disease.
Henry ". Ycrkcr, aged scvcnty-tivc years.
residing at BranchvilIc, n. j., cut his wife TO
pieces with an axe yesterday, and killed himself
with gun.
The yellow fever is abating i'll Charleston,
S. G. The physicians in that city report that
there had been no deaths during the last TWEEN
| ty-four hours.
Attorney General Farrow Of Georgia has
been discharged from the charge Of cheating
and Swndliug brought against him.
WASHINGTON TTEMs.-A paragraph in the
Washington Chronicle says :-'Mr. W. W.
| Corcoran has been confined TO his residence for
the past week, and has been obliged to keep
to his bed inr the greater portion of tI'at time