Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-08-12
NEWS OF THE DAY.
"7o sho,o the very age and body ofthe Times. ,

At BelviIere, ILL.,, last night, during u heavy
thunderstorm, three burglars, undertook to
enter the counting room of NJ. G. Leonard S
warehouse George futile, on guard, attacked
the scoundrels who were armed. During the
fight futile shot one in the mouth and through
the arm, and knocked another senseless to the
floor. The third fed. The two injured burg
lars are now in JAIL. ' '..' !"
4 dispatch from ST. Louis says Detective
Harrigan, who has been working up the rob-
berry of the United States express delivery
wagon. recovered to-day $4,000 in Kansas
Pacific railroad bonds which composed much
the largest part of the, booty. The bonds were
found in the wood short distance from this
city, on the line of the Terrc Haute railroad y
Last night in Rockford, Illinois, a colored
man named Smith committed 4 horrid outrage
on the daughter of Rev. f. NJ. Walters, aged
IL. The excitement among the citizens III con-
sequence is intense, and talk Of lynchlng him Is
general.
Three infants, said to have been ''farmed'
out to an old woman named Julia Callahan, in
East Cambridge, Mass, died recently, and the
woman is under arrest on suspicion Of killing
them with opium. The coroner jury is inves-
tigating the case.
Gov. Bowie, Of Maryland, on Thursday sign
ed the death warrants of William Pritchard
and Leah Scarborough. Both the condemned
are colorcd persons, recently convicted IN the
Bait Criminal Court The executions will take
place Oh September GOTH
There las been rnnor floating about for the
last three days to the effect that Prof. Aiken
has completed the analyst, of the stomach Of
Major Henry Wharton brought from Norris
town some weeks since), and that no poison mas
been found.
The powers Of a new trotter were develope d
at the races at Buffalo yesterday. The horse
is named Judge Brigham, and he made a halt
mile in LOG. He was bought by Jay Gould
for $50, O00 Goldsmith Maid yesterday made
mile in PIG
The steamship Queen arrived at New York,
yesterday from Liverpool. Among her pas
sengerS are Lydia Thompson and her new
comedy troupe. Which opens at Walack's on
Monday night
The Supreme Council of Honor and Temper
uucc at St. Louis, after transactiug Il large
amount of business of importance to the Or
der, yesterday closed its Sc sslon. 1t will meet
next year at Erie, Pennsylvania.
The New York authorities are getting care
ul about the fitness of engineers. Yesterday
the owner of steam boiler was arrested for
employing an eng ineer who WAS without the
proper certificates. -. .>
An important addition to the many practical
applications of carboHc acid has lately been
b,,., tnD
preparation of rubber hose. .-... .... --.~
Joseph Messner was executed in the Jail
yard, iu Rochester n. Y, yesterday, for the
murder of his wife, in April, 1868. He made
full confession OF his guilt
The attempt to repeal the Sunday laws in
Cincinnati was defeated yesterday by the Board
of Aldermen, who rejected the ordinance to
that effect.
Charles Buxton, NJ. p, and an erninent re-
viewer and leader in the educational move
ment in England, died yesterday.
Vice President Cofax arrived on Thursday
at Milwaukee, where he held reception. He
lett last evening for St. Paul.
Large fires with heavy loss of property Ivy
them, yesterday in Cincinnati aud Cleveland,
Ohio.
The Mexican Government has appropriated
$50, 900 more bounties for Apache scalps.
Mr.. STURGEON has now, it is said, printed
900 of his sermons, of which 10000, 600.
copies have been distributed in the English
language alone. Some of the sermons have
been translated into all the languages of Christ
endom He has recently resumed preaching;
after an enforced silence of several weeks, but
is still in feeble state of health The other
day he told his congregation that each pulpit