Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-11-01
NEWS. OF THE DAY.
$50 sho,c the per!y age and body of the Tim

has been pending TOT 50 long tilDe WAS yeS-
teriay given to the jury. Judge Brady charged
the Jury to thq effect that it it appeared that
there was wilf,h and Intentional neglect ION
the parrot the accused to perform the duties
enioned upon him by law, then ne should be
found guilty on the first charge, and that II
the jury believed that the accused knew the;
claims to be false and certified them, then he
should be found guilty on the. second charge.
Judge Barrett, Of New York, yesterday
cverrucd the demurrer filed by the defendants
counsel ID. thetcivil suits brought by the Board
of Supervisors against VIM. NJ. Tweed and
others, The demurrer denied the right of the
Board, of Supervisors to bring the suits, The
decision of the Court is to the effect that the
Board is the proper party to appear as PLAIN
tiff. .,,.. i.@
Two strong-lninded women, residents of Jer-
sey City, yesterday appeared before the officers
OF registration and demanded to be enrolled as
voters The question being submitted to the
| CITY Attorney, he decided that the law gave
them no such right: 1t is proposed to take
the matter into Court.
On Tuesday night party Of disguised men
visited the cabin of colored man, residing on
| the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad, near
| 1'ullahoma, and demanded admission. On be-
ing refused they broke: open the door The
| colored man shot one Of them dead.
John A. Griswold died yesterday at Troy
He was elected to Congress by the Radicals IN
! 1862, and served for two years. In 1868 he
| was the Radical candidate for Governor against
| Hoffman. He was proprietor of an extensive
iron mill near Troy, and was very rich man.
The nineteenth annual meeting Of the Amer
| lean Home Missionary Society, was held in
New York city yesterday Encouraging re-
ports OF missionary work were received. Re
ceipts the past year were $50. 93S: expendl-
lures $4S, 4G4
Mr.. John Agnew, one OF the Oldest and best
known builders of fire engines in this country,
died in Philadelphia on Friday last, in the SD
| year of his age Many of his hand engines are
still to be found in various sections OF the
country.
IIepworth Dixon, the English newspaper
writer and author, who was correspondent OF
the London Telegraph during the tranco-G Ger
man war, has been honored by the Emperor
| William with the decoration OF Knight OF the
Golden Cross
George W. Robinson, who has been on trial
at Wheeling, Virginia, for the fatal shooting
of Mr. Scarborough, few months ago, was
found guilty of voluntary manslaughter, and
sentenced to two years Imprisonment III the
penitentlary
1t seems that iu the large purchase Of bonds
made by the Secretary of the Treasury on the
| .h-ultimo, was four 'or five millions of the
| forty four millions Of greenbacks supposed to
have been retired by Secretary McCulloch.
Lieutenant Moore and gunner Mahoney, Of
her British Mnjesty's soop-ofwar Shearwater
| emuous of Lcander and Byron, swan the
| lIellispont from Ahydos to Lestos Cd the 18th
ultimo.
The statement of the foreign and Southern
| ooastwise trade of Baltimore, Tor this month";
shows the number of arrivals Of vessels to be
| one less than last month, while the number OF
clearances have been IN excess.
Mr.. Froude, the English historian, has rea
! lized the comfortable sum Of $4,000 from the
recent course of lectures delivered by him IN
New York city. ..........
The Jury in the case of Chief of Police Nc
Williams, of Jersey City, failed to agree and
has been discharged.
Forty thousand soldiers are to be added to
| the Sponish army.
Five hundred of the refugees from Alsace
and Lorraine have gone to Algeria.
4 Man KILLED Ar PORT ROYAL 1nforma-
| ton was received in Fredericksburg Wednesday
morning that a difficulty had occurred at Port
Royal, in Caroline county, the day before, be-
tween Dcls Slack, connected with keckner 4
Co.'S, circus, and Isaac Morton; (col. post master
at that place, which resulted in the death of the
latter. Both parties we're under the influence of
! liquor. Slack made his escape "Wednesday
evening United States Commissioner Turkey and
the Commonwealth Attorney for Caroline
arrived in Fredericksburg in search of Slack,
whereupon Mayor Berrey issued warrant for
his arrest, but he could nowhere be found.
Several of the employees Of the company, we're
left the company.
1t appears that about l0s O'clock Tuesday
night, party belonging to the Circus went to
the house kept by Morton, and there INDUCED
| 10 drinking, more or less 4 political talk was
| INDUCED In, but no extraordinary excitement
resulted from it. Morton, at length, said he
| must close his house. and ordered the party to
leave there being some four belonging to the
| Circus present They refused to CO. 1t was
in evidence that at this point Morton drew
pistol, whereupon Slack, one Of the Circus par
ty asked bystandcr, to whom he had pre-
viousy given his pistol to hand it back to him;
The witnesses, three of them, Circus men
said they then left, fearing trouble, and heard
two pistol shots as they left 1t appears that
Morton was killed instantly by the shot, Anoth-
er colored man was shot through one OF his arms.
It is also said that a shot was fired at MIR.
Gibbs which came near killing his daughter;
1t further appeared that Slack, the alleged
murderer, came into the camp of the Circus
company at q late hour that night with his
head tied up. He, Slack, came on with the
Circus yesterday morning, to within six miles
of town, when he got down from the wagon
and washed his face 10 Massaponnix run, and
has not been seen since.-Fred. Ledger and
Herald
AN AsToN.snEG ELGER The State of Ohio
used to be famous for it's camp meetings and re-
ligious revivals; but an Ironton paper tells US
of circumstance which lately occurred in that
locality, which is strong indication that there