Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-03-09
NEWS OF THE DAY.
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NEWS OF THE DAY.
$50 Sho,o the rry age and Jody Of the Times"
In the trial Of Mayor Hall in New York yester-
day Garvey the noted plaster was placed on the
stand as a witness for the prosecution and told
the story of his own rascallty in presenting Il
fraudulent bill to the city for 1895 600 for plas
teripg pretended to have been done on the
Court House. He was paid thirty-hve per
cent. OF the claim, OF which he kept S3O,Oo0
for himself, gave Tweed the same amount, and
the remainder was distributed among his ac-
completes. There was nothing directly impll-
eating Mayor Hall in the affair, except that
the warrant for pay must have passed through
his hands and been audited by him. Elk
Comptroller Connolly has fled from New York
on account of the threats of his former conted-
crates of the Ring that if he came into
court to testify against them, they would pro.
duce evidence that he had been convicted OF
crime in Philadelphia and been pardoned out
of prison by the Governor of Pennsylvania.
The Grand Duke Alexis and a party Of fifty
visited yesterday Juan Poey's sugcr plantation
near Havana, one of the largest on the island,
and inspected the process of sugar manufacture
with its peculiar machinery and chemical APP
plianccs. The towns and villages aloug the
line were decorated, and the inhabitants as
sembled at various points to welcome the son
oil the Car. A grand dinner was given on the
plantations which was attended by two hundred
guests. The Grand Duke expressed himself
highly delighted with the visit
4 cattle law has been passed by the General
Assembly of Illinois which provides that lit
shall be unlawful for the owners OF any domes-
tic animals of the species Of horse, mule, ass,
cattle, sheep, goat or hog, to suffer the same
| to run at large in any county III the State. -
| The law subjects the owners OF the animals to
fine of from three to ten dollars for every Of
| fence.
The house Of Captain Joseph Bryant, at
Machias Port, Maine, was burned at 3 O'Clock
yesterday morning. Captain Bryant togeth-
err with his wife and two grandchildren,
aged about - and II years, persisted In the
fire. Mr. Bryant was about 10 years OF age,
The bodies we're rescued, but we're very badly
burned 1t is not known how the lire orlgl-
mated.
w. T. G. Sharks, city editor Of the New
York Tribune, was assaulted yesterday after
noon in his Office by Joel A. Fithian, son-in-
law of ex- Comptroller Connolly. Fthian was
auycrcd at an article in the Tribune of the morn
ing. A warrant was issued for his arrest
The scvercst snow storm of this winter has
prevailed at st. Paul, Mimi, since Thursday
morning. Over foot of snow has fallen on
level and at last accounts it was still falling very
fast. Reports from the West give the same
condition of affairs.
The French residents of Boston have ap-
pointed committee of ladies to solicit sub
scriptions, and adopted other steps, for raising
money to aid in the payment of the French
debt to Germany.
President Grant was present last night at
banquet given by merchants of Philadelphia,
at the Academy of Music, to Colonel John w.
| Fornev, on his retirement from the collector
ship Of that port.
The President having approved the act re-
pcaling that part of schedule { imposing tax
on prepared mustard, sauces, syrups, jams and
iellies the collection Of the tax ceased on the
| 9th inst.
Albert Harvey .colored was arrested at Lima,
nine years ago He was living with his fourth
wife.
The special relief committee of Chicago has
reported to the Relief and Aid Society the ex
penditure of S2O6, 226 to February Goth.
UNION RAILROAD DEPOT The Baltimore
| and Ohio Railroad Company has deposited
| with the House Committee on the District of
! Columbia plan showing the proposed connec-
! ton of the Baltimore and Ohio and Baltimore
and Potomac Railroads by tunnel under Capt.
toll Hill, with grand union depot to be loca-
ted at the intersection Of Maryland and Virgin
| ia avenues, between Seventh and Ninth streets
west The plan proposes to tunnel under Cap
| ito Hill, beginning at point on Delaware
avenue, between D and 4 streets NORTH and
running under Delaware avenue to the Capt.
to grounds, under the East Capitol Park,
emerging at point between Delaware avenue
and & street south near the canal, thence along
G. street on grade to the point suggested tor
the depot The tunnel will be 3, "a feet long,
80 feet below the surface at the east Capital
Square, and will have 20 openings at the top
at any point. Should this plan he adopted the
present depot of that Company will be abolish
ed, as also the railroad along Fist street west
aud down Maryland avenue. 1t is proposed
that the grand union depot shall be magnif-
cent structure in all of its arrangements. The
plan nuts all of the companies on the same
footing. and, if adopted, does away with the
proposition of the Baltimore and Potomac
Road to erect their depot ut Sixth and b
streets, and thus prevents that Comnany from
laying a track up Sixth street. Washington
Star
The journal de Chime Medicale, in very
interesting article, states the yearly value OF
cigar stumps picked up in the streets OF Paris
and sold to tobacco manufacturers to be 49,
900 francs. There are about POO persons thus
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