Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-02-01
NEWS OF TIE ssA y.

ScrS and valley al the cilnWS'nne river, III
MONTANA, Territory. 80 az 10 include 4 tract OF
land forty miles one way aud forty five the 9th
or in extent. and to place II under The control
of tie Secretary Of the Interior contains
clause (slvS tie Wa~hinoton parlnG} comforting
authority on that officer 10 '.aSe II ont fora
term of fifty or u hundred years.
The National Convention to Sccurca religious
amendment to the CONSTITUTIONS met at Cnc!n-
natl. Yesterday. about two hundred and fifty
Delegates being present frnm different States
Judge VI. 3. Ilagan. OF Circinnati, was chosen
President. with nllnlncr OF ! icr Presidents
and Secretaries Letters were read from i Num-
Der of gentlemen. including Judge Strong, oil
the l.. :. Supreme Court. "egrcttlng their ina
biIIty to attend.
Judge MciIcan Of the /. s. s'our AT Salt
Lake City, is disposed TO be strict in his deal
incs with the Mnrnon$. Attorney General
WiII;alnS having requested. through district
Attorney Bates. that the prisoners ~ admitted
to bail Judge Mexican prrcmptnriiy refuses.
with some Qualifying references IN The ro>>iblc
interpnSticn OF! Judge lynch.
Mr. Hooper representa-" Utah III ;hc House
of Representatives. has addressed lctc" To
several Of the committees of congress. arguing
against the action Of the Territorial Supreme
Court in ;lrreStng and combining MnrIn"S nc
cuscd Of crime. and claiming that Judge Nc
kcalI : decisions. under which the indictments
are found. are unconstitutional.
\ telegram was received 1T the Internal
Revenue Bureau yesterday trOm l!r. Gordon.
assessor of the First District of 'f1xaS, announc-
ing the sudden death Of Assistant Assessor ".
Coyle Bayli-s. ut Cnr>ranna, III that State, on
the 18th nit. Mr.. BayS> was native nl
Washington.
The experiments instituted in $50 by the
Kansas Pacific Railroad Company TO test the
possibility of rc@laimlng for agricultural puFL"s-
cs the most unpromlSing regions OF What has
been known as the great American desert, have
bees attended with satisfactory results.
The RcvolutonSts are continuing their sue
ceSSfll progress in northwestern Mexico. The
town of Camargo has been successfully Hankc'l.
and the next movement will pr;hnbIy hc upon
the important city of AatanoraS.
The amount Of paper money i'll circulation III
the 'nitcd States at the present time Is over
three hundred and ninclynin millions ii dol
lars
Glash;cr. the nroraut has noticed that the
voice of a woman is audible in a balloon ut the
height Of about two miles, while that oi Il man
has never reached higher than Il mic.
The cases against Tweed in the New York
Supreme Court. have been laid over uHll!
March.
The smallpox Is spreading and increasing in
Chicago
4 CHARGE or MlHEEH. published
some DAYS since IL letter from Il Respondent
in Huntsville. Scott county. Tennessee. giving
the particulars ~ far Is they were then known.
OF a sensation which had profoundly affected
the sturdy and aw-ahi,Iing m"unia!nccrs OF
that region ii was stated that on Monday,
january the SIN. the body ot' Il Girl, about thlr-
teen or fourteen years old. was tnuid hy the
road side. in an nnlrcqucntcd Wilderness pol
: ton Of Scott county. about ten miles from
Huntsville. The bod Y was recognized as that
Of bound girl employed in Huntsville We
have learned more particulars Of the affair,
which VIC now lay before our readers:
The girl : name was Angelina Moore. aged III
years. Angcne had been bourd to Il wonlan
named kczmh Thompson. who lives near
Huntsville When the body was discovered in
a mnuutan tlctiic, near y fourteen miles beyond
Huntsville, it presented Il horrible appearance.
One eye wa, mashed in. the collar bone di>!o-
Gated. and several ribs broken. and bruises m
Vulnerable bore evidence Of ite most inhunaIl
treatment. 1t was not at fir! recognized and
was buried By the finders.
Soon afterwards. however. the fact n1 the
disappearance of Angclinc Moore having de-
| come known, the body was dSlntcrred and a
coroner inquest was held The body was re-
cognizcd as that of the missing girl, and Il YER
dict rendered that Angelina Moore came to her
| death from cause "r CAUSES unknown to the
jury.
| ThompSon to whom the dead Girl had been
bound as having knowledge Of the manner
! in which she came 70 her death. Mrs. 1homp-
son is widow lady and resides ahnlt two miles
from Huntsville Ii was rumore'i that the girl
had been subjected to severe and cruel treat
ment, so inhuman that she was not given ne
ccSsarv clothing and shelter and in consequence
had her fingers and toes badly frozen.
The grand urv found Il true bill against Mrs.
Thompson and her daughter Sallie Thompson,
for the murder OF the girl, and on Tuesday last,
the two women were arrested, and admitted to
bail in the sum Of Sln,0DD each.
The only motive that is given by the neigh
bors as the possible reason for the murder OF
Angelina Moore, by Mrs Thompson and her
daughter, is that some property held by them
would, in short tune, have reverted to the
girl, and they, perhaps, wished to avoid the ne
ccsSity Of parting with it. It is supposed by
the mountaineers that Mrs. Thompson carried
the girls body, at night, fourteen miles into
the mountains, in order to avert suspicion from
herself Considerable excitement exists about
the affair in Scott county, and llrS. Thomp-
son $ sex prevents, perhaps, an exhibition OF
Judge Lynch law. The evidence against the
two women. however, is entirely cIrcun<tantIal.
-knorriic Press.
ANOTHER GRANGE are informed thai
one Of the two most distinguished Unitarian
cergymen of this city (wh0>c name we are not
now permitted to mcntion) is about to abandon
that ecclesiastical connection and take refuge
in the Episcopal Church This vii! be an al
most fatal blow to the prospects of that dcnon-
ination in this part of the country The dctec-
ton of Dr. OSgood was never regarded as IL
serious loss by those who had tasted the favor
of what our reviewer once called his moral
muSh''; and the more recent Topping of Hep
worth d,sDitc ali his efforts to give the same