Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-06-13
NEWS OF THE DAY.
~"To sho,o the very age and do''y Of tic TIMES

by the Grand Jury of the Baltimore Criminal
Court for adultery. The Maryland statute
which makes seduction felony was not IN l"rce
on November lst, 1870, 50 that adultery is the
only crime for which he can be indicted, and
by the Maryland Jaw the highest penalty Is $40
fine, Although it has been gwen out that DIR.
Huston left for Cincinnati on last Monday,
there are some persons who say that he Is still
iu Baltimore.
The warm season has fermcnted It's usual
amount Of crime, in New York. On Saturday
night as citizen was quietly returning from
the theatre with his wife. he was josted against
aud attacked by ruffians, one OF whom struck
him senseless, and left him with his wife shrek
ing for help. From the moment of the attack
to his death. three hours after. he was lncapa-
BILE Of utterance. ..
Judge Bedle, OF Jersey City, sentenced Coul-
missioner W. H. Bunsted, Of the board OF
public works, Saturday to hard labor in the
Trenton State prison for niue mouths: His
oFepse was taking from the treasury, IN bis 9th
cia capacity in violation of law, the sum OF
about SIS, 900, anu giving 1t to party 10
whom the city government owed nothing.
At midnight of Tuesday, Deputy Sheriff
WIN. Hatfield, at Pttsburg, Pa, was stabbed
and killed by Ambrose e. Lynch, alias ''Ihe
Bruisor," at the house Of Lynch sister, Mrs
| Teets, in Allegheny city. Lynch alleges that
he discovered criminal relations between Hat
| field and his sister. Mrs Tccts denies the
| charge.
The Senate, after consideration of over a
month, confirmed, before adiourning, the APP
pointmcnt of Medical Director James G. Palm.
| er to be chief Of the bureau OF medicine and
surgery with the rank Of surgeon general thus
summary disposing Of the claim OF Medical
Director Vivian Pinkney for scnlrlty
Boston is getting ready for the jubilee next
NJ onday. The Coliseum is finished Nearly
all the foreign bands are safely honscd III Bos-
ton. Even the Parrott guns which arc to ao
compsh the graudcst of the grand choru>es
have been tested and found to be perfect IN
the parts assigned them
Baltimore had the luck Of exceptional heat
yesterday, the thermometer reaching ninety
degrees during the day. AT no other station,
even in the South, was the temperature higher,
aud only in Augusta, Was hingtun, Lake City
and Wilmington, was it as high.
1t is stated that large number Of Cuban
sympathizcrs, including Gen. Ryan, have gone
out from New York and joined the alleged fiji
buster Fannie off Barnagat and also that TWO
more expeditions against Cuba arc being ar
ranged IN this country.
Another Car. hook assault has just occurred
in New York, resulting in the death Of the vic
tim. The difficulty was between a conductor
and driver Oh the Eighth avenue road, and
arose out of the strike discussion
The treaty giving Germany working control
over the Luxembourg railways has been signed.
The Germans stipulatc never to make Use OF
the roads for the transportation OF warl'kc MA
tcrial in time of war.
Senator Harlan has bought the one half in
terest of John NJ. Morris in the Washington
| Morning Chronicle, which is to he brought into
| closer relations with the Administration.
Several of the trades in New York are slack
| cning and abandoning the attempt to coercc
employers into the eighthour movement.
The boat in which the London crew rowcd
the match on the Thames last Monday, has
been deposited in the Crystal Palace, in London
The first new wheat Of the season on the Pa
ci6c slope is being sold in San Francisco at
$3.50 per GENITAL
Gerald Massey, the poet, is lecturing in Lon
don on spiritualism. to the doctrines of Which
he is convert His wife is medium.
DANGER OF WINKING-W have all read
of the pitfalls that are spread for the feet OF
unwary wanderers along the toruOus paths OF
this life, but there is no sadder instance of a
truly good man falling into one Of them than
that of certain deacon who resides near Clcve-
land, and happened in that city not long since.
He enjoys the superaddcd excellence OF being
prominent member of Temperance Society.
In Cleveland he purposed to purchase some re-
tail lots of that compound known as soda water,
and betook himself to one Of the dispcnsarles
of the beverage 1t is customary for Cleveland
gentlemen who want an infusion of something
strong in their doses to Cink at the presiding
genius at the fountain. Now the deacon is
troubled with an affection of the eye, which
causes the left lid to drop in close imitation OF
wink. Consequently, as he intimatcd his de-
sire for ''sassaparilla' in his, the treacherous
eye went back on him. the attentive clerk noted
the motion, and diving behind the counter be
reappeared with three fingers in the glass.
The deacon drained the glass; remarked that
there was peculiar and pleasant flavor in the
syrup, and passed out. During the day he
stopped before half dozen other fountains,
always with the same result, and as the shades
of evening fell he was found gracefully asleep
under lamp post with numerous yards of
Dolly Warden, which had been purchased for
his daughter twincd like a martial cloak
around him. Hereafter he will wear a'blinder
over his eye when he orders soda-water: but,
alas, he has lost the bubble reputation at the
fountain S mouth. Ball. 1merican.
DESTRUCTIVE STORM We learn from gen
teman who reached this city yesterday that
there was terrible rain and wind Storm in the
counties of Washington and Smyth on Friday
night last, which destroyed a great deal of tim
ber and blew down many miles Of fence. The
wheat crop suffered greatly, some crops being
literally ruined. the greater part of the roof
of Emory and Henry College was blown off,
and Hcrmesian Hall, especially, very badly
damaged. The water courses were generally
unusually high, and the injury to crops from
their OVERLOOKING is very serious. There had
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