Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-08-15
NEWS OF THE DAY.
10 sho,o the gerry age and body Of the Times

10 ShOn0 the gerry age and G0tty Of the Times
On Saturday night Andrew King, John
Johnson and Howard johnson went to the >a-
loon of Mrs. Martha J. Blackwood, in Scots
Vile Sullivan county Missouri, and demanded
oysters. She refused, whereupon they thrca.
tened to kill her, and stated that they had
come there for that purpose. She then opeu-
ed the door and as she stepped in the doorway
was struck in the temple with a rock and knock
cd lnsenSlblr. Sho i;od in two hours. Hing
was soon arrested. but the others have not been
captured Mrs. Blackwood was connected with
some families in Virginia, and with prominent
people in Sullivan county.
The Mikado of Japan is still visiting local..
ties in his Kingdom; he dresses 10 foreign
style Corea wants to fight and threatens to
attack Japan; it is said that if the japanese
had told the u. S. what they knew ofaffairs in
Corea last year, the intentions of our Govern
meut would not have been defeated y horri-
bic murder has been committed by police Off
GERS; railway fares from Iokohoma to lcddo
have been reduced.
The people who witnessed the murder of
James Fisk, .Jr., by Stokes, in New. York, those
whose testimony is important and who have
been detained to give evidence, ate being dis,
charged one by one. 1t is said that next time
Stokes case is called the witnesses will be out
of the way to such prejudice of the prosecution
that he cannot be convicted
Mr.. Muudella, NJ. p of Sheffield, one of
England leading reformcrs, addresseda meet
ing of his constituents on Tuesday night, and
praised both the English and American Govern
ments for their respective courses In regard to
the Washington Treaty and the Geneva Tr
bunal
Mr. Cohen, the English barrster, upon whose
summons to Geneva the correspondents built a
structure Of speculation. was merely sent for to
be on hand in case he was needed to make ex
PLANTATION of the report he made to the Crown
On the subject of the American claims for dam.
ages.
The Grand Jury in New York has been dis
charged without finding an Indictment against
Mr.. Louis Jennings, of the New York Times,
in the libel suit instituted by Fitzpatrick, and
founded on a paragraph concerning his con-
duct as Minister to Chill
The burglars who entered house 10 Broome
street, New York, last month"; and tied and
gagged the occupant, lady, and to whose feet
they offered to apply torch, have just been
sentenced to twenty years each in prison.
The U. S. fleet, with the exception of the
Wachusctt, is at anchor at Gravescnd in the
Thames. The Wabash is to sail with Admiral
Alden for Norway, aud the Shenandoah will
take Minister Schenck to, Havre.
The house of the poet John G. Whittier
was struck by lightning during a thunder
storm, and he himself Frustrated, but tortu
nately he was not severely injured.
Cheap funerals are now advertised in London,
where person can be shrouded, cofned and
buried, with four experienced mourners, for
about twenty dollars.
Foot and mouth disease, in cattle, in an uD-
usually virulent form, is extending in England
to such degree as to excite no little alarm.
A warrant of $336,Sl7 was issued at the
Treasury Department yesterday to pay the
Kansas war claims.
The Government is only waiting to receive
the title to the site to begin the erection of
new buildings in Chicago.
VIM Cregor has been arrested in Phladcl-
phia for counterfeitng nickels
The lager beer dealers of New York are Or
ganizing to oppose the enforcement Of the new
excise law of the State.
Lighthouse keepers are hereafter required to
have certificates of competency.
Another fever ship has put into New York
harbor.
Mr.. Bloxham will probably get the Conscr-
vatlve nomination for Governor OF Florida.
There arc serious Indian troubles in Utah.