Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-02-07
NEWS OF THE DAY.
"To sho1c the rery age and body of the Times

IE0cEOuTg auu AfollOlh, II Il Sdlu, LIN Iiiiu"-
ing about selling their stock in the Atlantic.
Mississippi aud Ohio railroad. Lynchburg has
some 5000 600. The city council favor the
sale, and negotiations have already been open
ed, with a fair prospect of an early consumna-
ton. The Lynchburg News says that should
any other corporation than that headed by
Gen. Malone become the purchaser Of the
stocks owned by both cities, it would give 1t a
controlling interest in the line.
4 dispatch from Norwich, Conn. says:-A
man named Ewing, employed by DR.. S. john
son, Of Bazrah, to-day attacked his employer 5
daughter with 4 shot gun, i~nflicting probably
fatal wounds. He then attacked the mother,
who came to her daughters relief, causing
painful though not dangerous wounds. Ewing
then went to his room and cut his throat trom
ear to ear, causing death. The young man
was in love with the young lady bit his suit
was discouraged.
The woman preacher who has created such
a sensation in Brooklyn is a member of the
Society Of Friends. She is a maiden LADY,, and
her name is Sarah F. Smiley, a native Of Phila-
delphia, aged about 80 years. She started out
as a preacher about four years ago, under the
auspices of the Society Of Friends. In 1869
she visited Great Britain and held meetings in
the Orkney Islands and in Scotland, where she
preached in the Presbyterian. Methodist and
Baptist Churches.
Rev. Sir John Hutchinson, a clergyman of
the Church of England. a member OF the Pas
sionist Society, and a disciple of the advanced
school of Ritualists. oficiated at Mount Calvary
Episcopal Church, on last Sunday, in Balti-
more with all the Ritualistic ceremonies. Bish-
op Nottingham has prohibited him from off,
eating hereafter in any Episcopal Church in
Maryland.
The Connecticut Democratic State Conven-
ton met Yesterday and nominated a full ticket.
headed by Richard D. Hubbard for Governor.
The platform recognizes the validity OF the
Constitutional amendments, demands universal
amnesty, Civil Service Reform, and expresses
sympathy with the Cuban revolutionists.
1t is reported that a large portion of Helena:
Arkansas, was destroyed by fire yesterday
The telegraph lines are Frustrated by the storm,
and nothing definite is known.
\ dispatch from Scranton says:-.An explo-
sion of a fire damp took place at Horton
Mine, four miles below P~ittston, this morning.
Three men were killed and several injured.
WASHINGTON, CINCINNATI, AND ST. LOUIS
RAILROAD CoMPANY.-A bill for the incorpo-
ration Of this new railroad company was presen-
ted to the Senate yesterday. The corporators
named are William Mines, Jr., ?. B. Borst,
B. I. Grayson, T. NJ. Almond, A. Broaddus,
Isaac Long, j. W. Ashley, II. NJ. keyser, and
NJ. Splitter, of Page county, Va; J: G. Davis,
James Stevens. J. Beazley and CIV. Mitchell,
of Greene county, Va; A.: B; Trick, 7. S: Rol-
Ter, A. E. Grey and G. WsAlemopy, Of Rock
ingham county, Va; Adam Stevenson: W: W:
county, Va; w. W. Flanagan, William A.
Robertson, 4. D. Almond, and Rawles Abel,
Of A%lbermale county, Va; R. H. Maury,
Thomas Branch, w. Taylor, {. Stearns, and
Wellington Goddin, Of the city of Richmo nd,
Va.
The company is authorized to construct, esta-
bliSh, and maintain a narrow-gauge railroad to
be known as the Washington, Cincinnati and
St. Louis railroad, to begin at a point on the
Potomac river opposite the District Of Column
bia, in the State of Virginia, and to run thence
by the most practicable route to ONE point on
the Virginia and West Virginia State line,
either in the county of Rockingham or in the
county of Augusta, in the State of Virginia
whence the said road may be extended through
the State of West Virginia with a branch from
a suitable point on said road via Charlottesville.
in the county of Albemarle. to the city of
Richmond, in the county Of Henrico; also, a
branch from some suitable point on said road
to the city of Alexandria.
The capital stock of the company shall not
exceed the sum of fifteen millions of dollars, to
be divided into shares of one hundred dollars
each and when FIVE hundred shares shall have
been subscribed by persons or corporations, un-
der the direction of any three of the corpora
tors hercinbefore named, the subscribers shall
assemble in Luray, Va, upon the call of the
first five named corporators, or q majority OF
the same, to organize the company under this
act, to elect a president and board of directors,
whose term of Office shall be three years
Rich. Dis.