Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-09-14
NEWS OF THE DAY.
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"To sho,o the very age and body OF the Times
Philip Clingin Smith, at one time Mormon
Bishop of Cedar City, Utah. deposes that he
was at the Mountain Meadow Massacre; that
the fight between the Mormon assailants and
the l-fated emigrant train lasted two days;
ut the end of which time the defenders were
treacbcrously induced to give up their arms,
and then they were brutally murdered, men,
women and children except the very youngest,
who we're preserved to make saints Of
A terrific boiler explosion took place in
foundry in Cincinnati, yesterday, by which
three persons were killed and mise others in
iured The boiler was new one, aDd was be-
ing tested with but sixty pounds of steam on.
The fault probably lies IN the employment OF
defective euage, which, by misleading as to the
anonnt or pressure allowed of the steam get
ting too high.
Forester, who was arrested in Washington
few days since, and taken to New York, has
been identified as one of three men who we're
seen near the house of Mr.. Nathan on the
night of his murder A convict in the Con-
nccticut State prison is to be brought Oh to
testify against him, who, it is stated, was cog
INFANT of the murder, if he was not a partccps
crimins.
Governor Curtin declines nomination to
Congress by the Radicals of Centre county, Pa.
He states that his health will not admit of it,
but he hopes before the close of the campaign
to take part in it. His letter is altogether non
| committal with regard to the side he will es-
pouse
The Geneva arbitrators visited Thun, no.
| ted summer resort, sixteen miles from Berne,
on Thursday. Thun has a venerable church,
feudal castle seven hundred years old, and Is
noted for its manufacture Of silk stutfs.
| Rev. G. w. Dennison, of Washington,
proposes to sue the Hartford Post and Courant
for several thousands of dollars each, because
they impugn his veracity in the matter OF Tres
deDt Grants sobriety
| \ Shanghai dispatch of the 18th instant, by
way of San Francisco, states that Shanghai
has subscribed six million francs to the French
loan. \ I'ien Tsin man was bchcadcd for kid
mapping Chinese child.
Henri Rochcfort, the once brilliant Partisan
journalist, is said to be dying at New Caledonia,
whittier he has been exiled for participation IN
Commune.
Hon jeremiah Black, Of Pennsylvania, has
written a letter generating PostmasterG
eral Creswa from completely in the Chorpen-
ming claim.
john Riddle, charged with the murder OF
Michael Callahan in Chicago on Sunday last,
was captured in Milwaukee yesterday after,
noon.
Rev. J. C. Butler, Chaplain of the House
of Representatives, Washington, has been Sc
ected as Chaplain Of the Pttsburg Soldiers
and Sailors Convention.
Earthquakes accompanied by underground
explosions, have recommended in River Valley.
| Inyo county, California, but no damage has yet
! been done.
\ specal to the London, Eng, Daily News,
says that the three great Emperors have re-
solved to advise the Pope to abandon the
| Jesuit fraternity.
Thirty-two chiefs and one squaw, from Da-
kota and Montana, we're 10 Columbus, Ohio
Yesterday, en.roule for Washington.
The ballot was first used in England in a
Parliamentary contest yesterday at Preston,
Worcestershire.
The Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce has
suspended f. l.. and S. S. johnson from mem
berShip for unmercantle conduct.
A terrible coliiery disaster has occurred in
Belgium. \ coal mine was suddenly inundated
BY which twenty. five miners were drowned.
4 solemn ceremony in honor of the late Presi
dent of Mexico, Juerez took place 10 San
Francisco Thursday night.
Mr. T. Joy Norris recently nominated by
the fusionists of the Second Pennsylvania Con-
gressional District declines to be candidate
Rev. Rowland H. Allen, Secretary of the
New England Branch Of the American Tract
Society, died at Newport, R. l., Thursday.
The New York Express says that no New
York houses are involved in the Baltimore
failures.
According to the Rio JaDeiro papers there
we're serious troubles in Brazil during the re-
cent elections
j. D. Mckenzie & Co., New York tea mer-
chants, failed yesterday.
Marshal Bazaine' trial has been productive
of startling developments
The nail makers of the AtlaDtic States have
advanced nails 25 cents keg.
President Grant was in New York yesterday.
THE PEACH CRoP.-Few persons who do not
rerularly visit the steamboat Bharyes can have