Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-10-02

3" 70 sho,o tie ys7y age and body Of lie Times

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j. \. Stephens, cashier Of the St. Louis Mu-
tual Life Insurance Company, left his office
early Monday morning aud has not since been
scen nor is it known iy any OF his trends
where he is. Previous to leaving the office he
locked the inside door OF the safe. Yesterday,
i; being necessary to obtain some papers from
the safe, tic loci, was picked and a package
containing $1,000 in currency was found to have
disappcared. An examination Of his accounts
Vas made, and everything found to be correct.
The first Ku klux trial before the State
courts came off before Judge Watts, at the
Johuson county, n. G., Superior Court. this
week, and resulted in the conviction OF two
men tone white and ouc colorcd) for murder.
1t was proved that they went in disguise to a
colorcd mans house, dragged him out, and
whipped han to death On the 9th of Scptem-
Der.
President l1raDt, accompanied by Postmas-
ter General Crcswcll. Collector Casey, of New
Orleans, and Mr. Stevenson Archer, attended
the county agricultural lair at Westminster,
Nd, Yesterday The President was ece'vcd
at the depot and welcomed by large crowd.
The narty lett Tor Washington at o'clock.
Cvutinued heavy rains have damaged the
cotton crop throughout the entire lower Rio
Grande valley. Worms have appeared on
number ct' plantations in that vicinity, doing
much damage. The lowlands are covered with
several uches OF water, and the work of gath
cring the crop is thereby stopped.
The latest revolution in Central America is
now centred about Panama. The insurgents
make an occasional raid into or around the city.
The commandment of the u. s. man-ot-w war in
the harbor has offered his aid to dispense the
rebels, but the Government has decliued for
cigu Interference.
Carrie Culver, handsome servant girl, was
seized last evening by party Of men in a thick
" settled portion Of Columbus, Ohio, chloro-
formed, and taken to spot which she cannot
remember, and horribly outraged. She is in
dangerous condition.
The returns Of the municipal election in
Charleston, S. C,indicatc the defeat of Wagon
er, the present incumbent for Mayor, and the
election OF Cunningham and the whole Rcpub-
lican ticket.
Il dispatch from Montgomery, Ala, says
",rhcre has been no death and no new cases of
yellow fever during the last twenty-tour hours,
and all apprehension is over. The five last re-
ported as under treatment are doing well.
1t the mcctiog OF the American Bible I'm
ion in New Y ork yesterday it was stated that
the revision OF the Bible was progressing and
that the completed work would be ready be-
fore the end of the present year.
Peru is suffering from financial troubles
Business is dull, mercantile firms have suspen-
icd payment, the banks refuse discount, and
scarcely any coin is in circulation.
\ letter from Baltimore says: Thomas
Kemp 4 Co., groccrs, suspended to-day. Their
liabilities are stated al $50 OQO and their assets
at S6O,UOJ.'
The First Assistant Postmaster General will
leave Washington in short time to spend sever
weeks among his friends and relations in Eau
quicr county, He resides in Alexandria.
The contractors for the poSto cards are now
furnishing. under cumpuIsion, supplies which
are up to the standard established by the De
partmcut.
The signal station on the summit of Pixies
Peak will be opened on the 18th instant. The
observer there will occupy the highest position
in the gift Of the Government
At Wilmington yesterday the magnificent
new steamer Johns Hopkins, Of the Baltimore
and Boston huc, was launched.
Ex-Gov. J. ID. Cox has been elected Presi
dent Of the Toledo, Wabash and Western
Railroad.
Lardscr, the celebrated painter, died ycstcr-
day il England.
YAcuTiSG.-Th New York yachting season
has lust commenced To day the first Of the
fall regattas Of the New York Yacht Club, will
be sailed; on the Sth that of Brooklyn, and on
the 9th the second OF the New York Club will
be contested. The last will be an ocean race
from SANDY Hook to Cape May, and return.