Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-07-08
NEWS OF THE DAY.
''7o sho,o the very age and body of the Times

Court of Common Pleas aud Speaker OF the
House of Representatives, SHOT and killed
barkcepcr named Rose for refusing to sell him
a drink of whiskey The cause of the refusal
was the fact that S. II. Buskirk, Judge of the
Supreme Court Of Indiana, had given Rose
notice not to sell strong drink to his brother.
Buskirk and two colored men entered Roses
saloon yesterday afternoon, aud the Judge
called for whiskey he was refused and again
demanded the liquor being again refused he
drew pistol aud shot Rose in the left side
The dying man made his will, and survived but
short time after doing So The murderer
was arrested, waived an examination, and gave
bail in the sum Of $4,000
\ dispatch from San Francisco, says: AT
Phoebe, Nevada, this afternoon man named
Harrington shot and MORALLY wounded, five
men, named Lynch, O'Neale, Frank, Schoene-
maker and Sullivan in street alteration,
originating from Harrington's throwing a dog
across the street, the animal belonging to
Schoenemaker. The presence of officers in
strong force alone prevented the lynching of
Harrington, who was arrested by Sheriff Travis
and his deputies after making desperate re-
sistance.'
The Interior Department is still urging the
Governor of Texas to release the chiefs San
tanta and Big Tree, who are now serving out
terms in the State Pcnientiary for the muir
der of white men. Governor Davis has not
exactly the same idea of their good faith that
the Washington authorities cherish, and there
fore the question is postponed until confer
cnce which is to be held in August.
Disasters from heavy foods are reported
from Illinois. a dispatch from Jacksonville
says the heaviest rain storm ever known IN
that vicinity ragged yesterday. The streams
were swollen. bridges and cnbankments were
swept away, and crops ruined. 1t Is feared
that the wheat crop will be totally destroyed
unless fne weather at once sets 10. Similar
dispatches are received from other points.
The Credit Mobilier, is again brought into
public mention by numerous suits in the U. S.
District Court of Hartford, Conn. Sixty-two
defendants made personal appearance yester-
day. \ motion to dismiss the cases on the
ground Of lack Of jurisdiction Of the Court
over the defendants was made. 1t will prob
ably be argued at the September term OF the
Court.
A New York correspondent of the Phi!a-
delphia Ledger says: 1T is settled now, be-
yond question, that the OraDgemen are going
to have their usual parade on the 18th of July
The police commissioners have granted the ne
cessary permission, but have changed the
route of procession, so as not to let it file past
the residence of Archbishop McCloskey."
At Syracuse, N Y, on the 9th inst, John
Mccarthy was fatally stabbed by James Cor
bin. The murderer and his victim had some
words, when Mccarthy. caught him by the
throat. Corbin then pulled out a large-sized
knife and stabbed him in the lett breast.
Death ensued in five minutes.
The steamship City of Washington, from
Liverpool June Gath, via Queenstown, June
18th, for New York, went ashore seventy
miles west of Cape Sambro, on the afternoon
of July 5th, in dense fog, and will probably
prove a total loss All the passengers and
crew were saved.
VIM B. Lincoln, of Dedham, Mass, while
walking With his wife yesterday evening, near
that village, was shot by some unknown person,
one ball entering the left side just below the
heart, and the other at the knee. The wounds
are dangerous. There is no clue to the as
sasSln.
Iowa is the only State of the Union repre-
sented as being entirely free from debt, and
vet it is State that has doubled its popula-
ton in the last ten years, and places it IN the
matter of population as number eleven IN the
Union, against number twenty IN 1860.
Blacque Bey, the Turkish minister in Wash.
ingtou, after several years of acceptable diplo-
matte service, was recently recalled in order to
assume another position of hig her rank, and he
is to be succeeded by new minister, Arlstar-
chi Bey.
In Baltimore on the 9th inst, O. H. Herzog,
aged Is years, was drowned while bathing
He had tied rope to his person, and having
handed an end OF it to his companion, jumped
in the water to learn to swim. The rope broke
and he was drowned.
In Charleston on the 9th inst, an estimable
man was shot dead in the most unprovoked
manner in billiard saloon, by John A. Duff
tus, youth of eighteen. The inquest result
ed in verdict Of willtul murder Duttus Is In
Jail.
The nail manufacturers in New England
have agreed to stop their works in July and
August owing to the recent over-production.
This will probably be initiated elsewhere by
agreement, and yet nails are we'll paid COM
pared with old prices.
W. E. Arthur. member of Congress from
Kentucky, voted against the salary grab, y
pockets his back pay for the the reason that it
is his solemn duty to obey all laws passed by
Congress-.
The New York World says that conven-
ton OF all the Shaw family scattered through
the New England States is shortly to be held,
for the purpose of determining whether they
are descended from the Shahs of Persia.
The ravages Of cholera continue in the West.
The deaths in Cincinnati yesterday were seven,
in Memphis twenty-five, in Nashville four, and
in Chattanooga fifteen. A death is also re-
ported from Jersey City, opposite New York.
The New York Herald has receive news of
O Kelly. He is imprisoned at Santander, Spain,
with somewhat better accommodations than be
had in Cuba, and it is expected that be will
soon again be let loose.
Sir Hugh Allan, the head of the great Allan
Steamship CumnanY is to undertake the con.