Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-11-29
NEWS OF THE DAY
"7o show the very age and body Of the 7t"le'.

The Credit Mobilier suit; which was tried
at Hartford, Conn, last October, has been
decided by Judges Hunt and Shlpuan. and
the opinion was filed 10 the United States DIS
trict Court yesterday. The motion to DISMISS
the bill involving the question of jurisdiction,
was decided 10 favor Of the Governmeqt. On
the second point the Court sustains the ,demur-
rer, and dsmisses the bill as to the parties who
demurred. The ground of demurrer is that the
damage TO the Government by the Credit Mo
bilier process is too remote to be reached by
the process pursued, or by any other, and that
the government has at present no pecunlary
interest to be reached by the bill. The Court
takes the view that there is no trust raised
anywhere 10 behalf Of the Government TO be
protected.
The Jury 10 New York 10 the Harlem rail
road boiler explosion case rendered verdict
Yesterday. Ten of the Jurors find Breemer aud
Covne the contractors, aud John Barnun, the
engineer, guilty of criminal neglect. The Jury
also censure the manufacturers OF the boiler.
The railroad company is ceusurcd tor their
want of care for the lives OF their employees
and Others a defect in the construction OF the
boiler caused the explosion, and the jury re-
commended amendments to the law on botler
inspection so as to conform to the U. 5. laws.
In the celebrated case of Jacob Tome against
the Parkersburg Branch Rriroad Company
which was decided on Wednesday by the Mary
land Court of Appeals. The opinion OF ma
jority of the Judges declared that upon the
stock issued by John l.. Crawford, the Sec
rotary and Treasurer Of the Company, with the
seal of the company, and his own genuine Sig
nature as Secretary. affixed is binding, upon
the company, whether the signature OF t. G
Van Wiukle, the President OF the company, be
genuine or not.
The Fall River, Mass. manufacturers OF
boots and shoes have decided to commence on
threc-uuarter time, viz eight hours per day
on five days, and seven hours 90 Saturday
making in all forty seven hours per week
Should the times continue to Improve as rapid
" as they have done during the past two or
three weeks, it is believed that the month OF
January will see ali the mills running % full
time again.
The creditors of the banking firm of Howes
& Macy, iu New York. met yesterday. The
committee appointed at the last meeting to IN
vestigate the affairs of the firm submitted their
report, which show the amount OF liabilities
to be 81 ,237 900 and assets, including lndlvldu-
oil assets, Sc, 0l3,2 $50. 1t was resolved TO ac-
cept the proposition Of the firm, paying sixty
five per ct. 10 creditors.
Milton Malone, who was condemned to be
hanged, at Atlanta, Georgia, took morphine
in prison, on Thursday night last, and died de-
faut and uurepentant. He wrote a letter CIV
ing his religious views as having no belief IN
the Bible or hell He also wrote a uote to the
TAILOR gloating over the tooug Of the judge
and prosecutors. =.
Experiments were made with the Wizard gun
at Boston, yesterday, which were regarded as
very successful. The balls penetrated fifteen
inches of solid iron plates. Capt. Iruxton, u.
S. Navy, Inspector of Ordnance, was present,
and pronounced it perfect success, US far as
the experiments were carried
The working people of Patterson, N. j., fol-
lowing the example Of their friends 10 Phila-
delphia, have called mass meeting, at which
demaud will be made upon the city autborl-
ties to find work for such as are out of employ
meDt. ...... .-....
The New Jersey Court of Pardons have re-
fused to commute the sentence of Jacob Me
chella, the Russian sailor, convicted of muir
dering u. s. Marshal Stevenson, aud he will
be hanged Oh the 10th Of December.
The Union Banking Company, Philadelphia,
which suspended during the panic, has re-
sumed business, with its capital increased to
$7O0,00O.
A dispatch from Eureka, Nevada, states
that volcano has broken out in Pluto Noun
tains, ten miles from that place, and dense
volumes of smoke are issuing from the crater.