Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-01-24
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The New York Herald states that the Co.
luul,ia and the Crescent City. of the Atlantic
Mail Steamship Line, running from New York
to HAVANA, have been >tiZ@d inr dcbf,
the former for 1881, aud the latter
for 81 400. The crews Of these vessels
have not been paid off for six weeks. ami are
suffering. 1t is also stated that the Moro
Castle. which will arrive Oh Saturday IN New
York, will be seized inr debt. This line, it
will remembered has lost the fine steamers
Havana, Eagle and Missouri This line was
enormously spoken Of iu the telegraph dis
patches yesterday, is the ATLANTA steamship
line. "
Secretary Boutwell, yesterday completed ar
ranrcmcnts with a syndicate for p acing the
reinforcement loan three hundrcd million in
Ave Der cent. bonds u, ~ the market. The fore
i'm banking houses Of the Rnich>chids. Barring
Bros. l. Co.. j. $. Morgan l. Co., Morton, Rose
& Co.. and Jay Cooke. McCulIoch 4 60. and
in the United States. Morton, Bliss X Co.. JAY
Cooke & Co., and Drex,!, Morsau. 4 Co.: ui-
dertake the contract ard vii! coaiurnce bust
ness as soon as the preliminary arrangements
can he MA !c.
AZ tie trial Of Mrs. Wharton, at Annapolis
yesterday, Miss Nellie Wharton testified that
her mother drank the Reminder Of the wine.
which is said To have caused the first illness Of
Mr. Van Ness. Dr. IIpratio &. Wood, OF
| Phiadcirhla, upon being examined t1r the de-
fence. said that tie had heard all The testimony
pi:cu bv DrS Williams. Chew aud Mr. Van
Ness, and that the attack ci illness Ct the latter
was very simple f1rm OF na'uraI disease, and
that ''m1 poison in existence could have caused
!
| the symptoms observed
On Tuesday at Pitt>burg, while the work
men at Batemun 4 GarriSous foundry were
moving ladle filled with several tons Of mel
ten metal, the crane hoakS broke, letting the
iron fall into hole which contained some Two
feet of water and terrific explosion Followed
! The roof Of the building was carried Away aud
| the walls cracked Houses in the vicinity hai
their windows badly shattered. Several york
men We're slightly injured though none serious.
w. The damage to the f,uud:y will amount to
about $4,000.
The Prison Reform Congress ;t=lin hcld
sessions, in Baltimore Yesterday. \ NUN! CT
Of reports FROM different States WAS read.
Much Of the time WAS taken up with The dis
cl<sion of intcmpcrancca 'nncctcd with crime.
The views Of the members appear to have
differed widely. and there seems to be bat little
probability Of reaching "A satisfactory conclusion
on the point
Marshal Magrulcr. a print II, who shot Cla-
renee Lockwood, another printer AZ their
boarding house. in New York. Mnndny, says
that he was born in the hcighborh vol 81
Lyuchburu Va, and is of the SINE family of
the late Gen. j. b. MagrulGr. lockwood is
said to be from South Carolina He is CON
sidcrcd past recovery.
Ga "Wednesday yearly thrcc thousand dollars
were received at the Treasury Department from
lupcutaut individuals who desired to make res
titutiOulo the Government OF money wrongiutlr
withheld from it. Thackcray said that h:
never heard of one Of these cases OF awakened
conscience without wonlciin" how much the
rascal kept back.
There was u great anti->lavcry meeting held
10 the Royal Theatre, Madrid. yesterday, the
building being crowded from pit to dome. 1t
| Is estimated that the amount to he paid the
slave owners in Porto Rico for their property
will be about seventeen million five hundred
thousand dollars.
On Wednesday Stokes transferred the prop
erty at Green Point, Long Island, to his moth
|
he and Fisk first came into hostility in their
business operations. 1t is sail that he is less
s;lnglliue of a new trial and icarS the worst.
The New York police made L descent recent
ly on two establishments on Broadway where
counterfeit money was sold and arrested three
clerks. The police obtained Information Of
the location Of the premises By circulars sent
through the country.
Samuel r. NckcrniS under sentence 9!
death at PottsviIlc: Pennsylvania for the
murder of his own offspring, WAS Yesterday re.
leased from prison by a pardon from Governor
Gcary.
The discharge of some ofthn striking stoker>
who were imprisoned in London. short time
ago has been made the occasion in England Of
several sympathy and Indignation meetings OF
worklngmcn.
General Manteuffel, comes to the rescue Of
! Marshal Bazine from the attacks which have
been made upon the latter for his surrender OF
Metz to the besieging armies.
A meeting at Birmingham England, has pass
cd resolutions coudemning the slave trade in
Africa, Cuba and Polynesia and ur@in@ its
abolition in the Antilles.
The Senate Election Committee yc>tord ~
commenced investigation iuto the Louisiana
political difficulties
\ project has been started in Spain ipr the
laying oil Il telegraph cable.
The remains Of Lord Lytton will be buried in
Westminster Abbey.
There has been no election Of t. ) Senator.
| by the Florida Legislature Yet.
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Broolyn Eagle gives Il detailed account Of the
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