Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-06-23
NEWS OF THE DAY
"To sho,o the very age md body o. the Times

NEWS OF THE ia Y.
"To shoe the very age md body Of the 7tmes."
J. W. Babson, Esq, Chief of the Finance
Division, Pcusion Bureau, was in Nashville,
Tennessee, the first part Of last week. His de
scription gives affairs there gloomy appear
ance indeed Between the depot where he en-;
tered the city aud the hotel where ne stopped
were three undertaken establishments, all un-
der heavy pressure to supply cotios tor the
victims OF that dread disease, cholera. The
hotels and many private residences were oe
serted by all or most Of the inhabitants. About
twenty five per day were dying, equivalent to
one out of each one thousand OF the popula-
ton.
A dispatch from Kansas City, No.. says
'Au attempt to rob the Peoples Bank OF Chill
lcothe, was made Friday night by Smith Ram
10, althy but notorious bad character, VINO
planned with contcdcrates to seize the cashier
of the bank and bold him as a. hostage and
compel his wife to open the bank and vaults. The
design was disclosed, and when Rambo went 10
the cashier house late Friday night, be was
confronted BY "A party OF CITIZENS, and after Il
short parIcy was riddlcI with bullets and In.
stantly killed. Two coniederates were arrested
yesterday morning and are now in Jail.
\ dispatch from Fortress Monroe says
William Hersch, soldier from the garrison,
was murdered at 10 clock last night, at Mil
Creek, about !. nile west Of the fort. He was
struck ON the head by slung shot, by some
unknown party, aud died i'll few minutes. 4
coored man named Davis has bccu arrested on
suspicion.
A dispatch from Franklin, Mo-, says
Geo. Fields, a negro, outraged Lizzie Koch,
Il young German girl, near Augusta Mo-, yes
terday, morning. Fields was Soou arrested by
the sheriff near I4abadac and taken to Augusta,
where he was hanged by a mob. = =!
The presidents of Chinese companies have
sunt to Hong Kong three thousand circulars
giving full account OF the Chinese troubles in
California, to be distributed in the cities Of
China.
L. b. Ewing, one Of the judges Of the Su-
prcme Court of Missouri, died at Iron Noun
tain 90 Saturday night, of Ccrebro Spinal
Meningitis. 80
The Maryland Editorial excursion party ar
rived at St. Louis on Sunday morning. and
spent quiet day. they will 60 to Chicago to-
day.
A steamship went ashore in the English
Channel yesterday and was wrecked. Twelve
passengers and three OF the crew were drowned
DIR. j. III. White, President Of the North
Western Associated Press, died suddenly OF
appoplexy Saturday afternoon.
The Iowa Republican State Convention will
meet at Des MONIES on W ednesday:
WHAT DOES IT MEAN?-By the telegraphic
dispatches we are informed that Messrs. Hunt
ington and Hopkins have sold out their inter
est in the Central Pacific railroad to Sharon,
Reese, Cohen aud others. We are not suftl-
GENTLY posted in railroad notoreties to be able
to identify the purchasers, Sharon, Reese Il
Co., but in Mr. e.. p Huntington, familiarly
known to railroad men as Central Pacific Hunt
ington, we recognize the autocrat Of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio railroad. How is it that MIR.
Huntington who, as both his professions and
his acts show, is endeavoring to form contin-
uous railway connection clear across the CONT
nent to the Pacific, as great feeder to the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, and who for
that purpose is now building and buying
through route from Huntington to St. Louis
how is it that he is willing. to part with the
Central Pacific railroad which, together with
the Union Pacific, has heretofore been the only
California? Has the experience of these roads
since they have been running shown that they
are impracticoble as commercial avenuesl-
Have the intense cold and the immense SHOWS
that have blocked their pathway for months
during the past two or three winters and rem
dered them utterly impossible demonstrated
the impoSsibility of ever using them as safe
and reliable routes for passengers or freight
during the winter season? And if so, has Mr..
Huntington, with his we'll known sagacity and
prompt appreciation of the situation, deter
mined to drop line be has tried and found
wanting, and devote bis energy and means to
building up another which may be not only
practicable but safe and certain?
Is it not possible that he has concluded to
connect his roads at St. Louis with a more
Southern acute, and either to make arrange
ments with the management Of the present
Southern Pacific railroad, or to build for him
self still another road that will, through easy
grades, rich countries and genial climates, pour
the trade of the far West into the great avenue
he is now pushing so theoretically to St. Louis.
These are questions that have presented them
selves to US upon reading the dispatch referred
to.-Norjok EUginian.
RAILROAD TRAVEL less than Blk weeks
the trip can be made from Philadelphia and
New York to Atlanta 10 forty hours; to New
Orleans in sixty All that delays is the incom-
pletencss of the Atlanta aud Richmond road in
western South Carolina, between YorkviIle
Spartausblrg, Greenvle and Pendleton, which
is to be finished by the LIST of August. The
completed route will then be hence via Wash
iugton, Richmond, Burkville, Danville, Greens
boro. Salisbury, Charlotte, Atlanta, Montgome-
~ aud Mobile. ''rhe Southern Security Com
pany also control the roads from Rich
nond to Petersburg, Wilmington, Golum bia
and Augusta; with the branch from Florence
to Charleston; most of the route between
Washington and Memphis, and the New Or.
leans, Mobile and Texas road.-Phtta. North