Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-08-20
E\yS OF TIiE DAY.


NEWS OF THE DAY.
$50 show the vy,y ayt and Jody II the Imes'
The proprictors of the New York Graphic
aunounce now that they will start their balloon
between the lst and 10th Of September. Prof.
Wise will cut his cable and be off without any
fuss or demonstration. liz will start at sunset,
for the reason that the air is the qulctcst at
that time. The paper boat is to be TAX
M in the balloon. La case the balloon should
meet with accident or should come down
throgh loss OF gas Admiral Wise and others
Of the party, with the exception Of Prof. Don
aldson, will take TO the large boat, while the
latter will stand by the balloon to the last, and
when the case is hopeless he will resort TO the
paper boat. The voyagers will be limited to
four the the two ;erouauts, Wise and Donald
son, an artist from the Graphic Office, and
another gentleman whose name has not been
made public The Graphic announces that
there have been thousand applications Tor
seats in the erlal car.
Rev. j. NJ SCHNEIDER has been for nine years
the warden of an asylum near Dubuque, Iowa,
for the care and education of orphan girls. 1t
is probable that he procured the position for
the purpose Of carrying on his infamous prac'
tees. One little girl was turned out OF the
asylum and told of his solicitations, but she was
not believed The clerical villain kept his
place, aud went on with his trigues, until
lew laws since another girl told the same story
to matrou of the asylum. The seducer was
confronted with the proof Of his wickeduess and
confessed that the accusations were tue. lie
fled from the place, and is supposed to have
taken passage for Europe.
The court of claims has lately given judg-
mcnt for over two hundred thousand dollars IN
favor of Alexander j. Atocha, for losses sus-
tanned by his expulsion from Mexico BY The
government of that country III 1913. lhe
claim has been before Congress and the courts
for nearly quarter of q century, Atocha ana
his counsel having died in the meantime, suit
is now impending to recover the lawyer tees
from his heirs before the award IS finally paid
to them.
There was tragedy in Bridgcwatcr, i1unen
burg county, Nova Scotia, on Sunday last. Pc
ter Mailman lured bis wife into the woods and
murdered her. He then set fire to the woods
for the purpose OF destroying all traces OF his
crime. The ashes of the remains OF human
being, supposed to have been his vile, were
found III the burnt district III the woods, and
Mailman is under arrest.
Rev. Gardner Spring, D. d., pastor of the
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York,
died in that city on Monday in the S9'h year OF
bis age DR.. Spring was one OF the brightest
lights Of his church, though in his early days,
according to his own account OF his lite, he was
wild, reckless, and gave no promise OF ever be-
coming preacher His father Was Il chaplain
in the continental army
1t has been ascertaiued rom naval officer,
Just returned from the East, that all the tribes
Of the northern portion Of Sumatra, heretofore
tributary to the Dutch, have joped the Sultan
have left their pepper plantations aud gone to
tho assistance Of the Sultan. The pepper trade
is temporarily suspended by the war
1u connection with the approaching dcdic;'-
ton of the Masonic Temple, in Philadel phla,
grand demonstration OF the Knights Temp
lar will take place at tue Academy OF Music and
Horticultural Hall, the buildings to be connect
ed by bridge, on the 18th OF oeptcmbcr the
evening before the dedication. The Knights
will give an exhibition drill!
The mail stage between Mvkclumnc Hill aud
Mokclumue City, in California, yesterday was
stopped by two highwaymcn two miles from
Mokelumue City. They robbed the passengers
took 81 900 from Wells Fargo l. Cos. treasure
box and destroyed the mails, papers and other
valuables Officers are in pursuit OF the rob-
bers who are known.
\ dispatch from Louisville says: Lord,
the missing Herald respondent, drew a
large amount of money from back the morning
he left Shclbyville. He said he was going TO
Cincinnati. lie left manuscript, clothing, and
some jewclry in bis room. No reason Is assign
cd for his strange disappearance.
Fannie Bush, colorod convicted of the muir.
der of her infant child, in Harrison Court, Ky,
has been sentenced to be hanged on the l4th
of November. 1t is stated that the woman and
her children were starving, and that she drown
ed one of them SO that she might be able to
provide for the rest -.
In Philadelphia, Saturday afternoon, peaches
were drug on the market, at 81 per
crate 1t is expected that the crop will be con
siderably Injured by the prevailing rains, and 1t
is considered highly probable that the largest
shipments-79 Car loads on Saturday-lor any
one day, have already been made.
George Lcybrook has been arrested IN Louis
Vile for falsely representing himself as a I.
S, revenue officer. He had visited number
of lager boer establishments, and succeeded, It
is supposed, 10 obtaining considerable sums OF
money by threatening to prosecute.
The steamship Alabama, Of the State hue
reached New York on Monday, bringing con,
frmation of the London Geographic dispatch
of August 18th, announcing that the bark
Abeoro had been run down and sunk BY the
Alabama.