Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-09-02
NEWS OF THE DAY.
3. 70 sAo,o the very age and body Of the Times"

The New York Graphic announces that its
great transatlantic balloon, if the weather
proves favorable, will ascend from the Capito-
line Grounds, Brooklyn, New York, on We'd
nesday afternoon, September 10. Messrs.
Wise and Donaldson, the Hronauts, will be &C
companied by reporter Of the Graphic and an
experienced seaman, who will manage the llte-
boat attached to the balloon in case the party
have to exchange air for water.
Patrick Mccormick, who recently arrived
from Ireland, was shot in tavern In Phia-
delphia yesterday evening, and is not expected
to live. The allegation is that the shot came
through the widow from the opposite side OF
the street, bnt 90 one appears TO know any
thing about the affair. The police arrested
several parties on the premises at the time.
Mccormick refuses to make an ante.nortem
statement.
Brown, the railroad bond torger, was arralgn-
ed IN New York yesterday afternoon. His
guilt is indisputable and the only question is as
to the magnitude OF the operations OF himself
and confederates. The fraudulent bonds OF the
| Buffalo, New York and Erie which have beepD
| placed on the market amount to $780, 900, aud
| to this must be added to immense amount OF
the forgeries on the New York Central.
On Saturday afternoon last, after the close
of business in New York, it was discovered
that Edward Patterson, aged twenty years,
employed by Messrs. L. \. Keep Il Co., stock
! brokers' 60 New street, as junior clerk, nad
| left for parts unknown. taking with him Slo,OOU
in gold certificates, $4,000 III government
bonds, and 1926 10 IN oney.
The legal-tender issue Of FIVE hundred dol
lars has been so successfully ia,itated that the
New York officials were dubious about setting
their stamp on the counterfeit unit! they had
submitted it to the Treasury Department ex.
perts at Washington. Persons handling such
notes may very properly be careful.
A letter has been received at ST. Louis from
Fort Sill, dated on the 24th ulto, and it makes
no mention of any attack on the post by ln-
dians The massacre story came on the 9th, and
reliable intelligence from Fort Sill could scarce
" have been later than the date OF the letter
above mentioned.
The little town Of Miller>burg, Ky, has sut'
feed severely from Cholera, Since Thursday
thirty OF its people have died. aud the increase
of the plague is manifested by the fact that
half of these deaths occurred III one day, Sat
urday.
We have from Missouri a horrible story OF
of double murder aud suicide. A farmer
murdered his sister and nephew, set fire to the
house and fell corpse amidst its blaziog ruins;
Not far distant two horse thieves We're hanged
by mob on the same day.
Rev. Thomas X. Beecher, brother Of Henry
Ward Beecber, has created no little stir among
the Congressional brethren il New York by an
elaborate essay in one Of the leading religious
weeklies. 10 justification and advocacy of aurlc-
ular confession.
Mr.. D. NJ Barringer, of North Carolina,
died at the White Sulphur Springs yesterday
Three death from cholera in Wheeling since
Saturday are reported.