Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-10-20
NEwS OF THE DA
"7o sho,o the very age and body Of the Times

The Commission OF U. S. Engineers appoint
ed by the War Department to examine Whe.h-
or the bridge now in process OF construcuomn
across the Mississippi river at st. LOUIS WIZ,
when flushed, otstruct navigation, have ma9e
a report. They fnd that the BRIDGE Already
DESIGNED, will prove serious obsruc'loh "
navigation aud as it is impractcapIe TO cnaDae
the plan of the bridge or raise 1t, excep. Il. az
enormous expense, they rec"inmenda cana, VI
omen cut behiud the eastern abutment OF Tue
bridge. l25 feet wide, extending from point
400 feet above the bridge to 800 feet peI'~ IT.
with draw of the same width. j =.
Ten miles above Osccola, Arkansas, on vi
day last, the steamer Mary +. Poe was dlscoV.
erred to be on fire. The flames had gaineu
such head way that she was run on a Dat' p ~
the deck passengers were forcca 10 s"ini ~.
their lives. The clerk reports that there were
. ;..,,, Eve norsnns ON board, of whom the cham
hrrnaid one cabin boy. one cabin passenger
and one male and two female deck passengers
are missing The pilot was badly burned De-
fare he left his post. Several passengers W. were
also badly burned, but none seriously l ne
> pne was large stern wheeler, aud 81 LOUIS
and Red River Carter line carrier.
The whole line Of the South Maryland Ran
road, from the Junction with the Baltimore ant
Potomac Railroad, is now graded, with the ex
cont;on Of about twenty-tw mlles, when ai
; nnder contract. When this portion Is cou'
Melted. the track will be laid along the whoI
line, which will give the people. OF the lo":
D counties OF the Western Shore direct con"uu'
cation with Baltimore via. the Baltimore az
Pa,omac RniIroad, which Is now running u IA
Potomac river.
c The Baltimore and Ohio r. R Go. gives tn
Il e,llow;nr as the number of men discharge
: from IFS several shops at Mount Clare :
: Enundrv, 50 men; blacksmith shop, 1870; Ill;
h ,.,,;nn Ln;ler. tin, wheclwrght, mlwrght, cal
4 ;,nt shops. 225; saw-uilI, car shops, pan
shops and upholstcrcrs, 100 men, making %
in all Ia Saturday moruiug $ Amcncan u
: number discharged was stated at 93o' when
c AZ in excess ii the figures furnished hy II
y company.
70 Caroline llugcl, aged twenty-five, from y
l. SAGE, was killed hy hcrsfnther 10 New Orleans
ne Saturday, immediately after landing from u
C. steamer Louisiana. They took passage at b.
a. drnuy, and the father asserted that the daug
:, Ter through intimacy with a young ffcuG
~ man On board had dishoncrcd her family. l
no nrnm;scd tho captaiu OF the steamer not 10 II
last his daughter while Oh board, but soop AT
landing he stabbed her twice with Il Eu
~ fatally.
y, In the case of Mcaux VS.. Mclcnpcy ct
cd for some days before the U. S. Court III Lou
r. vile. on Saturday, alleged ku. Klux outrage
rs 1865, 10 Mercer county, Kentucky, the jury
~ turned verdict Of $50 damages 1oT INC pa
on tiff, who claimed to have snhcIeu ki. i'';
the hands of ten unnasked hu' h'uA li'at
tack ed his house The defendants arc pro!ii
- nent citizcus of Mercer county, aud VIII LII
bill OF exceptions
raj # seems to be settled that Mortimer l.
w. rctt whose death at Cornell University has
'aS casioped SO much comment, was not the Vlc'
'cr of that barbarous college practice known
mt "hazinp" as has been suspected, but that
at was going through the ceremony VI lnltla'
into bona fde secret society when he step
into the fatal gully, aod was killed.
IKE On inquiry on Saturday. IL az" c6 h9Th
and that large shipments are made by ev
outgoing steamer without metcrial alteration
l. rates.
- William Sclby, State Superintendent of ms
le ance 10 Missouri, has been requested to resi-
-. by Governor Woodson, on the ground, as is
~ legged, that serious complaints have been MA
u against him regarding the administration of
office, Ex-senator Francis 7. Blair has be
named as his successor.
40 News of the death of DR.. Walter Brisc
@ comes from Paris. He was an American re
y dent of sportive turn of mind He had be
Us 10 Paris Wit, or practical JOKER and an ccce
trio these twenty years. He died nearly eigh
years old, and leaves an estate of half millio
d Mr.. Banton Duncan and Mr.. George Fran,
ne Train both sailed for Europe on Saturday.
IN is hoped that Mr.. George Francis Train W
J. stay in Europe.
The Spanish Republicans have high Apr
citation OF Gen. S.ckles, u. s. Minister at Madlr
d The Minister Of War has presented him with
Il sword real genuine Toledo blade.
= CARE OF Cows IN AUTUMN.-An entcrpri
II ing farmer OF western New York colnmuncat,
to us recently his practicn in tho n.n,ro,no,