Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-09-25
NEWS OF THE DAY.
" To show the very age and body Of the Times

10 Sho1o the Very age ana 0ooy % 1te 1t"1eS
The people Of Philadelphia we're shocked by
the news of the ter. bile domestic tragedy men
toned yesterday in which T. B. Parker shot his
wife and then blew his brains out The parties
moved in the highest social circles to which
wealth could raise them Parker was one of
five heirs to an estate of three millions of dol
lars, and he had an income Of fifty thousand
yearly His wife has been living with him in
peace, if not in happiness, for twelve years, but
jealousy drove him to the bloody act.
At the New Jersey State p son, yesterday,
prisoner named Marshall from Newark, was
shot by underkeeper Fred. Lowe Marshall
had knocked down man named ltastlack, dur
ing the temporary absence Of Lowe, with a
shoemaker hammer, and would have Filled
him but for the timely arrival Of Lowe, who
shot Marshall, the ball entering his forehead,
and lodged in the brain Kill Dg him ''nmc-
diately.
The Delaware, Lackawaoa and Western rail
road sold yesterday 10000 tons Of Scranton
coal The attendance was large and the bid
ding srrited. The following prices we're reall-
zed amboat, TO- 900 tons at 81. so to 81. S25;
CRATE, 10000 tons at IS to $502! egg, $1,000
tons at So. 323 to So. IS; stove, $4,000 tons at
$5.45 to $5.4I33; nut, $4,000 tons, at 81 10 to
81. 72!.
Dispatches from Brownsville report woe
full condit of affairs along the Rio Grande.
Peaceful inhabitants along the frontier are
Numbered and sometimes murdered by the
rlcxican brigands, who escape across the river
and are not interferred with by the Mexican
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reported as having been committed recently.
T. G. Milward, who has been in Jail in Balti-
more three weeks, on charge Of embezzling
funds of his employers, the Gould Mauufactur-
ing Company, of New York, was discharged
yesterday on writ Of habeas corpus, on the
ground that reasonable time had elapsed ond
no requisition had been received.
Amongst the candidates who have successful
y passed this years examination at the Naval
Academy is another colored boy, Alonzo Nc
Clcrman of South Carolina. The colored ca
Diet Couyers, who filled to pass last June, is to
be given another chance
The s:~ty-fourth annual meeting of the
American Board of Foreign Missions was held
at Minneapolis, MIMI, yesterday. The report
Cf the Secretary states that the financial future
of the Board is not hopeful on account of lack
Of contributions of the Church to the work.
G. G. Lyon, the president of the Adams,
Backmcar 4 Lyon Publishing Company, in
Chicago, yesterday threw himself on the track
in front of locomotive, which literally cut
him into pieces. Jl health - supposed to be
the cause.
\ dispatch rom St. Louis gives a revolving
account of horrid chine committed near
kingsbury, Mo-, few days ago by the parents
of girl who was found to have been ruined,
and who took her child and killed it.
a serious accident occurred at coal yard
10 Baltimore yesterday. A quantity of lump
coal fell upon the men at wor1 and several Of
the men were badly hurt, two ofthem seriously.
FOREIGN NEws.-Affairs are cuiet abroad,
with the exception Of in Spain. n France the
Royalists are continuing lockout upon their
opportunities, and promoting them by various
means. A Berlin newspaper mentions the
visit Of Victor Emanuel to the Emperor Will
liam as proof of the alliance of Prussia, Italy
and Austria.
The bombardment of Alicante, an important
Mediterranean seaport OF Spain, is threat med
by the lasurgent squadron. The foreign con-
suls remons, rated, but it is said without avail
The Spanish Government will complain to
France of the latter's shelter and protection
afforded to the Carlist chieftain Seballo.
NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD The future
of the Northern Pacific has already become a
subject of discussion in the public press. A
New Y ork cotemporary sees only one of two
courses left-the abandonment ofthe enterprise
or its assumption by the Government. Only
six hundred miles of the road are built, or about
one third The proposition that the govern
ment should complete the work is abs' ID in
the present state of public feeling.