Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-12-16
VIRGINIA NEWS.

tendance. Saturday he prescribed two differ
emf Eonid medicines. one to be taken IN i've
drop and the other 10 tearpoonful doses. Dur
ing the uight Of that day the time arrived Tor
administering the medicine to be gwen 10 tea
spoonful dose, and the mother-ln-laW OF the
sick lady being in attendance, preparS aud
gave her through mistake teaspoontul from
the wrong bottle, causing death 10 about ten
minutes
Mayor Kelley, of Richmond, who has here
tofore opened his house on New Years day,
states that he will not do so on next New Year s
day, and sends S75 to the President OF the
Richmond Relief Committee, as aid to feed
ing the hungry aud clothing the naked.
The colored man, Andrew Croxton, convict
ed of an outrage on girl was hung at Tappaa-
hammock, Essex county, on Friday last. lie
made a confession of his guilt ....
The barn of Rev. j. E. Massey, of Abe
marie, was destroyed by fire one night last
week. Insured for 81 500, which is said to be
sufficient to cover the loss. --.. ... ~.
THE INITIATION PRoJscT. The usual time
for adjournment was near at hand, when hlr.
Kelley, of Pennsylvania, spraug niue, when
he has been fur some days preparing, by pre-
sentiug the following resolution
Resolred, That it is the sense OF this House
that the taxes which now burden the people
should not be increased, but that the eXtraor-
dinary means required for the support OF the
Government during the temporary paralysis
of the industries of the country now prevailing
should be obtained by a temporary loan or
loans bearing low rate of interest 10 currency
and redecmaOlc 10 United States notes.
Mr.. Kelley moved the previous question on
his resolution, pending which motion to ad-
iuurn was made, aud the yeas and nays de-
manded The latter motion was evidently 40
cepted as test vote on the resolution, and as
the call proceeded, u was apparent the contest
would be Il very close one. The democrats
voted almost solidlY in the negative, thus
showing their readiness to support Mr. Kelley
proposition The motion to adjourn prevailed
by vote of ll9 to L IA. Had Mr. Kelley pre-,
seuted his resolution earlier in the day 1t would
| probably have been adopted: 1t meets the
wishes of the infAtoosts who are thought to
have majority in the House. -Bah Amer.
A BALLoN FoUND.-Recently it was an
| nounced that the wreck Of a balloon was found
where it had landed 10 South Africa, near
Natal, and from package of letters touod
! close at hand, it was evident that it had been
sent out from Paris at the time Of the siege,
and had iourneyed some five thousand miles.
| Nj. De Fouviclle, wcll-knowu Paris sayao,
| who has given much attention to ballooolug,
| in "A letter to the London Times, demonstrates
that the wrecked balloon Was the Richard
| Wallace" which left Paris in charge OF NJ.
Lacaze, on the 9th Of January 1871, three
days before the capitulation. When last seen
NJ Lacaze was passing southwark over Roche
fort. Beyond any question he louod current
blowing from the n,rthward which carried him
probably in the night time-out over the
| Mediterranean
CONSIDERATION OF BISHOP CHENEY.-The
| CONSERVATION OF Rev. Charles Edward Cheney
! as Bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church
took place at Christ Church, Chicago, on Sun
day last, Bishop Cummins consecrating and
preaching the sermon. The sermon of the
bishop was based upon the third and fourth
verses of the second chapter Of the Second
Epistle of Peter 1t was an elaborate statement
of the views held by adherens of the Reformed
| Episcopal Church, of the nature and character
of the Episcopa! Church and ofi;e. and of the
power and authority conferred by ordination to
the minister and to the episcopacy, foEtltying
these views by copious quotations from writer's
upon church polity from the earliest times to
the present day.
MURDER A family named Moore, consist
| ing OF a husband wife, and child, passed
| through Little Rock, Arkansas. Thursday last
en- route for Texas When about seven miles
out, coming to u stream which was swollen,
they were advised to deviate from the main
road and make "a crossing at point some dis
lance ahead, which is an untrequented place.
They reached the point indicated, where the
eutire family were murdered and their bodies
thrown into the stream. The bodies Of Moore
and his wife were recovered yesterday and an
inquest held to-day, which failed to elicit the
slightest clue to the perpetrators OF this horrd
butehery The chiid's body has not been
| found
Masonic AT the annual meeting Of the
Grand Chapter, Royal Arch Masous. held ID
Richmond last week, the following officers for
the ensuing year were elected and Installed
NJ 4. Benjamin Nj. Harris Graud High
Priest f. w. II. Lambert Grand King;
Samuel Kennerly, Grand Scribe; Thomas U.
Dudley, Grand Treasurer; John Dive, Grand
Secretary (for fifty six consecutive years y AL
fred s. Lee, e. q. H.; S. NJ. Bowman, 2. S.;
Fl. M. Brent, sr.. R. A. g.; Peyton S. Coles,
3rd Veil H. G. Stevens. 2nd Veil; }. i. Ro-
per- LIST Veil George w. Dame, q. Chaplain.
n WORTHLESS MOhIdAtE. ue Veol
Chester News says:
1t is pretty generally known that Mrs. Jane
Udderzuok, mother of the prisoner furnished
the money to prosecute the defeuce Of her son
in his late trial, and to do so she gave a mort
gage on her little properly near Jenuervllle, to
the Ardens for 5000. We are legally informed
that this instrument. now turns out to be worth
less, owing to the grantor's husband not enter
ing into the same There has never been any
divorce dissolving the marriage contract be-
tween Henry Undertook and Jane, his wife,
although they have been separated for nun
Der Of years. .... ga :.
CAR WHEELS. The steamer Ohio, from
Philadelphia to Liverpool, on her last trip took
out l,2OO car wheels. This, of course, is as yet
comparatively isolated case, but it has some
significance. American Car wheels are acknowl-
edged by some English makers to be of supe--
rior character, their excellence being attributed
to the peculiar method of manufacture, involv-
ing the use of charcoal iron. The shipment