Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-04-02
NEWS OF THE DAY.
g To shoe the very age and body Of tie Times.

10 shoe the uery age and body q tie Times.
The inquest over the body of Charles Good
rich, recently mystcriously murdered inBrooklyn
was continued Yesterday. Mrs. Myers was ex
aimed, and her testimony threw some light on
the dark trans action Goodrich, the Slaulard
Roscoe, and man named Beach sometimes
met at her house and upon one occasion she
heard Goodrich speak Of Roscoe ''as DANCE
rous man She also heard Roscoe mike
threats against Goodrich. They seem to have
ouarreled about Mrs Myers, both being in
love with her.
4 most Singular scene occurred in the Police
Court at Charlestown, Massachusetts, yrster
day, when Daniel S. Marsh was arraignei for
killing his ut;tnt child 10y drowning, in Scptem-
Der, 1871. Previous TO the reading of the in
die lneut the prisoner rose in til. dock. aud
made prayer In answer to the indictment,
he said these hands did it, He then pro-
ceeded to narrate IA sad story OF the domestic
troubles, which eliminated in his taking the
life Of the child lie was committed for sen
tence.
Messrs. Hunter L Frost, Of Frederick >burg.
have shipped within the last thirty days ,4lo
blows, and Il, 500 pounds of castings, and these
plows have gone into Pennsylvania. Maryland.
virginia and West Virginia. North Caroliua.
South Carolina, Georgia aud tlorlsia They
employ twenty-tour hands, melt near y 3,5uO
pounds Of iron daily, and are nearly four hun
drcd I.lows short OF filing their orders.
The sc;ui-annual meeting Of the Bard of
Government of the Catholic Total Abstinence
Union of Amcrc. was held ut Phlaiel rha
Yesterday. There are in the Union l52 soc4-
ties, ag@r, gazing about 10000 members. y
committed was appointed to devise measures
for forming an International Union between
the Catholic Total Abstinence Societies in lr:
laud and America.
\ liter from Rome of February 32d, SAYS
that on the 18th of that month three Amerl
can ladies' Misses Alice Furlong and Mary
Fenelon, Of New Orleans, and Miss Clara De-
vine, Of Sayannah-took the white veil at the
convent OF the presentation on the Plncan
| Hill.
In tie Year 1872 there We're u Baltimore
2,614 marriages, and in the same time there
were filed in the Circuit Court l3I bills asking
divorces. The applicants were 4G men aud
S. women In the same time there wrr: -
DEGREES issued divorcinc IL! les that did not
ct along harmoniou>ly.
\ paper has Lately been received, called The
Liberia Advocate, published monthly at Nlo.-
rovia on the unique terms Of 'onc bn>hel OF
unhulled coffee per anuuln. III advaucc. 1t
motto is "ChrIStau Liberia, the Open Door 10
Heather Africa. .
The year 1872 appears to have been an I'M
fortunate year for mercantile futures. La
that year there were S4,069 failures in the
United States, with liabilities amounting 10
Sl2l .0J6.OU against 50 glJ and So, %. 900
in 1871.
The President, Mrs. Graut, Miss Nellie
Grant and General Babcock went 70 New York
yesterday, where they will remain till Monday
next. The Presidents visit Is on private
business While III New Iork ne will stop at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
McsSrs. VIM I. Anderson, II. S. Menelee,
Dr. James \. Templeman, John B. Miller
and other business ana entcrpriSing ci'izsns Of
Rappahaunock county, left that county last
week for Huntington, with the Intention OF To-
eating there.
Gen. Benjamin s. Ewell, president Of Viii
liam and Mary College, at Williamsburg has
been appointed president of the competitive
board of examiners for the cadetshlp III the
Annapolis naval school from the first district.
He has accepted the trust.
4 fierce tornado passed over portions OF Ten
uessee, Mississippi and Georgia yesterday.
The town of Franklin, Tennessee, was greatly
damaged, and Augusta, Georgia, also suffered
severely. Fortunately the casualties were few.
The general railroad bill has now passed
both branches of the New Jersey Legislature.
and only wants the approval Of the Governor
to became u law. 1t was sent to him yestcr-
day.
Madame Lucca, who was said to be seriously
i'll at the Colorado Hotel, Philadelphia, it now
appears, was no; SO i'll as reported
Navigation has been resumed on the llud-
son river. \ steamer from New York reached
Poughkecp>lc yesterday.
ut the municipal election in Milwaukee
yesterday the eutrc Democratic ticket was
elected.
At 4:37 p. IN. yesterday heavy snow was
reported from Aiphena, Milwaukee, and Grand
Haven.