Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-08-25
NEWS OF TIL Il y A y .
"E show the ve,y age and Lody Of the TtntrS.

On Saturday in Baltimore laborcrs were en-
gagged 10 loading schooner then lying at
Boyce's coal pier with Cumberland coal. For
this purpose they had pushed al iron coal hop
per upon large iron chute at the end OF the
wharf, and one Of them was in the act OF draw
ing the bolt securing the bottom of the car,
when one OF the chains securing The chute to
an upright OF the pier parted, causing the car,
its contents aud four men to tall to the deck OF
the schooner The men. coal and Car tcll upon
the deck of the vessel, the force OF the great
weight so suddenly brought to bear upon
the schooner being such that the deck was
crushed in for a considerable space. The men
fell Immediately beneath the mass of coal and
debris of the car, and fully fifteen minutes
elapsed before they conld be cXtrclttd. Oue
ulan was instantly killed and three others Sc
liou$ly injured.
An accident occurred Oh the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad yesterday at Cameron, twenty
miles from Wheeling A passenger train was
thrown from the track by the spreading OF the
rails and car containing German immigrants
was rolled down an embankment. -Four OF the
Germans were killed. The survivors, suppos
ing that the railroad men had conspired togel h.
er to kill all the immigrants, set upon the ottl-
GERS of the train aud drove them from the
wreck. Ther we're finally Gained down, and
another train came along and took them on
their Way.
During the first year that the business Of the
late frecdneu's bureau has been uDder the
charge of the adjutant generals office in the
War Department, claims amounting to ; III
OBS. IS have been paid; claims amounting to
rtD a. bava hpnD prp rcd tpr
and ouly await the call of ciaimantS for their
money, and Of the appropriation of SlOO,OOU
to carry on the business for the year ending
June Goth. 1873, at least $42 600 Will be con.
vcyed back into the treasury
The fox. hunters OF Prince George county.
Md, by Mcssrs. S. r. Suit, Wiiircd MARSHALL
and Bcnilmin +. Cross, challenge any county
10 the United States for chase, or the sports
men of Primes Georges, Charles, Anne Arun-
die, and St. Mary's counties combucl challenge
the world Packs of hounds TO consist OF not
less than forty-seven or more THAI tltty-two
They solicit correspondence on the inject.
\ Wilmington Delaware, dispatch, states
the damage to vessels aud canal bargeS 10 the
Chesapeake and Delaware canal inc udes eleven
Schoouers and eighteen bargcs hopeless y wreck
ell, Wnle twenty GlHnl SCIUUuciS lHilt
seven barges, two tugs, and one propeller
steamer are stranded, aud most OF them more
or less injured.
Postmaster General Cre>well has hit upon a
curious way to rid himself of mail robbers In
stead of ferretng out the guilty parties who
have frequently robbed the postotice at Perry
station, Arkansas, Mr. CreswelI ordered the
Office to be discontinued. So, says the Batl-
more Gazette, the people are punished because
the thieves not caught.
4 gentleman, who arrived at St. Lonls on
Saturday, from the Indian Territory, says the
Kiowa chiefs, Sautanta aud Big Tree, had ar
rived at Fort Gibson, where they will remain
until the meeting Of the Grand Council in DC,
tober, when they will be taken to Fort Sill aod
formally released from captivity.
Mr.. Henry Wattcr<oo, editor of the Louis
vile (ky) Courier-J ournal, who has been
writing some charming letters home, has been
elected 40 honorary member OF the Golden
Club of London.
The twenty fifth anniversary of the Presl-
dents wedding was celebrated in qr'ct aud
unostentatlou, manner at his cottage at Long
Branch uu Friday