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

'70 sholo the pe7y age ana oody OF me f"'eS
The stage running from Mitchellsburg to
Harrodsburg, Ky, was attacked on Thursday
night, about eight miles from Harrodsburg, by
four men. one of whom ordered the driver to
stop and deliver the mail, and at the same
time eudcavored to climb 90 the stage, but was
shot dead by passenger. The other robbers
fed but we're pursued by passengers, who
captured two of them and lodged them IN the
Harrodsburg jail
Accounts from the South of France represent
that broken bands Of Carlists are flying across
| the frontiers seeking safety on French soil.
From Carlist sources it is reported 10 Paris that
junction had been effected by several bodies
of the insurgents who occupied excellent posi-.
TONS and were preparing to attack the royal
| forces, whose line of retreat they had cut on
| and intercepted reinforcemcnts
Before the Committee of Thirty OF the
French National Assembly, yesterday, Pres-
dent Theirs gave his views on tho constitutional
project which they had submitted to him, at
some length and in very plain, strong language.
| He would accept it, he said, but only with GER
tain amendments, which he declared to be in
dispensabe. He would accept humiliation, but
he would not become political manikn
The people of San Francisco, to the number of
ten thousand, have had the privilege of seeing a
grand balloon ascension by Professors Coe and
Law and several other gentlemen. The balloon
landed in marsh near Belmont and a good
deal Of difficulty was experienced 10 getting 1t
and its inmates
In the Supreme Court of Baltimore yester-
day Judge Dobbin rendered decision in the
case of the First National Bank of Charlotte,
N. c., VS.. the National Exchange Bank of Bal
timore, defining the rights Of National Bank
to t.ke stocks not for investment or spccula.
ton, but to secure itself against loss.
The committee of the New York Bar Asso-
citation did not, as reported, exon erante David
Dudley Field from the charges against him
They merely said they had no jurisdiction IN
his ease; as far as they expressed All opinion 1t
was adverse to Mr.. Flcli.
The Misses Greeley have withdrawn from
the contest over their fathers will, and the
Children Aid Society have renquished the
beuuest which was made to them.
William L Lowery Of South Carolina, con :
victcd of ku-k luX outrages, and sentenced to
two years IN the Albany penitentiary, has been
pardoncd.
Senator Wilson will resign his place in the
Senate next week, as soon as he receives notice
of the official count for Vice President.
The schooner EdwiaReed, from Baltimore
for Boston, with Il cargo Of coal, has been aban-
dOued at sea.
REMARKABLE CURE.-Thc New York Tri-
bune says "A most extraordinary surgical
operation for defective sight was performed IN
Boston recently. Mr.. Charles Thurlow, OF
Taunton, who has had such trouble with his
eyes as TO be almost blind, was accidentally
knocked into The hold OF a vessel, and, strange
to say, he now sees as we'll as anybody. what
adds to the wonder Of this cure is that Mr.
Thurlow was also deaf before this treatment
and now he also hears perfectly. The treat
ment was somewhat heroic, and not likely to
be recommended by the doctors, except to per-
soDs of strong constitutions.
There can be no doubt that sudden shock,
such as that received by the person alluded to,
will sometimes kill or cure. We remember
the case of an estimable lady, of fine accom-
plshments. now upwards of seventy, who, tor
thirty wears, suffered mental alteration which
rendered her quite unlike the delicately sens-
tive and model woman we knew in our boy
hood. a year or more ago, this lady had
severe fall which nearly proved fatal; but when
she recovered, her mental balance was restored
and no traces of her long afHcton remained: :,
Such treatment for diseases OF this kind
would not be c1mmcndcl by the medical tacul-
ty, since vastly more people have their senses
| "knockcd' out Of them by hard falls, than
have them knocked in by such accidents
We only state fact within our knowledge, but
do not recommend the treatment as certain to
be efficacious under all circumstances. 1t
might fail in some cases, like the prescription
of physician who, having an EngIlshman un-
der his care afflicted with fever, learned that
his patiept had eaten a salt herring and drank
an enormous quantity of water, which pro-
duccd reaction aud wrought his cure: lie
straightway entered in his diary, "a salt her
ring cures an Englishman Of a fever" Shortly
afterwards he found patient OF another, na-
tonalitv in fever and prescribed salt her.
ring. The sufferer died, aud the learned
IE,culapean completed his diary SO that 1t read
in this wise: "a salt herring cures an Eng
lishmau of fever, but kills Frenchman. -
LyuchJug Tuginian.
| A HOUSE SINKS INTO A Coal NINE "A gan
teman from Cleveland, ILL.,, yesterday brought
news of terrible casualty which occurred near
that place on Friday last, TIL" locality, OF the
accident was Bakers coal mine. The house OF
miner named Robert Spargo, stood directly
over an old chamber Of the mine. On Friday
afternoon the earth under the house suddenly
sunk. causing the dwelling to drop into the
cavity to depth of four or five feet. Mrs
Spargo and four children We're gathered about
a stove in one Of the rooms. The Hoor gave
wav and the stove went into the cavity below.
and the mother ana her children were prcclpi-
tatcd upon it and the fire which had fallen out
of it. Several men working not far distant
saw the house sink, and ran toward the place,
but before they reached the house the heart
rendering screams of Mrs. Spargo and the chill,
dren and the smuke which was pouring out OF
the house, told them of the horrible situation
the family was in.
The men rushed into the yard, took water
from some barrels, entered the house; and sue