Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-08-15
NEWS OF Tho DAY.
10 sho,o the rery age and body Of the Times.


A dispatch from Cleveland, Ohio. says
Yesterday the large lumber barge j. D. Nor
ton, Captain ~ Flick, Que of six in tow OF the
steam barge Sun, broke from the tow about
twenty miles down the lake and IN a. short tine
went to pieces, the lake being very rough.
Capt. +. his wife and little girl and one sea,
man, took to the small boat and were saVed
and brought to this port. Two seamen prefer,
red remain on the the barge, and It Is supposed
were drowned.
Prof Isaac G. Vest acquitted fthe murder
Of Cooch Iuracr, but still in the Dover Jail, in
Delaware, awaiting trial on an Indictment for ar
son, has become the victim OF remorse or con-
science. He is evidently much harrassed
in mind, beyond the insanity which IS SAID to
posses him, and his actions betray an inward
consciousness of the enormily OF the OttcnSc tur
which his liic was on trial.
\ special dispatch from Lancaster Ohio,
states that the committee appointed to investl-
gate the affairs Of the auditor and treasurer
OF Fanled county reported that they had
found deficit of SAP 900 of public money
The prcscut ncumbcnts are excul pated, and
the blame is attached to their predecessors 10
office.
PLANES lumber mill and steam salt works,
one of the largest on Saginaw river, was de-
stroycd by fire yesterday at Saginaw City, to.
gether with about 100000 feet OF 1um Der aud
/ 900 barrels of salt. The loss amounts $685..
600, against which there is an insurance OF
$4,000.
Col. John Hart, late of Charleston, S. g.,
and formerly Superintendent of Public Print
ing, died on his way to Washington on Tues
dow, of congestion Of the brain. His family
are residents of Washington, and bis body will
be buried there.
The Postmaster at Litch6eld, Montgomery
county, Illinois, has telegraphed to the Post
master General that that Office was broken into
on Wednesday night and robbed Of between
three and FIVE hundred dollars in stamps and
money.
There was marked decline in Gold at New
York, yesterday, the rate touching ll4S, and
closing week at ll41. The Government sold
only 1865, 500 good at H. so to 1897, which
was the extent of the bids made.
Colonel Cobb, member of Congress from
Wyandotte, Kansas, has sued R. B. Taylor, Of
character, claiming $4,000 damages.
The Erie Railway Company has procured
from the Office Of Internal Revenue an abate.
ment Of $40, 900 of taxes unlawfully assessed.
A FAMILY ENGULFED IN WELL.-At
Adamsvie, Ohio, MIR. A. j. Wine has we'll
which lately proved a great disaster to his
family 1t was thirty-fve feet deep, had long
been 10 disuse, and was nearly dry. He was
engaged in digging it deeper, and there was a
windass and a tub for drawing up the dirt.
The wo1kmen, being otherwise engaged, had
not touched it for several days and a daughter
of MIR. Wine, young lady of eighteen years,
thought she would put some butter at the BOT,
tom Of the well to keep it cool. She persuaded
her brother, a young man of twenty -one,at
homo from college during vacation-to let her
down in the tub, She took the butter down
safely, and deposited it at the bottom. Her
brother was drawing her up, and when within
few feet of the top the young lady became in
sensible, and fell out OF the tub to the bottom.
The young man raised an alarm, and the father
came. He let his son down, and before he
could secure his sisters body, to be drawn up.
he was lying senseless at the bottom. The
father then raised an alarm, and the neighbors
came A young man who was very intimate
In the Wine family, and probably loved one Of
them, agreed to 70 down the we'll to bring up
his TWO friends. He was let down as young
Wine was. and, like him, stayed at the button.
Only then it seems to have occurred to anybody
that it was foul air, and that this going lnto
the well was certain death. The deep hole had
already swallowed up three estimable young
people. \ fourth went down with more care
and proper machinery Tor graphing, and finally
all three were brought to the surface, dead !.
The young lady was much admired in all the
country round, and the two young men who
lost their lives 10 trying to save sister and
bctrothed were OF great promise. The affair
caused luconsolabe family grief and great
public distress 10 Adamovlllc.
INDIGNATIoN MEETING OF HUSBANDS "A
call Tor an indignation meeting, signed by sixty
men whose wives have gone "summerlng, is
published in the Lafayette (lud. Journal. The
call reads as follows:
''The undersigned grass wldowers of the city
Of Lafayette being impressed with the immi-
neuce of the crisis IN the family relations OF the
community which the season has brought upon
us, and feeling that the emergency requires
wise counsel and circumspcct yet determined
action, respectfully request that all their fellow
sufferers will meet with them at Nos and
North Third street on Wednesday evening,
July Is, to take counsel together as to the best
method of giving expression to their indigna-
ton at the base deserlon Of unfeeling spouses
in this, the very summer Of their discomfort,
and how they can most efectuay make a bold
strike for the cause of male equality and mems
rights.
''WnlsKEY HAS USED HIM Up. There
is scarcely community or nelghborhood from
Maiue to the Gulf, where this saying is not
used almost every day in the year, and alto
gether too truly. A subject of this kind is to
be found in almost every town. The merchant
has tailed, and whiskey has done it. The law.
yer with brilliant talents and large business
has fallen below the range of responsibility and
confidence; whiskey was the cause. The poll
tician with bright prospects before him has
played out, and the account is charged to wills
key. The judge of talent, age and respectable
ty, is the subject of private and neilghborho.od
Iii Lie anomias noint with deriSiOn and his