Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-11-22
NEWS OF THE DAY
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The Cumberland News says that notices were
posted 10 the rolling mills on Thursday, an
uouncing that the works would be closed until
Monday, December lst., one week longer than
was originally Intended, and that on resumlng
operations reduction of fifteen per cent. up
on prices now paid will be made upon the
wages of all employed at the mills. This with
the reduction made some weeks ago, will make
a reduction OF twenty-five per cent. upon the
wages paid several months ago.
The closing of the canals is at least month
sooner than last year, and should it end Davl-
CATION for the season, will have quite 40 effect
upon the market. On Thursday between
West Troy and Utica over four hundred beats
were frozen in. They had on board as cargo
one hundred and entyhve thousand barrels
of apples, seventy five thousand barrels OF pc
tatoes, and nearly two hundred thousand bush
els OF grain.
The Postmaster General renews his recon-
incubation for the prepayment Of postage on
newspapers at the Office of mailing. He
says collections of newspaper postage are now
made with great difficulty, and there Is no pro-
vision whatever BY which dishonesty or negIl-
gence can be detected, and the department Is
compelled to accept whatever sum OF money
postmasters choose to charge against them
selves.
The Hartford Times states that at the trial
of civil suit In the Court Of Common Pleas
of that city on Wednesday, soon after the
agreement on verdict and before Its announce
nent, MIR. Cooke, one Of the jurors. fell and in
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case of heart disease.
The trial of j. Ooan, one of those concerned 10
the alleged KuKlux outragcs in Kentucky was
concluded yesterday at Louisville. lie was
charged with killing colored mau named VIII
son and setting fire to his house; he was found
not guilty of the first and guilty Of the second.
The criminal Irving, who was brought from
San Francisco to New York in order to obtain
from him information 10 regard to the Nathan
murder, has made statements upon which two
arrests have beeen made But little faith is,
however, given to the statements made by
him.
Mrs. Charity BarDum, the wife Of ?. T.
Barnum, died at her residence in New York
Wednesday. A cable telegram announcing
nor QcdlU WIS SCuI W uCi iuouduu AZ WI ll"hJ
She was sixty. five years Of age, one year older
than Mr.. BarDum.
The Church Uoion styles hot and hotter
the fact that the First Unitarian Church of
Baltimore has had Tor its pastors, In the order
PANIED the Rev Messrs. Furniss, Bellows,
Sparks, Bazup, and Burnon.
Messrs. Elan, Handy and Cowardin of
Richmond Va, the correspondents of the
New FORK papers, who had expected to 60
out to Cuba On the flagship Worcester were
refused passage.
Gen. Roger A. Pryor, in a letter to the
New York Tribune, while expressing indigna-
ton at the butchery Of Santiago, takes the po-
sition that we have no casus belli with Spain.
Mrs. Anna Maria Cabell, daughter of the
late John j. Crittendeu, and wife of E. G, Ca
bell, cx-member Of Congress from Florida,
died yesterday in st. Louis.
All tie newspapers in Pittsburg are now
printed by those who are Independent Of
typographical unions, and will not be dictated
to or controlled by them.
New York is in surprise that William NJ.
Tweed, though committed to Jail after his con-
viction, has since been at large in charge of
the sheriff, who is an old political companion.
As result of the shriukage of the prices Of
labor and commodities, reduction in rents has
already commenced in New York city.
The family of the late Captain Joseph Fry,
commanding the steamer Virginlus, are ln very
destitute circumstances
An explosion, with terrible loss OF life, took
place in an Euglsh colliery yesterday. Tweu-
ty-6ve were killed and wounded.
The Euglish Parliament re-asscmbled on the
9Th of February.
Ex-President johnson has been granted a
patent for combination plane.
WASHINGTON News. "Wednesday after
noon two colored men named Hamilton Temple
and Moses Pollard, employed at the woodward
of HutchDs j. Greer, corner of Sixth and *
streets, got into dispute regarding loading
some coal, when Temple struck Pollard heavy
blow Oh the left temple with al upright stick,
fracturng his skull, and death resulted three
hours afterwards
Col. William H. Farrar, of Oregon, died at
his residence on Capitol Hill yesterday morning
at the age of forty-slx years. COL Farrar was
a native of New Hampshire.
The trial of the case Of Conrad Fanuce VS..
the BALTIMORE anu IOlOludC lldlIOdu Compd-
ny for damages done to the property of the
plaintiff by raising the grade Of Mary land ave-
nue. at the Long Bridge, SO that the first floor
of the plaintiff hotel, at the corner of Mary
land avenue and Fourteenth street, was left
six feet below grade and subject to inundation
10 time OF rain, was concluded yesterday. The
jury found verdict for the plaintiff and as
sesscd the damages at $4,000, the full value
of the property, The defendants filed mo-
ton to set aside the verdict for excessive DAM
ages.
The advisory committee appointed by the
meeting of the depositors of Rutf's Bank have
issued notice to the effect that the main OBJ.
stace to the resumption of the kaDk is the fact
that large number of the depostors have not
signed the agreement to grant the time requlr-
ed. Of course, so long as this is the case the
affairs of the bank will continue in the hands
of a receiver, who expects to begin the pay
ment of the first dividend within two weeks.
Col. A. H. Jackson was wounded last night,
about nine clock, by pistol ball, while pass