Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-10-09
NEWS OF THE DA y.
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bondholders of the Ohio and Mississippi Rail
way Company in Cincinnati yesterday, Sin
Alexander T. Gait, of Montreal, and John u.
Prince, of New York, were elected directors
in the place of W. H. Aspinwall and Larz An,
derson, who declined reelection. w. L; Nc,
Cliptock wrs reelected Director, and Daniel
Torrance re- elected President.
Violetta Colvlle, the young American prlma
donna, who made her fist appearance in
America at Booths theatre, yesterday, at the
memorial benefit Of the late Mark Smith, sup
ported by Strakoschs Italian Opera Company,
achieved an immediate and signal success She
was repeatedly recalled amid great enthusiasm.
The New York Commercial learns from pri.
vate correspondence from Liverpool that it is
confidently believed the stock of cotton there is
much larger than the running account and
thatt he excess will turn out on the 3lst OF De-
cember to be much larger than last years,
which was about l20, 900 bales.
Wednesday night mob ofnegroes, number
ing about forty, took the convicts James Per-
kins and VIM. Ravenswood, colored, from Jail
at Holly Springs, Arkansas, and shot them
dead, thereby avenging the death OF Mack Hill,
the guard they murdered in an attempt to es-
cape.
Buffalo is excited over the desecration of
Holy Cross Cemetery by some diabolical
wretches of medical students, who robbed the
graves for bodies and were caught 10 the Sc.
cusion of the college engaged in the work OF
dissection. The offenders were arrested.
The argument before the Board Of Pardons
in the Undertook case, at Harrisburg, Pa,
closed yesterday, at 3 p. M, and 80 far as the
counsel are concerned, it is now disposed OF.
When the Board will act upon the case is not
known.
The Hartford Company that got the contract
for supplying stamped envsl opes and newspaper
wrappers has not even supplied specimens yet
for the approval Of the Department, aud it is
likely to be month before any will be ready
for the public.
The testimony is all in 10 the trial of Nc
Donald, at Towsontown, Nd, and the argu-
ments of counsel were commenced yesterday.
They will probably be finished and the case
given to the jury to-day.
Customs officers in New York seized, yestcr.
day six trunks on the steamship St. Laurent,
from France, containing $4,000 worth of silks
aud vevets, said to belong to Madame MORN,
modiSte, of that city.
The Attorney General has decided that un-
der the act of June 80, 1859, as amended,
medicines, cosmetics, &C., are liable to tax
wheo removed for consumption as we'll as for
sale.
The loss occasioued by the late typhoon at
Hong Kong, is estimated at FL 100000. The
shore for miles around was strewn with wrecks
OF vessels, that were destroyed by the typhoon.
Young John Wise made another ascension
yesterday at Indiana, Penn, filing the balloon
and starting off in the unprecedented tune of
forty minutes
The second trial of Phelps, the default
ing cashier of the New York State Treasury,
ended at Albany, yesterday, with verdict Of
guilty.
Dr. Rice, Coroner of San Francisco, has
been held to answer before the Grand jury
Tor embezzlement and misdemeanor in office.
Mousignor Jesdoli has been released by the
brigands 10 Italy, who had captured him, upon
payment of ransom Of $4,000.
Thomas Sparks, prominent merchant of
Philadelphia and President of the Philadelphia
Salt Company, died yesterday, aged IS.
Iu.San Francisco on Wednesday night all
drinking saloons where waiter girls were em-
ployed were closed, under the new ordinance.
Last night, in Philadelphia, the choral branch
of the Centennial Musical Association was or
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