Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-07-13
NEWS or TIL Il j Al
TO sho,o the rery age and body Of the Tansrs

Owing 10 the curtailment of appropriations,
Gen. Sherman, it is stated, finds II Impossible
to change the location Of troops to the extent
he desires, having in view sanitary and military
purposes The Fourth, Ninth and Tenth cav
airy have been 10 Missouri and Texas since
1865 or 1866; the Tweuty-'ourth auu l"en,!
fifth negro regiments IN Texas since looo' . t"c
First cavalry in Oregon and California since
1866: while the Seventh. Seventeenth aud
Twentieth regiments OF Infantry have been on
the upper Missouri for the last FIVE years
Saturday aud Sunday we're fruitful OF fatai
disasters in Baltimore. \ Norwegian sailor
fell from vessel at Locust Point and was
drowned The chief steward Of another vessel
died, after several days illness and while being
conveyed TO the hospital. Another man was
found dead in the dam under the iiaGuct
Bridge, under mysterious circumstances. va
Sunday two men were killed upon the Baltl-
more and ONO Railroad-oDe at Leicester,
Md, and the other at point between Cinclu-
natl and parkersburg.
An unfortunate affair occurred III Columbia
county, Ca, on Friday morning. deputy
sheriff and posse arrested four col"red men
uamed Doggctt father and three sOns-'on
some distance the prisoners attempted TO run.
when they were ilcd upon and killed. The
coroner's jury rendered verdict oil lustihaGic
homicide.
One after another the Kings of the Turf
are led limpiug from the track. Harry Ba>sett,
LpngfelIow and half dcztn other Uoted racers
have within the last two years retired With
swollen pasterns. On Friday Tom Bowling
broke down at Monmouth Park, aud was sent
to his stable with swollen tnrcleg. This Is
| the fourth horse that has been disabled at
Monmouth Park during the present meeting.
A dispatch from Ea>tpurt, Maine, chronicles
the death Of boy who deserves to be rcmem-
| bered as hero. After rcScuing four boys who
were thrown into the water 10y the up>erlng OF
boat he was taken with the cramp while
swimming, and pushing the cap>ized craft to
the shore, with the boys cllnglng 10 the gun
vale, and went 10 the boltou of the sea while
| they came safely to land
The arbitrators 10 the matter of the claim OF
| Henry Tyson, esq, against the Mayor ard City
| Council of Baltimore for pcrccutase amounting
to $37, $50 on the cost of his plan for the inl-
provement of Jones Falls, on Saturday award
cd that gentleman - 600.
The recent child stealing case in Fniladcl plia
has attracted much attention, aud the police
department has issued circular describing tiic
two men who stole the child aud the wagon III
to which the child Ross was cnticed.
The Daily Bullcriu dry goods review Of n W
York Of Saturday morning announces the sus-
pension of J. H. Dggcs & Co.. wholesale
dra!ers. in Leonard street, with liabilities OF
$5u0,OO0. The assets are lot given.
President Grant will leave Long Branch to
day for Saratoga, where he has engaged rooms.
He will remain several days, and BE- present at
the regatta.
Official returns from all the counties in AR
kansas but one show majority of 1000 TOR
the Constitutional Convention. The Cnnvcn-
tion meets at Little Rock TO morrow.
Gov. Dix's Secretary on Saturday served on
Mayor Hayemeycr, of New York copy OF
the charges made against him. He will have a
reasonable time to answer the charges
Deputy United States Marshal james p.
Everett was found dead near Tuliahon, Tenn.
on Saturday. Two pistol balls had entered his
bead.
A man named Henry Clay Merger was ar.
rested on Friday, at Hanover, Pa, for sending
obscene books aud circulars through the malls.
Loftus who recently murdered his wife in
Gravesvillc Wis, pleaded guilty on Saturday
and was sentenced to the State prison Tor lie
a destructive storm in Holt county, Nilsson
RI uErootcd hundreds OF fruit trees and pros
trated whole fields of corn.
The President has appointed Macmillan +.
Rerzana Superintendent Of the United States
mint at New Orleans.
4 telegram from Chattanooga to Cincinnati
says that city has voted to donate $l0U,uOO to
the Cincinnati Southern Railroad.
Chief Justice Waite is ruStcating at Putin
Bay.
The Sub-Treasury al New York on Saturday
paid $500, 900 for called bonds.
On aud after the 18th inst. the New York
Produce Exchange will close at 100 p. III.
Heavy rains fell on Saturday night through
out England, greatly bencfting the crops.
ARREST OF A SwISDLER "a dispatch from
Richmond says a man giving the name OF
James X Van Ness was arrested there Satur-
day night, charged with attempting to pcrpe-
trate . series Of swndlcs on number OF pro-
muent business mer. Van Ness has been IN
Richmond several days, representing himself
as the ageLt of Cornelius Vanderbilt Of New
York, aud that he had been sent here to make
extensive purchases. He exhibited papers
purportiug to be signed by Vanderbilt author
izing purchases, and also showed numerous
drafts, amounting to several hundred thousand
dollars, all signed By Vanderbilt. lie had sue
ceeded in imposing SO far on some OF our ctl-
zens as to negotiate sales, one being for large
Touring mill Saturday morning, some suspi-
cion being aroused, telegram was sent to New
York by the president Of a leading moneyed
institution, aud an answer was received that
Commodore Vanderbilt knew nothing of the
party. Van Ness was arc Sled at his hotel by
Detectives kuox and Wrcu on a warrant
charging him with forgery and having forged
paper in his possession. When arrested he had
slC0 900 forged paper. From other papers
found on him it was ascertained that his true
uame is Livingston. He is geutleman!y in APP
pearauce, about 81 years of age, five feet nine
fen inches hiuh he hont ty0 hundred