Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-04-06
NEWS OF THE DAY
"To show the very age and body Of the Tunes

A special from Blutfton, Ind, says that OF
Friday night Philip Jones, an old farmer, triee
to make peace between a party of roughs
who were quarrelling over billiards III the only
billiard saloon that has not yielded to the Wo
meu's movement. One of the roWdies, Ben
iamin Field, struck Jones on the head with /
billiard cue, crushing his skull. He klckec
him In the face when down, and then He'd
Jones soon after died. The excitement Ovcl
the affair Is intense.
The annual meeting Of friends Of the Ameri
can Tract Society was held in the First Presby
terian Church at Washington last evening
Associate Justice Strong, Of the u. 5. Supreme
Court, presided. Mr.. John b. Vassar, Gene
raj Gordon, OF Georgia, aud DR.. Rankin de-
livered addresses. The receipts for the yeal
were $780, 29; expenditures, $564,7l0; doua
tons and lcgaces, $ll6,S73. The benevolent
expenditures exceeded the receipts about $40,
0UU.
At San Francisco, on Saturday, Barber
balloon made an ascension from Woodward
Gardens When over the town of San Loan
dro, six hundred feet in the air, the balloon
collapsed, sank and struck the ground with
great force. Fortunately no lives were lost, bu
all were Injured more or less, bone seriously
The party, excepting Barber, returned to the
city last night.
At Memphis, on Saturday, while seven mel
we're loading barge with sand at Fort Picker
ing, at the southern boundary of the city, about
quarter of an acre OF the bluff fell upon them
buIyiug the barge, Dave Tracy, Dud Wave
and another, name unknown, beneath the slide
ia one hundred feet of water.
The two pilfcrlng conductors 90 the Penn
sylvania Railroad, whose trial and conviction
at Philadelphia has been heretofore mentioned,
were on Saturday each sentenced to pay fine
OF $500 and the costs of the prosecution. At
the solicitation of the counsel Tor the company,
the unfortunate men were not sent to prison.
\ suit has been decided, at New York, re-
ouiriug Thomas J. Barr TO turu over the Fen
ian fund, amounting to $4,000, to Belmont l.
Co., who were originally the holders of the
tuod, but Who by order Of Judge McCunn,
mad transferred it to Thomas j. Barr, 10 case
in which he was appointed receiver.
The House Of Representatives will soon be
called upon to vote Cd the question as to
whether or not the test of loyalty prescribed by
the commissioners of cams, appointed under
the act OF March 3, 1871, will be accepted as
conclusive.
The Boston Evening Journal says that it is
currently reported that Secretary Richardson
has secured his passage for Europe 10 the
steamer leaving about the middle Of May Ii
is also stated that he proposes connecting him-
self with foreign banking house.
April 10Th has been fixed on tor the eulogy
Of Charles Sumner by Senator Schurz, in Music
Hail. Boston. Mayor Cobb will preside. Wen
dell Phillips will Introduce the orator, and a
poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes will be read
y mass meeting Of all classes of business
meu, numbering three thousand, was held in
Fancuil Hall, Boston, Saturday evening, to
give expression against the further hatiou of
the currency.
The trial of Major General Howard is still in
progress at Washington. The court has decid-
ed not to send out commission to take depo.
sitious in the one hundred and seventy four
causes of complaint.
Ex President johnson is in Washington, his
visit there being with reference to drawing
another dividend on his deposits in the First
National Bank.