Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-03-05
EwS OF THE DAY
ITO shoso the very age and body Of the Times"

Bertha Winkler, aged Is, dressed in boys
clothing, has been for two months employed !,
a shooting gallery on Chestnut street. y y,llla-
delphia. She says her parents 20 heysz
three months since, AMI -uopted the disgust;
co 40 - ohta;n pori. The disguise was detected
by detective officer. .t4 :
The suit of Luther G. Challis against Wood
buII ClaAn aud Blood for the Infamous and
obscene charges brought against him in Wood:
| buIl aud Ciahn's Weekly, was brought to trial
Ludlow street Jail, their suretes having sur
rendered them into the hands Of the Sheriff.
The case of 2. P Wiutermute, indicted for
the murder of General McCook in Dakota, is
ouashed for the present, the court finding the
action of the grand jury making the present
ment to be illegal Wntermute has been bail
ed for S35, 900 to await the action of the oext
grand jury.
A boy of fourteen was shot and instantly
killed yesterday during the progress ola stone
fight among young rowdies in Philadelphia.
The evidence goes to show that the killing was
accidental, the boy who held the pistol firing
dl Tue CIUWu WltuUut cSpeCldl dlm.
Miss Abby l.. Merriam, daughter Of the pub
Usher of Webster's dictionary, committed sui
eide yesterday while 10 fit of insanity by
jumping from the fourth story Of New York
water cure establishment
The Indian appropriation bill reported to the
House Of Representatives, yesterday, reduces
the amount appropriated to 81 ,93l, 779 against
So, 54l ,4l9 last year.
A report comes from Havana that Cespedes,
late President of the revoIted Cubans, has been
killed, aud his body brought to Santiago de
I, Cuba.
The reported illness Of the Count dc Cham
bord proves to be untrue. He in Vienna and
we'll.
The strike of the employees of the Lchigh
Valley Railroad has begun, and the strikers
are stopping trains. They demand more wages.
Congress.
In the Senate, yesterday, the bill to provide
for the appointment of commission to inquire
, iuto the alcoholic liquor traffic was taken up,
and an amendment was offered by Mr. Bayard
that one member at least Of the commission
should not lie in favor of prohibitory legisa
ton on the subject The amendment was ad
vucated by Messrs. Couklng and Carpenter
and opposed by Messrs. Sumner and Wright
but no action was taken upon ii. Mr.. Carpen-
. ter then took the f 'or to speak upon his Lou
isiana bill. He reviewed the proceedings Of
, the election, and contended that the Kellogg
government was an usurpatiOD. The Presl
, dents proclamation Of May last, he declared tc
have been issued in violation of law, aud said
It was entirely unnecessary for Senator Morton
E ITO bolster himself up in Executive favor BY
defending it, He incidentally paid bis respects
to Judge Durell, by speaking of the ''soileC
, skirts Of a Federal judge" He urged the pas
sage of his BILL ordering new election, max
E ing strong appeal 10 its favor. lie CLOSED
! with an argument that the most tar-sighted o
political prophets, at the opening of Congress
would hardly have thought possible to be ad
vanced by an Administration Senator on ths
. hoor OF the Senate. FROM the way things were
going it looked as if there would be no such
uuauimity 10 the election Of President as there
had been before; the vote OF Louisiana nigh
settle the next election one Way or another, anc
hence the necessity Of a settlement OF the ques
ton.
In the House of Representatives mem oria
Of citizens of New York, representing four hun
J dred and seventy million Of dollars, was pre-
|, = sented protesting against the unauthorized is
. sue of currency by the Secretary Of the Treas
ury, and against further issue of irredeenablt
currency. The annual Indian Appropriation
bill was reported TO the House, and by it refer
red to the Committee of the Whole. TIT
Tran portaton bill was taken up and discussed
up to the hour Of adjournment.