Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-08-11
NEWS OF TIL H ia y
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A shocking case Of alleged abortion is report
cd from St. Louis. A Madame Fortimeyer has
been arrested. The dead body Of a young mu-
latto girl was found in her house, and another
young woman, name unknown, was iound very
sick and in great pain. The skeleton OF an 10,
FAINT was also found, and the partially burned
bones of fntus we're discovered IN stove. LIZ
is stated that several highly respectable citizens
of St, Louis are involved 10 the matter. "A
corouer's jury is making an Investigation.
Freight trains we're dispatched, yesterday,
for the first time from the new Pennsylvania
depot, on Delaware avenue, Philadelphia,
drawn by locomotives along the river trout by
new track connecting with the oranch ROAD
on Washington avenue This avoids carting
through the city of heavy freight arriving by
steam aud sailing vessels, and greatly lessons
the expense and consumption of time
Information from Fort Laramie says the
Sioux Indians report that the Arapahoes and
Cheyennes are getting ready for war. Many
of the Sioux will go with them, should TINS
prove true The military are very active, But
their movements are kept as quiet as possible.
Gen. King and the Ninth Infantry departed
for Fort Laramie, from Omaha, yesterday.
The revenue inspectors at New York yester-
day, seized twenty-one thousand cigars and
forty-seven reels of cigarettes, which had been
smuggled and secreted at No. ] ! Rector street,
aud one thousand cigars and three hundred and
eighty FIVE reels Of cigarettes which were 10
wagon at pier No. North River.
The Beaverdam Quarries, 10 Baltimore
county, have been in successful operation TOR
nearly half century, The stone quarred from
this establishment is remarkable for its purity
and wilderness, and is becoming more generally
used for building purposes each succeeding
year.
The East Tennessee Irou and Coal Company
has been sold out by Mcssrs. Duncan, Sher-
man & Co., of New York, for S4S0,0o0. The
sale includes property amounting TO many
thousands of acres OF land in Anderson, Camp
bell, Scott aud Morgan counties.
A desperate ARRAY occurred, yesterday even
ing, at a grocery and liquor store at the corner
of Constitution and Eager streets, Baltimore.
An ex policeman named Thomas Kildutf was
seriously injured, and others badly cut with
glasses aud bottles. No arrests were made.
The reports concerning the arrest Of a woman
at Bennington, VT, who has child in her pos
session believed to be Charlie Ross, the abduc-
ted child, are contradictory as to the identity
of the child, but there appears to be little prob
ability that the child is Charlie Ross.
Under the direction Of Captain Lepson the
police of the Western District made a success
full raid on three policy shops in West Balti-
more, Yesterday, and after arresting the pro-
prietors cou6scated the implements of trade Of
the gamblers.
n dispatch from Madrid states that body
of Carlists, numbering 1000 men, was yester-
day moving upon Barcelona, and that there
was not a sufficient force of Republican troops
to oppose them. Great alarm prevails at Bar
ceona.
In the regatta, at Oakland Beach, yesterday,
Davis, of Portland, rowed the three miles in
nineteen seconds less than twenty six minutes.
The time was not extraordinary, except that 1t
would require professional to beat it.
The PostofHce Department is investigating
violation of the postal regulation by Wheel
ing, West Virginia, manufacturer of postofhce
supplies.
The Worcester (Mass) Gazette contains
letter from ex-Gov. Bullock, declining to be
considered a candidate in George F. Hoar 8
Congressional district.
The United States Naval Observatory has
made report upon the Borei comet. 1t is
not likely to become brilliant enough to be seen
by the naked eye.
A Bombay dispatch tells Of disastrous foods
which have occurred in Upper Scindc. Several
towns were washed away.
The work of constructing the Centennial
buildings is reported to be progressing rapidly.