Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-03-26
VIRGINIA NEWS,

residence IN GhesteTneld county, short dis
lance below Manchester, was set on fire Tues
da7 morning and entirely destroyed In it
were lost four valuable horses, carriage and
harness, 5 900 pounds Of hay, and other forage.
seed corn, &c When the fire was discovered
the roof was falling in, and only one horse was
saved 10 attempting to rescue the horses
Mr. J. R. Rufin was slightly burned. The
loss amounts to about 81 400.
A dispatch from Portsmouth says: The APP
pie poisoned in Norfolk county, near the city,
and thrown into a yard, proves reality. The
family was discovered to be that OF coOred
man named Ralph Bracy. One child died and
the others are very i'll, but will recover Two
unknown colored women, who visited the prem
Uses during the absence Of the grown people,
are supposed to have left the poisoned fruit
which the children found and eat.
The Fredericksburg Herald says The peo-
pie in the ncighborhood of Parker's store were
kept active for several days and nights, last
week, in wardiug off ''the big fire ! the woods
from their barns and dwellings. In addition
to those previously named Mr. George Row
lost hundreds of dollars worth of fencing: the
Randolph Mining companys property was
injured, and all living in that vicinity lost tim
Der and fencing.
The residence OF Mr.. William D. Wright,
several miles below Tappahannock, was de
| stroyed by what is believed to have been an
incendiary fire on the 18th, which involved the
loss of all MIR. WIS furniture, upstairs. On
last Thursday evening, Mr.. G. w. billiard,
| near Centre Cross, 10 Essex, lost his house by
fire. In his efforts to save his furniture Mr..
D. had the misfortune to have one of his legs
broken.
In the case of the Commonwealth VS.. VIM.
D. Coleman, charged with felony, which has
occupied the attention of the Hastings Court,
in Richmond, the whole Of the present week,
the evidence, both for the Commonwealth and
the defence, was closed yesterday, when coun
sci for the defence offered Instructions, which
were objected to by the Attorney for the Com
monwealth, and arguments were heard.
| TIE AMERICAN VOLCANO AND TIE ENG
1lsH TIDAL WAvE.-The concurrence of the
volcanic disturbance in North Carolina and the
great tidal iuuudation OF the east coast OF Eng
land have raised the question whether the two
phenomena have any connection. Sir Charles
LyeIl, the great geologist has asserted that the
American coast in Georgia and the Caro-
| linas is subject to subsdence; and this fact,
|
| Mountain suggests an agitation extending far
into the waters OF the Atlantic. The undula,
ton of the ocean from the great Lisbon earth
quake produced marine wave which crossed
| the whole Atlantic, three thousand seven hun
| dred and twenty ci ght miles IN straight line,
and broke upon the West Indian shores OF Bar
bados aud Martinique; and in 1854 the Japa-
| nesc earthquake sent its sea wave across the
North Pacific and piled up its waters Oh the
! Californian coast. 1t does not appear alarming
that Bald Mountain should be i'll tremor. aud
yet we can infer nothing trom the apparent tar
diness Of the mountain to relieve itself from IN
ternal pressure The subterranean sounds which
proceeded the fiery uprising OF the Mexican
volcano of Jorulo, which rose IN single ri ght
sixteen hundred and cighty-three feet, had
lasted from June till September. The first
alarm subsidized, and tranquility was restored
| few days before the most tremendous eruption
| of modern history took place with terrific de-
| structlon.
1t is, however, more probable that the great
| food tide on the English coast was due to me-
| teorologcal causes. At this season the high
winter atmospheric pressure amassed over
Northern and Central Europe and Asia is
breaking up, and it rolls off to the westward 10
the form of the long continued and high caster
| ly gales on the English sea trout. ln 1918
| March Il just such tidal inundation occur
red in the Thames and at Hull, Yarmouth and
other points on the Eastern coast aud extend
ed to Plymouth, where it washed off many
enormous stones of the breakwater. So pow.
erful arc the agencies of the sea here that Aid
borough, as it formerly existed, lies twenty
| four feet under water, almost every remnant
having been enguifed aud the inhabitants long
| since forced to retreat inland and form new
site for their town. There is an uudoubted
| physical connection between the quaklDgs and
connections of the earth's crust aud the com
motions of the atmosphere over wide areas OF
both sea and land, but the causal connection IS
obscure and mysterious In the present in.
stance it is altogether improbable that the tide
| in the Thames can be due to anything else
than the stormy weather and eastcrly winds
peculiar to the spring equinox. As already lu-
| timated, we may not have had the last vi the
volcanic up-heaval in North Carolina, aud it
! may take many months for the mountain to
| finish its labor.--N Y. Herald.
SENTENCE OF MURDERERs. the Court
of General Sessions at Edgcfeld, 5. c., on
Monday, the following prisoners were scntcnc-
ed. Thomas Podgett convicted OF murder, SEN
teuced to be hanged on the 10Th OF May, at II
o'clock, NJ. Henry kllcrcase, convicted Of MUIR
der, sentenced to be hanged on the 22d Of May
at II 0 clock, H. Patrick West, convicted oil
murder, sentenced to be hanged on the 9Th oil