Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-04-03
VIEWS OF TIA II - A y
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AT Des Moine>, yesterday. the grand jury
returned eight against Isaac Brandt
deputy under ex-State Treasurer RANKIN
These indictments are Tor embeZz emcnt, VI '''I
appropriation of public moneys 10 the shape ~
interest or bonuses on State drafts OF oepo:li,.
The amount oil money he Is thus charger WIZ" WILL
approprating is reported to he aDout TIo w.
2 sum about equal to the original RANKIN de-
falcation Brandt was arrested, but subse-
nnantlv released on $4,000 bail on each lnd'ct,
mInt Six indictments were also returned
against Rankin for the embt zzement OF mon
eys OF the State Agricultural college, hahhln
has also given BAIL
In Philadelphia yesterday, the first eouVlc-
ton was had under the Sunday liquor law a
saloon keeper was convicted on the testimony
of woman, who testified that 10 nope sue cou'u
prevent the defendant trom selling liquor 10 her
husband she went to Defendants tavern on
Sunday, March Is; said her mother was sic4'
and bought ahaIf pint OF whlskey,, and tnen' 10
pursuance of her original deslgD,she prosecuted
him Defendant admitted the sale by bun,
but said it was for medicinal purpose The
Judge said tavern keeper bad no right TO sell
Ionor ON Sunday as an apothecary. Sentence
was deferred.
At Chicago yesterday, the Baptist Ecceslas-
tical Council, which has been engaged for some
two weeks mast in the trial of Rev. Florence
| McCarty, of the Union Park church, on charges
Of uuchristian and unmlniserial conduct, pre-,
| fcrred by the deacons of his church, concluded
their labors. The majority agreed upon re,
| port, withdrawing trOm the accused the manu-
of ministerial fellowship, but not advising the
church to eXpel him from Its membership:
A respectable minority uf the council disagreed
with this conclusion.
On Wednesday night, at Middetown, Wis,
while exercises were being held 10 school
house lamp exploded, which set fire to the
building. At least three hundred persons were
present and became panic stricken. La tue
rush for the doors about forty persons were IN
iured four seriously The fire burned about
half an hour, when it was extlngulshed by TWO
plucky women, who smothered 1t with over
cats and carpets.
The Loudon Gazette the official paper OF
the court and Government contained on Sat
urday the following extraordinary announce
meut j.: 'Notice is hereby given that the pre-
sentalion of Mrs johnson at her Majesty 5
drawing room on Thursday, the Goth OF FEB,
ruary last, took place through lnadvertenee
he notice is dated at the Lord Chamberlain
Office. All fashionable London is inqulrlng
who Mrs. johnson is 2
Thomas T. Collins. held at Providence, H.
l., under rcquisilion from the Governor OF
Illinois, on charge Of conspiracy, escaped
from iail last evening while an officer was TAX
ing MIN to the wardeu's table for tea, the war
deus attention being 10 the meantime diverted
Dy the prisoners wife. Tue fugitive was pnr-
sued, but a carriage was in waiting few steps
from the door, iuto which he spraug and was
carried off.
A dispatch from Vice President Clark, OF
the Erie Railway Company, who is now at Sus-
auehanna depot, says: There is no trouble
whatever on the line now. Everything IS
working we'll. Nearly five thousand cars have
passed here since Monday. We shall have 90
more trouble All the disabled engines are in
running order again. We have al! the men
We want at present in the shops.
The county treasurers Of Falr6e Id and
Orapgeburg, S. c.. have been arrested Tor en-
bezzlirg the public funds. Humbert, county
treasurer of Orangeburg was committed to jail,
charged with being detaulter 10 S3O,UUO.
Smith, county treasurer oil Fairfield, was COM
mitted to Jail two days ago. Others are sus-
pected.
A tragedy occurred 10 house Of ill-fame at
Torouta, Thursday nigh. John Reilly set fire
to the clothes of Que of the inmates named
Mary Slatterly, and she was burned so severely
that she died 10 the hospital yesterday. Reilly
was arrested.
Leandor Fox, of New York, and his son By
ron, sentenced to fine and Imprisonment for
sending improper books through the mails,
have been pardoned by the President on con-
dtion of their paying their fues and the costs
| Of the prosecution.
A dispatch from Cleveland, Ohio, says =
The Iaborers at the Union depot, numbering
nearly 800, struck to-day for an advance 10 their
wages. They were all promptly paid and dis
charged.
A movement is on foot to establish mill
tary school in Canada similar to that at West
Point.
The We'land Canal will be opened on Thurs
day, April 9th, for the passage of vessels