Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-12-03
NEWS OF III h: DA y .
80 sho,o the very age and badly Of the Times

President Wlegand states that the bank WIZ
resume business to-day, and gives as Il reason
of the suspension that the receipts OF deposl-
tors have fallen off, aud the demands Of deposl-
tors are heavy.
A motion was made in the New York Court
of General Sessions, yesterday. for the discharge
of Joseph Coburn, the noted pugllst, who was
indicted last May for telonlouS assault on IhoS.
| Clougher, 90 the ground that the complainant
could not be found. The district attorney
pledged himself to produce C!oughcr and de-
| MED the motion.
| The New Hampshire prohibition State con-
ventiou met at Concord yesterday. Resolutions
reaffirming their devotion to the cause Of total
abstinence and tavorlng speedy return 10 spc-
Gle payments we're adopted. Nominees tor
| governor, railroad commissioner, and congress
men were made.
Joseph Talmadge, farmer in Metuchin,
| near New Brunswick, n. j., was mureered last
night by some person as yet unknown. Tai
| madge had $500 in his possession at The time,
| which was gone when the body was found. A
man has been arrested on suspicion OF beng
the murderer.
At meeting of the board of railway commits
sioners at Cincinnati yesterday it was decided
that mileage on eastward bound freights be-
tween common points should be calculated by
| the shortest route, and that rates should be
made accordingly.
The suit brought by Edna Dean Proctor
against Francis D. Moultou for 100000 dam
ages. sustained by defamation of character, was
| to have commenced yesterday in the Circuit
Court Brooklyn, n. T., but was postponed
! until to-day.
Vincenzo Iuomorata, indicted for the murder
of Rocko Frederick, at Flushing, l.. l., in Au-
gust last, pleaded guilty of maDsIaughter 10 the
second degree yesterday, and Was sentenced TO
| four years Imprisonment at hard labor 10 Sing
| Sing.
A typhoon on the island of Jesse, October
II, destroyed a sea-coast village aud wrecked 80
hunks, 200 persons perishing. The explosion
of a steamboat boiler on Lake Biwi Japan,
is reported to have caused the death of 100
persons.
| 1t is no longer mystery as to what becomes
| of the old hats. A traveller who recently vi
sited the Nicobar Islands discovered that the
chief commercial import was old hats brought
from every portion Of the world 10 exchange for
the native tropical fruits.
San Francisco and San Mateo CAL, lose
endowments of about $1,000, 900 for founding
several institutions that Horace HAYES intend
ed to make, it is said, by defect 10 the deed,
and the setting aside of his will on the ground
Of insanity,
| Mier is city 10 Mexico with 10, 900 inhablt-
| ants, where, as is said there are four public
| LII Ali md
| DO lawyers During a period OF tweoty-slX
| months there has not been murder committed
| in the city.
| A number of French Canadian physicians of
Montreal recently met and formed an anti com
| pulsory vaccination league. Its objects are TO
| oppose, By every legal means, the operation of
| the law 90 this subject, and to agtate for It's
repeal.
The semi-ceutennia Of the Historical Society
of Pennsylvania was celebrated at Philadelphia
last night by banquet at the hall of the So
ciety, to which one hundred and fifty persons
sat down.
Col. Charles n. TurubulI, graduate Of West
Point in 1854, and an officer on Gen. Sheri-
dams staff during the war, died in Boston yes
terday.
Judge ". B. Phillips, of Graot parish, La,
was arrested yesterday, charged with being an
accessory before the fact to the murder OF Need
ham Waters.
Rev. DR.. Talmage, of Brooklyn, in a card,
procaims his readiness to meet the libel suit OF
Mitchell, the communicated member OF his
church.
The New Jersey Court of Appeals decides
that railroad company cannot take goods for
one person at lower rate than under like coD-
ditions) for others.
Isaac Rufin, colored, was arrested at Marion
Ark, Monday for committing an outrage on
two colored girls, but was taken from jail BY
| sixty armed men that hight aud shot dead.
Ex-Judge Edward 2, Cowles formerly Of the
Supreme Court of New Y ork, died yesterday at
Chicago
Tuesday Dight an Illicit distillery on the
meadows at hobokeD, n j., was seized, with
about $500 gallons of whisky. The owner fled
The claims against Jay Cooke Il Go, (not all
proyed) amount TO $40 900; the assets thus
| far realized to S764 900.
The Concord, n. H., Savings Bank suspend,
ed yesterday after paying out 5000 1000 to dis
trustfu depositors.
The business portion Of the town of Wilton,
N. H.. was burned yesterday morning, lnvoIv-
| ing loss of 500 900; insurance $4,000.
DEATH OF A CESTENARIAS.-The Oldest
man 10 North America, George LIE Barre, OF
Middle Springfield, near otrocudsburg, Monroe
county, Pa, died at his residence last Satur-
| day night, at the extreme age Of III years;
BE was born in Pennsylvania, under colonial
rule, had shaken hands with Genera Washing
ton, seen the gallant Lafayette aud the patrl.
otto General Sullivan, and was deemed tory
10 revolutionary days He was too old for ser
vice 10 1872, but he was still hale old man
till within the last two weeks he had never
hean sick bnt three times 10 his lite-Once with
yellow fever, once Nth camp fever and once
With with typhoid fever He used tobacco very
freely all his life, both smoking and chewing,
but was very moderate in his use. of liquor OF