Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-10-08
JEWS OF THE DA Y
"To sho,o the very age and body Of the Time


The testimony for the defence in the case of
Samuel Mcdonald, on trial at Towsoutown,
Md, for the murder of Berry Amos, closed
yesterday. The most important witness was a
German life insurance agent from Milwaukee,
who swears that he was within six feet OF
Amos when be, while standing in the street,
was stabbed by an unknown,man, who made
his escape.
The Convention of the Independent Order of
Red Men Of the United States yesterday con-
cluded its session 10 Brooklyn, N Y. Seven
teen States were represented by delegates from
some two hundred lodges. Lewis Wodde, Of
Maryland, was chosen Supreme Grand Chief,
and Otto Kreamer, of Massachusetts,, Deputy
Grand Chief.
The Thirteenth Infantry has been ordered
from Nebraska to the Department of the
South. Orders were issued yesterday to the
different District Commanders to get them on
the railroad without delay.
John Wise, son of Charles +. Wise, and
grandson of Professor John Wise, made a
beautiful ascension from the fair grounds, ln
diana, Penn, yesterday afternoon. lie is the
youngest aeronaut in the world, being but thir-
teen years old.
The Court of Commissioners for the settle
ment of the Alabama claims, after adopting
rules for it's government, has adjourned to No
vembcr 5, when it is expected some business
may be ready to be presented to it.
''Grasshopper Aid Societies" have been OIL
gauized in Nebraska, and subscriptions arc So
licitel from abroad.
The Lord Mayor of Dublin and several Nom
bers of the Irish rifle team left New York for
Europe yesterday.
The Office furniture and fixtures of the branch
of the Free lman's Bank 10 New York city
have been sold.
Abraham Hardenberg, business manager of
the Jersey City Standard, has absconded.
DISCRETION In speaking of the breaking
and mutatiou of the monument over the re-
mains of Aaron Burr, the Charlottesville JEFF
fersonian says: Rude and sacreligious hands
have broken and mutilated the monuments Of
better men than Aaron Burr. In our own Vi
ciDity, the granite obelisk that stands over the
remains of Thomas jefferson, the immortal
author Of the Declaration of Independence, has
beer as rudely battered as is Burr's monument
by relic hunters and thoughtless visitors, and
one of the descendants of General Israel Put
nam, in Brooklyn, Conn, intol med us that the
monument over the old hero was SO knocked to
pieces by visitors that he had been obliged to
carry it away from the graveyard to place Of
security in his family residence.
TROUBLES WITH MINERS The miners at
Moosic, Pennsylvania, went on strike to COM
y>ol bo, No
had been discharged and to discharge the fore
man who had thus dared contraveuc the wishes
OF the miners All inducement failing to Sc
cure their return 10 work, the nine owners OBJ
tanned some Welsh miners from distance
when, 10 complete their dic.ation to the min
ing company as to the way it should conduct
its business, the Irish prevented them from
working bv force Of arms. The sberiffs from
two ncighboring towns collected large force
aud arrested twelve Of the ringleaders, and
have provided the mines with guard.
A SUBTERRANEAN FOREST Mr. G. j. Sale,
of this county Essex in digging we'll re-
Gently, at the depth of about thirty feet, came
upon the bodies of large trees several feet in
diameter, which proved on examination to be
cypress Fearing the water would be injured
by the wood, he determined to abandon this
we'll, aud dug another some distance off,
When be had reached about the same depth,
he again encountered the trees and third at
tempt, at a still greater distance from the first
well, still brought him in contact with this sub
tcrrancau forest, the trees of which are of great
size and we'll preserved. -7ulcacater Mdcc
DEATH OF AN ENGLISH PoET-A cable dis
patch announces the death Of Bryan w. Proc
tor, the we'll known English poet, whose writ.
ings under the pseudonym of Barry CORNWALL
are familiar Proctor was born in 1890, and
was educated at Harrow school, where he had
Byron for companion. At an early age he
commenced the study of the law, but cultivat-
ing poetry, he produced in 1915 small volume
of dramatic sketches of considerable merit His
tragedy of MirandoIa' was brought out with
success at Covent Garden in 1921, MIR. Ma
cready taking the principal character. His
most original work is the Dramatic Scepes,"
modelled on the style of the old English drama.
RESIGNATION OLA RECToRSHlp. -Rev.
Hugh Roy Scott has resigned the rectorship of
ST. Matthews p. L. Church, Baltimore, 10