Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-07-20
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tircly withdraw the insurance companies fsom
that city unless the FIRE Department be speed
X and radically reorvaniZed. A man has been
arrested, charged with causing the fire OF July
II.
Secretary Bristow has issued circular to
the officers Of the Treasury Department, call
ing attention to the Act Of July ~ 1917, Tor
bidding any department to eXpcnd 10 any one
fiscal year any SUM IN excess VI tue aPpropila-
tion made by Congress Tor that fiscal year, or
TO involve the Government 10 any CONTRACT Tor
the future payment OF money 10 excess OF Tue
appropriation.
\ fire on Saturday afternoon on the farm OF
Joseph Bennett eight or niue miles from lren-
ton, n. j., in Pennsylvania, burned his barn,
two children tagged seven aud nlne years eignt
loads of wheat and large quantity OF nay.
The children were playing with matches 10 the
cellar of the barn and set fire to the hay.
The United States cast survey steamer
Bachc, Captain R bert Platte, which has been
in Norfolk for the past month hitting, sailed
Yesterday M ,rniug for Portsmouth. \. h. She
will be engaged during the nexE three or four
months making sorndings III that Vlcloity.
The priest Iantha!er, who was arrested at
Schwcinfurt on suspicion OF being implicated
with Kuman in the attempt to assaSsInatc
Bismarck, has been discharged, having proven
his entire iuuocetce Of any connection with the
affair.
The publishers of the Cincinnati (fvzcite on
Saturday dismissed all their composltors, and
supplied their places with full force OF men
not members Of the Typographical Union.
Near Delphi. Illinois, on Saturday, child
Of Mrs Fred. Chapman was cut 10 too BY a
railroad train. The mother upon receiving the
| mutilated body became ravng maulac
Brcyct Col. R. VI. Hall, Quar;ermastcr oil
the First Artillery, U. S. A., stationed at
Charleston, S. C., died at Summeryille, 5. e.,
after brIei illucss.
A Eufaula, Alabama, dispatch announces
the execution, on Friday, at Clay ton, Alabama
of Abe Cotton and Jack t1orn negroes, tor at
tempted murder aud robbery.
The Supreme Conclave Of Hcp'asophs OF
Seven Wise Men adjourned on Saturday tc
met again Il. Indianapolis on the first Monday
Of May next.
4 special from Little Rock says the Consti'
| tuCDilai SOHNcullUD WIZ uCCldlG all oldlS VIZ
ces vacant and order a new election.
Prince Bismarck has received upward OF
900 kilograms congratulating him upon his
escape from assassination.
The Monmouth Park Races closed on Saur-
day.
\ WILL CASE IN GLOUCESTER Cola the
suit OF Keen Il Go. VS.. Coke's ex or, pending
ia the Circuit Court of Gloucester, decree
has been recently pronounced by Judge Jetfrles
whereby Mrs Eiward G. Marshall is adjudgcd
entitled, as her separate estate, to one-halt the
sum Of $500 sterling, legacy under the will OF
Rebecca lunis, who died many years ago. The
terms of the bequest were as follows:
81 give and bequcathc to my niece, Susan
| Byrd, widow and rect OF William Byrd, de-
ceased late of Gloucester, the arrears OF all in
tercst which ma, be due lc me at the time Of my
death, and all the interest which curing her life
| may accrue on u debt due to me If S0UU STIRLING
If IN the estate of the said VIM. Byrd and tor
| which there was decree in my favor the 24th
| Of May, 1910, in the High Court Of C1sncery in
| Richmond, and direct that the same shall re-
msin on the SAID security during the life of the
| said Susan Byrd Alter the death ut the SAID
Susan Byrd give the sud sum OF money to
Fielding Lewis, of Charles City, II trust for
Courtcney w. Brooke, daughter Of Eliz .bcth
Brooke, ,.nd qu st that il be invested Ill bank
stock and applied by the sid Fielding Lewis for
the benefit of the said Courtenry, as he shall
think pr p In case the said Cuui !eney w
Brooke stat! die under the age Of twenty one
years r marries, direct that the stock before
given to my friend Fielding Lewis for her BEN
it be vested in him. in trust for Elizabeth
Brooke her mother, and Mary & Nelson, my
great neces, to be advanced to them in rtiors,
rs said Fielding Lewis may think proper and
free from the control o. their husbands
Cuurteney w. Brooke 10 the lifetime fSu
san Byrd, marr Robert Z. Seldom. She aud
her husband laid cam to the entire legacy OF
$500. Mrs Marshall is the only child of Mary
{. Nelson. Susan Byrd died just before or
shortly after the late war We congratulate
our county woman upon this success. Well
does she deserve it. Before our trouble she
and her houored husband were in ,fpaeut CIR
cum>taoces. By its result they have been
made poor Yet in their poverty their virtues
lave shone fourth with splendid lustre. We
repeat We tender them our hearty congratula.
TORS
The case was argued last March at CLIQUE $
ter e. H., by r. Taylor Scott Of our town for
Mrs Marshall, aud John L. Seawe for Seldom
aud wife Mr.. Seawel we believe, represent
ed Gloucester 10 our General Assembly some
years ago aud was cotcmporary OF the late
Robert Il Scott. He is established 10 his pro-
fcSson, has great experience and ability, and
is accepted as the leading lawyer at the bar in
that circuit Vurrcnton Inter.
ANOTHER VICTIM Dung Pomcroy, whose
u~auc propensity fpr nutlaliug small boys and
torturiug them to death occasoned so much
excitement in Boston some mouths since, has
hal another horrible crime laid to his charge.
\ little cir! banned Kate Curran mysteriously
disappeared last winter. and nothing was koown
OF her fate until sotne workmen employed 10
repairing cellar communicating with the Gel
lar of the house in which Pomcroy's mother
lived found her body buried in an ash pile. The
child's clothing was in a state of preservation,
aud led to the complete Identification of the re-
MAINS The Indignation Of the neighbors was
so great that the police thought it necessary to
take both the mother and the elder brother IL
to custody to save them from the vengeance OF
the mob. There seems to be no evidence that
they had anything to do with the murder ex-
cent their faiiure 10 discover the BODY which