Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-12-10
NEWS OF THE ia n.
sho,o theuery age and body Of the Times

:" 10 sho,o theuery age and body OF the Times
MIR. John W. Garrett was yesterday re elect
ed president of the Baltimore and ONO Hall
road Company for the seventeenth year 40
offer ofipcreased salary from the nominal S4,Ouo
wear received by Mr.. Garrett, was declined;
Mr.. Garrett, stipulatipg only that he should
be relieved of many of the details now and Tor
some time past devolved upon the vlce-presl
dents of the road.
The case of Emma Stewart against the New
York Mutual Life Insurance Company to re-
cover three thousand dollars on policy 90 the
life of Alexander B. Stewart, who died IN Feb
ruary of last year. is now pending in the CIR
cult Court of Trenton, n. j. The claim Is re-
sisted on the ground that death was caused by
lntemperancc.
The watch presented by General Washington
to Lafayette, and stolen from that distinguish
ed soldier while on visit to this country IN
1925 has at last been returned to NJ. Oscar dc
Lafayette, grandson OF the Marquis, aud now
deputy in the French National Assembly by
Minister Washhurne.
Rev. L. j. Hapsberger, a member OF the
Virginia Conference Of the NJ. Il Church
South, died at the parsonage at Conccrd depot
on Sunday morning last at , 0 clock. Nlr;
Hansberger was sixty years of age and had
been minister of the Gospel tor thlrty-hve
years.
1t is stated that an effort will be made by the
first mortgage boudholdcrs to force the Selma
and Memphis Railroad into bankruptcy. The
Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad will be
sold to-day under decree OF the United States
District Court.
An Injunction has been sued out against the
New York Police Commissioners to prevent
them from Interfering with the Strakosh Sun
day evening entertainments at the Grand Opera
House. Judge Dorohue has refused to make
the injunction permanent,
The astronomers who went to India to Wit
ness the transit of Venus had fair weather tol
their observations Over one hundred photo
graphs, representing various phases OF the
phenomen, were taken.
Paul Morono, indicted for violating Jose
phine Laterzo, little girl seven years of age
in Richmond, has been found guilty and hi:
term of Imprisonment III the pcnltentlary hXed
at twenty years.
The coored people of Memphis, Tenn, have
formed an association, 10 which all old political
ties are to be discarded, with the determine
ton to cultivate aud maintain permanent peace
with the white people OF the South.
la the United States Circuit Court at Savan,
nah yesterday, Judge Er>kipe appointed }. ?
Fisher, of New York, Receiver OF the Rich
mond and Air Line Railroad.
The Custom House at Ottawa, Canada, was
burned last night All the papers and docu
meuts belonging to the several officers were de-
stroyed.
A farmer named Klein was bru,ally murder
ed and robbed on Monday night on the turn
pike road, two miles from Scranton, Pa, by sl1
men who lay 10 ambush for him.
The First National Bank building of Jay
Cooke & Co., in Washington, was sold yester
day at auction, to N. r. Fugitt for $1,000
One of the buildings of the American Print
Works at Fall River MASSACHUSETTS was burned
yesterday.
1t is rumored that Senator Cameron is op'
posed to the confirmation by the Senate of the
appointment OF Postmaster General Jewell.
The South Georgia Methodist Conference
met at Savannah yesterday, Bishop Pierce pre-
siding.
Ezra Cornell, the founder of the Cornell Uni
versity, died at his home at Ithaca, New ork
yesterday.
The trial of Count Won Aruim commenced
at Berlin yesterday.