Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-12-28
sH;ytS OF THE ia 4.
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Fuller details Of two fearful accidents that
occurred in England on Thursday last are given.
The express train on the Great Western Kali
way ran off The track near Oxford, and nearly
all the cars went over deep embankment
Thirty-four persons were Instantly killed, I'VE
died soon afterwards, aud more than tit ; others
were wounded, some fatally. The train was
runring at the rate of fifty miles an hour when
the accident occurred. On the same day an
explosion occurred in North S.attordshlre
collicry. 1t was at first stated that sixty min
crs were killed, but subsequent dispatches have
reduced the uumbcr to thirty. Eighteen dead
bodies have been recovered, and active efforts
arc in progress to bring the others to the sur
face. Terrible excitement is reported as exist,
ing among the families of the miners, and
thousands Of people have flocked to the scene.
The bodies arc 50 mutllatcd and backened as
to be almost unacceptable. The cause tor
the explosion is not yet known, but is supposed
to have beeu the accumulation gas.
The trial of John W. Gerdemaun, cx-pastor
of the Catholic Church Of st. Boniface, IN Phl-
adelphia, on the charge of cmbezzlement, came
IN 10 that city on Saturday. MIR. W. l.. Hlrst
in opening the case for the prosecution, de-
clarcd that the deficit as shown at present, IS
over $50, O00 aud the total will probably be
! over 100000.
An imperial ukase has been issued at St.
| Petersburg, declaring the Grand Duke Nlcho-
las, SOD Of the Emperor's brother, the Grand
| Duke Constantine, insane, and placing MIN
under the guardianship Of his brother. Nlcho-
las is the Grand Duke VI no distracted his
| mother jewels some time since.
Lieutenant Frederick Collins, commanding
| the United States Darien surveying expedl-
ton, leaves Washington to-day for New \ ork,
to muster his forces and equipments Tor the
| expedition, and will sail from New York IN the
| Pacific mail steamer of the I'd Of January tor
ASpinwall.
In a row at New Orleans Friday evening, at
the corner of First and Locust streets, between
negroes and whites, two negroes were killed;
and in row between soldiers and citizens, at
the corner Of Caual and Basin streets, two SOL
diers were severely wounded.
The President is reported as having said
| that he would nominate, as soon as the Senate
again assembled, Minister to Russia, and the
| Indications point 10 i Western man as the prob
| able nominee.
One hundred and sixty persons passed
through indianapolis last week on their way to
| Ohio having been driven out of Kansas by the
| grasshopper plague.
Mr.. NJ. \. Litte has sold his chestnut colt
! Fellowcraft to COL Richard Penistan of Fay
cite county. Ky The colt made four miles in
| 1:l9i at Saratoga last summer.
The Carlists have offered to restore the Ger
man brig Gustav, seized by them last week off
| Z1rawz, if the amount which they allege is due
to their custom house BY the vessel is paid.
kcllogg's Returning Board at New Orleans
has counted in the Republican candidate for
State Treasurer, giving him nearly one thous-
| and majority.
Mr.. John King, jr.. Vice President Of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, has
resigned his position as Director in the Erie
| Company.
News from Madeira by way of London re-
ports the burning OF the cmigrant ship Cospat-
rick. from London for New I ork, at sea.
| Nearly five hundred lives have been lost.
! Holland is to have new Minister at Wash
ingtou. Herr Peste!, now Councillor of the
Legation at Paris, is the coming man.
1t was thought at Ithaca, n. T., on Satur-
day night, that Charlie Ross had been found
there, but there was the usual mistake.
at New York Saturday. the Produce and
| Cotton Exchanges were closed.