Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-12-08
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! ne cOiOT NHc but Ou plluCiPlc. Iuou VIC on"''
have no complaints of sectional Interference.
NEWS OF ia Il DAY.
g." r. shoy the very age and body Of the Times
At large mass meeting at EdEe6ed, S. c.,
yesterday, resolution was passed to lynch
persons, white or black, caught setting hre to
cotton gins or dwellings. Several speeches
were made against the resolution. Among
those who opposed the resolution were GOV.
Bouham, Gen. Donovan and Captain Lewis
| Jones, all promlnent citizens. There was
much excitement. A long list of gin houses,
dwellings aud barns burned since the election,
was read
Mr.. john Meushaw, Supervising Inspector
of Steamboats,, to whom an appeal was taken
from the action of the local inspectors 10 rela..
ton to the collision between the Louisiana and
the Falcon, yesterday delivered decision,
! which in point of fact decreed that the evidence
| is 50 conflicting that 20 decision can be made
Both vessels, he thinks, we're 10 default in re-
gard TO the observance OF Iue third OF the pl-
lots code, aud the pilots of both IN fault.
The admirers of Garbaldi will not be much
gratifed to learn that committee of the AS
sembly have ccnsured that adventurous old pa
| trut for DESERVING his command towards The
close Of the late war.
Lieutenant General Sheridan and General
Poue, with several members of their respective
stats. were in conference with General Sher-
man at ST. Louis yesterday The nature OF
! the consultation is as yet uukuown.
Tne injunction obtained by certain English
stockholders 10 the Erie Railway Company
against the London agents of the Company in
the Chaucery Court has been dissolved.
| Joseph Bancroft, cotton manufacturer of
Wilmington. n c.. aud prominent member
! Of the Society OF Friends, died yesterday.
Bernhard de Westeuberg, Minister resident
Of the Netherlands at Washington, has been
transferred to the Legation al Rome.
The Bishop of Urgel has abandoned the Car
list cause, AID has advised Don Alphonso to
! DO likewise.
Francis Alexander was yesterday elected
! President Of the Pacific Mail Steamship Com
paey.
| Pref IJoIzcndorh will undertake the defence
ui Count \ on Arulm.
! President MacNlahon, it is reported, will
form Dew Ministry during the coming mouth
ARREST OLA MAIL RoBBER --Wu. G. Bris-
tow. the mali-rider aud contractor on the Unit
I'd States mail route from Tappahannock to
Gloucester Courthouse, Virginia, was ar
rested on Friday last charged with robblng the
mail For some time past registered letters
have been myserlcusly dlsappcarloR from the
mail bags transported between Tappahannoek
and Gloucester Court house, Va. The accused
was arrested at Ceutrc Cross, Sussex county.
The robperles supposed to have been commit
tee! have been golDg vn for some months past
ard it is difficulty to tell how much money has
been distracted from registered letters which
have passed through the hands of Bri,tow.
br,tow took his run from TappahanDock Sat
u7iay nlvruing, and upon his arrival at Centre
Crocs. the registered letters, broken open and
robned of their CONTENTS were found upon his
person. \ lot vi implements used 10 opening
the letters aud the mcny distracted from those
90 that ri , We're also found upon him. The
Government agents also found upon his person
"A key to the Wall bags. which he had stolen
from the Uulted States Postal Department.
TuE DISTRICT OF CoLUMBlA-The Presi-
Gent, in his message, Says :-'lo my opinion the
District of Columbia should be regarded as the
grounds fine National Capitol, in which the
entire people are interested. do not aude
to this TO urge generous appropriations to the
District but to draw the attention of Congress,
10 framing law for the government OF the
District, to the magnificent scale on which the
CITY was planned BY the founders of the Gov
ernment the manner 10 which, Tor ornamen-
tai purposes the reservations, streets and ave-
a ,,l . Of ha
properly actually possessed by the General
Government. | think the proportion OF the
cxl enses Of the government and improvements
to be borne by the General Government, the
cities Of Washington and Georgetown aud the
county should BE- carefully and equtably de-
fined" The debt of the District is shown to
be, exclusive of assets, ST., 1894, 1924.
CHESAPEAKE AND Quo CANAL "A COM
mittee of the Chesa peake aud Ohio Canal
Company, held meeting in Baltimore yeser-
day afternoon. and transacted some routine
business preparatory 10 the meeting of the
stockholders of the Company at Annapolis
on Wednesday, The committee then pro-
ceeded to the banking house of GeorgeS S. Brown
where they destroyed 100000 worth of over
uuc coupons lIou luc pEtlclleu StUCk, duu
which have been paid four months ago.
DIvoRcED.--ln the Equity Court of the
D$tric, OF Columbia yesterday, Judge Wylie
granted divorce to Caroline K Malam,
from her husband, Charles K. Maan, the
plaintiff being daughter of the late William
D. Massey, of Alexandria, and the defendant q
clerk in the Treasury Department. They were
j 4 L., I,,,e H. al -
late war aud she charges him with cruel treat
men. The decree was for divorce vinculo
uatrlmonii, $50 per mouth alimony, and 40
allowance of $lO0 counsel fee, whereupon the
defendants counsel took an appeal to the
Court in General Term.