Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-09-30
NEWS OF THE DAY.
"7b sho,o the very age and body Of the Times"


The annual reunion of the Society of the
Army of the Tennessee commenced at Des
Moines yesterday. President Grant, General |
Sherman, the Secretary of War and other dis
tiDgulshed personages we're present. General
Sherman was reelected President Il was re-
solved to hold the next reunion on the 2lst,
22d and 23d of July-at Philadelphia on the
when the statue of General Mcpherson will be |
unveiled.
The court martial on the officers of the Eng
lish iron-clad Vanguard, which was sunk off
Wicklow Head, in collision with the Iron
Duke, has resulted in severe reprimaud to
Captain DaWkins, the first and second officers
and the engineer. and the dismissal of the for
mer from his command. Another court mar
tial will probably be held on the officers Of the
Iron Duke.
| A dispatch from Albany, N. Y, says that
the Jaggar Iron Company, whose blast works.
&c., cost 1861 900, is 10 such condition as to
| produce fears that the stockholders have lost
| nearly the entire amount of their investment
The heaviest creditors are the Pennsylvania
coal companies, and they are secured by mort
cages on the property.
The New York holders of the ten per cent.
bonds of the city of Houston have agreed to &C.
cept the offer of that citys agent to give them
seven per cent. thirty-year bonds 10 place of
the bonds they hold, the understanding being
that the State Of Texas and city OF Houston
shall guarantee the payment of the new bonds.
| The Court of Commissioners of Alabama
Claims reassembed yesterday, all the Judges
being present. Several awards were made 10
the case of the "Golconda," after which the
Court adjourned, the counsel for the Govern
ment being unable to proceed on account of an
affection of the eyes
The Indians seem to have something besides
dark -four to complain of. Special United
States Commissioner Shaoks reports l,SOO
horses stolen from the Indians while on their
reservations near Fort Sill. and only 40 recover
ed and returned to them.
Jay Cookies superb residence of Ogontz,
near Philadelphia, is now being sold. There
is the tomb of his father, removed from old
Ogontz (Sandusky) and reipterred uuder an
$4,000 mausoleum. The tomb goes with the
| estate.
Sixty Indians attacked the hay train of John
Phillips, between forts Fetterman and Laramie,
and after fight Of two hours and half killed
and got of thirty head of cattle aud four horses
and wounded one man.
Since June forty members of an organized
band of criminals composed mostly of outlaws
from the States, have been captured IN Indian
Territory, and with those previously arrested
make nearly one hundred now awaiting trial at
the next term of the court at Muskogee.
The observers of the solar eclipse at Man
chester, N. H., Albany, N. Y, Cambridge
University and other points 10 the North were
not rewarded with satisfactory results, on &C.
count OF cloudlness at the time Of the eclipse
At meeting of the bondhoders of the
Northern Pacific railroad, at New York, yes
terday, the report of the purchasing commit
tee, aud the receiver, q. w. Cass, were read
and approved.
| The notorious Jack Corbett, a desperate
criminal who was arrested on suspicion of being
the murderer of Mr.. Noe 10 New York, has
been sentenced by Recorder Hackett to ten
years imprisonment on charge of burglary.
Judge Miller, of the U. s. Circuit Court of
St. Louis, has held the parties charged with
conspiracy to defraud the revenue by whiskey
frauds 10 $4,000 bail each.
Mrs +. Barrett, Of Elizabeth, N j., widow
of the late Lieutenant Barrett, U. S. navy,
committed suicide CD Tuesday by taking NOR.
phia.
Theodore Titon lectured at Cooper Iusti-
tute, New York, last evening on THE Pro-
bem of Life. There were 1000 people
present
| Richard Robinson, the murderer of Mrs.
Dixon, at Norwichtown, Coon, died in jail
yesterday from the effects of poison, taken af-
ter his arrest on Monday.
One hundred aud eight thousand pounds
sterling were withdrawn from the Bank of
| England yesterday.
| The foot and mouth disease continues in
| England. ln the county OF Gloucester over
| $4,000 beasts are affected.
The Canadian defauIter, Nichols, aud his
| father, have been arrested in St. Augustine
Fla, by New York detectives.
The Utramontaues have elected the Presi-
dent, Vice President and other officers of the
| Bavarian Diet.
The Bank of California will reopen Saturday
| next. ~
Turkey admits the necessity of reforms, and
will Introduce them throughout the Empire.
Savings Rank FaiIura