Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-09-28
NEWS OF THE DAY.
TO shoao the very age and body of the TN

~ 'HoW tHe very age ana o0dy % tHe 1"HeS.
The sheriff of Fentner county, Tenn., has
captured man who answers the description of
the notorious Cole Younger He had $4.490
and offered all to be released. He is believed
to be partner of Jesse James, who was killed
at Pine Hill, KY, last week. Both were con-
cerned in the late West Virginia bank robbery.
The late gale 90 the Euglish coast proved
very destructive, several vessels being reported
wrecked, and many lives lost. The damage in
Liverpool is reported to be immense. At Man
chester large mill was blown dowo, aud the
| falling walls crushed the adjoining buildings,
| but fortunately no one was seriously Injured
| Last Saturday Mrs. Ebenczcr Dinsmore, Of
Weathcrs6eld, Vermont, being refused by her
husband the privilege Of attending a circus
| poisoned herself and her three children. The
youngest has siuce died. but the mother and
| the others arc expected to recover Mrs. Dios-
| more is supposed to be insane
The annual report Of the government direc-
tors in the Union Pacific railroad shows that
the gross receipts for the year ending July L,
1915, were Sll 522 OBJ. a Increase of 81 Pts
569 over 1874. The operating, expenses were
81 7SS 630
Thousands of drowned cattle are strewn over
the prarics south of Iudanola, Texas where
| they were carried by the curreut, and several
| hight coastlng steamers are lying 10 the same
| direction from six TO ten miles inland, having
been left high and dry by the receding waters.
Hon. Jefferson Davis has returned to St.
Louis from Colorado, much improved 10 health
President Grant and party will leave St. Louis
tor Des Molres, Iowa, this morning, via Quincy,
Illinois.
An attachment has been granted against the
New jersey aud New York railroad, in the
suit of the Erie Railway Company, to recover
S26 39S for the use Of rolling stock.
Three million one hundred aud tweuty-eight
thousand of the new postal cards were received
at the Postotice Department yesterday trom
Springfield, Mass.
The Swedish Arctic Expedition has arrived
at Hammerlest, Norway. Important maps and
scientific collections have been made.
Ten thousand dollars worth of silks were
stolen from the store of Deming & Cooke, in
New Haven, COM, Saturday night.
Ned 0 Baldwin, the Irish Glaut," was shot
and perhaps fatally wounded by his partner,
Michael FinoeIl, in New York Yesterday.
A new railway was opened yesterday connect
ing Philadelphia with Allentown.
A slight sprinkle of snow felI in New York
90 Sunday evening.
An average of $500, 900 per day was received
at the New York lax office last week.
1t is reported that the Cariists have fired up-
on British man-of war near Motyico.
CASE OF BARRATRY = HEAVY FINE.-Thos
}. Shreeve, former master Of the schooner
George and Henry, was brought from the City
Jail yesterday morning for trial 10 the United
States District Court, Judge Giles presiding.
At the June term of the District Court an 10.
dlctment had been found by the grand Jury
containing two counts, both charging him with
having felOnlousIy taken $500 bushels Of
corn, valued at $1,000. After the court had
been called Shreeve was called up, and
through his counsel, Morris S. Jones, esq.,,
stated that he pleaded guilty.
1t Was determined to take a verdict and a
jury was emrauueled. District Attorney Stir.
ling stated to the jury that Shreeve, through
himself and his family, had made restitution
to the owners OF the cargo and the vessel, and
by agreement between defeodaut's COUNSEL and
himself verdict of guilty would be rendered.
The jury then rendered verdict of guilty.
Judge Giles, 10 passing sentence, observed that
Shreeve had been indicted by the grand jury
at the last term of the court, and bad been 10
prison since the l4th of june, period Of over
three months. Under the provisions of the
law discretion was gwen and as the traverser
had made restitution to the owners, he Judge
Giles would cot sentence him to Imprisonment,
but would require him to pay a foe of $500.
Shreeve being unable to pay the fine, was COM
mitted to jtl by Marshal Goldsborough. BE
WAS taken over to prison after the adjournment
of the court.
Shreeve and his mother, residing in Accomac
county, Va, were owners Of the schr George
and Henry, which previously had been employ
ed In bringing to this city grain consigned to
commission merchants here by the farmers and
others in Virginia. Alter disposing of the corn
in April last, referred to in the Indictment
ohreeve left for the West, remaining but u short
time. He returned and went to Phlladelphis
where he was arrested by a member of the de-
te tive firm IF Smith, Person & West, and ar
raigned before Commissioner Rogers, by whom,
after an examination, he was committed about
the middle of June for action Of the Grand Jury
of the District Court. The owners of the cargo,
after he had left the vessel, seized and had her
sold, and thus reimbursed themselves. Shreeve
| is quite young man, and seemed very much
affected by the position in which he found him
| self placed-BaH. Gazette
ANo lu'iC pCISOu eau De IOuDO
than yourself, if proper attention be paid to
that individual. Yourself will 20 with you
wherever you like, and come away when you
please, approve your jokes, assent to your prop
ostlons, and, in short, be 10 every way agree
able, If you only learn and practice the true art
| OF being Oh good terms with yourself. This,
however. is not so easy as some imagine, who
do not often try the experiment Yourself,
| when it catches you 10 company with no other
person, is apt to be a severe critic on your
faults and fobles, and When you are ceusured
by yourself it is generally the most intoerabc
and severe species of reproof 1t is on this ac
count that you are afraid of yourself and seek
| any associates, no matter how Inferior whose
bald chat may keep yourself from playing the
censor. Yourself is likewise jealous friend
If neglected and sighted it becomes bore, aud
10 be left, for even short time "by yourself"
is then regarded as actually cruel penance, as
many find when youth, health or wealth have
departed. How important then is it to know
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