Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-11-13
NEWS OF THE DAY.
$40 shoa0 the vsry age and body of the Tim,


York city GU "Wednesday next.
The jury 10 the Ward will case, at Detroit,
Michigan, were unable TO agree on verdict and
have been discharged.
A ire at Ellsworth, Kansas, yesterday morn
ing, DESTROYED seven business houses and fifteen
dwellings, Less $45. 000 insurance light.
The Boston Commercial Bulletin 5 list of fail
uses and suspensions Tor the week gives pne-
teen In Boston and other places 10 New Eup-
land
The Treasury Department conscience fund
yesterday received contribution of thirty dol
lars irom Brooklyn lady for duty on wearing
apparel.
A dwelling house on Thirty-niuth street, be-
low Market. West Philadelphia, fell down yes.
terday, killing three children who we're playing
around it.
Robertson 4 Go. 5 cotton mills, at Glasgow,
have been destroyed by fire, eatailing loss of
81 500 600. Twelve hundred persons are
throwu out of employment.
Major George W. Gricc, president of the
Rllrigh and CASTOR Railroad, died suddenly
yesterday morniDg at his residence in Ports
mouth, Va, Of apopcxy.
Dr. A. S MaDill, superintendent of the
| Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insaue, and
member OF the forty third Congress, died at
the hospital near Madison, VS., yesterday.
The Protestant Episcopal Church Congress
closed n sessions in Philadelphia yesterday at-
Gcrnoon. Ii is probable that Baltimore will be
The place OF meeting of the next Congress-
Last evening locomotive ou the Stoning,on
railroad, near Providence, r. l., exploded.
Another locomotive lying near by was badly
damaged, add several persons were badly To-
jured.
| The Methodist Episcopal Board Of Foreign
Missions iu session 10 New York, yesterday,
adopted resolution Recommending the re.
movul OF the General Conference from St. Louis
to Baltimore.
a Vienna telegram announces that Servia
has Withdrawn her troops from the frontier,
and countcrmandcd the order to the militia to
| proceed thIthcr, on account OF the withdrawal
OF the Turkish troops.
Tne authorities Of Dartmouth College, New
Hampshire, condemn 10 strong terms the re-
cent rlotous conduct Of some of its students,
and have resolved themselves to punish all
who have escaped the action Of the Grand
Jury.
The various steamboats, aud other craft sent
out in search OF the missing passengers and
crew OF the Inflated steamship City Of Waco
| reiuro Que after The other with the same sad
tldlngs no news ct the lost ones
}. SrrungIe, notorious Swiss thiel, who has
been plying his vocation for year or more on
| the steamers running between this country and
Europe, was yesterday arres ed ia Philadelphia
with stolen property in his possession.
lsldore NJ. Bow, the business partner of
Frederick y. Schroeder, has commenced suit
for $4,000 damages against the Brooklyn On.
~ Eagle tor the publication of an article
charging him with having been convicted Of
smuggling.
In the Arkansas House OF Delegates yestcr-
day a bill vas reported tayorably, changing the
name Of Clayton county to that Of Poland. A
memorial to Congress passed the Fl luse asking
the general government to donate for school
purposes all government lands 10 the State.
DR.. Thomas w Egans an American dentist
IN Paris, has offered subscription of ten thou
ment IN that city commemorative of the ser.
vices Of the Frcnchmcu VINO aided in gaining
our Oatlonal independence.
A run was made, yesterday, upon the Dime
Savings lus1;tutiou, Newark, New Jersey, by
small depostors, alarmed by the recent failure
OF A. NJ Reynolds, private banker, who was
manager in the institution The institution
has 81 900 600 Of deposits safely invested, aud
ample fund, 10 meet the emergency.
The Methodist Episcopal Church at Towson-
town, Rev. G. Herbert Richardson, pastor, has
been seized for debt by Sheriff Butler, under
writ OF tlerl faclas, at the suit Of VIM. Parks, of
Baltimore county, to recover debt. The
church was erected at cost Of some $50, 900,
principally, 1t Is said, o. advances made by Mr..
James Boyce.
George Griswold, a wealthy merchant of the
firm Of i. N. 4 6. Griswold, New York, who
left for his home last Saturday evening. has
mysterlousiy disappeared, aud reward Of $500
mas been offered for information as to bis
whereabouts. He had ou his person when last
seen s. 900 In money and jeweIry.
A motion was yesterday made 10 the United
States District Court at Jefferson CITY for an
order remanding Col. John A. Joyce to ST.
Louis where, II is supposed, he is wanted as
witness IN the whisky ring cases. Moeer, the
gauger who has been on trial in Milwaukee.
charged with completely 10 the frauds in that
city, Was yesterday convicted o. the first cunt
of the Indictment.
a daring attempt was made last uight to rob
the office of the Philadelphia and Reading rail
road at Pottsvile, Pa, bv three man with
velIed faces, who seized the watchmau, hand
cutfed him, tied handkerchief over his face,
and took his key. At this moment the bag
gage master and two brakeuen of a late pas
senger train, who were sitting Inside the cars,
rushed out, when the robbers fed first firing
at the baggage. master. They succeeded in es-
Gaping
a collision occurred Thursday on the Grand
Trunk Railroad, near LoonoxvilIe, Me-, be-
tween freight ADD passenger trains, occasiooed
by the telegraph wires berg down. Both en-
gnes were smashed, several cars broken and
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