Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-08-24
NEWS OF THE DAY.
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10 Shoo the very age ana oody OF the 1SnleS
A telegram has been received at the War
Department from Assistant Adjutant General
Ruggles giving the details of the arrest Of
Gordon at Omaha, and of the Generals sub
scquent arrest at the lnstlgatlon OF Gordon.
The Uoited States Attorney at Omaha will be
Instructed to defend General Rugges aud his
assistants when the trial takes place.
a daring mail robbery was committed 90
Friday night on the Matapediac road, Quebec.
A passenger on the stage when near Assemet-
quagen, drew revolver and presenting 1t at
| the drivers head, ordered him to stop. He
then compelled the driver to cut the nail bags
and jump off, when he drove away with the
stage.
The rapid decline of the Mississippi river has
relieved the overlooked cotton above Memphis,
| and some of the planters whose cotton was in
Water say they will make two-thirds of crop
II the season Is propltlous, and that the damage
10 the plant Is comparatively light
The American rife team were received form
ally by the mayor Of New York yesterday. At
night they attended a complimentary concert
| at Glmore's Garden, at which triumphai airs
were performed, addresses made, and trophies
displayed.
The commission appointed to Investigate the
affairs of the Red Cloud and Spotted Tail
Agencies are at Cheyenne. They have exam
lned over one hundred witnesses, and the i'm
preston exists that the charges of fraud have
not been sustained.
The various Turner societies containing re o.
| resentatives from the different States and num-
berlOg about three thousand men, marched
| through New ork city yesterday to Jones $
woods, where three days festival is in pro-
gress.
ln consequence OF a refusal of the New Jer-
sey aud New York Railroad to pay debt OF
thirty thousand dollars to the Erie Railroad
| Company, the latter yesterday seized two cars
belonging to the former, and tore up the other
company track at Hackensack Junction.
| tramp who attempted to conceal himself
10 the house Of Mrs. Morgan Calvert, living
near Mlansport, Pa, on Thursday last, aud
who, 90 being discovered, assaulted the lady,
was shot and killed by her.
The Posto6hce Department is now making
arrangements to put through registered letter
pouches upon the routes between Boston and
|
of important points in the South.
Rev. Cyrus Mutt, D. D. and LII. D., for
fifteen years president OF the Indiana State
University, at Bloomington, Indiana, died at
| that place yesterday morning from remittent
fever.
John l. Taylor, grandson of ex.President
Taylor and one of General Sherman's staff off.
GERS during the war, has been held to bail in
$4,000 for robblng the mail while postmaster
at Labgne, Kansas
| Hon. Jefferson Davis has received invita-
tons from Des Moines, Iowa; Charleston, Iii
nols, and other points in the West, to deliver
| the annual address at the meetings of their
| several Agricultural Societies this fall.
The failure of Edward Hewitt & Sons, pro-
| vision dealers, Of Montague, close to London,
was announced in that city yesterday. Their
| LIABILITIES amount to million and quarter oil
dollars
A Madrid dispatch says that the Alfonsists
| have severed the connection between the cita-
| del of SEQ de Urgel and an outlying fort and
also cut the aqueduct which gave the besieged
| their principal supply of water.
MIR. Moran, United States Minister to Por-
| tugal, is i'll 10 Loadou, in consequence of tn G
| prlvatlons he experienced during the wreck OF
the steamer Boyne.
The appeals 10 the Tweed suit we're argued
yesterday before the Supreme Court of New
York, the decision Of the Court being reserved
on all the points presented.
The Long Branch races have been postponed
on account OF the bad weather.
The wheat crops of both Austria and Hun
gary have fallen off in quantity and quality.
The yellow fever has entirely disappeared
from Key West.