Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-07-28
NEWS OF THE DAY

Tar as possible. Very respectfully, &C.,
j. L. kEMpER
NEWS OF THE DAY
"1o show the very age and body Of the Times"
A dispatch received at the Navy Department
yesterday from the Conmandant of the Pensa-
cola Navy Yard says the yellow fever epidemic
at Fort Barrancas is raging feariuly aud de.
slres all strangers 10 keep away from the place.
\ telegram from the Post Surgeon says that
there are on the sick list one officer twenty
seven enlisted men, Que cthcer's wife, seven
laurdresses and thirteen children. % the DIST
Instant the command was removed from Fort
Barrancas to Fort PickeuS, and six new cases
we're reported from that place On the 22d, max
log ID all twenty sick therefore with black
vomlt. Three additional physicians and one
hospital steward arrived at Barraucas on the
25.h from New Orleans No cases have been
reported from Fort Pickens since the 18th.
dispatch from Professor Janney has been
received at the Interior Department, in which
he says he has discovered gold 10 paying GUAM
titles on both Spring and Rapid creeks, tram
twenty to thirty miles northeast Of Harney's
Peak, with good head of wafer, simply sutfi-
cient Tor working purposes. The clay from the
stream beds yields from four to eight cents to
the pan, of coarse scale gold, aud several pieces
Of the value of dollar have been found. He
considers, however, that 90 matter how vaua-
BILE the miues may prove, the future wealth of
the Black Hills country will be in it's grass
lands, farms and timber.
In the Mountain Meadow massacre trial yes
terday Lees counsel asked that the dispositions
of Brigham Young and George A. Smith be
taken at Salt l. Ike City, they being too feeble
to travel but the prosecution objected. A wit
ness, Bradshaw, testified that Haight said that
had it not been for some fool tampering with
the Indians the emlgrants would never have
passed Cedar, but that as it was, they had only
gone farther into the net. A wife of Lee at the
tine OF the massacre, but now divorced was
brought to Beaver last night by U. S. Marshal
Maxwell
During debate in the House of Commons
yesterday on the question of giving precedence
to MIR, PlimsolI's Merchant Shipping bill, Mr..
DSraell expressed the opinion that oolwith-
standing the motives of the bill, it would only
aggravate the evils it intended to remedy, aud
would occupy too much time in its consdera.
ton. He contended that the bill offered by Sir
Charles Adderly would give the Government
more rapid and direct control of the matter in
teuded 10 be reached. The House finally by
vote of l73 to l9, decided to give the Govern
ment bill precedence
The chemical analysis of the stomach of
Geo. NJ. Jackson, the defaulting cashier of the
Louisville internal Revenue Office, which was
made at the instance Of the life insurance com
panies, resulted in the discovery of twenty
three grains of arsenic
Tbos. A. Kennard, clerk iu the War De.
partment at Washington, was shot in the side,
90 the street 10 that city last night, by John
Frawner, plasterer, whose wife, it is alleged,
KenDard had induced to leave him.
1t is stated at the Postofice Department that
the announcement that fast mail train be-.
tween New York and Chicago bad been de-
clded upon is premature.
The Governor Of Bosnia telegraphs to the
Turkish Government that the insurgent bands
at Nevesgue aud Belik, in Herzegovina have
been dispersed.
John Leonard was arrested 10 New York last
night, charged with the murder of ssMiller
by throwing him overheard from an excursion
boat Sunday last r.. = s. = rArr|
After reception of the news Of Duncan, Sher-
man 4 Co.'s failure yesterday cotton declined
one quarter for future delivery. &t-.
The difficulty between the Pustofice Depart
ment and the Marietta and Canal Dover Rail.
road has been adjusted. X
1t is proposed to establish cotton market at
chattanooga.
RAILROAD ACCIDENTS An explosion occur
red yesterday morning at the shaft of the Peun-
sylvauia Gas Coal Compauys works, at Irwiu's
Station, on the Pennsylvania railroad. John
Humphreys was killed and SIX other miners
were badly burned. The eutry wall cavad TO-
closing up the vcntllatiug chambers.
Ibe express train on the Indianapolis, |
Bloomington aud Western railroad, which left
ludianapolis at midnight Monday night, met
with an accident half mile west OF James
town by running over COW. The eogue and |
baggage Car were wrecked, and Thos. McWiI- |
llams, fireman, was luStaoty killed.
The express train east from Cincinnati on
the Marietta aud Cincinnati railroad, yesterday
morning, ran through a washed out culyert
near ZlIiskI, Ohio, Instantly killing fireman
Powell aud breaking an arm aud a thigh Of en-
giDeer Cutter. No passengers we're Injured.
News has been received at 81. Paul, Nlipr.,
that mixed train of twenty-five cars on the
Northern Pacific railroad went through a
brldge across the Mississippi, at Brainerd, yes
lerday morulng, causing the instant death of
five persons. The bridge is about so feet high.
A colored congregation in Dayton. Ohio, have
decided to forgive their clergyman for betting
Do three-card monte aud losing. $50 of festival
money. One of the deacons remarked that