Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-08-02
NEWS OF H DAY
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cruelty case, which created so much excite
meut 10 Philadelphia some years since, came
to light in that city Saturday. The police, from
information received, visited a house on Melon
street, and there, in an apartment eekipg with
filth, aud no ventilation, found the emaciated
form of a raviDg maniac. who, it appears, has
been kept in close confinement, without the
knowledge of any of the neighbors. The sisters
OF the unfortunate woman, named Catharine
and Amanda Tro2ell, were taken Into custody,
and Mary. the victim, was removed to the in.
sane hospital.
It a crowded mass meeting of weavers at
Fail River, Mass, Saturday night, it was an
nounced that the manufacturers could not con-
tlDue at present prices, and could not shut
down, because if they did the Rhode Island
mills would take their market. 1t was voted
unanimously to take a vacation OF one mouth,
commencing today.
10 the case of Gen. Waddy Thompson, on
trial at Memphis, the jury so tar has been un-
able TO agree, nine being for conviction and
three for acqulttal. Unless they agree Thomp-
son will have to remain in jail until the next
term OF the court, as the Grim of horse-steal-
Ing, for which be is tried, is a capital ofense.
The Treasury Department is in receipt of a
dispatch announcing the arrest, on the out
skirts of St. Paul, Minnesota, yesterday morn.
ing, of Two counterteiters and the seizure OF
several plates, besides eighty thousand dollars
10 counterfeit notes on the Paducah, Kentucky,
National Bank.
Jesse Knob, a young man, was run over and
killed while attempting to board a freight train
at Newport, Perry county. Pa, Saturday moro
lng, and on the sam evening q. l.. Geible,
aged elghty-one, and nearly deaf and blind,
Was run over and killed while on the railroad
track at the same place.
G. G. HELM and H. s. Bogert, two New
York brokers, who went short on stocks on
DuucaD, Sherman & Co.'S failure and failed to
cover 10 time, suspended Saturday. The failure
of Schmall 4 Froweiller, extensive lager beer
brewers at Marion, N. j., for about SO, 900, is
announced.
An attempt was made Thursday to throw
the North Conway express train from the track
between Conway and North Conway N. e., by
a log placed across the track. The front part
OF the engine was badly mashed, but the train
did not leave the track.
Monsiguor Roncetti and DR.. Ubaldi, of the
Papal Legation, sailed from New York on Sat-
urday on their return to Rome. They we're es-
corted down the Bay as far as the NarroWs By
a number OF the Catholic clergy and laity, and
there were transferred to the ocean steamer.
The Secretary of the Treasury has directed
the Assistant Treasurer at New York to sell
five millions of Government gold during Au-
gust, as follows: One and one half million dol
lars on the first and third Thursday each, and
one million on the second and fourth Thursday.
Among the real estate transfers reported as
having been recorded in st. Louis are some
fifty lots of ground 10 various parts of the city,
ranging from % to $50 feet, from W. B. Dun.
can, Tot Duncan, Sherman d Co., to AleXau-
der Duncan for the consideration Of one dollar.
Dispatches from the Commandant of the
Pensacola Navy Yard say that all possible pre-
cautions are being taken to keep the yellow
fever out of Pensacola. The sick officers at
Fort BarraDcas are improving, and no new cases
are reported.
A St. Petersburg dispatch says that a fire
broke out in the town OF Briansk, on Thursday
last, which lasted until Saturday, when it was
eXtlnguished by rain. The inhabitants fed to
u oullOuuuluS uSluS pdulC stTlCkeQ. lWO-
thirds OF the town was destroyed.
Two students and two citizens, implicated in
a Socialist movement, have been convicted at
st. Petersburg and sentenced to ten years in.
prlsonment each. Four other persons we're
sent to prison for shorter periods for the same
offence.
Damaging rain storms continued in Missouri
and Illinois Saturday. An overflow in the Mis-
sissippi is now considered inevitable, and with
1t will come destruction to many splendid crops
that line its banks.
The ship Eliza Everett, at New York from
Belfast, spoke July lltb, 10 latitute 40, longi.
tude 43.l5, the steamship Faraday, repairing
the Direct United States cable, and supplied
her with provisions.
There were no new developments in the
Mountain Meadow Massacre trial on Saturday.
Counsel for the defense gave notice that they
would offer the affidavit OF Brigham Young 10
evidence.
The striking laborers at St. Gotbard Tunnel,
Switzerland, have resumed work. Four men
we're killed and eight wounded 10 the fight be.
tween the laborers and the Swiss troops on
Thursday last.
John j. Langley was assaulted and stabbed
seven times, yesterday, at Trenton, N. j., by
Daniel Whitacre, in a dispute about money
matters. Langley cannot recover. Whitaore
was arrested.
Captain Tyler, of Fort Ellis, Montana, re-
ports a fight between the Sioux and Crow In.
dians, nine miles below the mouth of Big Horn
river. Ooe Sioux was killed and three Crows
wounded.
The crew of the bark Clara R. Butil, lately
wrecked on the Pacific coast, we're four days in
an open boat without food or water. They
have been brought into San Francisco.
Bear Ridge %colliery, Mahanoy Planes, Pa,
was set Oh fire yesterday morning and contin-
ued burning during the day, the breaker and
everything connected with it being destroyed.
Mr.. Beecher will deliver the address at the
New Eogland Agricultural Fair, in September
next; another evidence of many men of many