Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-07-09
NEWS OF Ill A
"To shoao the very age and body Of the Tin

Complaint has been filed in New
York in a suit of the State against Cumming
Ii. Tucker, late superintendent OF the new
court house 10 that city. The suit is to recover
SAP, 900, charged to have been the amount in
serted in bills for materials furnished for the
construction of tie court house over and above
the actual value of materials furnished. The
complaint charges that Tucker conspircd with
kcyser & Co., Andrew j. Garveg. G. D. Boil
lar 4 Co., lugersol l. Co., j. Mcbride David
son, j. A. Smith aud Archibald Hall, jr., to
detraui the county treasury of the amount sued
for by presentation Of false aud fictitious bills.
1t is stated that a large number Of other suits
viii be made public 10 a day or two.
In response to writs sworn out by Corbin, the
Westerville. Ohio, saloon maD, whose estab-
lishment was blown up on Monday night, nine
prOmlneot cltlzcus were arrested and taken to
Columbus for trial yesterday morning. The
prosecution was not ready for trial, and the de-
teDdants waived an examination aud gave bonds
10 the sun Of $500 each. The sum of IS 900
has been subscribed by the citizens OF Wester-
vile TO carry on the contest.
The libel suit of ex-senator Chandler against
Mr.. Buell., a Washington correspondent of a
Detroit newspaper, came up again 10 the United
States Court at st. Louis, yesterday, ou appli-
cation Tor removal TO the District Of Columbia,
under a new Indictment. The case, under this
Indictment, will turn on the question whether
or not the filing OF a special dispatch in the
office OF a telegraph company constitutes pub.
LEGATION in law.
An establishment just completed in New Or
leans for the illicit manufacture Of run on an
extensive scale was seized, yesterday, by the
collector. The tubs were found filled with 25,-
900 or 80, 900 gallons of fermentation, and the
process of distillation had just commenced.
Some show OF resistance was at first attempted
by persons 10 charge, but they Eually submit
ted to the officers. The whole establishment
Is valued at $780, 900.
There was a rumor on Wall street, New
\ ork, yesterday afternoon, of a forgery 10 con.
ncctlon with a gold transaction, but it appears
TO have been mainly without foundation. Mr..
i~Iccles, the party named, who was out of town,
returned late 10 the afternoon. He declares
the whole affair an error, and will SO show to-
day.
The Cincinnati Court Of Common Peas sus-
tains the demurrer Of Tn. L. SucIlbaucr, chief
of police, indicted for embezzIcment Of the wa
ter works money in that city, and the case will
90 to the Supreme Court. Ii sustained this
decision releases all persons indicted Tor cmbcz-
element Of thusc funds.
Later details Of the recent great storms in
Hungary, in the vicinity Of Buda, state that
the bodies Of twenty-cight persons have been
found, and one hundred are missing, having
heen carried away, 1t is supposed, By the foods.
The destruction of property was immausc, aud
hundreds of persons are destitute.
At a meeting Of passenger agents 10 Chicago,
yesterday, the Michigan Central agent refused
TO consent to a proposed plan for raising pas
senger rates to the East, and stated that his
road for the present would sell tickets 90 the
basis of SIS to New York.
Four more bodies of the victims of the late
disaster in Hampton Roads, Va, were recov-
cred yesterday. The facts elected in the in.
vestlgatlou OF the matter, held yesterday, be-
fore Inspector Edgar, at Norfolk, Va, have
not been made public.
a dispatch from Oak Bluffs, Mass states
that the telegraph cable connecting Marlha's
Vineyard with the main land was successful V
laid across Vineyard sound yesterday.
Hon. George Opdykc has accepted the prc.
sidcncy of the New York Board of Trade on
the request of a majority of the members. The
formal election takes place next week.
THE VALLEY RAILROAD DIFFICULTIES. =
Yesterday morning Mr.. W. b. kayser, Vice
President Of the B.. 4 q. r. r. and a Director
of the Valley railroad, and Jas. l.. Randolph,
Chief Engineer of the B.. & O. and Valley rail
roads, arrived here, and held a conference
with the members of the Syndicate with a
view to e~ffecting some amicabIc arrangement
of the difficulties existing between the Valley
railroad aud Mason Il Go.
Mr.. kayser proposed to settle the compaby's
indebtedness to the contractors upon the esti.