Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-09-14
NEWS OF THE DAY.
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A terrible tragedy occurred 10 the town of
Venice. 10 New York, yesterday, when Harri-
son Andrews, an old man fifty years of age,
went to the sleeping room of his son, aged
nineteen, who was asleep, aud dealt him two
murderous blows with Ratchet The second
blow crushed through the skull and probably
injured thefbrain.a He then aroused his two
and shot one of them through the
abdomen With revolver, uhicting a severe,
though not necessarily fatal wound The girls
escaped from the house and aroused the neigh
bots. Andrews then poured quantity of oil
on the carpet and set fire to the house, and
ended by com uniting suicide, shooting himself
through the head The neighbors extinguished
the flames No>motive for the atrocious decd
lis KNOWN except that Andrews had violent
and ungovernable temper.
Collection day In San Francisco yesterday
passed without any stoppages, bills generally
being paid better than was expected, owing to
large amounts being passed over at last collec-
ton. 1t seems probable now that the reopen
ing of the Bank of California will be DELAYED
beyond the 18th, probably until the opening Of
the Bank OF Nevada, about the lst proximo.
A dispatch from Havana says: Reports Of a
hurricane at the Windward Islands and serious
damage to vessels continue to be received
though no details have come to hand The
weather here is threatening. and hurricane is
reported to have occurred at Santiago de Cuba
last night.
The New York Express says Mallory & But
ter6eld, the largest dealers in paper-bosrd in
America, representing some fifty different mills,
have announced their suspension. The cred-
tors have agreed to allow the firm to continue
business as usual, without an assignee or re-
ceiver.
During violent thunderstorm which passed
over Denver, COL, aud vicinity, Sunday after.
noon, the lightning struck a carriage in which
we're Major R. j. Peabody and G. B. Reed,
temporarily paralyzing both gentlemen, killing
one horse, manning the other, aud demolishing
the carriage.
The wrestling match for $4,000 and the
championship of America, between John Nc
Mahoo, of Rutland, Vermont, and R. Gard
ner, of San Jose, took place at the latter city
Saturday. Mcmahon won in one hour and
forty minutes. Five thousand dollars changed
hands.
The steam barge MENDOZA, loaded with coal,
fouudered on LAKE Michigan Thursday night
and went down. Thirteen of the crew and pas.
sengers we're lost and seven we're saved 10 a
lifeboat. Among the lost were the SOD of the
owner Of the boat and his wife.
A telegram from New York states that Ed.
win Booth, who was thrown from his phaetou
some weeks ago. is not recovering as rapidly
as his physicians expected, and it is now
thong ht. probable that he will be obliged to
cancel some Of his engagements.
The steamer State of Virginia, which arrived
at Larue, ireland, yesterday, from New York,
sprung aleak when off Cape Race aud it Was
at one time thought that she would founder,
but the leak was finally stopped.
A Montpelier, VT, dispatch says great dam
age has been done in that neighborhood by
storms. A waterspout swept away fifty houses,
and over sixty persons are missing. Nine dead
bodies have been recovered.
Commodore Perry's ,gsbp, the Lawrence,
sunk in Erie (Pa.) harbor sixty two years ago,
was raised yesterday, and the bottom found to
be 10 good state OF preservation. She is to be
exhibited at the centennial.
President Grant, Generals Sherman, Sher-
dan and Hooker, Chief Justice Waite, ex
Treasurer Spinner and Governor Tilden will
attend the ninth annual reunion of the Army
OF the Cumberland at Utica, n Y, this week.
The whites Of the senior class, Boys Central
High School, in New Orleans, decline to at
tend because colored man has been appoint
ed professor of mathematics for that school by
the school board.
France has again suffered an iuuudation,
caused by violent gale and overt w Of the
rivers The vines are considerably injured by
water.
SerVla fears the concentration of Turkish
troops on her. frontier and has ordered the
mobilization Of her frontier brigades, aggregat-
ing $4,000 men.
s., Geo. A. Flint, aged fifteen years, shot him
self yesterday morning 10 his room at Brook.
Vile, Ontario, because Of his dread of going to
school.
The Supreme Court of West Virginia has
announced its decision declaring the capital re-
moval bill Constitutional by the unanimous
opinion of all the judges.
To-day is the anniversary of the entrance of
the American Army into the Capital of Mexico.
1T will be celebrated in New York by a parade
OF the old Mexican veterans.
The teller of the Canadian Bank of Com
merce, of Montreal, abscoudsd on Saturday,
taking With him $4,000.
The Order of Red Men made very fine dis
play in Cincinnati yesterday, where they are
holding National Convention.
The London Evening Globe reports that
Ell 900 was withdrawn from the banks yester-
day for New York use.
There are 5000 cases of cattle disease 10
DeVooshlre, England, which is an Increase of
1000 cases In the past week.
Brick Pomeroy delivered lecture last night
at the Maryland Institute, Baltimore.
UNDREssED BY MACHINERY. % Monday
night Mr.. A. ID. Cornell, miller employed at
the III "a Mills, met with a severe accident,
ct about midnight some gearing 10 the ex.
IRENE peak of the mill began to creak, and Mr..
Cornell Went up to oil it, Ii was 10 low part
of hn Snan i