Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-04-17
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9 II shop the very age and baby Of the Times

tort, >. u, yesterday, 1Or the ipulue' III = oos'
1874, Of clerk OF a ccuDry store and the
burning of the store after robbng It.. About
five thousand persons Witnessed The hanglug
Both uurderers u,ade full confessions. COL
ored murderer Was also SUSPENDED 10 L,uislaua
after a full confession. Travis Harris VINO
murdered Squire Masterson, his tat her-ln-la
at Commerce, Mo-, 90 the third OF November
last was hanged at that place yesterday.
Three sp opauts assembled 10000 feet high
10 balloon from Paris yesterday; two sutt ca,
ted and auother can hardly live. The could.
tCDs Of the mosphert must have been pecu-
liar TO have produced such an fleet, a. higher
asrensious have been made, notably by Prot.
t1laisher, who reached an altitude OF 81 QUO
feet.
A dispatch from Wilkesbarre, Pa, mentions
several instances of intimidation OF miners, and
an attempt Oh he part oil strikers to put stop
to operations generally Ii this coutl"ues the
operators, ii is stated, will have to ask for pro-
lection for men 10 mine coal to keep the en-
gines aud pumps running.
Mrs. E. L. Irwin, ayoung widow OF Han
nibal, Mo-, tied clothes line around herself
and her little girl six years old, tasten'd one
end of the line to stake, and deliberately
walked into creek where both were drowned
Financial embarrassment and disappointment
10 love, it is stated led to the act
a destructive fire occurred 10 Charlotte ~
g., yesterday, destroying about three Thousand
bales of cotton aud the depots of the North
Carolina and Charlotte, Columbia aud Augusta
Railroad Companies and nuuiber OF private
Residences Luss about $25OOOO; about two-
thirds Insured.
Gov. Chamberlain, Of South Carolina, hav-
ing left Charleston to take part IN the Concord
and l. xington centennial, the 'Iored Lleuten-
aut Governor GreuveS. has Improved the OPP
portuuty to pardon Bunch, the mulatto po-
hceman who when drunk murdered an Lush
policeman.
In the Uoited States Circuit Court, 10 Balti-
more, yesterday, verdict for ST 900 damages
was rendered by jury against the Baltimore
and ONO Railroad Company IN favor OF Wm
II. Colein, OF Baltimore, for injuries sustained
whilst travelling over the Washington Branch
Of that cJmpany's road.
The striking weavers 10 the southern section
of Philadelphia held large meeting last night.
Two shops we're reported as paying full rates,
Out the OtHcTS WcTc IcpuitCu do otiIi W. - -
resolution to stand firm uutli their employers
accrde to their demands Was adopted uuan-
mrusly.
lie ,rge Albert Mason, whose trial has occu-
pied the past five or six days III the CRIMINAL
branch of the United States District Court, at
New York, has beeu found guilty OF having lu
his possession aud utterlug counterfeit mouey,
and remanded Tor sentence.
A letter from Port Royal, S. g.. announces
the arrival at that temporary naval station OF
the United States ships OF war Colorado, Ply
III ,uth, ShaWmut, Worcester, Dictator, Paw
ness and Piuta- all FROM Key West. There is
Tot case OF Sickness on any OF the Vessels.
Mr.. John Sherman has retired from the
auking irm Of Sherman & Co., Washington
Guy, which. however, continues business under
the remaining partner, II. d. Cooke, jr., with
whom Col. f. D. Grant will be shortly assocl-
ated
A meeting will be held at Chicago on Thurs
day, April %, for the purpose OF revising and
regulating the division aud classification Of
through freight, the present classification hav-
ipg caused somc dissatisfaction among the
shippers.
Mayor Vansaut, Of Baltimore, has signed
the ordinance authorizing the sale Of the city 8
interest in the Pittsburg aud Con0ellsvllle
Railroad to the Baltimore and Quo Railroad
Company for the sun of one million dulars
payable in lnslalUents.
Tie Louisiana House of Representatives re
organized yesterday, eecting Estlllette, Com-
promise Conservative, Speaker. Esiillette was
supported by Governor kellogg aud the solid
Republican vote, aud Was elected by 6U to 8
for WillZ.
The 6rmncss of the Philadelphia, Whining
ton and Baltimore Railroad Company 10 de-
man ding tu fare from all B fillmore and Ohio
passengers travelling over their road has led to
a disruption of awicable relations between the
two companies.
In the Louisiana Jockey Club hurdle race,
at New Orleans, yesterday, two miles, over
eight hurdles, Tom Leathers won by leugtb
over FIVE others, in 3473 During the race
two horses fell and Que rider had an arm
broken.
The operatives strike at Great Falls, n. II !,
has exhausted itself On Thursday the COM
pany had more spinuers than were required
The largest portion of the strikers have re-
turned TO work. Some have left the place.
Robinson, who raised check on the Old
town Bauk of Baltimore from $40 to $3.50 and
pleaded guilty, was yesterday sentenced to
the penitentiary for lwJ years. He has already
been in Jail fifteen mouths.
Dispatches from Omaha, Nebraska, state
that the rivers are so hip along the line OF the
Union Pacific Railroad that trains are delayed,
and several are lying over al Laramie awaiting
the subsistence of the hJod.
Carl EngIehvf.r German lawyer in Phia
delphia, was fouad dead yesterday uuder cir
cumstances that al first strong y suggested MUIR
der, but it was finally determined that it was
suicide.
The examination Of the charges agiost Kinds,
the fraudulent mail contractor of corrupting