Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-01-14
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The depot church in Philadelphia last night
was crowded to ovc'A 'wiog and thousands
we're turned away. Mr. Moody spoke on
"Couvcrsiou, told about the dylng thief 90
the cross. aud 10 the course # his remarks
said He had more respect f"r the Jews who
did not believe III the divinity ct Christ, than
he had for those who believed ia the Saviour
aud then rejected Hin. Speaking OF the way
to be saved, MIR. Moody said he had no desire
to speak against the ordinances, but baptism
was not necessary to salvation, neither was the
administration OF the sacrament. No one mad
baptized the thief opon the cross. No,one had
offered him bread aud wlue, and yet he was as
sured that the renitent thief was saved.
The TWO Yourg men, who murdered an old
man near Cbariestown, W. Va, on Christmas,
were returned to that city or Monday last, and
upon their arrival being made known TO the
coal minrrs 10 that region, meeting was Or
gauiz:d and committee appointed TO walt up.
on the officers et the court, mandlng that the
murderers should be Immediately tried, CON
victed and executed within tweoty days after
The trial. The committee were further instruct
ed TO state to the court that IN the failure OF
the Law officers to execute the demand, one
thousand or more organized miners would open
ly attack the Jail, remove and lynch the muir
derers.
Last Tuesday the negro burglar, who, ou
Friday, ricdled with bullets q policeman, was
| arrested uear Huntington aud delivered to the
proper authorities. After being committed
| he desperate became violent. and openly re-
GREETED that he had not succeeded ID killing
the policemau, and added that he would be
| more than delighted to murder the Police Mar,
| shall OF Huntingdon After he had been placed
| in Jail mob of nearly fifty men surrounded
the buldua aud demanded that the culprlt be
given to them, as they Intended to hang hun,
but the Mayer succeeded in dispensing them.
| At New York last night Il meeting was held
OF the Council and Parochial Commuters OF
| the Catholic Union, at which Cardnal Nc
| Closkcy made an address. He alluded to the
agitation With regard to the Bible 10 the public
schools. Hc said il was Il polltca! aud not a re-
hrious trouble but il persecution should come
they would emerge from 1t better Ca'holcS
| than ever.
! At four o'clock Yesterday morning four burg
lars eutered the house .! Mrs. Milior, in Nah :
10Y township, near Shamckln, Pa, robhlrp
| her cf So 100. Her 500 10 law. who was stop
pinp there over night, fired rs they W ere leav'
| ing the door, instantly killing man n'med
| Hughes aud seriously Woundlng another whose
uamo is unkuowD. Another of the thieves was
captured and all of the stolen money recovered.
II was rumorcd yesterday that Gov. !lIdc
intends to remove sheriff WIN. G.. Cooner 10 a
day or two The reasons assigned for this &C
| ,,on Of tbs Executive are that the Sheriff hao
failed, through i.is suboraipa'es, to mold Wn
NJ. Nv ed, Tor whose safe custody and dcliv
cry he was responsible, aud to find him alter a
reasonable time for his recs ture had elapsed.
The yemaus Of Ant.nc Martens who, OF
last Tuesday night in fiji OF JEALOUSY, shot
rhou,as Rodgers, and then sho; ard XII d
Gi,nsel!, w.lG st.rday afternoon takcu 10 III.
G. mctYry 1T Middle Village, Long lsland, y.
Y, for burial. 4 few friends Of The untortu-
pate man and his wife accompanied his remains
to the cemetery.
In the Massachusetts, House of Delegates,
yesterday, bill was introduced which provides
that no pupil 10 any OF the schools should be
required 10 participate in any religious or de-
voiona exercises if the parent or guardian re-
quest the pupil to be excused.
The Kentucky Legislature ballotted yestcr-
day for United States Senator without ary re-
suit. o. the sixth ballot the vote stood: & ok,
40; Williams, Sc; Leslie, 25, aud Steven
son, lo.
The store Of Broadbent & Co., in Baltimore,
was plundered by thieves on Wednesday night.
| The method of the execution OF the job lndl
Gates that there were expert scoundrels at work.