Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-10-30
News of the Day.

1876 in Nv York aggregate 1872 1887. as
against l44, S3S last year, and l49,0lO 10 1917
The Manchester cotton mill, at Manchester
Va. was sid on Saturday for $50 600. 5. T.
Arlington, If Petersburg, being the purchaser
The amount IF Internal taxes collected 10
| Virgin. Is more than double that collected III
the SIX New England States.
The fotal ipternents at Savannah yesterday
was 9; yellow fever, Two of the deaths IRON
| the lever were refugees, who returned 10 Tue
| CITY last week. Abseutees are urged not to re-
turn until frost.
VIM. Hawthorne, an aged and we'll kuown
ci,iz OF Hagerstowp, was killed yesterday at
noon by his son-in-!aw. Thomas Stevens. who
struck him on the head with stone. The
murderer Is IN jail.
One of the Tammaoy naturalization bureaus
| 10 New York assisted over five thousand for
| eiguers 10 become c liens Not Que person
was found who made false represen latlons 10
get papers.
One of the Centennial gentry thought ne
| WIS making himself very agreeable to the
President the other day. He remarked, " IN
shaking bands with you to day, Mr.. President,
ana this time uex Jear l shall! p'o'aoly De
| here again shaking hands WIN your successor,
! Mr. Tildcn.
The iufy ia the case of the colored Woman
joanna TurbIu, WHO was tried last week 10
| Washington for the murder Of her husband 10
| July last, rendered verdict on Saturday at
taruooo of guilty. The jury, together With the
eur; and the attorneys, unite 10 petition 10
The President to commute the death penalty to
impr, orment fer life.
Eo his dispatch to the Admiralty, annouDo-
ing his reuro, Capt. Mares, of the Arctic expe-
lition, says that the Polar Sea is never oavl-
gable, that he ordinary thickness OF he ioe Is
eighty feet and that aoimal life and the mi
grafton Of birds ends south of Cape Colombia.
lie considers the mpractlcabIty OF reaching
The NORTH Pole as proven.
Among the speakers a, the Baltimore yearly
meeting Of Fr.ehds, yesterday, was Samuel NJ.
Janney, Of L,udouu county. This meeting is
| IMPOSED Of! representatives, from the I'VE
quarterly meetings held respectively at baNi,
ID r., Warrcnton, Fairfax, Nottingham aud
Centre Their total membership Is about
3, 500, OF whom about $50 are 10 Baltimore.
The trials at Spezza Of the hundred TN
Armstrong gun. made for the Italian govern
mcpt, have been successful A charge of 1874
MOUNDS OF powder gave ball velocity OF
500 feet TO The second, smashed solid wrought
iron plates 22 uchcs thick, completely piercing
the strong backing and the thirty lrch skin OF
u target The heaviest blow OF the bail was
equai to 81 $50 Ions.
Quilip Bona, aged twenty six years. died on
the 18th instant, near Baltimore, two days al
ter his marriage with Miss Laura JuhDsuD, Of
R,chmnud, Va The wedding took place on
DC, ODER sd, and When leading his brlue to the
altar tue groom was in perfect health. he did
not complain Of any illness on the oath, but 90
the morning Of the 25th COM laln' d OF head
! ache, aud at Doou Oh that day was found dead
iu his room.
In The U S. Circuit Court at Richmond, on
Saturday, Judge Bond presiding, Ezekah
Myers, rec nly convicted OF Illicit dlstllIl0g 10
Petersburg, was sentenced 10 two years lon.
prisoament aud fac Of $4,000. and John
MulIhollso9. porter ut tn" steamer WyanoKe,
convicted Friday Of violation of iDterua rev.
euuc laws, was scutctced 10 SIX months lm-
prisoument III ii and ~ pay Il foe OF $1,000.
Az extraordinary duel between two cUOred
wcmeu took place yesterday morning 10 Louis
vile. Aonie Summons and Mary Buules, hav-
ing uuarreled, resolved 10 fight duel with
knives They met by agreement, no witnesses
being present, aud fought hercely for half 40
hour. Mary Bvues was stabbed and gashed
horribly in SIX different places, her rig ht eye
being cut out Aunie Simmons was but slightly
hurt and has been arrested.
The body of Cbar!c- Emory soldier who
died 10 Washington, D. g., 10 1868, was taken
up the other day for b" purpose Of rearraug-
inp the family 1T 10 Jaffrey, N. H., and was
found to be petriied Ii was estimated that
the weight was from 600 to 7UO pounds.
When alive his weight was l25 p)u0ds. His
features, clothing and the flower wrath arouod
his face were all as perfect as the day when be
was buried.
Caplaio Bremucr, of the British steamship
Chiliau, frou Kingston, Jamaica, reports the
severest hurric ne ever experienced at the
Graud Caynaus LsiaDd, lasting from the 18th
to ;hr 2lst instant Ooe hundred and seventy
houses and large number OF irut tres we're
Destroyed portion Of the island was sub
merged, and d large number Of cattle washed
away. The iohabliaats are 10 a destitute con-
ditlon having lost ali their. provisions All the
provisions hat could be spared from the Chill
Iaa were given them.
Three Methodist ministers, while riding cir
cult in Pope county, Arkansas we're shot from
The brush last week by Two illicit dstiers
named Hughes and Hale. 1t is believed they
were mistaken for revenue officers coming to
arrest them, as warraols arc DOW out for their
arrest for illicit dstng. Ole of the minis
tiers was mortally wounded, and died two hours
after being shot, tie other two are seriously, if
not fatally, wounded. There are large num-
Der Of Lcit dlstiIIers in that part of the State,
six of whom W. re convicted during last week
10 the u s. Circuit Court
The WHIPPING PosT.-The Washington
Star 10 noticing the late whipping Of aco!ored
woman, in this city, for shop lifting, says
Mary Brown, south Washington alley ranger
aud keptomaniac, with skin the color her
nam indicates, last week extended the field Of
her operations to Alexandria. where she was
caught shop lifting, aud taken before a magis