Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-09-09
News OF the hay.

news OIL the apthy-
There we're eleven iutermeDts yesterday from
yellow fever at Savannah.
MIR. Frank Ashby, Of Culpeper Court House,
Va, died there yesterday.
The paid admissions into the Ceuenoial
grounds yesterday numbered hrty-one thousand
Calvin L. Garduer, Postmaster at Suffolk,
Va, has been carried to Norfolk aud held to
bail 10 the sum Of IS, 600 on charge OF em-
bezzement.
The sumac mill OF John H. Bryant l. Co.,
Petersburg Va, was destroyed b. fire 90 Thurs
day nght. together with its eutl!e contents IN
Guiding 400 900 pounds OF sumac.
The annual exhibition of the Montgomery
County, Nd, Agricultural Society will couI
meuce at Rockville on "Wednesday ucxt, the
18th inst, and will coDtinue tire" days.
Thomas &. Simpson, Baptist minister, and
Judge of the Oregon couuty No, Court, was
brought to St. Louis yesterday 90 charge o!
illicit distiling aud held TO bail 10 s. 600.
The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad was sold
by auction yesterday, aud Knocked down 10
William F. Buckley at $3.50 900 for the read
and $4,000 for the laDd grant. Il Is u"der-
stood the road was lid 10 for Andrew Pierce, Jr.
At the Hot Springs, Va, last week, a young
married couple. Mr. Haiieman and wife, ar.
rived from Cincinnati, the bu,bsud sutfsrog
from disease Of The heart. After remaining
| TWO days the gentleman died suddenly. Ills
| wife became a maniac Oh the spot.
Eighmey, toe Oaks Coru"rs murderer, was
| hanged at Canaudaieua, n. Y yesterday. lie
| made speech from the scatf)Id in which ne
| charged Que 3. T. Webster and Mrs Gran
dali with completely ia his cciin2. Four lpdians
we're executed at Fort Smith Ark, yesterday
| for murders committed IN the ludlan Tertiary
The famous Emma Niue was scid at Sal
Lake City yesterday by the UGited States Mar
shall to satisfy Judgment Obtained against The
| Emma Silver Mining Company by the New
York Loau aud Indemnity Company aud IRE
nor W. Park. The mOe was bought 10 b5
| Mr.. Park and will be worked by him. The
price paid for it was $i44, 81 f..
A series of ten concerts, under the ausnica;
of the women centennial committee, will CONF
off at the Academy Of Music, Philadeabia, III
first of which will take place or " cdGesdaj
evening Scptem Der 20. The Theodore l:ol"a
| Orchestra is to be reorganIzed Tor these con
certs aud the grand programme performed o.
May 10 is to be repeated on the nisht OF Sep
tember 20.
| The Tidewater Index says: NJ. Jacot
Strong, the brother Of Col. Sauuel Strong, y
Washington, D. G., who lives Oh the farm rur
chased from Capt. I. + iwn Bets 10 1874 10
SD COO by Col. Strong, bad ;wo barnes a:.@
granary burned Monday, Sept An, about
o'clock a. ID. One OF the barnes was lare
one 50 by 40 feet, three stories, with base
ment brcket up and ce,Dcuted. 1t was neV
barn, being completed about iuurtecu month
ago. and Insured The in, urauce is now GU!
Total loss abou, 81 900. The o.i4ln OF tt" hr
cannot be ascertaiued, but is believed 20 De ID
work of an lncendlary.
Fourteen citizens in pursuit Of the N1rth
field robbers overlook them late Thursday nigh
in ravine short distance from Shieldsvie
Shots were exchanged aod one Of the robbers
horses killed, but az the robbers ,urDed TO max
fight and the citizens were poorly armed, the
dared not dash into them, ADD the robbers
mounting their dism0unted cnmrade, took t
the woods aud were again lost sight Of The.
were last heard Of at Watervile Lake at
O. clock 10 the afternoon, going south towards Ar
kansas. There are about four hundred mcn Il
pursuit. of them, one band Of forty being les
than an bour behind and, it is believed, wi
have them before mnrnlEg. The general ln
preston seems to be- that the robbers are mem
bers Of the famous Y ounger and Jaues gang