Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-08-28
News Of the Day.

Rev DR.. Peck preached at Mount Vernon
Church. Baltimore, yesterday, sermon CD the
work of the Commission which harmonized the
differences between the Methodist Church,
North and South. He highly recommended
the reconciliation.
Saturday being the second and probably last
of the rs cent admission days, the attendance
at the Centennial Exhibition was greater than
on any previous day. the number OF paid ad-
missions being 95. S73 The total admissions,
Including those 90 the free list, l04,5l4
The counsel for the respondent in the suit
brought by Francis D. Moulton against Henry
Ward Bcecher for alleged malicious prosecution,
have served notice upon Roger A Pryor, Mr..
Moultou's counsel, of an application to the Su
preme Court of New York for change of venue
on the ground that the selection OF an Impair
tial jury 10 King county is impossible.
The negro Robert Williams, who attempted
to outrage Mrs Ann Bridges, near Augusta,
Ga, 90 Thursday, aud inflsted injuries from
which she will probably die, was taken from
jail Saturday BY party of men and shot dead.
The body was badly mutiIated. The gates
leading to the Jail were broken down with axes.
The mob was composed of men from the coun
try. Williams was about twenty years old, and
Mrs. Bridges, whom be assaulted aud attempt
ed to rape, is married woman, aged nineteen.
A meeting of the Baltimore Typographical
Union, No. r. Saturday fixed the price of
composition On morning papers at 40 cents per
900 ems, reduction OF ten per cent, and on
afternoon papers where composition is done by
the piece 40 cents per 900 ems, reduction
of twenty per cent. % afternoon papers
where weekly hauds are employed reduction
of ten per cent was made, which will pay at
the rate of SIG 20 per week. The above scale
of prices was adopted by vote of LOG for and
is against it. The new scale of prices goes To-
to effect on the lst day of September next.
The Washington Chronicle says: A con-
tcmptible outrage was committed at the office
of the Daily Telegram on Saturday night,
about I o'clock, for which the perpetrators
should be punished to the fullest extent Of the
law. 1t appears that party of printers,
headed by one Mankin and another mao named
Wicker, went into the office during the alb.
seucc Of the proprietor, Mr. Hugh Coyle, and
pied his forms. upset type fonts, and generally
threw things about Mr.. Coyle arrived just
after the outrage bad been committed, and
swore out warrants aud succeeded yesterday 10
having the leaders arrested ard locked up. 1t
is claimed that these men, influenced by out
side parties, perpetrated the dastardly deed for
a monetary consideration.
George Adams, the young man who so sue
cessfuly played the role of the hero in the late
averted railroad disaster at Fairport, has been
arrested 10 Buffalo, the evidence of bis being
the au hor Of the outrages having been worked
~ by detectives After his arrest be made a
iu!l confession, which, 10 substance, is as fol-
lows: He alone misplaced the switch which
threw the train from the track Of the Lake
Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad 90 the
1lth iust., whereby the engineer and fireman
were badly scalded and the engine completely
wrecked. On the morning OF the 10th instant
be drew the spikes from the ties aud the bolts
from the fish joints, thereby throwing the train
down an embankment, wrecking the engine.
threelpasseoger coaches and the baggage and
postal cars The only person Injured was W.
f. Clements, who afterWard died of bis Wounds.
His last exploit was the attempt at Falrport,
on the 20;h ns'. Adams has already served
term 10 the Erie county work house for petit
larceny. He pleads ID extenuaton his lnteo
ton to potty the train 10 time to avert an &C.
cidert, hoping thereby to place the company
under obligation to furnish him with sltua
ton.
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