Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-08-02
News Of the kbMy.

| dale, in Michigan. AZ excursion party from
| Cold Water, numbering about three hundred.
| were spending the day there. Sixteen OF them
went out or the lake 90 a h4tbuat or scow,
when it suddenly sank, and nine of the party
were d,owned The water is fifty Or sixty !ccl
deep where the boat s4uk The names Of the
drowned arc as follows: G. II. Taylor, Mrs.
| Thornton and child, Mrs Musscr, May Gun
| bingham and her sister Libbe, Alice H"y3s,
May Kelley and Randall BIackman, all OF Cold
Water. The widest excitement prevails AT
! l1il!sdalc.
Yesterday afternoon, doz, young lrl h
| mon from Honeybrnok intrudtd upon camp
mc etog of the Evangelical Association, AT
| Ouaguakc. The presiding elder order ID them
to DC seated and policeman, sworn III under Il
recent law. attempted to enforce the order,
| When one the lrishmeu threw akoie at him
The policeman. with c,cked revolver in oi.C
| hand, club5cd tic whole gang out OF the meet
| Ing with the other maud. After they had goDc
several wards they turned aud fired three shots
at the officer, who immediately returned the
| fire, fatally wouudng Jalues Haggcrty, who is
| Is years DID,
BENZ. B. Ha!leck. the treasury clerk convict
ed OF the $47 900 treasury robbery, was brought
before Judge Wylic on writ OF habeaS corpus
10 Washington yesterday, and a motion fred by
| General Henklc, his n>e to reduce the bal
| 1912 OO0) now rrquir, d III his case The mo
uon was resisted by } rcmiah Wilson aud the
District Attorney tor the UHltci States. judge
Wyc decided 10 reduce his bail to IS 600.
| This am,unt it is understood, Haljcck can give
| 10 leW days. lbs bondsmcn were cot forth.
Gaming III the afternoon, aud ne was sent back 10
Jail.
Fer "beatiug the bell puoch" the car con-
ductors Of Pittsb burg seem to be the champions
of the country. No sooner do the companies
agents discover The secret OF one counterfeit
! than tie ingenious conductors get up another
still more diff ,uIl OF detection. 1t s'sl!d that
the average daly knocking down. for each
man is about three dollars and the conductor
are taking about buying out their employers,
and the latter Of selling cut and going into the
more profitable business Of working on The rear
end of the Cars.
The ccroner's ury in the inquest upon the
rsce Mt riot case at Hamburg, S. g., returned a
verdict to the coroner on Saturday last, but at
last acc UNITS it had DOT been uade public. 1t
is understood, howcv that the names 0! from
fifty to sixty persoGs appear IN the verdict (thc
charge against South CarolInan, being murder,
and that against number of persons from
Georgia as accessories. a number OF the lead
ing lawyers Of the State have already v0lun-
,eered for the defense Of the indicted parties.
About three hundred men, none under six
feet high, copyrighted at Booths Theatre, n.
Y, yesterday, seeking to be employed as su.
pernun eraries in the new play OF "Sardauapa-
lus." Only one hundred, were required. aud
the LUCKY ones having been selected, the re
mainier discousoatey weut their way. They
were all respectable looking and their appear
auco attracted considerable attention.
Gen. Sturges, who is colonel Of the Seven tn
United States Cavalry, applied by telegraph
yesterday to Gen. Sherman to be sent to his
regiment 10 the Yellowstone country at once.
Sherman replied that it would not be convent
! ent to relieve him.
Such is the alarm at the different military
posts, Indian agencies and small towns conse.
uuent upon the warlke movements ofthc Sioux,
that the people have commenced 10 move their
children, wives and vaIuabies eastward ior 20
curty. The movement amounts almost to 4
panic.
President Grant Yesterday issued his procla-
nation declaring that the Fundamental cond-
tons imposed by Congress to entite Colorado
to admission into the Union as a State having
been complied with, the admission OF that
State is now complete.
WREcKlNG BANK. '--Firgina City,
New, mas sixteen faro games, all situated In {
street, at the rear of the principal Saloons.
The proprietor OF one Of the most Furnishing
faro banks says that the expenses Oh running
the games, exclusive of lctosa, foot up S27 400
year. From the first 10 the fifteenth ct The
month the tune at which the miners are flush,
most Of the games run three shifts of eight
hours each, thus employing six dealers aud
three case keepers. After the middle Of the
month the business slackeus and only one or
two OF the games llll more than two shifts.
Every bank pays yearly license O! 81 COO,
making the comfortable total OF $25, 600. a
letter from Virginia City says:
The largest winning reported so far this year
was made by reamstcr, who got away with
over S. O0O and lett the bank a wreck. On
the other hand the lossos have been *
tremely heavy. Onc Will known gambler
here, who would pass anywhere for the tather
Of prosperous family, has lost $4,000 at faro
withln the last four months, Apropos OF this
gentleman heard good story the other day.
He and some other professionals had been losing
frighttully, and some desperate step was ncces
sary to raise the wind.
A neat plot was hatched Free drinks are
feature of every gambling room. A waiter takes
the orders from the play ers and brings IN the
LIQUORS and cigars ON a tray. The waiter OF he
game which this wrecked gambler and his com.
panion had resolved to victimiza WAS heavily
bribed to join the scheme. Drinks were called
for, the dealer among the rest asking for re
treatment The untath!ul waiter passed the
tray TO the dealer in such manner to cover
the cards, and the gambler deity removed t?e
box and substituted another with a cold deck In
it under cover of the tray.
In about ten minutes the conspirators WOO
ST 400. knowing what cards would come up
After about two thirds OF the deck had been
dealt the dealer smiled and said:
"Wrll boys. you may rs we'll hand over my
box; see you've got me this time
There WAS neither anger nor hard words.
"Anything to beat the game is considered al.
lowsbie, and the gamblers walk off with their
spoils in peace.