Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-01-25
News of the Day.

The Secretary Of the Treasury has issued :
call for the redemption of 500 bonds OF 1865
May and November. The call is for ten mil
lion dollars. Of which seven millions arc coupon
bonds and three millions registered bonds
The principal and interest will be paid at the
treasury 90 and after the 24th day Of April
next, and the interest on the bonds will cease
on that day. The following are The descrl q
tons of the bonds: Coupon bonds--$lO0, No.
2l35 to IS, sos, both inclusive; $780, No. 2G, 70l
to 81 500, both inclusive; $1,000, No. g., 40l
to 20, $50, both inclusive. Registered bonds
$50, No. 1910 to 400, both Inclusive; $780,
No. 1901 to $500, both inclusive; $500, No.
1851 to 5000, both inclusive; 81, 900, No. 1901
to $50, both inclusive; $4,000, No. 47,5lO
to 500, both inclusive; $4,000, No. S2Ol to
$500, both inclusive.
John McKernan and wife were recently ar.
rested in Cincinnati Tor dealing 10 counterfeit
money, and Miles Ogle was arrested 10 the
same city for manufacturing the article. Ogle
has since made confession to a government
detective by which the latter yesterday obtain
ed over one hundred finely executed plates,
among them plates for the manufacture OF ten
dollar notes on banks at Richmond, lafayette
and Nluucie, lnd. He also obtained 10000
counterfeit fifty cent pieces, which had been
buried in suburb Of Cincinnati. These pieces
so closely resemble the genuine that none but
experts could detect them.
A terrible double murder was committed
Tuesday night in Gentry settlement, Saline
county, Arkansas. Two women named Mrs.
H. B. Taylor and Mrs Nah. SIancr, wives of
esteemed planters, were both murdered in cold
blood. They were stopping at the same house,
their husbands being en- route to Little Rock
with produce. The murders were committed
for the purpose of robbery.
Tuesday night while Mrs. John Walsh was
seated at the window of her residence, iu Viii
liamsburgh, New York, she was startled by
the report of pistol, the crash of glass, and
the screams of her infant SOD, Richard, whom
she was holding in her arms. She discovered
that the child had been struck on the breast
by pistol ball. The person who fred is un-
known.
Jack Williams, the negro burglar. who shot
Detective ". G. Pride, 10 Memphis, Tenn,
on Tuesday, was arrested on the Memphis and
Charleston train Tuesday night by the oonduc
tor after an attempt to shoot the latter. Two
thousand dollars 10 money, some diamonds and
)eWelry, all stolen, Wero recovered. frl0e Is
no expected to recover.
In the New Jersey House. yesterday, bill
was passed exempting all soldiers who served
in the recent war from poll tax, and requiring
colored persons to pay said tax. A bill to pro.
tect assemblages iu buildings. providing iacili-
ties for egreSs, &c., was also passed.
The committee for the reorganization of the
Chesapeake and Ohio road have thus far re.
ceived the assent of holders of 500 Zoo, 900
bonds-the bonds having been duly forwarded
and placed 10 charge of the Central Trust Com.
pany.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue ap-
peared before the Ways and Means Committee
yesterday, and asked that private bankers be
included in the tax on deposits.
Beede's steam saw mill, at Island Pond, Vt