Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-12-29
News OF the Day.

News OF aEe DsY.
Ia Mcrgan township. Crawford county, Iowa,
Carl Mass and bis wife locked thrca their child,
rem, aged respectively ooe, two and hall arn
four wears, 10 the house on Christmas day and
went to husk ;rn. They were shortly apprlsca
BY their ucighb ors that their hous, was ourn,,
Jog, and when they reached it, it was wrapped
in flames asd the children burned to death.
The mother flanlicsiy attempted to rush 1910
the flames but was fually prevented
L-muel and Ethebert Smith, father and
con. were arrested in NansemoDd county. yes
tcrjav, for the murder Of VIM. II. Fuller 90
the 14th Instant, while the latter was huntlrg
wild turkeys, near Boy kin's Depot Va. The
son has made iu c,urSsion, aud says his
father shot Fuller twice. The prisoners were
examined and committed to the Suffolk aud
Portsmouth i4iIs for trial. Revenge was the
cause Of The murder,
The Real Estate Savings Institution, at 81.
Louis. SUSPENDED yesterday. The assets are
nlaoed at $3.50 900, mainly in bonds snd mort
cages on real estate, and liabilities to deposit
tors about $3.50 900. 1t is thought the dc.
posiors will be paid 10 full, and perhaps the
stockholders will receive something. The great
shrinkagc in real estate values and lbahiAtly
to realiz, on securities was the CAUSE OF the
suspension.
A mass meeting of cigar makers on strike
and their sympathizers was held last night 10
Cooper Institute, New York, over 600 per-
sous being prCsent Spctchrs denounclng man
ufacture1s were made 10 English, Bohcmlan
aad German, Resolutions were adopted setting
forth that the struggle would 90 kcptup until
living wages and recognition of the uuiuu are
complied with, and denouncing all compromise.
Advices from Montana say that two Of the
4 II Nj
camp, and report that white scout is IN the
Camp of the hostics as a prisoner The Ncz
Perces are anxious to leave, and are slipping
away whenever they CAD, but arc afraid to come
away 10 body. Sitting Bull is encamped on
Rock Creek, and is committing depredatlons
chiefly on the Indians.
There are pow on file more applications Tor
office urder President Hayes to which MIR.
B!ainc's written recommendation is attached
THAI applications indorsed by any other public
uap, and Mr.. Blaine has personally asked more
of the President in the way OF office Tor his
friends than has any other member OF either
house of Congress.
The Golden Gate Mining Company have
consummateG sale Of their four mines in the
Black HilIs-Father Desmat Golden Gate,
Justice and Belcher--to Caliaflrnil capitalists
for the sum Of $4,000 This is tho heaviest
mining transaction that has occurred in the
Hills.
The exports of cheese from the United States,
as shown by table prepared by the Bureau OF
Statistics, has growo from l4473l pounds in
the year 1870. to l07, 3G4 .6GG pounds 10 1877.
The total export for the period, iocludl0g both
those years, has been 2G2, 952. 81 pounds.
A fire occurred in the Mansion House at Troy
J New York, early yesterday morning. The
guests we're rescued from the upper windows
by the fremen's ladders, the smoke being SO
dense that escape by the stairs was Impossible.
The fire caused 81, 600 damage to the building.
The attempt to form combination among
the coal companies is not meeting with any con-.
spicuous success The officials have held three
meetings within the month, and at their last
conference they seemed rather more unlikely to
CONC to an agreement than ever.
Dr. Baxter. one OF the physicians attending
Senator Patterson, says he sees no reason why
the Senator will not be able TO resume his seat
10 the Senate upon the reassembllng OF Con.
greSs as his improvement IS steady and salts
factory.
The United States Treasury has paid out
over thirty millions 10 greenbacka since the
passage of the Army bill, and is now discussing
ever thirty.three millions in gold on acc )unt Of
interest on the public debt due on the lat OF
January.
The boiler of the tow boat Pulaski exploded
at North landing, on the Biz ,beth river, near
Norfolk, Va, yesterday. Thomas Judklns
the engineer, and George Savage, the lremeD,
were dangerously scaldad.
A Pennsylvania paper states that the iron,
steel and brass industries generally throughout
the State are now more actively employed than
for several years past.
MIR. Randall Gibson, of Louisiana, denies
that he signed any agreement as Is alleged by
Mr. Chandler, 10 reference to counting MIR.
Hayes 10 as President.
The President has signed full pardon for
Frank S. Hinkle. of Mo-, convicted in Novcm
Der last of forgery, and sentenced to three
months imprisonment.
InPittsylvana county, in this State, last
week. Giles johnson, aged seventeen years.
and Alice Richardson, aged thirteen years, were
married.
An explosion occurred in the StanIon coal
mine Gear Wikcsbarrc, Pa, yesterday, by the
careless use Of a lighted lamp. Six persons
wero SERIOUSLY burned, ono supposed fatally.
Chandler is q candidate for the United States
Senatorship in New Hampshire. The Legisla-
ture is to be elected in March.
Twelve United States army officers were kill
cd duriog the past year 10 the Indian wars.