Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-01-18

News Of the Day.

W. 4. Coshart of Portsmouth, Virginia, was
sentenced to the penitentiary yesterday tor rob-
berry.
At a fire in Norfolk Tuesday night, build
ing in Market square belonging to Col. ". g.
Rogers. and occupied by Hofheimcr d Son
vas badly damaged.
In Manchester last Tuesday says the Rich
mond State, Mrs. Robert Purycar, saw tiock
Of wild geese flying through thealr. She went
TO the house, got her husband shot gun alu
fired at the game. One ofthc flock was brought
down, but unluckily It fell 10 nel 8, yaru'
The Baltimore aud Ohio coach, which passed
through Baltimore Tuesday night en- route tor
New York, contained three million dollars 10
twenty dollar gold pieces, weig hing in all over
six tons. The precious freight lett the sub
| Treasury Of San Francisco on Monday OF last
week, coming via Chicago. The gold was
hacked in ten iron safes, and accompanied by
eight clerks of the Treasury Department and
Captain George L. Price, Of the Fifth Cavalry
with eight selected men.
The Cumberland papers state that the meet
ing OF miners at Frostburg on Tuesday resolved
| siSty-Gvc TO fifty cents per ton, and passed o
| resolution condemning the men at the Ne"
| Hope mines who have accepted the lower rates.
| The New Central Company has made move
meut 10 reduce to fifty cents, and the miners
have requested time in which to consider the
| proposition. Similar action has also been taken
| Ly the Franklin and the Hampshire aud baIt!-
| more Companies The Franklin's men struck
! and took their tools out Of the mines.
The cashier of the Union Trust Company oil
| New York yesterday morning discovered a
| forged check for STA 900 drawn Oh the Com
pany by the New York Life Insurance Com
| pany. The signature Of the Presldeot OF the
Insurance company, Mr. franklin, was very
| clcyerly coun,erteiled. The cashier states that
| the check was presented to him Oh the II INST,
| for certlcalon, and, surprising it to be genuine
he certified it. The man who presented the
check then bought from Mr.. Maxwell, broker
in Broad street, SIS, 900 in gold and disappeared
with his booty. The loss will TALL upon the
| Union Trust Company, the officers OF whIca
have assured President Franklin that they VII!
make the STA, 1000 good.
\ meeting of the citizens OF Frederick 'ouu-
ty, Va, was held At Winchester on Monday
last, to take steps looking TO the extension oil
the Nlartiosburg aud Potomac Railroad from
Martinsburg to Winchester. A committee was
appointed to solicit subscriptions to the capital
stock Of the railroad, and q resolution was uuan,
imousy adopted recommending to the board ol
supervisors Of Frederick county and the Com'
| mon Council Of Winchester, that subscTp!lon
be made OF not less than $40, 900 per mile from
the Berkeley line to the town OF Winchester to
the capital stock Of the road, the amount OF
such subscription to be expended w'th'u The
limits Of Frederick county
The Methodist Almanac for 1877 reports the
statistics of the Episcopal Nlethodst5 OF the
United States TO be Is, 435 travelling preachers,
IS CSC local preachers and ; ,O43, " members.
The aggregate OF members is thus made up
Methodist Episcopal Church, l,Gl3,j60; Meth
odst Church South, -, SAC; Colored Nletho-
dist Episcopal Church, $4,000; African Nletho-
dist Episcopal Church, 2OO,SGl; African
Methods: Episcopa! Zion Church, 10000;
Evangelical Association, 1925; United Broth
ern, 1850. The non. Episcopal Alethodists
Of this country have lj4,243 members. Ac'
coriug to this authority the total of Methodist
commandments throughout the world Is
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