Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-08-15
News of the Day.

News Of the Day.
At E,ie, Pa, conductor on the Philadelphia
and Eric Railroad was discharged Monday fox
refusing to add another car 10 bis train, which he
claimed was already to heavy. In consequence
OF the discharge several others declined taking
on cars TO their trains. Yesterday complaint
was made against four of them for attempting
| to lucte strike. They we're arrested and COM
mitted to Jail 10 default Of BAIL The strikers
assert that the alleged cause of the freight con-
duc:or's discharge is not the real one, but that
be was discharged because Of his prominence in
the late strike.
Il proposition has been submitted to the Ma
tional Bank Of the State Of New York to exam.
i,c aud participate in the proposition for seal.
kansas. About 81, 800, 600 worth Of stockholders
Of "Od bonds uufunded," Funds debt
bonds" RAILROAD aid bonds and "Levee
bonds agreed to exchange their bonds for new
bonds Of the State of Arkansas, having thirty
years to run. Should the arrangements fer a
compromise Of the debt not be made before
July 10, 1878, subscribers may withdraw the
hoods.
10 Mr.. Copklingss speech 10 bis friends 10
Utic9, on bis arrival there, he told bis hearers
how tie land 10 England is for the most part
divided up into large landed estates, and how
the poorer classes of the population have no
voice IL the government of the couutfy. lo
Paris he had 40 opportunity OF witnessing the
thrift Of the French working people, who, whilst
living 90 wages that ours would scoro, yet
saved small suus to invest in government secu-
rites AZ reserve fund for old age.
A dispatch from Indianapolis to the New
York Herald states that UAicd States Senator
Q. 2. Morton, Of lodana, has been par4szed
III the left arm but his physician thinks only
temporarily There is no symptom Of paraIy.
sis 10 his face, aud his mind has not been at all
impaired. Should his arm continue parayzsd
he sill be rendered helpless, as he has only
betu able to walk BY the support Of canes.
lie is permitted to see no one except his family.
When off Windmill Island yesterday moro
ing the walking beam Of the steamboat Ariel,
which plies between Philadelphia aud Whining,
ton, broke suddenly, and came crashing through
the deck and saloon and oo The engine room,
where The engineer and an old lady narrowly
escaped being killed. Great excitement at once
eDsued on the steamer; some Of the ladies and
children screamed, but fortunately, no one was
injured.
Augustus b. Schaetier, cashier OF the Farmers
and Mechanics Bank of Westminster, Md, com
mitted suicide yesterday by cutting his throat.
The accounts of the bank arc said to be correct,
and as MIR. Schacffcr showed no symptoms Of
insanity and was apparently happy in all his
domestic relations bis friends cannot tell Why
his lie became an unsupportable burden.
Referring to the seizure of Turkish monitors
| at Corfu by the Hellenic Government dis
patch has beer received at the Department Of
State from the United States Minister to Greece
containing statement Of the Minister Of For
cign Affairs before the Greek Chamber, by
which it appears that the affair has been ami.
cably settled.
\ droulh is prevailing in the vicinity OF Get
tysburg, Pa. The growing corn is whitening
UP, and the streams are becoming so low that
| the country grlst mills have ceased TO gr1d
The people DO not apprehend famine, but
! they arc put to great inconvenience tor want OF
a sufficient supply OF water.
The Supreme Council Of the World Knights
Of Pythlas is in session ct Cleveland, Ohio,
which will be conliDued the greater part OF the
| week. There vas handsome parade OF the
order yesterday through the principal streets
Of the city, which were profuseIy decorated for
the occasion
Two hundred and fifty operatives OF the New
ark city, N. j., silk mill struck yesterday
| agaiost fifteen per cent. reduction. The en-
ployees say they submitted to twenty five per
cent. reduction 10 November, and could only
earn from three to nine dollars per week. The
| mill will remain closed.
Captain Barnaby Baker, ST., member Of the
firm Of 3. j. Baker & Co., we'll known wreck
els, fell through the hatOhway Of the bark As
sccuradem. yesterday, ashore at Ocean View,
aod was killed.
George Walston, colorcd domestic at the
Imperial Hotel, in Washington, was sent to
| Jail by the Police Court yesterday for the
grand Jury on the charge Of setting fire to one
of the rooms at the hotel last Sunday.
Charles Ashly, the last Of the railroad strik-
ers awaiting trial at Cincinnati was sentenced
yesterday to thirty days 10 the workhouse and
line OF $500, with bonds to keep the peace.
dispatch from Huntington, West Virginia.
claims majority of 800 for Charleston as tho
capital Of the State.