Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-09-15
News Oflhe Day.

News Of the Day.
The first trial of strength between ConkllDg
and the administration republicans In Oneida
county, N. Y, was made yesterday 10 the city
of Rome on a choic, of Senatorial delegates
-Four of the FIVE wards elected delegates favor
ios the nomination of J. K. Swan, Utica law
yer, for Senator Ex.Assemblyman Grldley,
who is Simon pure Cookliog Candidate car
ried one ward. GrdIey is Piled ged to vote TOR inc
return of ConkliDg to the Uoiten States Sc nate'
Swan runs as the supporter OF the aaminls'la
lion and, Senatorially, uopIedged. Inc result
10 Rome was q complete surprise 10 the lrlenos
of Mr.. Conkling, who gave only Twelve hours
notice of the caucus meetings.
The Bankers Convention 10 New York ad.
iourned yesterday. A resolution was adopted
recommending the free but not enforced clrcu'
lation CT silver money as subsidiary currency.
and that it would aid 10 restoring the value OF
paper money. During the discussion Mr.. hayes,
cf Detroit, read the twentieth verse OF the NINTH
chanter of II. Chronicles. as follows: And all
The drinking vessels of King Solomon were OF
cold, aud ali the vessels of the house of the for
est of Lebanon we're Ct pure gold; none were OF
sitter; it was not anything accounted OF IN The
days of Solomon.
The New York detectives have seized IN dit
ferent cities property valued at over twenty
thousand dollars, brought into The port OF New
York 10 the shape Of personal baggage, on
which no duty had been paid. lncuded 10 Inc
articles we're twenty silk chapeaus and one hun;
dred and forty articles Of church vestment and
cbasubles for the use OF digntarles OF the Cath'
o!ic Church, over two hundred elaborately em
broidered cambria articles Of ladies undercoth'
ine, and three hundred and fifty sells OF lmlta-
ton diamond and jet j:WelIy.
Extensive preparations are IN progress TO
give President Hayes magnificent reception
UPON his arrival 10 Cincinnati to night. lie
will be met at the depot and escorted to the
resideuce of his friend. Dr.. John Davis, by q
procession consisting of all the various military
organizations Of the city, detail OF police, CITY
officials, and large plumber OF prominent cltl.
zars. Along the line OF march the houses Will
be decorated with flags and emblems and the
windows Illuminated.
DR.. J. G.. Cunningham, Baltimore dentist,
was arrested yesterday for assaultiug and threat
eniop to kill Dr. w. A. Mills also dentist.
For few months up to week ago the two
doctors occupied the same rooms: One day
Mills missed q SUN of money. lie thought
that Cunningham had taken it. and 80 inform.
ed Detective Pointer, who told Cunningham
that be was suspected. Then Cunningham
went to see Mills. threatened to kill bin, struck
him and ran away.
Daring discussion 10 Baltimore yesterday
afternoon between number Of wsrd politicians,
incident to the democratic primary elections
Thursday, fight eDsued, 10 which Andrew
Weidner 40 active local politician Of the Elev.
eoth ward, received blows from which be died
almost Instantly, bis neck having been broken.
Thomas Frese has been arrested, charged With
ipfctpg the fatal blow. Wbiskey was The
cause OF the trouble.
A commission of which Assistant Secretary
Mccormick is the head has been ordered to
examine toto the organization and personnel OF
the Secret Service division Of the Treasury and
| the different kinds Of work its members have
been 10 the habit of performing. Assistant
Secretary hlcCormick's resignation was tender
ed month ago to take effect October T. but
the date of his retirement is notde6nitely fixed.
The Stauulou Vindicator says:-Roderck
Henson, man of good reputation farming near
SCOTS depot on the Chesapeake & Ohio Rail
| road, committed suicide Oh Sunday OF last week,
By shooting himself through the head. tie had
seduced bis daughter, aged fourteen years, and
| she had Informed her mother. Upon being
charged with it the father weot out and shot
| himself. .-..-at
The steamer Lake Magenta. which left Mon
trea this morning duriog dense fog, ran upo1
poiot of land called Baton Rouge, where she
remains with her bow high and dry aud her
stern 10 deep water. She has large and val.
liable cargo, including number Of sheep and
cattle for the Eogish market. 1t is believed
the cargo will have 10 be removed to get her Off,
At Schenectady. yesterday, j udge Landon, on
petition Of the directors and stockholders, and
with The consent of the Superintendent of the
Insurance Department, adjourned all proceed
logs 10 the Universal Lite Insurance case foi
sixty days The existing INJUNCTION to stand 10
the meantime.
San Domingo adVices to September I'd report
an uneasy feeling there. President Baez had
issued a proclamation suspending the oonsitu
tional guarantees. Several prominent meroh'
ants have been imprisoned on mere suspicion,
ADD the Government employees werc dissatisfied
not having received any pay. 49, ~.
It is stated at The Treasury that should The
present bonded debt Of the United States,
other than the Pacific Railroad bonds, be re
duced TO four per cent. bonds. the aggregate
interest paid by the United States annually
would be reduced $24, "a, 1915
Lewis Myers. county treasurer, from whose
Office at Wapakonetta, Ohio, some $4,000
were claimed to have been taken on thepight
Of September 9th, was yesterday arrested,
charged With completely 10 the robbery. 49,
The report for this week shows the hes lth Of
Savannah to be uuprecedsntly good. There be:
ing not death of white adult from any cause.
The interments for the week are four white.
all children. and twelve colored persons.
A New Orleans disI atoh says thera was
grand procession there yesterday 10 celebration
of the Emeule of 1874 and the establishment
of the Nicholas regime. u. 8. flags were borne
by every regiment. -