Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-08-18

"ggbe e sywsipgs of Jordan y in tho morning,
"prejudico" ~
night by Rev. Mr.. Penick =, ~,
GERMAN LUTHERAN-SorVlce 81 IL - n'
by Rev Mr.. Fleckenstein.
YoUNo MEMS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS -
PRAYER meeting in the Meth Rps. Church ~
4p N. Aims House at q p. M jail A. p. M
& oclock. in the Second Pres. Church. Open
dir meeting next Friday night ut o'clock NJ
tho N. w. corner of King and st. Astpk streets.
WEATHER PROBABILITIES. War Nsy.art
p,ent, Office of the Chief Signal OG;csr, Wash
ngton. d. g.. 4ug. IS, lS77--lO31 q: N.
For tho Lower Lakes, Middle States and New
ENGLAND north and west winds, stationary or
rising pressure and Temperature, partly Cloudy
or clear weather.
THE MINES AND THE CANAI.-An As$o-
ciated Press dispatch from Cumberland, last
night, says:
The CONSOLIDATION, American and Borden
Companies, three OF the largest 10 the region,
resume to. morrow at fifty five cents, the rate
demanded by tho miners. Dolly one company
ia Marylaud vii! then be idle. Shipments Will
be made by rail, as there Is 90 settlement OF
canal ireights yet. Thomas Williams was ar
rested by the sheriff at Erostburg TO day,
charged with couSp!!lng 10 prevent miners
working and storiog FISHERS house on louday
night. rho first charge was not sustained by
the evidence. He was held on the second 10
$500 Tor court ia October"
The Cumberland News Of yesterday says:
"Ibrce boats cleared from this port yesteT.
day. Two we're shipped by the Biaen Avon
Company to Alexandria, the 4. Bu:ke, los %
TONS and &. r. Summers, 2l2 QS tons; the rate
Of freight is understood to have been LOS per
ton. The third bolt Was the c. Berkebic, with
pas coal CONSIGNED to the Goorgctown Gasight
Company, at 81 per ton freight. There Is
nothing new to note 10 the freight question.
Mr.. Mertens, who went down tho caual wee
uesday to lay before boatman the plan detailed
in these columns yesterday, has not returned
nor been heard from, and The progress OF the
movement is not known.
The boats Of Mr.. Cowdeu which lett here
last week and we're delayed several days at
Dam No. G, 90 account Of low water, have pro
ceedod on their wgy dowp. with % Incident
happening worthy Of note. The steam pump
on the canal located about ten miles below this
port is now undergoing repairs, and as soon as
completed will be used ia supplying the SECOND
division with water until the leak IN DIM NO. Z
IS repaired
DEPARTURE OF THE PLYMOUTH. - According
20 previous announcement the Uoitsd States
steamship Plymouth, Captain Barrel, sailed
from this port, at two clock bis afternoon. tor
Norfolk. The wharves were lined with people.
among them many ladies' to see the Plymouth
of, aud the mauy farewell waves OF handker-
chiefs and bats from the shore We're eaanty
returned from the ship. During The time the
Plymouth has aiu ia cur harbor she has been
visited by many Of our citizens, all OF whom
have been received with the utmost courtesy
and attention, shown through the ship, and
eyerythiog done to mako their visit pleasant.
Prominent 10 these courteous attentlons may
be mentioned Lieutenant Commander Cook,
who cxered himself 10 have everything pass
eff pleasantly. and succeeded most admirably;
in fact, al! OF the officers and crew OF the Ply.
mouth carry with them the best wishes aud
opinions of our citizens.
Police IrEMs.-The only case at the Mayors
Office, this morning, was that Of Nancy Perkins,
a young colored girl. who entered the dwelling
house of Nelson Shepherd, also colored, on
Oronoco street, Yesterday, and stole his pass
book. Armed with the book she went to the
grocery store Of Mr. Edward Quinn, near by,
and laid 10 supply OF provisions aud liquor.
The fraud was discovered shortly afterwards
and Nancy was arrested and committed to the
station house. Mayor Kemper, this morolog,
partially examined the case and committed her
for further examination.
Sonny Ward and Eddie Meade, for fighting
and disorderly conduct near the ". Il .. de-
pot, we're locked up this evening Tor exam
inatl0n.
RETURNED IIoME-Several persons from
this city and neighborhood, who went to Texas,
within the past year or two, viewing it as their
Land of Promise" where all their aspirations
for wealth and happiness were to be realized,
have returned to Virginia, and others are only
stavipc there to accumulate sufficient funds 10
bring them back to tho land Of their fathers.
All their bright anticipations have been diSap.
pointed, and many Of them return, much poorer
than they went out, to realize the truth OF the
Old proverb that there is 90 place like home.
ACCIDENTAL GLYMoNT.- Oa Thursday even
ing last negro man called jeff, whose surname
could not be asccrtaiBed, while engaged IN OIL.
ing threshiDg machine on the home farm at
Glymont, had his right arm caught in the. ma.
chiuery, and the hand and all the flesh and
muscles up to the elbow torn entirely trom
cided 10 amputato the arm above tho elbow
which was about to be done when tho Gazette S
Informant left.
Major w. d. Corse, late City Treasurer, says
that there are no errors, clerical or otherwise,
in his books and that the recent employment
Of an expert was not TO examine them for cor
recor.
FINE PEARs.-Mr. Sepher Blouse scrt TO
this Office yesterday basket OF the largest and
most delicious pears We have seen this year.
MIR. B. is the most successful pear grower 10
this city, and the yield OF his trees this year
will exceed that Of any previous season.
Mr.. ISAAC EICHBERG announces by his al
verisemeut to day that, having determined 10
close out bis entire stock of spring and summer
goods he has marked down prices to remarkaby
low figures. MIR. Eichberg expects to 20 N f