Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-10-26
News OF the k1AE.

| Six inches of SNOW fell yesterday at Fort
| Coulouee, Canada.
Gen. Forrest is still 10 critical condition.
| II has been reduced by chronic dlarrlcoa untl
| he scarcely weighs hundred pounds.
There were Moo new cases Of yellow fever at
| FernandiDa, Fla, yesterday, all colcrcd. No
deaths arc reported Weather warn.
Diamonds valued at five thousand dollars
| were lately stolen from boarders at the Palmer
| House, Chicago The detectives have succeed
ed 10 capturing the thief and recovering The
| valuables lie WAS aided by woman, who has
escaped.
The winners OF the Ist and 2al races at Pan.
| leo, ycsterday,Werc announced ia last evening y
Gazette. The 3rd race was won by l'owie's Ore
Knob, the fourth by McDaniel's Glen Dudley,
and the fifth, s.crplc chase, by Noan's Dead
head.
The large show window at W. Nj. Shustcr 3
dry goods store, .on Pennsylvania avenue, Wash
inetou was broken, Wednesday night, and three
pieces of costly silk carried oil. There was 4
dog in the store, AID two wachmcn, one out
side and the other inside the building, but the
thief managed to clude both Of them.
Laugdon w. Moore, alias Charley Adams,
| and his wife Rebccca, two Of the alleged Cam.
bridgeport, Mass, bank robbers, were brought
to the Supreme Court in New Y ork TO day on
habeas corpus writs. The wife was discharged
there being no evidence against her, and the
hearing OF the male prisoners case was adj
journed.
The sheriff Of Fulton county, Georgia, ar
rested at Wilmington, Del, yesterday, upon a
reouisition Of the Governor of that State, Mr..
j. ii. Jackson, of the we'll known Jackson Il
Sharp car works, charging him with obtaining
several thousand dollars from legislative com
mittco of Georgia in 1873 by false prctenscs
and by making false alhdavits.
The brig Geo. L. GiIchrist, before reported
as abandoned, has been towed into the South
west pass of the Mississippi river. The bark
America, loaded with grain, from Quebec. was
10 collision with the steamship Gamma shortly
after leaving port, aud bad to be bcachcd. OF
eleven persons on board the schooner Ortalan,
recently wrecked at St. Pierre, only seven were
saved.
During the performance CT Mazepra at the
Opera House, in Washington, last night in the
scene where the wild horse Of Tartary ascends
the mountain with Fanny Buckingham, the
actress, as Mazeppa strapped on his back, the
platform gave way, the horse falling consld
cradle distance. Miss Buckingham escaped
injury, though the legs of the horse were cut
and extensively scratched The accident caused
considerable excitement, but was aIlayed upon
the announcement that no serious damage oc
cured
It is stated that short walking dresses are
now the mode in Paris, and as American wo.
men are the slaves of tho fashions set in that
ino city it would be we'll that they be not too
long in finding out the facts about the short
dresses. Let US congratulate the fair that
between the practice Of dragging their dresses
carrying the long skirt in the hand, Paris has
at last hit the true average by introducing
dresses that will neither sweep tho pavements
nor impede the wearers when walking.