Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-12-19
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yesterday to Cote st. Paul. Canada, and attack
ed tie Office of Davis 4 500, contractors: With
stouc5 and revolvers. Shots were retufned ifom
the Office killing one striker und WouhdIng
three others. Tue mob first attacked t"eoty'
FIVE men at work for the Davis contractors,
when foreman Cnsgrove fred from the door OF
the Office three pistol shots, killing one far-
quette. who was brandlshlng a PICK na1ole'
The Infatuated mob then commenced WrecklDg
the building, and we're met by some fifty shots
| fron within before they withdrew. More tIou
BILE is expected. The strikers insist upon one
dollar day AID fortnightly payments. The
strike extends along the canal from Montreal 10
Lachine, distance OF seven miles.
a dispatch received at Galveston from the
scene Of the difficulties 10 El Paso county,
Texas, says the Rangers who are defending
themselves from The uob are short OF ammunl.
ton and their assaants are undermining the
buildings hey occupy. Dispatches from Gen.
| Popc state that about three hundred troops,
enough for all purposes were expected to reach
the scene Cd Monday or Tuesday, 10 time to
prevent any serious disaster to the State troops.
The sheriff of Ell Paso county clegraphs to the
Governor of Texas that the Rangers, their am
rnuniton being exhausted, had to surrender on
Monday afternoon. After Tie surrender How:
ard Atkinson and Mcbride were taken out and
shot to death by tho mob.
The opinion of the Naval Court Of Inquiry in
relation to the loss of the Huron says that Com.
maudcr Ryan is primarily responsible; that
Lieutenant Palmer made errors in navigation,
aud that the deck officers might have been at
fault in not ascerlaining the accuracy OF the
perpendicular soundings reported to them IRON
time to time. The court found that the Huron
was stau0ch, we'll lCund 10 every respect up to
the time she struck, aud that with the cxcep
tons noted 20 other man on board he vessel
was responsible for the disaster.
At large lnce,iar Of merchants at The
Nashville Merchants Exchange, Yesterday, rs.
oluions were adopted expressing 40 earnest
desire that the Legislature should promptly ao:
cept lhe liberal cffer Of the State creditors and
by all necessary legislation provide for its faith
full Discharge of the obligations assumed by the
State in the adjustment; that being fully con.
scious of the evil effects that will follow repudl
alton they we're opposed to, 10 fact. and disap.
proved of, any action that led to It,
Three msu called at the house of Y. Harris,
at Rockport, Pike county, llIs., prominent
merchant, at , 0 clock yesterday morning and
induced him to 20 to his store and sell them a
! coat for man who, according to their state.
. ment, had Just died. While Harris was uu:
locking the safo TO get change for $50 bill
{ the men Knocked him soDselcs5 and robbed the
safe OF $1,000.
MIR. Blaine will not 90 to Florida but pro-
noses to tTy the beneficial effects Of the Hot
Springs of Arkansas and will leave Washing
ton for that place to day. lie will be accom-
panied by Senators Cbaff,e and Dorsey, tx
Secretary Robson and Eugene Hale.
W., Eodicott, president Of the defuuet
,, Central National Bank Of Chicago, has dlsap-
pcared, having cashcd his shares Of stock out
= of the assets of the bank.
Rev. Hugh Roy Scott, OF Baltimore, is now
engaged 10 the establishment OF domestic mis-.
sons.
Ex-senator Matt Carpenter is making ao in
come of $4,000 to $50, 900 year from his
practice before the U. s. Supreme Court:
Gardner Mercer, banker OF Genesce, N Y,
failed yesterday. 1t is thought the deposiors
will receive a large per ccntagc.
. Mcssrs Nourse & Middleton, real estate and
note brokers, Of Washington, have suspended.
, From Washington.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE GAZETTE.
, WASHINGTON, d. G.. Dec. 49,
There is nothing of any interest at the White
House, Capitol or Departments, to-day.
) 1t is said that The appropriations committee
, |
prepare legislation for the action of Congress.
. There is great diversity of opinion as to the
8 tariff and other measures to come up for con
sdcraion, and great care will have to be
, exercised to prevent Disagreement on the de.
mocratic side 10 the House. The radicals are
ready to take all advantages and unless there is
better management then heretofore exhibited
, there will 10 trouble.
, The War Department, today has official 10.
formation Of tho surrender of the Texas rangers
, and of the killing of some of them by The
Mcxicaus.
Charges have been preferred before Com.
missioner Raum against Collector Furnell, OF
the Fourth Virginia district. tx Congressman
f Lewis Mckenzie, Of Virginia, showed them to
, the President, who promised they should be
investigated. James Wood, his first deputy
for five years, makes the charges and wants the
place.
Mr.. Boutwell, has completed new edition Of
the first volume of the Revised Statutes, and
placed it in the hands Of the Secretary of State
to day.
A colored organic alton has been formed here
under the name of the Negro American Society.
Its purpose is to consider and devise remedy
for the excessive mortality among col0rcd pa0-
pie 10 this section Of the cou0try.
A CRASH IN MID OCEAN The steamship
Oder, of tho North German Lloyd arrived yes
terday afternoon at her pier, Hoboken, N. D.,
having on board, in addition to her own passen-
gers, those of the steamer America, Of the same
line which came in collision with thu Italian
bark Ute, from Baltimore, about seven humid
red miles west of ireland on Decem Der /. Cap
tain Gu. Lest, OF the Oder, gave the following
story Of tho collision, as told him by, Captain
A. de Limon, Of the America 'OD Saturday,
December l, about q. NJ, during fresh gale
from the northwest, and clear weather and rough
SEQ, the America was stesming at her usual ra.o
; of speed, steering north northwest. Ths green
light of q bark was sighted point on the port
bow. She was sailing about east, and was evil
IDENTIFY about TO cross tho Americas bow. The
laters helm was put tarboard three POINTS, so
as to bring the green light ofthe bark two points
on the starbosrd bow. Suddenly tie bark put
her helm port and tried to cross the bow of the
America in the other direction. The Americas
engines wero at once stopped and reversed at
full speed but TOO late. Her Prov struck the
| hark hine on tho mort side. emitting into