Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-10-29
News OF fEac DIy.


retrrocd true bill against j. Cass Carpenter,
late Revenue Collector for The District 81 South
Carolina; for forgery 10 two Instances, aud Tor
raising, alteriog AID ErlOtlDg warrants a uros
the treasury. A true bill was also iound against
Robert Smalls, the co!cred Congressman from
the fifth South Carolina district, for accepting
b1ibc OF $4,000 to vote for the passage OF
fraudulent printing appropriation rass2d at ne
time Smas was State Sera:or. The Lcs!sl:-
tive Investigating committee is still 10 session,
AID has procured over fifty witnesses to Fat
ttrson's bribery Of members OF the L,glsla,
ture at The time of his election as Senator, enc
also in his connection with the Blu, EidGe
Railroad sWindle From the testimony given
by ex members of the Legislature, it appears
that Patterson paid them sums ranging iron
500 to $1,000, according lo their lrilu 2Gcr,
to secure his election.
A dispatch from Indianapolis says The con
ditioo CT Senator Morton is not 50 hopeful as
it has been fer a week past. His stomach has
retained nothing that has been taken lDto 1t tor
the past twenty four Leu. sald as a consequence
he has grown weaker. lie has been kept up
10 fact By the administration cf oplateS and
nutritious aid by hypcrdcrmic process. Ills
attending physician, DIR. Thompson, does not
thirk there is any probability Ct his immediate
DEATH yet it is evident that he caoDot last long
unless there is a change in the coudl!l0c OF his
stomach. A Washington dispatch says that
DR.. Bliss, who returned yesterday from Sen
ator Morton's bedside, holds out 10 encourage
ment whatever for bis recovery. lie says that
the Senator digestive organs are not perform
ing any functions aud that it has been found
necessary to adopt heroic treatment and sustain
bis life by byrodsrrlc iriectiOus Of cod liver OIL
Benjamin +. Mussey died yesterday at Nor
wich Falls. Con-. from Q blow Inflicted by
Louis a. Browen, girl aged twenty, with a
base ball bat She acknowledged giving the
blow, having discovered him in her slccl''oG
room and supposed he was burglar The Girl
and the woman she was sleeping with arc
under arrest.
10 matter Of people vs.. r. 3. Connolly, ring
fugitive, n New York, counsel to day agreed
to have struck jury for trial Of issues On the
first Monday Of November in the SUPREME
Court. Samuel D. Babcock tticm. and " %.
Orion (rcp.) were uamed rs eisors ard they
are to select the day for drawing struck ju'y.
The barrel makers Of Pi!tsburg have reduced
the price cf barrels ten cents, aud The wages Of
the coopers f7e cents Since this reduction
was announced Nv, cooper shops ard & stable
Melvin was arrested for attempting to fire an
other house aol is COW 10 custody.
Yuoo Detses was prob,by fatally stabbat in
a fight 10 an Italian boarding house, 10 New
York, yesterday. Frarchi pAlamasa and
Istheta Careesa we're arrested. All sic Italians.
The two arrested declare that VincaDio Bori
face, who escaped, did the deed with table
knife.
Joseph Williams and James Donovan, mcuj.
bcrs of Engine Company NJ. 9. in Fulton
street. n. T., qualr:led 10 the c0sinc house
yesterday, aud Donovan stabbed Williams, who
is reported to be in a very dangerous condition.
Donovan was arrested.
The large boa constructor in the New lo.k
aquarium has just given BIRTH to fifty small
boas-an occurrence without precedent IL hi;
country. The family is kept in 8 large glass
box. The mother is thirteen feet, aud hcr
young are about two feet ln length.
Tue trial Of Nicholas Darby charged wiki
stoppiug trains % the Central Railroad at Eliza
beth Station, N. j., ADD threatening 10 shoot
the engineers during the late strike, was com
meDoed this morning.
John Toughin and James Morrissay aged
Is and Is respectively. yesterday annoyed 4
canal boat captaia at Paterson, n. j., 10 such
an exteot that be shot them with 3 shot gun
wouodiDg both severely. The captain escaped
The house of Mrs. MeCulloush, at Erie,
Pa, was buroed yesterday moroin, and her
cbarred remains were fOuod 10 the ruins. She
was alone, and was intoxicated the evening
before.
Mrs. EIiz,aeth Thompson, the distinguished
philsnthropist and millionaire. has been elected
president Of the New York Liberal Club, Tor
merly presided over by Horace Greeley,
Winchester Gracssm, clerk il the Comp
troer's office at Columbia, S. G., jumped from
the rear platform of railroad car, when two
miles from Augusta, yesterday, and was killed.
A fire this morning destroyed large tcnc-
ment house, and Injured other property, in
Augusta, Ca, Loss $4,000.
The members of the Railroad Conductors
Association, numbering about $50, spent Sua
day in Augusta, Ca, and left for Charleston.
Geo. Reynolds was probably fatally stabbed
by an unknown man in Forsyth street, =. y,
last night
Edwin Adams, the tragadan, died in phiia-
delphia yesterday.
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