Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-10-27
SeXS OF Lie Day.

William Gallagher has been Indicted at Phil
adelphia ca the charge Of corruptIng ajuror 10
the trial OF Bliss. the spITl'uaiist.
Presideot Sharp, of the lIoug Island Railroad.
was yesterday appointed receiver OF that cor
poratlcn.
The Tammapy democrats Of the Seventh Sen.
a,orial district Of New York. have nominated
Augustus Sche in opposition to John Nor
rissey.
The export of grain to Europe is very active
at Boston. All the Tonnage room OF the steam
ers saiog during November IS already eu-
gagged.
tx Congressman Sobreski Ross shot himself
on the Oath inst, at bis residence at ecu lers.
| mort, Pennsylvania He had been 10 i'll health
| for some time
The Conductors Insurance Association, 10
session at Atlanta, Ga, adopted RESOLUTION
condemniDg strikes and pledgng themselves
not to support them.
Mary Joseph Sister of Mercy, who went
| to Port Royal to nurse the sick, retur9ed to
Savannah aud died there from yellow fever con-
tracted while miuisteriug to the suffering
Thore were five new cases Of yellow fever at
Fernandina yesterday. The weather is untaVor-
;:!;!.. \ special dispatch says 1--WE are com
pelled to furnish food to eight hundred families,
| business being entirely suspended. There Is 90
other way Of keeping the people from starVa
ion, and there is no hope of better times I'll!
D .c2mber. The total deaths to date have
| been u.
A large land of Mcxioau raiders are depre
dating near Castrovillc, alb out thirty miles west
Of San Antonio. The latest news from Fort
Stockton Is that the stage between there and
| Fl Paso had been captured and the driver killed.
| Preparations arc going on quietly to relcforce
the rangers with at least one thousand men as
5000 80 the word is given. The companies
| being raised are composed for the most Tart OF
young men.
There was great excitement 10 Broadway,
New York, on Thursday. A wild steer ran a
much through that tEoroughtarc. maddened
with the ycs o! his pursuers and Tho reckless
firing Of revolvcrs at him, but was fioally
brought 10 bay aud captured without gorlng or
tcssiug anybody. But, though tho scattering
Of pedestrians saved from anything worse than
fright, lad was seriously wounded by pis.
| t.! shot.
liz Washington yesterday afternoon con-
siderable excitement was created on the corner
Of Eighth and Second streets By Miss l.. f.
| buEic cawhidiug man named Chapman.
| Chapman behaved IN an ungenlemany manner
toward Miss Dinple, and she reported his con
duet TO her father, who purchased a cOWhdc
and directed her to punish him (Chapman.)
Armed with the rawhide she waited until Chap
man made his appearance, when she laid the
blows on his shoulders thick and fast, and after
satisfying herself that she had Inflicted punish
mcnt enough, she quietly walked away and left
the vicinity.
The result of the first, second and third races
al pmlico was given 10 tho Gazette Of last even
ing The fourth was Won easily by Harpcrs'
Ten Brock, the fifth by DosWes Rappahan
mock, the sixth by George Ayres Frederick
town. Parole and Ten Brock will come TO-
cether again at Jerome Park New York, on
Saturday next November 3. the distance and
W. lights to be the same as 10 the great two and
8 hill mile race on Wednesday last at Pmlico.
| The American Jockey Club will add 50 900 to
the sweepstake Of 500 each, and % outside
bet Of SIS, 900 side between the respective OWL
ers is pending the result. A dry track is one
Of the conditions. 1t is understood that Mr..
II. p McGrath, Of Kentucky, is backlog Ten
Brock, MIR. Harper conscntiog that his horse
| shall rub.