Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-08-14
From Washington.

Especial, DISPATCHES TO TIE GAZETTE
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-THE Cable ct held
to-day the list reSu ar session il will H"'d 'ot
ten days, ard the meetog promises to oe
lengthy ont. There was some talk by Mr,
Owens oftbc method by which the poll2S
should be explained to the New England re
publicaps who will interview the President
during the trip North. No action was taken
INDIAN WAR.
The following from Gen. Sheridan was re
ceived at the War Department this mornlog:
CHICAGO. Aug. l3. 1877.
To E. L. Iownsend. Washington. d. g..
have every reason to believe that Colonel
Gibbon has had substantial SUCCESS, and l.
take pleasure iI commencing the courage OF
Col. G. AMI his small command. They have
inflicted a severe, II not disastrous. punishment
on the hostile Mes Perces The reports that
he has lost his trains are untruthful.
p. II. SHERIDAN,
Lieutenant General. :
THE MEXICAN WAR.
Gen. Sheridan also forwards to The War
Department from Chicago the following from
Gen. Ord, giving the official account OF the re-
cent capture Of Mexican revoutlonlsts and the
recapture OF horses from notorious raoohe -
CHICAGO. Aug, 8, 1871.
10 Gen. f. f. 7ovnsend. Washington u. -:
The following dispatch from General Ord Is
respectfully forwarded :-SchoGeld, Fort Dun,
can, telepraphs that he struck small camp Of
Mexican rcvoIu,iouists shortly alter sunrise
on the morning Of the 9Th inst. and took
what there was in il, namely: Fcrtytour
men and forty three horses. lie found very
few arms. They woro regularly organized COM
panes under Valdez. Only two officers were
captured. Tha others were absent at Laredo or
San Antonio. deputy U. ;; Marshal was
with mo. hold the prisoners at the fort tor nm.
Lieut.. Bulls surrounded notorious thievlng
ranch few miles in Mexico on the morning Of
tho 4th instant, where Shafter had notification
tn at stock recently stolen was secreted. lie got
five American horses-two of them taken from
Brock short time ago. No one was
hurt-not shot lrod. lie returned 10 this side
Yesterday at noon.
=. II. SHERIDAN, Llent. Gen.
APPOINTMENTS
Robert Kennedy, OF Raleigh. is appointed
revenue gauger and store.keeper 10 inc atm LIS
trict OF North Carolina.
George K. harrington is appointed ganger IN
the frat and Henry w. Flick gaugsr in the third
pialrict Of Alabama
TREASURY DEPARTMENT..
The revenue received by the United States to.
i ~ is as follows :-Customs 1927 ?2} 81 Internal
Revenue $a85 1876
The MoFFETT REGISTERS. Judge Hughes
has fixed upon September 4th, al Alexandria,
for the hearing Of the case Of the Liquor Deal
ers' Association vs.the State Of Virginia and the
NIoffett repisera, aud m Injunction restraints
Ill parties from making, operating, or distribut-
ng said registers 10 the mean time. Gen. Field
and Senator Grimsley, OF Culpeper, counsel for
Mr., johnson, the contractor for the make OF
he machines and for the State, have gone to
Norfolk to move Judge Hughes 10 dissolve the
Injunction at once or until such order is made
10 Increase the bond of complainant, which is
now bnt $4,000.
The invention said to he inlringed was pat
sntel By ono Vincent Fountaino while the Leg.
stature was discussing the Moffett bill, and the
right Tor Virginia was purchased by ID. Il.
! uenping, proprietor of the James River Brew.
cry, with the view OF testing the bill. Fount-
ainc claims
In an apparatus for registering and indicat.
np fares, aud adapted to be carried ia the hand,
A shaft moved by the direct application Of the
hand, provided. with worm meshing into q
suitable wheel, and there by communicating mo-
lion to the mechanism which carries tho IN
1exes, aud a!so provided with 40 arm, which
operates the bell hammer.
"2. In the described apparatus the rotating
shaft worm thereon operating 10 lmpart motion
through proper gearing to the indexes, and the
hammer filters in combination with the pawl
md ratchet on the said shaft, as set FORTH"
The Patent Office Examiner refused Mofett
and Deane q patent. The applicants then ap
neulel TO the Board Of Examiners, and they
rendered the following decision -
THE device in controversy ia registering
and alarm apparatus OF simple construction, con-
sistiug Of crank shaft operating an ordinary
train of index gears such as arc used In gas
meters and having a lug acting on spring
hammer ooce for every revolution. There is
no substantial novelty in this style Of register
The Fountain reg lister. cited in reference,
shows full anticipation of it, tho difference OF
arrangement and sz, pointed out being colora.
bic, not substantial, variations. The decision
of tho Examiner in rejcotng the case lack OF
patentaJle novelty is affirmed.
III. II. BATES,
''R. l.. B. CLARKE.
Examiners 10 Chief.
Three Washington experts depose. in papers
which were before Judge Hughe. when the in
junction WAS granted, that the Moffett register
is An Infringement upon Fountains.
Notwithstanding these serious draw backs, the
State officers and DR.. Modott are sure that they
will get the injunction dissolved if they can but
have an early hearing before Judge Hughes,
The Auditor is not authoriz ID to use any other
style Of register. Thore are plenty that he
could buy If he we're so authorized But the
law requires Moffstps and none other to be used
The Hartford Alarm Register Company have
instruments that would do admirably and cou' d
be purchased, but without legislative authority
:he Auditor cannot move foot in that direction
The only hope of the Auditor now 10 in Judge
Hughes dissolving the Injunction. Dispt
The CHARGES AGAINST COLLECTOR Rus
SELL. Special Ageut Webster, Of the Treas
ury Department, arrived here yesterday morn