Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-12-06
Miscellaneous FGTeiS.. feWss

At yesterdays Liverpool Town Uounci The
Mayor announced his Intention O! meeting NJ.
Welsh, the ntw;y appointed American Minister
to Great Britain, O. his arrival at Liverpool,
a.! 1cicomIEg him TO England. lie iaVi;@d
h: snenl5efs Of tic Couaci 10 j5iu BIN.
The London striking masoDs' committee has
received inl0rm .tion that lroul enc hundred to
two hu0d;o adlitotal German iaasoas had
left Stuttgart fer i.'udon.
Il special from Rome states that TIC hands
and aims Ct the Pope src s"'ciiipg a2d that his
respiration is lat0ron5. lis mud. however,
costumes clear. The commya opinion is that
the cnd is rapidly approaching Very little
concern is showu about the p)Ii!!cai cJnscqucn.
cca OF his death. ADahcr Rome di.patch. how
ever, states that tic symptoms arc slightly
| ameorated
Il dispatch i:om Cape Town, 'ista! The Is IA
OF O;'nhcr las, says 'bat ? * fir Val has
brokru CUT in kaf:aria, On the eastern frontier
OF Cape Town and ha! 81 avaIIaU ole troops AID
| volunteers have been sent toward. Tic tc!g.
grams ~ far received from the frontier arc
vague anu cjltrsdleory, and il is impossible 10
gain from h3n1 clear dea as 10 he situation
Of affair.". III: G3vcr1rr Las S, uL q mcs=a re
to the refractory Chi! KEEL and the & varror,
| Colonial Secretary, Commissioner 0! Public
| Works and Secretary OF Naive AH:irs ere al
present 1t KEY i}l';iai;!'a TYW4, g;vi1G per-
eynal stcujii?;: t.. luA'iCrS IT. connection b
| ti2 war
Captain ,GcryI JoYcil., Ct Cuba, denies
the report that ) s;crrt order had hc2n issued
General h%r;in'Z Ca;IHos c9miuGnling all
military eli g.. Ia cause all prisoners Of Var 10
be shot and thea reported! g. having been killed
on The G.lI Of battc
Tho propTictor5 Of tho Imam steamship line
express entire confidence in the safety Of the
steamer City of Berlin, now twelve days out
from New York for QlecnsLowr and Liverpool.
FEMININE FRIENDSHIP "A roost cruel and
iendish outrage was committed by s. woman
last Wednesday in Lawrence. 4 lIss. II appears
that Mary Leary wis jeslous % Bridget dur.
ply and clticod hac into her house, rs report
hiss it. whore the Murphy woman says she wss
drugged with whiskey aud snuff and rendered
insensible. She further says she came to conz
ciousness by realizing tho mcst sgooizng pin
and found herself on tho Lesry woman's b1d
her clothing removed, and Lesry standing over
her with red hot poker, burning her exposed
flesh. Not content with this manner Of torture
the woman removed the blis.ered skin caused
by the terrible burning, and again applied the
heated iron to the rsw flesh The Murphy wo-
man, Wild with agony, sprang from tha bed and
rushed to h-r home, where she has since been u
terrible sufferer This morning tho case was
brought before Judge Harmon, and tho above
story WAS u5stlntiatcd b. Dr. Sullivan, who
attended tic injured woman, so far IS O. judy
mcnt Of the nature Of the wounds meant. The
defines WAS that the woman get drunk in the
mill md FL upon In steam pipes, but tic doc.
tor strir1 thu. the wound could have been pro-
ducrd only G7 soaring with heated iron. Inc
i,ctrt shid the jurisdiction could not Ineto Out
su Iii "icnt punishment for such dabolI cal out
rage and hp held tho prisoner for trial at the
Superior Court in he sum of SSOO.-Bost. Gl0b.