Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-02-19

Be,iauin Popsley, colored man, commit
ted an ASSAULT upon Miss Matte Kane, of Lin
coin Station, Chester county, Pa, Saturday
evening leaving her 10 dying condition. Miss
Kane is young lady OF ninetceD years OF age.
She was formerly of Philadelphia, but has been
living 1T Lincoln Station for some time. Sat
urdag evening" upon Ter return from the store,
where she had been for provisions she was met
BY PonsIey, who struck her over the head and
telled her 10 the grouod with club. Having
accomplished his purposes. be dragged his vic
tim for Two hundred yards through the woods,
with The intention Of throwing her into well,
but became frightened before carrying out his
intention. The body was discovered and the
poor girl was taken to her home, but cannot
live. PoDsley was placed uuder arrest and
made full confession.
Yesterday morning two hundred mixers,
headed by two brass bands, left Homecoming and
marched down TO the mines CT the FranElln
and Hampshire and Baltimore Companies. 10
cndeavor to persuade tho men there, who are
digging coal for forty cents. to hold out Tor nj:
ty. By the time they reached there the crowd
numbered nearly thousand. A mass meeting
was held and resolved that delegates of WORK
Jog miners meet committee of the mass meet
Jog at IIonacouiug at noon to-day TO discuss the
question. Some miners of the American Com
pany, also working for forty cents, were request
cd to send delegates. 1t is not known ii they
| will do it.
The body of Jennie Moore was found yes
terday in the Passaic, near Newark, N. }.
She disappeared from Belleville in Christmas
week. She had been keeping company with
New York gentleman, who is forty five
years DID, They were to have been married
early in December, but the ceremony was de
layed by her illness. lIer lover called at her
homc and remained late. Fifteen minutes after
he went away she threw shawl over her hebd
and went out. She did not return.
The u. s. Senate has confirmed the follow
ipg nominations: Alfred V. Dockery, of North
Carolina, 10 BIO United States consul at Leeds;
John @ Smith, Of Ohio. to be consul genera
of the United States at Montreal; Benz. D.
Spooner. United States marshal for Indiana
collector of customs, John T. Collins, for the
district of Brunswick Ga. ThePfeeident sent the
following nominations to the Senate yesterday:
John B. rockingham, VIM. Kent and James
| q. Howard, TO be assistant appraisers OF mcr
chandise for the district of New York.
The Nevada Bank will open branch bank
in New York in few weeks. Its principle
business is in bullion, foreign exchange, chiefly
London and Government bonds, and it is ALSO
lutely necessary that an agency should he cs
| tabIished 10 New York. The capital Ct the
bank is $40, 600, 900. The Nevada Bank is the
institution that proposed to take $50. 600, OOC
Of the new issue of four per c,nts at the time
the late syndicate was formed at percentage
of per cent. below 9sl. The syndicate dc
cined the offer.
A widow in New York, whose little son Of
eight years was much given to lylog, put
FOOLS cap on bis head, 90 which was written
10 large letters, This Boy is an lnvcterac
Liar" and compelled him to stand 90 the front
steps Of her house all one Sunday morning,
while people were passing to and from church,
exposed to the gGz, and the riba|dry OF every
passer.
The steamer CITY Of Dallas. which arrived
yesterday at New York from Fcrnabdina Flor
| ida, caught fire in the dock. and was towed out
10 the stream to prevent the fire from commu.
nicating to other vessels. The hremen poured
streams of water into her hol1, and she was
sunk about midnight, cxlinguishicg the lire.
She had five hundred bales of cotton 10 her
hold.
Df. Henry c. Moss, of Vcnic,, ILL.,. was as.
sassinated at his homo about one o'clock on
Monday morbiop. lie had arisen to take some
medicine, when. seeing two men looking
through tho window, he opened the door to
sec what they wanted, aud was Immediately
shot dead. There is no clue to the murdercrs.
In New York. yesterday, Joseph p. Wall,
who kicked his wife to death, was sentenced to
| fifteen years Imprisonment. The Judge ad-
viscd the prisoner 10 bring suit against the
parties who sold him liquor and sue for dam
| ages for the support OF his children, now de-
prived of all protection.
Judge Sands, of the Louisville Supreme
Court. was so drunk 90 tho bench that he
would have fallen off if he had not been carried
from the room. Tie has resigned 10 conso-
1ucuce of the public exposure of his weakness.
Operations were resumed 10 the Lehigh
coal region yesterday, and will be continued for
the present week, when another suspension
will take I,lacc.