Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-03-02

The "biack board brokers' Offices in New
York city arc to be deprived Of the use OF the
instruments of the Gold and Stock Board Ten
graph Company. which. it is supposed will
break up The gambling carried on 10 puts and
calls. There are liz Of these shops 10 New
| York, each Of which paid rectal Of $500 iog
the use Of The Instruments
4 dispatch from Pokeepsie. n. Y, says
One freight train ran into another at 1l7Oll,
this morong throwing two cars toto the river.
The c4boose was destroyed and al unknown
MAD, supposed to be Yonker's potato dealer,
was thrown iut0 the river and drowned. The
| body was recovered.
TIE Philadelphia and Reading Coal and
Iron Company 6ges the price of Goa for March,
delivered % board vessels at Port Richmond,
as follows Lump. s. 81 steamboat. 1926;
broken, So 25aS3.75; egg. $325aS3.75; stove,
So 50aS3 rs; chestnut, 50. 5aS3.o5; pea, 1926.
A special from Marion, Ala, says Albert
Youog, Robert Jones, Silas Wright and Luclus
Porter, all colored, were hanged yesterday for
the murder of Isaac D. Moore, white, in lS1G.
All protested their innocence Of the crime and
expressed willingness to die.
| The Boston Daily Globe is to become dem.
ocratc paper, uoder he management Of Edwin
g. Bailey, formerly Of the Boston Herald. Ed
win NJ. Bacon, the editor in chief Of the Globe,
| retircs.
In the House Of Representatives, yesterday,
Mr.. Huuton presented the petition OF the pub
li4hers OF the lions Advocate, Front Royal,
| Va. praying tho abolition Of the duty % type,
which was referred.
The postofice at Port Deposit was broken
open Thursday night, and from so to S25 IL
small change and S. to S. 10 stamps stolen,
The letters we're Rot disturbed.
4 special from 81. Louis says that Mariz
| keyser, his wife aud six children were burned
to death by the explosion OF can OF coal oil at
Fish Landing, Ill.,, last night.
DIED CANE John VIM. Daniels was hang
cd at Warrsusburg Mo-, yesterday, for the
murder Of Jesse Il. Miller 10 February, 1877,
and thousands of spectators gathered to witness
/ the scene. Daniels walked firmly up the steps
Of the acaffold, and stood erect, looking firmly
upon The drop. Sheriff Emerson said by
| request OF the prisoner no prayers or remarks
will be made. lie wishes the people to under.
stand that he lived like man and he would like
| q soldier The trap was sprung. and Daniels
shot through it with a thud In ten minutes
| he vas pronounced dead Daniels was convict
ed on circumstauiia evidence. lie had hired
| to Mr.. Miller with his team to 20 to johnson
county. They left February 20, 1877, aud on
the 24sh Daniels returned to his home, having
in his possession tho team and effects, claiming
to have bought cut Miller, who had taken q
sudden notion to 20 to Colorado. Nlller's body
was subsequently, found on the bank OF Big
Cedar Creek, few miles from Sedalia. His
throat was cut and skull fractured in several
places. Evidence showed that the two men
were together on the night of the 22i; and on
the morning Of the 231 Daniels drove away
from their camping place alone.
THE POSTAL SAVINGS BANKs.--A majority
of the Committee of the United States House
of Representatives on Banking and Currency
have determined to report favorably on the
bill providing for the issue of 36j per cent.
postal savings bonds. The bill enables any
holder of lawful money to deposit in any postal
money order Office OF the United States not
less than twenty-five cents at any one time, and
when the sum shall reach ten dollars
the postmaster shall issue. free Of charge, o
transferable postal order for the amount 90 the
treasury, receivable in exchange for United
States bonds bearing interest ut tho rate of G5
per ct. aud exempt from all taxation, which
bonds may be exchangeable for US. notes, with
interest, the postal orders to be also redeemablc
10 currency. A specinl Issue of treasury notes,
legal tender for all debts except duties on i'm
ports and payment Of interest on the public
debts provided for 10 the amount of ten per ct.
Of the postal money orders and postal savings
bonds outstanding, until such special issue
reach $50, 1000, 900. which shall be used ezcu,
sively in the redemption Of the postal savings
bonds