Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-11-04
News OF the Day.

The Brazilian Minister at Washington invites
proposals fer lighting tic city Of Rio Dc Janero
with gas.
It is understood thst Georgetown h:igbts
has been selected as the site fer tbs new naval
observatory.
Charles Knox, tie famous batter Of New
7 ork, has made an assignment. Ills liabilities
ore stated at $4,000.
Among The passengers who arrived ct New
York yesterday from Liverpool, were Baron
Blanc, Italian Minister to the United States,
and Baroness B:anc.
James H. Bundy, wealthy colored farmer.
living near Terre Haute, Iod., was murdered
last Saturday night, but it is rot hcralded as
"noEthern outrage"
Sergeant James a. Swift and L:roy E. Sc.
bEae, Of the signal service corps, have been
com nissloDed as second lieutcrsnts under the
act OF Juae 20. 1878, on account OF good COZ
due. ard faithful ssrvice.
Hon. Samuel j. Tilden has given $3.50 to
| the great Catholic fair now 10 progress 10 New
York, and Hoo. Fernando Wood has given
$lOO for the same object. The receipts OF tho
fair so far aggregate $50, 600.
Conrad kapr, WHO has been boot on starving
himself to DEATH 10 ke0kuk, Iowa, Was seized
ani held while beef tea was for,ed into bis
stomach. Thc operation has been repeated,
and tbero is DOW hope of saving his life. tic
vas without food or water for 81 days.
Captain Pratt left Sioux City yesterday with
forty Dioc Indian children gathered from the
agencies up the Missouri river, for Hampton,
| Va, where the children will DE placed at school
at The government expense. TIE age OF the
children averages about fifteen years.
The schooner Hattie Z. Dow, Of Boston,
struck wreck two miles northeast of Iiatteras
Shoals, n. c., Thursday hight, aud sunk 10
TWO hours. Captain N. Il Nickcr5ou, the
crew CT s5ven and one woman took to the boat
and landed ct O,rakoke, after being oil night
st sea.
The Board Of NJ. j.. Missions met again 10
New York, to- day, with Bishop Harris 10 tho
chair. 1t was stated that the total amount ap'
propriated for foreign missions vas $272. ia.
Tie sum Of $4,000 was appropriated for Ia.
cdecta expenses and $4,000 fJr Office c2pea-
s,a
Jeremiah ksuneday, ca trial at Chicago for
nurleriog his wife, las been iouad guilty, and
bis punishment fixed for death; but the jury
us, found that since the murder be has become
;3sale. la will be aeut 10 tko insane asylum,
aai On bis recovery his execution will take
plac:.
Saturday the banking house O. Sheets CoWe0
& Co., Ct Bcl!arc, Ohio, made au assignment.
Iisch member Of the firm assigned bis property,
rea! aud personal. to pay tie debts Of the su5.
pended bank. The banks liabilities are about
$05, 900. H. 3. Co77ep, of the firm, WGs for
mc1y Secretary OF the Interior under President
Graut.
Andrew p Anderson IVES arrested 10 Boston,
yesterday, on charge Of manslaughtcr, II ha7'
log caused the death of Betsey Renado, whom
be assaulted on tic 18th OF October. She was
his RasherRoman, and lot having bis clothes
ready when be called for them, he assaulted
her, from the effects of which she died last
Monday.
Dispatches from Sedalia, No., say Thomas
, 6. Cocktail, nephew Of United States Senator
| CockrelI, was found murdered les: Friday morn.
ing in Tie store Of n. f. Stotts, at Ridge Prai.
ric, Saline county. His skull was crushed iu
three place and throat cut. The suppostloo
is be was murdered by tramps during Thurs
| day night, as the victims pocket aud moacy
drawer Of the store had been rifed. Mr.. Cock
roll was clerk 10 the store aud slept there.
jacob Lazarus who had been in the employ CT
Louis Tiuckeimeyer, eReler, of John street,
New YORK, was found dead in bis bed yesteE-
day morning. Il bullet wound 10 the head,
and rifle discovered lying across the bed indi,
cate that the young man had taken his own
life. Lazarus learned that be was suspected of
embeZzling $10O from his employer, AID sud
denly disappeared His accounts have been
found wrong, and it is evident that the emb:z-
elements reach ever $500.
Extraordinary interest has been excited in
Baltimore By the divorce suit Of John D.
k7emelbcrg VS.. Gertrude j. kreneIberg,
nee Miss JeDk!rs, and the decree granted
last week by Judge GiInor, giving to
the complainant an absolute divorce, has pro.
duccd decided sensation in society circles.
Dir. Krcmelbcrg is wealthy merchant, and
his wife vas one Of the most brilliant aud beau
.l!u debu:a1tes in Baltimore society few years
ago. She is only about 2S, ADD preserves oil
thos, charms which in her youth brought hosts
Of admirers to her feet.
A Dispatch from Laramie. Wyoming says ::
Last night the coach driver from the north re-
ported that on his trip north from here CO
Friday night he was stopped at the Platte
River ford by five masked men, who took from
the coach two prisoners, Mansfield and Nc
| Laughlin, and hung them On large cottonwood
tree on the river bank. These men were charg-
ed With road agency, add had been 10 custody
| in Cheyenne, and wero en- route for Dcsdwood
under guard Of Jim May and Jesse Brown,
whom the lynchers compelled to give up their
arms and surrender their prisoners.
y dispatch from Keokuk says it has been
discovered that A. Mackey, of that city, he's
been receiving bodies Of recently buried people.
graves having been robbed at Beacon. Iowa,
and the bodies barreled and shipped. Two
barrels were consigned to Mackey on Thursday,
| but the railroad agent being suspicious, opened
one and found the body of John Hynes, who
had been recently buried near Beacon. Mackey
Was arrested, but declares that be is innocent.
His assertion is diSoredited, as, under his dl.
rcoions, the first barrel was taken to the med
zeal college at Kcokuk. where it still remains
| The college authorities disclalm any knowledge
! Of the source from which the barrel came.
| Illness of Jefferson Davis and Wife.
A private letter from an intimate and dear
friend of Ex.President Davis written at Beau
voir informs US that for some months past Mrs