Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-12-24
sH,EEvog OF THE .DG 4.

nave Deeu DuiiI Ill 1One InS PtS
l. is reported thst Cbi,f Moses and several
of his chosen warriors have beon tsken i'iison-
ers by the Yakima volunteers.
Witnesses are arriving every day 10 New Or
leans to Law before tbs United States grand Jury
stories of their political grievances.
The Hudson river is obatructed With Ice, and
ct Poughkeepsie is frozeu from shore TO shore.
though the ferry boats are still ru1slag
Tho New York Sun points out The tact that
no Senator even succeeded 10 securing theErcsl'
denoy es long as he rouIaaed IN the Sonate.
In ENGLAND tho practicabiIity of Iighiog
railroad track throug hout its entire extent 81
the electric light il being expermedcd.
The Blaine investigating oomnittcc have de-
clded to 20 South to morrow night, to LOOK
over the field" aud consult With those who
have knowledge Of frauds.
The snowfall ia northern New York is said 10
be the heaviest experierc ed since 1871. Rall~
road travel is seriously impedcd, aud DO CON
necton was made west Of Rochester nor with
Niagara Falls.
Robert Fox, the keeper Ct q variety theatre
ia Philadelphia, had a full dress rehearsal on
Sunday evening, and yesterday he was arrc8tc!
for violation OF the Sunday Law, keepiog dis
orderly house and selling liquor.
The Manhattan Savings Bank Of New York
has been restrained from paying cut any OF the
funds of the bank at present. The bank super
intendent fDda however, that even should the
institution lose all the negotiable securities
stolen it will still have on January /, p surplus
of over 100000,
A gang of roughs took possession OF . Third
| avenue car in Nav York yesterday. Oae Grew
| revolver, intimiGatlng the passengers, and
causing several ladies to rush outside IN alarm.
The officer who was called upon to arrest the
| desperadoes declined, saying it was mono OF his
business. The rufisns left Immediately.
| Tho statue of Charles Sumner, by Thomas
Ball, made 10 accordance with resolution CT Z
Faneuil Hall meeting 10 March, 1874. was IN
yelled in the Public Garden, near tho Boysson
street mall, in Boston, yesterday. Governor
| Rice performed the ceremony, 10 the presence
of some 300 persons.
! Ia the state of New York II $50 families are
now living in log cabins Of other dwellings
sos, OBI are built Of wood, 1920 OF brick and
Isis of stone. Moro than one half OF all
these cost less than $4,000 apiece; more than
one third less than S 900, and T. l64 less than
$50 each.
The colorcd man Davidson, who confessed to
hsviog aided Gillespie also coIored. to murder
| W. 6. Fowler, respected young merchant ct
Moorsville, N. c., was captured from the sher'
if and his posse By crowd fifty or sixty whit:
and ooorad men on the road to States7li!e, ca
the 2lst instant, and carried off aud hanged.
The settlement of the Yellowstone Valley j:
said by the surveyor general to be astoDlshlasiy
rapid, more than three hundred farms aud
ranches having already been located bctgeer
Benson laEdlog and Tongue river. Large veg
etable crops have been grown thCTe, Rth1u:
irrigation, the present year, aad sralu RhItc7eE
planted has done tquai:y wall.
The gold value OF the exports OF the United
States for The nine months ending Sepletnbe!
so. 1878, was S523,45S,02j while the gold
value of imports for the same period OF mac
was 1915 $50, $40. The exports show gallo
over the corresponding period of 1877, amount
ing to $l06. 2,607; the imports show re-
duction for the same time amounting Il
$42 540.Sl5.
A desperate and serious encounter with PiS
tolls occurred yesterday 10 a store ia baltimore,
| hatwean two you og mon onn,ol ID. 4. HihdI
and William James, ir which several pistol
shots were exchanged ap9 both badly wounded.
Kinds was shot 10 the left tcG,ple and bis right
hand was shattered, aud James received two
balls from Kinds pistol. one in tho left SIDE
and another 10 the left arm. Kinds is & clerk
10 well known wholesale cloth house. Tie
affair, it is said, had its orisia 10 attentions paid
BIZ Kinds 10 sister OF James.
The Secretary of State hes raos;ved from
Consul General Adam Bldeau at London pa,
pcr rurporting to be list Of the crew OF the
steamer Edgar H., which waa found 10 1 bottle
picked up 10 the river South E;k, Tasalanla,
Van Dieman's Land. 1t states that the vessel
Was in dire distress. water logged, ha7log Geer
10 collision With large vessel. Two Q: Ehe
crew were dead, boats damaged aud fires drowG.
ed out. 1t il sigoed by George \. Otmey,
captain, and &. NJ. kinchep, iifst mate, is dated
October 2lst, 1878, and coocludes with "Sehd
help
Another great diamond robbery has been
perpetrsted in the Palais Royal, 10 Paris. Five
jewelers. assistants who have hsen concerned
in it have fed aud no trace Of them can be
found. The missing jewels are estimated at
s50,000,000. FontaiDe is the principal vclm.
| Ii he does not recover the stolen properly he
| will be obliged to give up his seat near Ra5-
bouilIet, be having this year experienced other
heavy losses IL was Fontaino who supplied 10
Victor Hugo the tear Of purest Wafer which
The poet dropped o., or rather loto, the hand
of Mile Sarah Bernhardt.
A CHRIsTMAs SERMoN.-Hard times make
soft hearts. If it were not 60 how empty life
would be of happiness and the importuDate
stomach ofvictuals! Weremember several years
in which financial tightness and Christmas came
together, and also that the phenomena develop
| ed BY this conjunction were alWsys charming
| There are the poor for instance. What mis-.
cradle world this you'd be With no poor ia
III Nothing but one Tat monotoaous tlsesome
thora! Everybody absurdly comfortable! How
are we 10 experience The thrill of giving with
nobody to give to? How to clotho the naked, if
there are no naked to clothe? How to feed tho
hungry, if there are no hungry to feed? Thus
we see that under the benign influences Of tho
season. the hard up and the helpless are trans
mogrifed into public benefactors. Your real
pauper is the man who can lind nobody who
| wants anything or who will accept anything
| Moreover, what credit is there in being gener-
| Gus in flush times What s gift worth which
! implies no self sacrifice? We understand that
there is no lack now of cases Of real distress;
| widows needy, orphans jus: as hungry as the
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