Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-02-04
News OF the Day.

General Charles Thomas. u. S. A.. died at
his residence, in Washington, last Friday, 10
the eighty. first year OF bis age.
A dispatch from Pittstou, Pa, announces
that the five thousand employees of the rem
sylvania Coal Company resume work to DAY.
James Jackson & Co., dry good merchants
of Hamilton, Ohio, have been forced in.o
bankruptcy. Liabilities, 100000; assets
about $50 600.
Adyices from Jefferson, Ohio, yesterday,
represent that Hon. 3. F. Wade Is slowly re-
covering from bis illness, and the prospect DOW
is that he will recover.
O'Lcary, the pedestrian. has accomplished
at Cincinnati his task of walking four hundred
miles in one hour and forty minutes less than
the time fixed.
Miss Mckee, who shot Constable McEl'l'
gott while he was levyiDg on her gooos TO sat-
isfy Judgment, has been tried for man
slaughter at Chicago and acquitted by the Jury
The Hipckley Locomotive Works. Boston,
have suspended. Liabilities $500, 900; assets
s35OOOO. A committee has been appointed
to help the firm tide over their trouble.
William NJ. Price & Co., wholesale tobacco
merchants of New York, one OF the Oldest
houses ia the trade, suspended Saturday on
account of losses by recent failures and dcprc'
citation Of real estate.
The wife of French Canadian laborer in the
village of St. Benoit, county of Two Mountains,
about thirty miles west of Montreal, has given
birth to pair of children united together like
the Siamese twins. Both mother and infants
are doing well.
A dispatch from Yanktou reports that eight
hundred of Red Clouds Indians have left the
agency and gone North, and that all the fight
ing bucks will cut loose 10 the spring and iol
low the same trail. Spotted Tails Indians are
making preparations that indicate similar In
tention.
MIR. Corcoran has recently purchased anc
presented the art gallery which bears his name
10 Washington, Bierstadt's large painting Of
Mount Corcoran," which has hung for some
time past 10 the southeast room. The price
paid is not stated, but it is believed to be some
where in the neighborhood Of $40, 900.
Over s25O,O0O damage was dono to thu
handsome summer cottage district OF LODE
Branch by Thursday gale, and, with the ex
ception Of the Rowland House, not one OF the
large hotels escaped. Between tho Highlanc
station and Seabright the waves have cleared
the narrow belt of sand separating the oceat
aud the Shrewsbury river, and upon which tht
New Jersey Southern Railway runs, and thu
break forms wide and deep inlet. All rail
! road travel Oh the Southern has been abandon
ed. and hundreds of laborers are making at
tempts to ill up and repair the washout.
A bill has been introduced in the Maryland
Legislature providing for the establishment O
the boundary line between Maryland and Viz
GINA as determined by the arbitrators. L
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| missiouers 90 behalf of the State. to act 10 con
cert with commissioners appointed by Virginia
aud with power to employ competent surveyor
or surveyors. The duty Of the commissioner
is to run out the boundary line as determined
| by the arbitrators, and erect suitable monu
ments or landmarks at Smiths Point, at Wat
kins' Point, and OF such other places as they
may deem advisable, aud to place buoys a
such points 10 Tangier Sound and such othe
waters passed by the boundary line as they ma!
deem expedient.