Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-04-01
ALEXANDER RIA GAZETTE
News OF the Day.

lQe GuleYeS WIN elO JULIUS llom tue oLnoe
of j. II. Young, in New York, worth $780,
900, last January, and were arrested last week
10 Petersburg, were a!raigned in New
York, Oh Saturday, and we're committed to
the Tombs. They seem to have pockets iuil
of money, and. say they will employ lhe best
legal talent and make strong tight tor &C
qulttal.
Curtis, alias Day. charged With outraglng
Ella Tydiugs, at the National Hotel, 10 Wash
iugton. was on Saturday last granted new
trial, Judge Wylie deciding that the introduce
ton of newspaper into the Jury room was I'm
proper and had tendency to influence the
Jurors 10 arriving at verdict. The date OIL
the new trial has been set down for the 22d OF
April.
j. r. p Mechin, clerk in the War De-
partment in Washington, at salary of 81, 6OO
per year and respectfully connected, has been
arrested for whipping, kicking, knocking down
aud inhuman'y treating bis four motherItss
daughters; for such cruelty that they ran away
from their home, and one of them was driven
| to desperation aud attempted suicide
The store of ]. S. Jamisson & Co., at West
ernport, Nd, was entered by burglars about
| two O'Clock Saturday morning. They pie"
open the fro proof safe and stole therefrom
| United States bonds, promlssory notes, and
cash, to the amount of $4,000. Three men,
suspected Of the crime, were arrested at Graf'
| tor, West Virginia, yesterday.
The operatives Of the Methuen julie mills, al
Lawrence, Mass, TO the number OF two hun'
dred, struck work this morning. Il short tlme
ago wages we're reduced since which time the
operatives state they have been obliged tc
double work for less wages. The mill has shut
down. The strikers are quite denonstrauVe.
Samuel Clark. convicted of the murder OIL
John Lee, alias Jack Cash, in Washington, o. was
90 Saturday last, sentenced to be hung on Fri
day, April 26th, between the hours Of ii and
| o'clock, but the sentence was set aside to day
in CONSEQUENCE of motion for an appeal.
John Morrissey, while on bis way to Albany
to be sworn in as member of the New \ ORR
Senate, was taken sick again in consequence
of the excitement occasioned By the grounding
of the boat, had to be landed, and it is thought
cannot now recover.
The jury in the case Of John Barage, trlec
| ia the Baltimore City Criminal Court, las
week, fer the murder of his BROTHER brought
! iu verdict of murder 10 the second degree OF
Saturday.
Among the prizes offered at the dog show, il
Baltimore, is handsome oil painting-game
piece-preseDted by Reuben Johnston, artist
value, $50.
| 1t is said that there are about 30 900 men il
| Baltimore seeking for days work at the pres
ent time, aud that such distress Was never sc
general.
Cumberland, Nd, is about to have Law
prohibiting all boys under sixteen years OF age
from lettering on the streets after eight o clock
| in the evening.
Eighty 6ye failures were reported 10 New
York during the mouth of March, with liablli
ties amounting to $7,177.326.
The PROT works at Lowell. Mass, were
stopped on Saturday, throwing three hundred
employees out of employment.
They are catching crabs in the waters abou
| Crs6eld. Ooe man caught 1900 in one day
| there last week.
Albert L. Church, Professor of Ma:hemstic!
at the West Point Military Academy, dice
suddenly 90 Saturday evening.
Baltimore Is TO have dry dock at Fort Nc
Henry.
Eggs are now selling in Chestertovn. Mary
| land, as low as seven cents per dczeu.