Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-11-18
EewS OF the Day.

The celebrated Fulton fish market 10 New
York was destroyed by fire yesterday.
Ex.Mayor A. Oakley Hall this morning as
sumed the post of city editor of tho New York
"World" newspaper
A fire at Fayette, Ohio, yesterday, caused
by an explosonia drug store, destroyed that
and six other houses. The loss is estimated at
$50, 900, on which there is partial insurance.
Jacob Demits prominent farmer near Colum
bus, Ohio, was shot and fatally injured yester
day by ncighbor named ingalls,, during dis
putc about the payment OF road tax.
The police of New York to- day say there is
nothing new 10 either the Stewart body robbery
OF Manhattau Bank robbery and DO new az.
rosts of Suspicious persons have been recorded.
The Market Street Philadelphia Railway
eouspirators, John s. Morton, Sam'i. z. HUM,
John Il. Magic and George NJ. Fickars, wore
brought before Judge llaro for trial to day,
and jury was empaneilad.
| Dr. John Hamilton was arrested at Fort
Wayne, Saturday. for com plicty in the Roanoke
! grave robbcrics. This is the fourth arrest.
Others are to follow. Dr.. Reed rumalEs u Jail.
The others have given bail.
The passenger rate from Cincnuati to New
York over the Atlantic and Great Western
Road is 81. and over the PAo Handle route
| S. There are indications that there will be a
| conference among the managers to day, and tho
rates will probably be raised next Week.
| Perry Green, coorcd, barber, Of Water
town, N. j., while drunk yesterday afternoon
! had bis nose and mouth plugged with mud by
some rogues, and 10 tho evening was found
! dead from sufocsion, as it Is supposed. I've
| or three arrests have been made.
| A man gained a verdict of $500 against The
Pullman Palace Car Company, in Washington,
last Saturday, for failure to provide him Wi a
berth after he had purchased ticket This Is
regarded as test case, the car company nav
ing attempted hitherto to shift the rasp5nsi'
blity upon the railroad company.
A lively scene occurred st tho lsowery Theatre
90 Saturday, near the close OF tho play CT
| "Oliver Twist" Cetain parties crioined the
management from paying Rose Egtiage her
| salary, wher0unnn she darlineL to finish TIC
performance. 4 good daal Of excitement f3l-
| lowed, but the woman WOE; she refusal tn 81
on without her money.
| The Mormon women hel meeting ia The
theatre, at Salt Lake City last Saturday, and
passed Resolutions avoWiog their belief III tho
pariarchal order Of marriages. as revealed 10
Gods people in past ages, which, /! lived up
| to, we're conductive 10 long lite, strength and
glory. They endorsed it as oGG OF tho most
important principles of their holy religion: aed
claim the right Gifts practice.
AS Deputy Sheriff SubcLt Of Green Bay,
| Wis, was taking an insane man 10 the ss2IEu
at Oshkosh, tho latter umped from the train
at WrightstoWn, ran into the house oi q Ger
man farmer named Liska, and commenced an
ndis,riminate assault upon the farmer and his
wife aud two sors They supposed he Was a
tramp, and finally one of the sons struck the
mailman on tho head with fence rail, killing
him instantly.
The mission Of Danis kearuey to tho work,
| ngmen Of the East has proved disastrous
failure, and he leaves Boston to morrow ior
California lie regards agitation among the
aborers in Massachutts as Improbable. They
arc hopclcssly bound to the wheels Of capital,
he says, and ere so b!iod to their own iltcresia
and deceived by their enemies, that they refuse
/ to make On effort to free themselves ircm
bondage.
A project is on foot by Jay Gould and other
prominent capitalists, to build telegraph com
pany in opposition to the Western Unioo, in
which all the leading railroads except the New
York Central will be Interested. The capita
will be SlO,000,000, and the lines. will be bui!t
and in operation to all parts or the country 10
twelve months. Among telegraph officials the
scheme is thought to be q stock jobblng move
mcnt.
A lamp overturned 10 the St. Louis sleeper,
90 the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad west bound
express, Saturday night, near Cumberland,
setting fire to the curtains. There we're thirty
five passengers on the car, several of them being
ladies' and children. All escaped in their night
clothes. losing all their small baggage, money, and
| jeweIry. No one was hurt. The CIR was en-.
| tireiy destroyed. n number Of the passengers
were New Orleans refugees returning home.
A parlow car locomotive on the Philadelphia
and Reading Railroad made trip Saturday
down the Mahanoy Valley With J. II. Olanson,
superintendent of the Mahanoy and Broad
Mountain branch. At Mahanoy City the SUI
| periutendent alighted and stepped iuto the
| telegraph office. While there the boiler Of the
engine exploded, tearing the roof of the office,
severing the wires and knocking out one end OF
the depot buildings. Engineer W. L. Brocius
| was blown to pieces Jacob Trout, conductor,
had his head blown off. lie leaves vile and
| seven children. VIM. Weinreoh, aged 9; Calvin
Lutz, aged -, and Geo. Hagenbuch, aged y,
who were standing near, were also killed.
| Several others were more or less injured.
COURT OF ApPEALs.-Justis vs.. Eoglist1.
Upon petition for rehearing. Prayer of the
petitioner refused.
Cecil vs.. Wilkinson. Appeal refused by all
| the judges to decree pronounced by the Cir.
| cult Court Of Carroll county on the 10;h OF Au-
gust. 1878.
Stabler's administrator W. Irwin and ais.
Appeal refused by all the Judges to a decree
| pronounced by the Circuit Court of tie city of
Alexandria on the lst of June, 1878.
Rhea 8 executor vs.. Jordan. Appeal refused
by all the judges to decree of the Circuit
Court of Washington county, pronounced on
the 9TH of January, 1877,
Watkins vs.. English. Appeal rcluscd by
all the Judges to decree of tho Chanoery
Court OF the city Of Richmond, pronounced on
the 10th day of April, 1878.
Stern & Guy, trustees, vs.. Planters National
Bank and ais. Appeal dismissed,
Trogden vs.. Commonwealth. Argued by
John Howard for Commonwealth ard Judge
W. W. Crump for petitioner, aud continual