Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-05-14
News OF clio Day

The Supreme C0uft OF CUutu CaFOiiuR uao
decided that Confederate currency was not
money, 10 legal sense, and therefore reoelV'
ing Confederate currency at It's nominal value
was not payment, iu legal sense. 10 legal CON
temptation Confederate currency was mere
commodity, used by the community as mat
ter of necessity or convenience, as medium
of exchange. 10 converting security into
Confederate currency the same rules should
have been observed as in case of barter or ex
change Of one kind Of property into another,
not having the legal character of money. 10.
vestmepts 10 lands and slaves engaged 10 their
culture we're appropriate and safe for the pur-
POSES of security. A trustee is not entitled to
commissions either at law or 10 equity when
he has been guilty Of clear breach OF trust.
The death of Prof. Henry was mentioned
in Yesterdays Gazette. For thrtytWo years
be was secretary of the Smithsonian Institute.
He was born 10 Albany, N. Y, December II,
1897. After receiving his education at the
academy of that place, he was appointed pro-
lessor of mathematics there, and began those
investigations 10 electricity which led to the IN
ycution cf Morse's electric telegraph. 10 1852
be was appointed professor of physics 10
Princeton College, New Jersey, and lecIured
there until he went to Washington. He was
,i6o attanments and Of signal virtues.
Among the resolutions introduced in the U.
is. House Of Representatives, yesterday, was
one authorizing a perpetual! loan OF forty mil
lions at four per ceut., to be used exclusively
for the erection of public buildings for the use
of the Government 10 Washington and various
cities. Among the appropriations proposed are
two millions for Boston, three millions tor
Philadelphia, three and quarter millions tor
Cincinnati, besides smaller amounts for other
Cities The object of this bill is to give work
to the unemployed.
The Senate COMM on Post Offices hos
| reported amendments to the Post Office APP.
propria,ion bill, giving mail contract to the
Pacific Mail Steamship Line, at ratio not eX'
ceedDg $50 per mile, per annuu,, tor period
of ten years. and agreed to report favorably the
| bill granting a subsidy to line of steamers
carving the United States mail from San Fran
cisco to Hong Kong; also By monthly lloc
| from San Francisco to Sidney, Australia, touch.
| Ing at the Sand wich Islands and at New z "a
land.
Washington, Mo-, Was thrown into quite an
excitement Monday from the shooting atray
?, Digs, editor of the Franklin county Oh
| Coleman, while Diggs is in quite precariOuS
condition. The encounter was caused by pub
lie remarks on one side ard personal articles on
the other.
The date Of Hunters trial at Camden, N.
j., for the murder Of Armstrong has been fixed
for Thursday. May 80. The prisoner now
evinces an anxiety to bring tho trial on at the
earliest possible moment. 1t will probably last
month, and extensive preparations are being
made.
The heirs of the late VIM. NJ. Tweed brought
suit against the kockerbocker Lite Insurance
Company to recover on policy, but New
York Judge has decided that the policy is void
on account of his leaving the country without
leave when he escaped from justice. :,
AtLexingtoD, Ky, yesterday, the mile and
half race between Ten Brock, Vera Cruz.
Aristdes, Leonard and Bill Bars. was Won by
Ten Brock by length, LEONARD ID, Vera
Cruz 8 /. Time 2:4S4.
Gov. Mccormick, u. S. Commissioner to
the Paris Exposition, has appointed DR.. War.
ren, formerly of the Confederate army medical
attache to his staff
Gen. e. P. Alexander, Gen. Lees chief Of
artillery during the last years of the war, has
been elected President Of the Georgia rail-
road.
The employees of the Pacific Mills at Law.
renee Mass, have been notified that on and
after Monday, May 9th, their wages will be
reduced from five to fifteen per cent
The wedding Of Lieut.. Richard L. Hoxie
u. S. A., Chief Engineer of the District Of
Columbia, Miss Winnie Roam, it is said, will
take place on the 2sth Of the present month.
Along the line of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad 10 northwestern Virginia ice formed
on Sunday night