Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-03-20
News OF the Day.


the night of the 18th. The express car was
taken possession of and the mail pluDdered, land
EXPRESS messenger Thomas wounded. About
fifteen or twenty shots were exchanged. The
leader of the gang was about twenty SIX or
twenty seven years Of age. All appeared to De
young men. They made the engineer, ire.
man and the ageot and the negro who was on
the platform, stand 10 trout of the express car
door, SO the messenger oould not lire. Wheu
leaving they took northeastcrly direction,
going toward Trinity Bottom.
The hotel proprietors in Philadelphia are in
excellent spirits over the steady ibAux of visit
ors to the city, particularly from the South and
West. The registers at the leading houses bear
resemblance to the runs Of the Centennial
summer. The agreeable weather has tempted
many Pennsylvaniaps to the city. and the num.
Der of arrivals last week ounumbers aoy for
months past. 1t is needless to say that the
majority # pilgrims visit the Mint to see the
process Of creating the new nIoety two cent
pieces aud carry home kecpsakes.
From January ], 1877. up 10 the present
time about five hundred applications for divorce
have been instituted 10 the city of 81. Louis,
and of these over two hundred and fifty have
been granted. 10 nearly two.thirds Of the sue.
oessfu applications no defence was offered. and
women were 10 tho maiority as plaintiffs. Mis-
souri's divorce law is very liberal, among the
ADEQUATE causes being dcscrtlon Tor year,
conviction of felony, habltual drunkenness,
vagrancy, cruel treatment, and tho Offering OF
intolerable indignities.
There was renewed excitement at Dartmouth
College, New Hampshire, Yesterday. when
four moro sophomores and one freshman were
arrested for completely 10 the recent haz'ng. The
two beaten freshmen. who were the aggressors,
were released on their own rccOcnlz sDcc, and
wl&splead guilty Of assault. The pounded
senior ard sophomore have been suspended ny
the faculty. Two freshmen have bceG expelled
and dozen others suspended. The action
of the faculty does not suspend legal proceed
lngs.
% the 18th instant the amount OF gold bull
lion (bars then in The Treasury was three mil
lions three hundred and sixty. seven thousand
seven hundred and thirteen dollars and twenty
six cents, which is exclusive of the amount
held by the minis and assay Offices. Gold GER
tifoates have never been issued for gold bullion
deposited, although authority for such issue Is
given in the revised statutes.
John Nj. Larkins, merchant OF CoIumbla,
Tenn., committed suicide yesterday because he
tDOuSUC IG uluCU uIo potsoSi thAi' w
err by ipjudicious business arrangements. Mr..
Walker says the assets Of the firm are double
their liabilities.
The Pennsylvania Board of Pardons have
declined to interfere in the cases of the Column,
bia county hlollic Maguircs, Hester, Tally and
McIIugh. Their execution will take place on
Monday, March 25th.
The agents of the two whaling schoooers
overhauIed by Spanish cruisers, last summer,
have accepted $1,000 each from the Spanish
government in settlement of their claim Tor dam
ages.
Tho Security National Bank, Of Worcester,
Mass. has been endangered By the failure OF
Morse, its president
Sooy, the detaulting treasurer # New Jersey,
has been pardoned, after spending three years
in tho peniteDtiary.
Mr.. Chateau has arrived 10 New York to
assist in the Arrangement of commercial treaty
between France and this country.
DIR. VIM. Brewer, who was Knocked down
and injured by dog in Annapolis. Nd, day
before yesterday died that night
Thos. Logan, farmer, was gagged and rob-
bed of FIVE thousand dollars near Reading, Pa,
on Monday night by masked robbers.
Three thousand Car loads of guano arc now
in Savannah, Ca, awaiting transportation to
interior points.
A fish dealer in Washington market, New
York, has tank containing over 900 live eels