Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-11-12
News OF the DaY.

DR.. L. \. Asbwood of Washington, was
assaulted last Sunday night by al unknown
man. who WIS turned over to the police by the
Doctor.
The steamer Australian, for Liverpool, has
cleared from Pensacola with six thousand five
hundred bales OF cottou. This is the largest car.
20 that ever lett that port.
John Flanagan, boatswain's mate on the
u. s. Snip supply, !eapcd overheard aud res
cucj oGe Ct his comrades who had fallen over.
board. This is the second time Flanagan has
saved y drowning shipmate.
Peter Freeman, the Beaufort, S. c., muir.
dcrer, who was recently extradited from Eng.
land. was run over and killed by railroad
train at Augusta, Ca, on Saturday night,
while attempting to escape from the sheriff.
A special dispatch from Duluth says it is ru
mored there that 40 American tug has been
seized at Sauls By Dominion officials for wreck
ing 10 Canadian waters. The tug was trying
to get Oft the steamer Quebec, aground fol
some days on Magnetic Shoals.
Reports that clew to the body Of A. II.
Stewart has been found have not been confirm
ed. The truth Of such reports is denied at
police headquarters in New York. Stewart'E
body and the thieves who stole it are still hid
den from the police. Judge Hilton said yester
day that he had no new Information.
Captain Bailey OF the revenue marine ser
Alaska in the steamer Richard Rush. lie re
ports matters ct the Iur seal islands in salts
factory condition. The cruise extended to the
western extremity Of tho Aleutian Islands, q
distance Of $500 miles from Sitka.
A tragedy occurred last Sunday on farm
near Chcnango, New York. which was owned
by three brothers. James and David Baird
uuarreIed about the division of the property,
when David killed his brother James With a
| pitch fork, and then blew out his brains with
shot gun. David leaves wife and foul
children.
A dispatch from Jacksonville. Fla. say:
official and unofficial returns give Bitbee, re
publican, for Congress, 232 majority. Yester
day was the legal day for closing the canvass il
the several counties. Mr.. Bisbee teegrapheC
from A!acbua ss follows: The county board
here is arbitrarily rejecting good returns Have
U1ited States Marshal come to morrow without
fall
The Washington correspondent Of the Balti
mere American says: THE inehicency of the
majority OF the federal officials in the southern
States in executing the laws relating to the cleo
tive franchise, as evidenced by the result Of the
late campaign 10 that section, will doubtless
lead to many removals before the Senate passes
into the hands of the democrats. The repub
licaus want men of stronger stuff to ill these
Offices during the canvass of 1880, when it i:
proposed not TO permit tho ''bull d02ers' tt
violate the laws with impunlt.y"
Ez President Grants brother-in law, mir
yo.bio, states the story OF the Generals COZ
nccton with the tanning business is erroneous
Gen. Grant never was tanner, and was never
10 any manDcr engaged in that trade. Mr.
Corbln does not believe that the eX Pfesiden
is at all DESTROYS Of returning to bis old dutie
at Washington, and Goes not consider that tn
republican party is dependent on any individual
II circumstances should SO shape as to convince
the parry that Grant would be the stroDges
candidate, ard to make tho Republican Ma
tional Convention DESTROYS of nominating him
be does not doubt that the General would re
I gard 1t as duty to accept.