Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-11-02
News OF this D&y.

| member OF the John Brown gang, colnni"ou
suicide 10 San Francisco recently. :,
Frances Abbott, an aged woman, was iounu
dead at her home, in q basement, ID NC"
| York. on Thursday, With her face partly ea1cn
by rats.
James II. Wheatley, the proprietor OF
Rrooklyn sugar refinery, and tho holder OF
quarter million 10 trust funds belonging to Jour
| different estates, has disappeared.
Tho public debt statement shows decrease
in tho past month of $l,70S, 402.SO and inc
coin in tho Treasury amounts to S227 ,G66,22i,'
II, including coin certificates of $55, 5l6, 3oO.
The examination of Dr. Spear and Mabel
Clark. on the charge OF posing the mother OF
Mabel, at Boston, has resulted in their dis
charge. The decision is said to meet VILE gen
eral approval.
! Among tho ether Iew requirements OF tho
| Boston police, are thcso-that the patroiman
must be able 10 read and write tho E0glsh
language, BIO citizen of the United States,
resident Of Boston and taxpayer for one year
previous to his appointment.
The Now York Bank Superintendent reports
tho condition of the Merchants aud Mechanics
Bank of Troy to be hopeless, and must 20 to
receiver. lie says its condition for tho last
| year has been concealed by false reports sworn
to as correct BY the bank officers. There is now
a deficit OF more than half million dollars.
Mr. Theodore N. Vail, Superintendent of
Railway Mail Service, has again rendered his
resignation Of the position to the Postmaster
General, who has accepted it. Mr.. Va!s sue
cessor has not been appointed. Mr. W. Is.
Thompson, Of tho Toledo division. who has
| been spoken Of in this connection, will probably
be appointed 10 day or two.
Governor WalIac,. of New Mexico. in'
forms the Ints;ior Department that the Pfesl.
dent proclamation has Quoted tho turbulent
element in the territory. and he thinks there
will be no more trouble. Governor Wallace
believes in the occasional show OF federal force
to keep the mixed population OF New MeX'co
on its good behavior.
a white woman, FAMED Mary Westerman.
was found wandering about the streets OF Wash
ngtou yesterday with the dead body Ct a newly
| born infant 10 her arms. She was kindly cared
for at the station aad was afterwards sent to
the hosti.aI. The woman was about twenty
five years Of age, Intelligent locking. but Was
ia destitute circumstances.
The Southern Reiict Committee Of the
| Chamber of Commerce. Now York, yesterday,
received letter from the Secretary OF the
Athens Female College, Alabama, offeriog to
educate the daughter or daughters OF Lleuten'
ant Benner free of charge, and announcing
that one trustworthy citizen Of Athens offered
to board one daughter TOR any length OF time
! she might remain at school.
A few days ego student at Ann Arbor Uni
yersiy, Michigan, committed suicide. It has
SIEGE transpired that he was 10 love With an
inmate Of disrcputabIe house ID the CITY
Thursday evening fvo students marched to the
| house where tho woman lived and drove the
inmates ou5 With pistols and shotguns. Gao
policeman had bullet fred through his car.
! There is great excitement 10 Ann Arbor, and
moro trouble is anticipated there, unless the
inmates Of the house leave town.
| While workuen wero puring molten lead into
a cavity In one of the foundations OF the New
York Elevated Railroad yesterday an explosion
occurred whoa sent tho dangerous fluid flying
ia shower over tho persons who we're watch.
ing the operation. A drop of tho laid dropped
down one youths neck and rolled down his back
inside bis shirt, causing him to jump around
pretty lively. Several other bystandors had
| their faces and clothing sprinked With tho lead,
Which, where ii touched the skin, left some
bsters.
A singular development trsn5pired OF Fort
Lincoln to day. Mrs. Sergeant Noonan, who
died last night, turns out to be mao. Mrs.
| Noonan was laundress at the post and most
popular midwife. She had beer married three
times and was ono Of the widows Of the Custer
massacre. Her husband is a member of tho
Seventh cavalry, nov 10 the field. There Is 20
explanation of tho unnatural union, except that
tho supposed Mexican woman was worth
$4,000 and was able to buy her husbands
silence. She hal been With the Seventh cav
airy nine years.
| The announcement that Dean Stanley would
preach 10 Trinity Church, New York, ycstcr
day, was sufficient to ill that statel " edlilco to
| its utmost capacity. Choral services. appro
the Dean preached from the first verse OF the
first chapter f the First Epstle Of St. Paul totbe
Corinthians: MANY members of one body.
his subject being the unity of all the churches.
lie bore at some length on the relation OF tho
American to the mother Churches and of the
obligations of all to the Greek Christians
Dean Stanley was rendered reception by the
Methodists yesterday evening aud will 90 to.
morrow preach 10 Grace Church. He sails for
| England with party of friends on Wednesday.
The Canadian Fisheries Question.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.-Members of tho
Cabinet express their qualification with the
comments of some of the northern press on the
letter of Secretary Evsr:s to the British Gov.
erment on tho Canada fisheries question. M
reply has been received to this letter, nor the
one previously communicated, protesting against
the excessive award for fishery privileges, nor
is it probable that the correspondence will be
concluded on this subject by the meeting of
Congress.
A member Of the Cabinet 10 conversation TO- |
day said that. although the affairs between |
England and Russia are regarded as threaten
ing. he believed that war would be averted by |
wise couuses of the two nations. 1t is oousid |
cred that unnecessary comment has been made |
10 various quarters as to tho open purchase by |
Russia of ships and munitions Of war iu this
country which might DE used against England
10 event of war between these nations, while |
some newspapers approhend that In such case |
Eogland might 10 future prefer claims for ICON
scqueutial damages" Suoh fears, however,
are i'll founded. as there can be no violation of