Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-09-30
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d.. G. W. Chancellor declines being eandi.
isio for Congress from tao Fourth Maryland
district, but he is q prominent gccenbacker.
Thirty thousand people attended divine SER
vice as tie Indiana yearly meeting Of the
Orthodox Society of Friends at Richmond, Ia.
diana, yesterday. Several prominent English
ministers were present.
The new silver mining region at Lead7ile,
Colorado, has clused an immense rush of
miners thiher, and three railroads are pushing
forward extensions of their branches to accon.-
modate the demands for transportation.
Joseph Head. stock broker. attempted to
droWa Els wife 10 pond, near Hannibal, Mo,
ca Friday, but desited 90 the appearance of
his SOD with a shot gun, and then killed him
self. His wife had Instituted a suit for divorce
on account o. abusive treatment.
Condor aud Melody, the released FeDiars,
arrived a: Now York Yesterday on board the
steamer Mosel. They were brought to the city
OF the rcvclue cutter Sherman, which had
been placed at their disposal by the govern
ment, and we're welcomed by immense crowds.
In Tie ST. Louis Female Hospital, Friday
night, Miss Emily Moeller, a nurse, admins
tered solution OF corrosive submatc to Alice
Wood, patient, through mistake, causing
death, Whrreup0n Miss Moel;cr took calbolic
acid, and thus ended by death her agony Of
regret.
TX Gov Shepherd and ". I. j. Mitchell
left Washington Saturday right, 10 palace
car rendered by the railroad authorities, to take
charge OF steamboat lead of contributions for
the yellow foyer sufferers. They took with
| them fifty packages CT various goods and
= u1l0 81, ,E,icG IN bnrio tho c,ruO
The Washington correspondent of the Batl-
tuUre Sun sags:-Ccl. Mosby, Of EIrgiDia, re-
Gently appointed consul sc lIoug Kong, China.
| drew his first quarter salary day or Two age.
! lie remarked 10 the paying tccr:-"ihls IS
thc second time have drawn ca the Unltod
States Tor money; the FIRST tlne Wos when L
pulled 10 couple of army pagmas!crs during
| tno war.
The greenback labor party Of St. Louis nom.
| iuatcd full city ticket iu convention Saturday
| night. A resolution Was adopted to put no
man 10 nomination who has ever held Cttco.-
The titket is therefore composed OF men CT
tircly ncw in politics. This rue was also ar'
| piled in thsIr CeDgrcssi ,nal CONVENTIONS yes.
to-day, and much dissatisfaction has baCu ex-
rro2sed at it to.d2c.
Ga Saturday morning IS a funeral procession
vas passing over tho track at Atlantic aud
| Brooklyn Avenues, on It's way TO the Cemetery
Of the Holy Cross, Brooklyn, a. train gclrg west
struck onc OF the carriages. The driver, Nc
Nance, was hurled from bis scat and fatally
Injured. OF the five occupants. Miss Mary
| Redwood, aged sixteen years, and AlT5 StcpE7
ca Callahan were killed, and three children OF
The latter seriously Injured. Tue carriage va;
wrecked and one horse killed. The engineer and
| kbo nd bn ot hn
crossing were arrested.
Capt. Clarence Monk, 4th cavalry, struck
the Chcycpncs on the 2S!h, at Famishcd Wo.
mans Fort. they were lying 10 wait. Lieut..
Col. ". II. Lewis, Of the niactceoth !ntartry,
and three meu were wounded. One lGdlau was
killed ard sixteen saddle ponies and sixty two
head of cattle captured by the troops, Vii? we're
prevented by darkness iron following up thcil
SUCCESS. Pursuit Was continued neZt day. Lieut..
Col. Lewis died Of his wounds, AID was taker
! Military Academy in lS49, a native Of Alabama
and about fifty years OF age,
It has been discovered that on the 18th 0!
last Nay Frank E. Bassctt murdered John
Rufus, in East Bridgeport, Conn. He placed
the body 10 barrel, and attempted 10 sell II
10 Dr.. SaEdfcrl, of the Yale Medical School
| LOT QlSS"CtiOC, DiSipVJlostU III tHS IL! o-|I y:
the doctor. he drove the wagon along tic west
bank of the river, ard rolled the barrsl down
| &C embaokmcnt iuto the stream. Suspltlor
being aroused by remarks from woman with
whom Bassot lives, tho mystery was disc!osec
apd the body recovered. Bass,tt Is in jal
awaiting tria! for theft.
Revenue officers who hay, just returned
from Fickcrs, S. g., raport that Deputy
Marshal Gary met Redmond near his bcm{
90 the Goth lust. Redmond SAID be would nc
lcaya bis home. and if the revenue Official:
came after lin ne would hurt somebody. Il!
would Dot surrender, not even if the Govern
uc1t agreed to sentence hin to o1Iy Fix mouths
imprisonment. lie emphasized the statcnen
that Gary would be killed, rot by him, how
ever; but he could not prevent it, Reduo1c
was armed with shot gun and three REVIEWERS
lie bad three men with him armed with IA
| field rifles and reyplveTs