Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-01-21
VIEWS or TIE DIX.

The les gorseS ia the Ohio ct Wheeling broke
yesterday.
The Emnsnuel Congregations! Church, Bee
ten, Vas butaed yesterday, LOSS $4,000.
Matthew T. Breruan. ez-:herif Of New
York, did yesterday.
Lieutenant Governor Hull, of Florida, has
given bonds 10 So 600 to answer tho charge OF
election frauds.
Governor Hampton will maize bis first public
appearance since bis sccideD! OF the Charleston
celebration. Fcbrusry22
4 fire in Tallahassee, Fla, destroyed The
Episcopal Church. rec.ory and school house
yesterday. Loss eight thousand dollars
The WOODEN mill Of John Brown g. Sons,
Philadelphia, burned yesterday, was Insured 10
Richmond, Va, for 81. 800.
Private Jno. S. Huuperford, Of tue . | ertl
ery, a: Fort Mcnroe, Va, was drowned Sun
day night Will, attempting 10 cIo!s Mill creek
to the Tort in gale.
Committees from Baltimore will go from
that city to Washington to appeal io behalfoftho
retention of $4,000 appropriation Ter The
barber Of Baltimore.
Lieut. Gen. Sheridan writes to Gen. Sherman
that being assured that the ludlsn service Is not
improved By the controversy between himself
and the Secretary of the Interior he considers
i! at an end.
u view OF tho heavy losses CT Boston iusur'
acc, companies by the recent New 4ol ( fires
they have agreed to establish tariff Of rates
and appointed committee to consider The SUB
| iect oil 90 increase 10 the ra!es.
Nicholas Jacoby, who was shot in Plttsburg,
Pa, early Thursday morning, while accompany.
| Jog his vito home, died Sunday. he stated
before death that Frank Small, former lover
| of his wife, was The murderer. Small is under
arrest.
Captain George Prince, Of Bath, Me-, has
| been arrested 10 that city, charged With obtain
log a largo amount of money from the pension
office at Washington on fictitious names. The
| fraud has been going on for years, snd detec-
tiyes hsvn been Oh the case for year.
Governor H1r.rantt, of Pennsylvania, yes
terdsy issued warrants isr the execution. on the
| 18Th Of Marcb. of Alex. B. Ssyre, OF .Phila-
deIphia, and Htzskiah Shster, Of Frank ln
| couaty, Pa, wife murderar5. lie has also
sipred the communication of the death sentence
OF Blasus Pistoru5 to Imprisonment tor life.
TIE Commissioner of Pensions has issued q
series of rules 10 relation to the arrears OF pen
| SlOuS III SutiCtpEilJG VI kiic AIS@uS'y p-'"S1
| By Ccueress bec2nipg a law By tho signature
OF tue President The estimates Tor the drain
upon the United States Treasury caused by
this bill, if it becomes law, vary from twenty
to seventy five millions.
Aa explosion of dynamite occurred yesterday
morri1g at NJ. Is shaft of the Guopowder
| Water Works, in Baltimore county, terribly
| iujuriog three mep. The boiler shed was
| blown 10 pieces, sua the boiler itself fell 10
fragments fifty feet from its original position,
while st the same time tho bodies of two men
we're SHOT toto tho sir Neither appeared to
| have any cuts upon the body, but they were
| righlulIy burned aGd sclldod. A third work.
man also received 10 uries from picco OF TIM
Der blown from the shed.
Ia the House of Representatives yesterday
bills were presented to facilitate and econom!Es
| work on tbo Washington monument; tor the
erection CT congressional library building to
pay certain mail contractors OF the southern
States for carrying mails prior to the war. y
bill was passed providing tor the settlement
of outstanding claims sgaiust The District CT
Columbia, aud copicring jurisdiction On tho
| Conrt of Claims. Mr.. Potter mads sn cfart
| to Introduce bis resolutions fer the investigation
.f ths cipher dispatches and cpproptialog
| $40 900 for the purpose, bu: tho matter went
over iii! to day. Dir. Springer, OF l!lIQois,
| presented bilprovidirg for system Of cleo
iious for members OF Congress 10 secure the
representation ct minoIiies both 10 the North
and South.