Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-01-15
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VIEWS OF THE DIA.
The New Jersey Legislature met yesterday
and organized, the republicans beng IN inc
majority in both Houses.
Navigation of tho Chesapeake was almost
entirely closed yesterday by The accumulation
of ice in the Craighill channel.
Dr.. Laudon Lougwortb, q scientist OF some
repute and grandson of Nicholas L1agWolth,
died in Cincinnati yesterdar morning.
MIR. Thomas Lord, the New Y ok millionaire,
vas in sinking condition yesterday, aud moi
expected to live many houre.
Hondurasis preparing for war. a battery OF
Krupp siege gurs of heavy oaIlber and num-
Der Of Remington lifes have lately beeo re-
ceived.
The Texas Legislature was organized yes :cr
day at Austio, with John Fl. Cochran speaker
of the House. The Governors message will
be read to-day,
AT meeting Ct the general oourciIef Nj en-
phis, Tennessee. Monday night, rasolullans
favoliug repeal Of the city charter passed both
boards.
A great crash is monentari!y expected at
Louisville, Ky, as The great ice field 10 the
Ohio river is moving feom above, aud grave
apprehension if felt among steamboat men.
Thirteen Indictments Of persoGs fer viola
lion Of the election laws and Interfering With
tho federal officials were found 10 the United
States Circuit Court at Baltimore yesterday.
The Nevada Legislature yesterday re-eleoted
John 2. Jones United Senator by the follow
ing vote: la the Senate, Jones l9, Hellhtusa
(dem.) 6; ia tho Assembly, Jones Al, He'll
house S.
Dietrich ewelr7 store at indianapolis vas
robbed of twenty.fcur gcll watches. valued at
SIS, 500, yesterday afternoon. Two OF the
robbers engaged the proprietor 10 conversation
while the third stole the watches.
jenkins, Lane & Sors, Boston boo. ard
shoe dealers, who failed on Saturday, are
reported So owing abtu! 1925 900, chiefly 10
New York. Bad debts 10 the Southern trade
are stated as The main cause ofthe failure.
Miss Lsono,a Ebra, the young French gov
erness who mysteriously disappeared from the
residence of her employer 10 NoR ! ork on
Friday, was found on Monday at the Roosevelt
Hospital. 10 that city, suffering from demcntla.
An explosion occurred yesterday 10 the
Giant Powder Mills, near Golden Gate Park,
California, killing four white men and an ua'
known number Of Chinamen. All the buildings
were destroyed.
That portion of Now York city belog Canal
street was capvassed yesterday for food cad
clothing fer charitable institutions. Thirty four
wagons, each with two collectors, and preceded
by boys to notify the people, went the rounds,
ard the responses were promptan bountliul.
At Carlisle, lud., Monday, Daniel Little and
Malvin Ellis, farmers, wero pfeciptated from a
scaffo!dipg used at the ics house TO the ground,
and two cakes Ct ice, weighing 400 pounds
each, falling upon them. Little was killed aud
Ellis dangerously Injured.
The heavy loo gorge in tie Ohio expected at
Cincinnati, from Maysville, arrived yesterday
afternoon aud continued passing doWa by lho
city. N material damage hiss boon sustained
from it. The losses by the passage OF the ice
Monday tight wall aggregate about $25, 900.
almost entirely confined to barges and coal.
The City Saving Bank at O.wego, n. Y,
closed lis doors yesterday. The bark was
closed under 40 il dnctiou on account OF do.
fault in tho payment of some 1922 y0 interest
on Lake Ontario Shore town bonds. The babk
has secured deposits amounting TO $jl4 900
and it is believed the defect will be paid
Thomas Dowd aod BIZ, Ward we're hanged
at St. Andrews. New Brunswick yesterday,
Tor the murder of Thomas Edward Ward, the
husband Of the woman. The cVidenc, was
wholly circumstauial. Ward was farmer,
and led an unhappy life with bis wife, mainly
o. ecc uat Of her intimsc7 with Dowd, who
boarded in their house. Ward disappeared 90
the Oh Of September.
In the House Of Representatives, yesterday the
report of the conference committee on tho Mill.
tary Academy bill vas presented aud agreed to-
The House spent tho remainder Of the SESSION
on the bill to pension soldiers OF the
Mexican war, the republicans endeavorug to
kill the bill By various amendments. A hna!
vote on the bill was not reached. The cam.
mittee on education ald labor was given leave
to report bill to rest,io. Chinese imnigra'
ton.
In the Pennsylvania Supreme Ctur5 goster
day, judgment was entered ordering that the
Writs of error 10 the case of the wife murderer
Ssyre be quashcd The warrant for Saylc's
execution, which was set for yesterday, having
been withdrawn pending this decision, new
warrant will be necessary before he can be
further dealt with. In the cases Of McDdnnell
and Bergin, Molly Magurcs, of whom Melon
nell was hung yesterday together With Sharp
and Bergiu is to DO executed to MORROW, the
court refused the writs of erfcr asked for.
The execution Of Bergiu will accordingly take
place rs arranged.