Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-12-11
NEWS OF The DAY.

Oliver +. Winchester. the head Of the Win
chester Repeating Arms Company. died at Ne"
Haven, c., yesterday. aged seventy one yesrs.
Charles G.. Loeber, CT Pittsburg, has invent
ed 40 air ship, with which be proposes to navl
gate the upper region With o speed rlVallog
that Of the eagle.
Capt. Fl. w. Howgate. who bas terdsred biz
resignation, has been ordered to settle his 40
resignation will DO promptly accepted.
A wharf builder from Baltimore. with about
SEVENTY. five skilled workman, has gone to
West Point to repair the uhsrves of the Rich
mond sud York River Steamboat. Company,
recently destroyed by fire.
Secretary Thompson left Washington yestcr-
day Tor New York. IL is eaid By Intimate
friends Of the Secretary that his visit ia for the
purpose of consultation With the genIlsmen
there who ere interested in the Panama Canal
Company relative to bis acceptance OF tbs presl'
dency of the American branch.
Among the c)nmuuiclliors laid belore The
House Of Representatives yesterday by the
Speaker was one from NJ. Gambetts, President
of the FferOa Chambar of Deputies. for an OK
change of documents between that body and the
Houst; alsc, ono from the Smithsonian lnsl
tuition tor al appropriation OF S25 600 for tho
new museum bui!diog. The House adjourned
ill Monday.
james MoLauehIir. of Jefferson o:uaty, Pa.
Wss found recently, coaied 10 los and shrouded
10 suow, ny soms hunters 10 tho curtains
northwest Of O!ear6eld. A revolver was found
ty bis side. and ha is supposed 10 have COM
mtted suicide. Ho bad been previously seen
in the neiehborbood 10 his stocking feet. aud
- Naorl1 G{ n01 md Hna
gul1 watch vera found in III, pockets.
As stated yte,crdsN the ooffse importing
house of B,Hio Dash Il Co. Nav York. have
suspended. The Grm was 10 the syndi
cate With Arnold & Co., Of New York. and
KmbalI, of Bostor. The liabilities are esti
mated at sl.400,000. of WEIGH about $500, 900
is duo 10 private bankers. upon luportstions OF
coffee. letters of crt DIT, etc.. aud about 81 200"
600 of notes and open accouots. chiefly held 10
New Eogsud.
In o speech at Dover during thu piesiden tisl
campaign Senator Bsyard. cited the case of
PHELPS. Dodge s. Co., who we're compelled TO
to refund the govern ment Si67, eco; Mr.. Bayard
follows: when that interview took place very
distinguished gentleman were present. the senior
Senator from New York, among otherF, hr.
Con king; al;o Mr. Noah Davis, the district
attorney; Mr.. Arthur, the collector; Mr.: Jayne,
the SPY or special AGENT they called him all
were present. Mr.. Boutwell,, that distinguished
fnancier, who WAS Secretary of the Treasury,
was there also, and they sll stood around this
unhappy merchant, who had given his S25 600
to Gen. Grant. This president of
the Young Mems Christian Association this
member of the USion League, and this presi-
dent Of the Chamber of Commerce; he thought
all that would protect him. Not muoa-not
much. They took from that mans pocket in
ono sum S267 COO in II oney, and they divided j:
among themselves. Great lRughter.) Gentle |
men. this is no exeggerRtion or figure OF speech.
There it stands upon the record, and want to |
tell you it is thing Of which have knowledge |
md means Of knowledge" Secretary Boutwell,, |
Vice. President elect arthur, Senator Conkling |
and Judge Noah Davis have addressed joint |
e.ter to tho press, saying: I'VE pronounce the |
8 truthless calmny. If it was made |
With the assertion that the man who made it had |
and means of knowledge of its |
ruth. besides being fslsehood, it was Willful |
and wicked falsehood."
Senator Baysrd denies ever having made the
charges attributed to him, and says that on the
5sh of November last, when his attention WAS
.alled to the report. he theu denounced it as
alse.
Thread for glass cloth, now made at Pitts
urgh. is drawn out of molten bar by means
f rapidly revolving wheel at the rate of two
housand yards minute. The weaving is done
With looms, about the same as with silk.
Western Union Telegraph stock took another
umble yesterday, and in fow days We shall
ear that Jay Gould has made one moro big