Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-05-09
NEWS OF The DAY.

lho thermometer registered S. degrees at
Chicago yesterday, aud thcre wss Que case OF
su0s;rokt.
At HoiYoke, Mssi, US crlsy, Johu NsIlilau
c1mmltted saiulde by roHiog cut iato tho river
end running bis boa. over tho fall.
Seventeen thousand SVEN hundred SD
ninety eight immigrants we're aGdsd ct Castle
Garden last week
u. NJ. Smith, co attorney, has been arrested
at Conway, Ark, charged With outtagiug jas
$40 Martlo, his twelve year old cousin.
ln shooting match OF St. Louis SATURDAY..
Tor $500 d side. 100 birds, thirty yards rise
Csp. Borcrdus heat W. II. Mitchell, OF Vir-
GINA, 50 to 10.
Tho kogcis Locomotive Works, OF patctson
n. D.. shipped TO Spain Isst wock nine lDcomo.
tlv2s Tor the VALID. Vianueva and B.ssolons
Railway.
James Is. Doyle. OF Bradford, ILL.,, the noted
io!eer OF government bonds. was brought iato
Judge Blodgetts court 10 Chicago Saturday
anu gave bonds 10 the sum OF $50 900.
A general army order has been issued for the
establishment u: Fort L,aYenworth, Kansas,
OF school oi application for infantry end cav.
airy. slnilar to that nov in operation for the
A large c,tton factory 10 Alabama, ebaut
twenty miles ltom West Point, Ca. valued ut
Slo0, OO0. was Set on fire 90 tho night Of tho
3Oth ult. and entirely destroyed. There Wa no
INSURANCE 90 tho bulldog or machinery.
Auditor Massey is Gu: o. his rounds discuss.
log the public debt question, Vs., which is
more agreeable this pleasant weather than Sit
H!t!ng in his ofhcI attending to tho States
busutsJ. for wrich he is paid.
Eizi Tiff, aged Is years Committed sn;c;ls
Saturday afternoon a. Adams, New York, be
taking arjeni,. Sho was to hsvo been married
to youag man named Acu, Who Yss arrested
waek ago aud taken to Canton fer seducipr 8
young lady OF that place.
a large mas Of rcck, contaiains frou1 four to
live thousand cubic feet. tell from Rocky face
M0uaan 10 Alexander county, N. e., Oh tho
mornlDg of the 18th ult. la its passage doan
tho mountain, it GU! off trees one foot in Diane
ter ard took down with it thousands of tors CT
earth aud rocks. but fortunately did 40 other
damage to proptr.yo or life.
Tho funeral Of Gen. John S. Preston took
place at Columbia, 8. g., Thursday, AID was
largely attended. Very many Ct the old family
se!vaats were present. The Richand Vo.u2-
tecrs and The Governors Guards wcro prcsout
IN body. The o}fiin was hidden in l)gcrs.
The pail bearers iccl1dtd Hon. W. porohcr
Miles. Gov. Hagood, Gen. James Uhes nut aud
Gtiet Justice Simpson.
The custom house end p1s:cilioo bulldog 10
Itenr9otown. ID. o., WAS entered by burglars
E;ld1Y nlghls and tho safe Of tho posoflieo was
broken open ntd robbed Of $275 10 cash, Sill
| IN stamps and 81 900 in bo1ds. A gold watch
aud chain belonging 10 tho postal eek 10
| charge Oh the Office wero oils, taken. Al At.
tempt vas made 10 Slog open the custom house
| sale, n which there was considerable amount
0! money, but withou. tu,oess
Another large aud important land suit was
decided 10 tho u. s. Court for tho western dis
tFlct OF Virginia, 10 liarfisonburg 90 Saturday,
h9 case OF Emily Holingsworth, of Philatel.
pha, nIslntitf, against jacob DIndoro's heirs,
defendants. for the possession of 50 900 acfes
or laud Iylng 10 the counties Of Ruckirrhsm,
Augusta and Pcadlotou, waa decided in favor Of
| the plaintiff, the court having ruled that the
| tax deed, made during the war, uader Which
the defendants claimed was q nu!iry.
A dispatch from Charlottesville says: Tho
| rapublico.rcadiustor ticket Tor county officers,
after trlat struggle has retired from tbs field.
Defeat stared it in the face and it h.d. Tho
dlssfFecion smang the rcaciusters ia spread
ing; they do uot work veil in hlrn?ss wi,h
| their colorai "ellics" Tho free ballot aud
| fair couol' is too much OF humbus TO be even
whispered here ut homo. The cJorol peopc
| themselves Would laugh al it. So far Mr.. Ma
bone djcs pCt saim to be splitliog this section
Of The 5oIid South worth cent"