Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-01-06
NEWS OF The DAP.

T9euiy ono dtahs occurred in New York
from diphthe!ii en- Tuesday.
The prtjso! of usicg the steamship Great
EIs,ern ter the transportation of cattle from
America has been abandoned.
Tie Steamer Enrique lost l26 hosd Of cattle
and the St. Alba1s 81 on the voysge from Bal.
tlmoEe to Liverpool.
A party of English b.c7c;ists will make tour
OF the United States next spring on their ma
chimes.
The House Of Representatives yesterday.
passed the srmy appropriation bill. which 80,
propriatcs S26, 3l5. $780,
Yesterdays sale of season tickets for the four
nights OF Sara Bsrnhardt's engagement at
Pixies Opera House 10 Cincinnati, Melted
$27S3.
New York importers of tropical fruit are
hs'lo hard time. cue firm having lost l,4O0
barrels 90 steamer from Jamsic, by fret z'nT.
Another vessel had ter esckload frozen.
Otto Dressed. wsl-ksowa democratic poll.
tclan ard lawyer, shot himself through the
head in his c6ics in Columbus, Ohio, yesterday,
causing instant death. Il ia snid 6naocal dill
culiles provoked tho &C.
Tho thaH is rapidly weakonieg the 10, 10 tho
pa!apseo. ard ii the melting continues day or
Two longer, it is thou sht there will be 20 Logger
an largo on the approach for craft to the port
of Baltimore.
James Callahsa, employed 10 paper mi at
PIttsheld. Mass, wac yesterday caught ia the
machinery aud Whired round and round until
be Was nearly torn to pieces and bis brains scat
tered over the room.
About one third Of the Florida orange crop
bad been marketed before the late freeze. The
Jacksonville Union says it is the general opinion
that the trees will not be hurt, and it is hoped
that the numb1r Of oranges destroyed BY the
co!d Will not DO as largo as most persons fesr.
The Nav York Graphic says: Progress is
being made IN the direction of the organic alton
OF new general express company by the mag
rates Of the various railroads in the United
States. aud another meciiog les taken place
here with reference 10 the same. The company
will probably le known as tho Central Express
Company, With capital If abcus $40 600 900,
cad nome OF tbs old expresses are to DO in-
GUIDED 10 tho new corporation"
Murder Revealed by an Old Letter.
The St. Louis Republican of tho 3lst ulto.,
has The following account of what in these dsys
is becoming rather common occurrence:
"Only year ago james Hickman was q lllriv.
log young farmer. He kept oom pauy with q
girl named Kate Ric,. who was one of the
bellies Of Ash Grove. They loved too we'll. as
the s,yicg is, and ere tho marriage dsy arrived
a ch!ld was boro. She hid her shame, living
Ga and not letting her friends nor him kuow Of
her trouble. He seemed true to her for while
and always promised to keep the WV that he
had mace-that he would marry her, but the
marriage day never arrived. Ole dsy he went
TO her ard told her that be loved another and
iutendedssto marry her. This cruel confession
so wrought upon the piri's feelings that she
Threatened to expose him, if he did so. to The
village AID to bis father and mother, who
were alive, and who we're we'll thought Of He
OLD not eypec! this promised to break of the lew
engagement which be had already made and
marry the woman be had wropged as soon as
Tho banps could be duly proclaimed. Ipstoad
of doing this be returned to bis pew love. Time
haw by and the day csme when Hickman had
to marry at least one of the womeu. That one
was bis latest love, who had brothers who had
an mixing ct Hickman's treatment of bis frs.
y Gin, and who were determined that be should
IL 20 sister OF theirs. Hickman, fading him.
self between two fires. wrote letter to Kate
klT. lis told her ss sh, valued her life to
keep The Contents of i. secret apd 10 meet him
that night in 80 out of the way pso,. She obey
ed lis request, Leaving hor home 90 the night of
September 10. 1879 She was ptver seen alive
again. but two days lister her body wss found at
the side CT 6sld With bullet through her
b.alo and pistol By her side. There were
40 Signs IT Struggle. The pistol 10 one
bad tv:r seen before. Thts, who knew
Of her tr'ubIa supposed that it W.s q
case OK s1!ctde. aud tbos, who did not
koow OF them thought tho sams thing
Toe body of t5o girl was laid 10 q grave,
Hloknao, It would appear, was SO oveIbutd sped
With guile thAt e ,lved 20 loeve thoeoouo Of
the murdsr. He transferred his worldly goods
into cash es soon ss possible and left, telling
those Eho t!ok t6e Lroubls to esk, that b, was
polng East TO embark 10 o mercao,ile erterprise.
But little was said concerning bis departure. and
lisS thought ct Il u0lll one day about three
months ago The mother of The dead girl made a
discovery: Whis looking over some of her
dsuRhtcrs cid letters she fouod the one that
had ben written TO her upon tho very night of
the murder The mother coac'ulei almost at
ono' that letter was Inc decoy vi ,h led to he
daughter death. She consulted tho author.
tiles aud they were quick about investigating
the css', The mother still held the revolver
that had been found with her daughters body.
She had never found the real owner of it-in
tact, no one had looked for the real owner. The
authorities looked, and, strange TO say found
upon very short inquiry that Hickman had
purchased the revolver but few few days be.
fore the girls death This fact. together with his
sudden di:appesrsncs caused further inquiry
to be made. His parents protested ignorance Is
TO his whereeboute. This itself, it was thought,
implied guilt They wer, watched, and il
was found that they did receive letters from him,
These were postmarke ed Paris, III. The deputy
sheriff was sent On to hunt up the supposed MUIR
derer. He found him farming upon piece OF
ground not far from Paris. The result was his
arrest and transfer to the ecene of his crime.
Since the authorities first commenced investi.
gazing the murder they bavs found overwhem-
ing evidence of Hickmsn's guilt"
ACCIDENT TO THE FAST MAIL TRAIN.-It
was stated in yesterdays Gazette than an engine
with but one cor of the East mail train over the
Alexandria and Fredericksburg Railway. due
n ~ orriu how to- th,k