Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-07-31
ALEXANDRIA, ID. c.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 81, 1897
COMMODORE BAINBRIDGE.

COMMODORE BAINBRIDGE.
This gallant Captain aud accomplished gentle.
man is no more! He died at his residence in
Philadelphia, after long confinement and lin.
gering illness, on Saturday evening last, a few
minutes after o'clock.
Thus sink, in succession, beneath the horizon
and forever, those stars whose briiance shed
glory on our Hay,an such peerless ustre on our
arms and country.
GENERAL Naval ORDER.
As mark Of respect TO the memory of Com,
WILLIAM BAINBRIDGE. who died at PhiladeIphi,
on the 9Th inst. the flags of the Navy Yards,
stations a,,d vessels Of the U. s Navy are 70 be
h0isrsd Ia mast, and thirteen minute guns fired
AZ n5ou, the day after the receipt Of thi. order.
Officers OF the Navy and Marine Crops are
to wear Grape tor thirty DAYS.
LEVI WoopBuuY.
Nary Department, July 90, 1885.
The canvass for Congress, in the Louisville
Ky district, has become quite animated. Tie
only remaining candidates in the field, are II.
Crittenden and P. II. Pope-tbe former rs.
ticnaI Republican, and the latter friend Of he
National Administration.
The Cholera has almost entirely subsidized in
Northern Kentucky. In the Middle District,
and the Green River country, it is also very
much abated.
Hoar.-The Washington Telegraph states,
that the article which is now going the rounds Of
the newspapers, relating the circumstances Of a
"horrid conspiracy in the East Indies" is "a
hoar, although detailing real transaction which
took place some sixty years ago. The hoaScr
has just altered the dates, and the thing takes
THE Weather.-The Richmond Wing of Fri
day, concludes article relative to the weather,
as follows" Many bets Of a small amour,
were made by gentleman of this city, that i,
would rain upon the s5lh inst, and the even,
justified his opinion. He says that it has never
failed to do so for the last 1? years A gentle
man in the county of Goochland, has standing
bet which has been continued for twelve or fifteen
years, that 1t will rain the first Saturday in
euery .4ugust, all of which he has won except
in one instance. These are singular facts, which
deserve the attention Of the wise and learned"
The Far West.-The St. Louis Rep ubicau
Of the 10Th inst. says that jaD,iae-a calamity
more dreadful than the Cholera-threatens the
inhabitants Of the immense region Of the Upper
Missouri. No buffalo had appeared upon the
plans Of that country during the past spring;
and the Indians, in the thriftless economy which
governs them at all times, were, in consequence
destitute of means of subsistence. Even the
traders were compelled to subsist on Buffalo ton
CUES, obtained during a preceding season. aud
corn; and the yoyageurs had not this fare allowed
to them. No one has, we believe, pretended TO
account for this disappearance Of the immense
herds of BaffaIo which covered those regions -
1t was observed, by persons who were in the
Assiniboine, and who have been 10 the habit Of
navigating the Missouri, that points at which
vast numbers OF Buffalo had always been known
to herd, were deserted, or but single one nov
and then seen.
Revolutionary Soidiers.-A writer in the
Hampshre Gazette, gives an account Of the cele.