Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-07-17
ALEXANDRIA:
THURSDAY MORNING, JULY II, 1884
ITEMS.

Gov. Porter. Of Michigan died at Detroit OH
Saturday week.
Centreville, Luzerne county, Pa, was almost
DESTROYED by most destructive tornado on the
od inst: out of "a buildings, only escaped I'M
injured One person killed and number IN
jured.
woman was murdered in house of an in
famous character, at Frederick, Md; suspicion
has fallen upon an Irishman, named Joseph o.
Common. in whose possession bloody dagger
and pistol were found. The unfortunate fe-
male had been but a week in the place, and
was the victim of villain in Pennsylvania,
who had caused her TO abandon her HUSBAND
and children, and then cast her aside, without
friends, money or home.
The Paris Correspondent of the New DIX
Courier, under date of May 81, says:
"The Pope has addressed letter, or rescrlpts
- President Boyer in which, after speaking Oh
bis affection and good will, and OF the oosta-
cIss which had hitherto stood IN the way OF
sandino spiritua assistance to the Repuollc OF
tIa,ti his Holiness informs him that he has de-
,srmined on despatching John England, Bishop
Of charleston, in the United States, as his Lee
rate 10: Hayti, in order to deliberate win the
President on the choice OF Pastors, ana 10 take
,oaasures for the formation OF national Ger
""
Thi Norfolk Herald says" We state, upon,
GOOD authority, that the Bank of the United
States at Philadelphia, have thrown open their
hooks and papers, without any reserve wha'e-
ysr 10 the free and full inspection of the Com
mttee of Finance, appointed by the Senate oil
,,t~o rrat hE e
that Institution. The Committee Will very
shortly proceed to the fulflment OF the duty
confded to Them"
Mfr Clark, who with Lewis in 1905, crossed
The Rocky Mountains, and published their ira
ves and researches, lately visited Buffalo on
his way to Detroit He is represented as hale
and hearty.
papers from Demerara Of the 4th ult an
eounce that most daring and extensive ROD
berry had been committed in the district OF her-
bice the Office Of the Colonial Register having
been entered, and money in specie and Coloni-
al paper to the amount of from 10000 to loo,ooo
puilders distracted from the iron chest. An
embargo had, in consequence, been laid on the
shippng in the river, and other measures taken
10 detect the robber, but without success.
There were one hundred and eighty-three
in,erments in the city and liberties of Phiia-
dephia, for the week ending on the 18th IN
slant.
Nathaniel Beverly Tucker, Esq has been APP
pointed Law Professor in the College OF VIII
liam and Mary, in Virginia.
Herr Cline, so we'll known as rope dancer,
has arrived at New York from Liverpool.
woman and two daughters died almost in
simultaneously in France, on drinking from
barrel of cider year old, in which dead SER
pent was found. The reptile had probably
crept in the bunghole, left open for the liquor to
fcrment.
Sippulrr Ererr IA short time since, says
French paper as some men were fishing at the
entrance of the Seine, they caught large stur-
gcon, in the stomach Of which was found port
folio, containing number of papers, in an
excellent state representation, beongingto ma
val officer, who had been shipwrecked "a short
time before. His will, discovered among these
papers, will enrich poor soldier, who had for :
merly saved the deceased officers life in an
engagement.
A Fish Story.-The following fact, which
William Goblet says twill be attested on earth,
by any farmer, ploughman, or shepherd in En-
gland, we believe will be news to some of our
-Flounders-real little fat. fish, brown
on one side and white on the other, mouth side
ways, with tail, fins, and all leaping alire, are
found in the inside Of rotten sheep. and Of
every rotten sleeps liver"
A piece of plate, an Epergne, weighing $50
ounces, was presented to Tycho Wing, on the
completion of the new Outfall Cut, on the Wis
beach river, by which vessels of $50 tons can
now navigate. Many thousand acres of valu-
able land have been preserved from inundation
by this Cut, the expense of which, and the or
thern drains, has been $3.50, 0Oo.- English paper