Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-08-02
News Of tho Day.
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ment to the "Forefathers" will he laid with
appropriate ceremonies Oh Monument Hill,
at Plymouth, Mass. to-day. The address Of
the occasion will be delivered by Richard
Warren of New York. Dinner for 1900
will be served in mammoth tent. A ball
in Davis Hall, and Examinations and fire.
works on the green, will close the festivities
of the day.
We have accounts of the massacre of fifty
Europeans by the natives of the Dutch set
Element of Borneo. Disafection at the course
of the Dutch government in sustaining an
unpopular Sultan on the throne, with the
intrlgues Of MahOmetan priests, led to the
rising. Four German missionaries, three of
their wives and nineteen children are stated
to have fallen victims to the knife of the AS
sassins.
The New York general superintendent of
police has issued an order for the purpose
OF protecting strangers and travellers at the
various steamboat and ship landings, and
railway stations, by seeing that patrulmen
In those localities perform their duty with
vigilance and energy. and report daily
lie says the manner in which the business
il at present conducted is by no means cred
liable.
MIR. Charles Lesenring of Northumberland
county, Pa, lost one of his children about
four years old, from the effects of poison, on
Sunday week. The mother had been using
corrosive sublimate to destroy bed bugs
which she usually kept in u bottle, locked
up. but in this instance she had neglected
to put it away, and the child by some means
got hold of it.
The grand jury at Norfolk, Va. have pre-
sented seventeen persons for illegal voting
Fourteen of these, it is said, voted for Mr..
Ferguson for Mayor, who was elected by a
small majority. This purging of the polls,
40 far, gives Mr.. Lamb majority of nine
About ten more illegal votes for Ferguson
would have been presented but for absence
Of witnesses.
At Lockford, ILL.,, boy named Harris,
sixteen or seventeen years old, hired Il horse
the other day to 60 six miles, but drove the
poor beast seventy miles, and until he fell
dead from exhaustion. The young barba-
rian was afterwards lynched by half dozen
young fellows, who fogged him SO severely
that his life is in danger.
The last man who tells his story from
Pixies Peak is IL Detroit man, who went out
last March with seven others, dug through
the entire gulley, and was entirely gulled,
$3.50 per diem being the highest amount
made. As bacon cost 50 cents pound and
| -four was S25 per hundred, not much could
be realized ut the above rate Of earning.
The fredericksburg Recorder says that
Mcdonald, the man who recently shot wo-
man in New York, was in Fredericksburg
short time ago. He was drinking to excess.
At one time he was clerk for we'll known
citizen of Fredericksburg, during the time
the latter was engaged in business at the
South
The Cumberland (Md.) Alleganian states
that q young man named Mahoney WAS on
Thursday last arrested at Orleans, in that
county, upon the charge Of committing depre-
dations upon the mails. Mahoney has for
some time been acting in the capacity of
deputy postmaster Of that place.
Mrs Kate Duffy, who was shot some time
since on the commons, near the foot of Eu-
taw street. in Baltimore, died at o'clock.
on Sunday morning, at the residence of her
husband, On Henrietta street, near Hanover.
The child that she had given birth to since
receiving the fatal wound, is doing we'll.
The free colored people of thi. country are
to hold Convention in Boston, to discuss
the present condition and future prospect of
the c0lOred race in this country, and see
what measures be devised for their bene
fit. They are advised to 20 to Africa.
1t is feared, says the Boston Transcript,
that the frightlul scenes through which MIR.
Perkins and his companions passed at the
massacre Of Perugia, will result in the nsan
ity of Mrs. Doane, whose nervous system
does not recover from the shock.
Bishop Simpson, of the Methodist Episco-
| pal Church, now resident of Pittsburg.
Pa, will remove to Chicago, ILL.,, in Ssptem-
Der next, and will make that place his per-
manent residence. A strong effort was
| made TO induce him to locate in Baltimore.
The prospects Of the coming harvest III
Utah are very gloomy. The Deseret News
of June 90 says, that the reports from nearly
every county and settlement are far from
Aattering, and in many locations the wheat
crop will be almost On entire failure.
Owing to the rapid improvement of Moore
field, Va, brick-layers, carpenters, house.joln-
ers, and laborers are in demand at this par
ticular juncture. Lumber, of nearly every
description, ~ also in great demand.
On Saturday wrsk last, Mr. Robert Oats
living about ten miles northeast OF sioore.
field, Va, killed Il large fat bear, which had
bseu prowing around his wheat and corn
fields.
A German at Cincinnati mazda y hpt OF 500
that he could drink half barrel Ut lager IN
twenty-four hours. Seeing how he was 60
ing on, the other party paid him sloto stop
and throw up the bet.
Madame Jenny Lind Goldschmidt IL t"
visit Ireland i'm the Autumn, for the purpose
of singing in oratorios. She intends giving
the "Messial,," for the benefit OF the MERGERS
HOspitsl, in Dublin.
Mr.. Bigel9w writes from Paris to the
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