Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-08-07
NewS OF the Bag.


five deaths were reported at New Orleans yes
| terdsy.
Goorpie Drake, tie variety actress, who vas
shot ia tic neck by jealous lover at oan hn'
tonic, Texas. Saturday night dlcd Tho next
| day.
An unprecedented thunder shower occurred
| at Providence, K. l., yesterday afternoon snd
caused great damage. Sewers oVeltowed anu
streets became rivers. in many places the water
| flowing ever the sidewalks and into cellars.
The fever on the Island of Cyprus is increas.
| ing, especially at Nicossia. Sir Garnet VOL
seley aud staff will encamp outside the town,
because the house owners demand exorbtant
rents.
The Lexington Gazette announces that the
canal will BIO finished to that town by the lst
of September, thus opening up to the people
Of that section their former facilities for getting
their crops to market.
| Forty. seven thousand Russian troops arc sick
| 10 Bulgaria, and constant reinforoements are
required to keep the army in an effective con:
ditiou. Generals Todleben and Schouvaott
arc both down with typhus fever.
Willie Warren, aged seventeen, admitted to
tho quarantine hospital at Memphis, Teun.,
| August :, died Tuesday. The deceased came
| from New Orleans, and is the only case CT vel.
low fever that has reached Memphis.
The White Sulphur Springs property WAS
| offered for sale yesterday, but there was 20 bid
higher than three hundred thousand dollars
and tho sale was postponed till to day. There
| arc eight thousand cores IN the estate
Tho hlark Lane Express in reviewing the
prospects of the Engish wheat crop says the
| harvest has commenced earlier than last year,
and unless there should be an unex pected deGc.
enoy, the crop will be fair average ono Of
about thirty bushels to the acre.
The ambuscades of the Austrian troops in
| Bosnia have caused much Indignation iu Wen.
ma, and the opinion is gaining ground that the
| Turkish authorities arc promoting the insllr-
rection, or that tho Porte las lost all power of
controlling either the inhabitants or tho troops.
Some Of the soldiers have joined tho insurgents
Colonel Casey has submitted his report 10
relation to the Washington Monument to the
| President who will communicate it to tho joint
commission having charge OF tho MISTER. Col.
| Casey recommends that the shaft be run up to
525 feet in height. aud that il be commenced
| as soon a. possible aud continued until cNm-
| pleted.
! The Republican Congressional Convention Of
| the Fifth Maine disric. has rcnominated Ia.
gone Hale by exclamation. FL. l.. Gibson has
| been reuominated Tor Congress in the First
Louisiana District, and E. W. Robertson 10 the
Sixth. Tho Democrats Of the Third Ohio
District have nominated j. a. McAlahon for
Congress.
At the meeting Of the Cabine! yesterday the
Secretary of War stated that Information had
been received from the Rio Grande to the Of
| feet that companies OF troops lad been organ
| lied on the Mexican eide Of the river to repel
raids from the Gnited States 10 pursuit oil cattle
thieves. No alteration has been made in the
orders to General Ord on this subject.
o. Saturday morning last, near Scousburg
Halifax eouuty Va, shooting affair took
plaoa between Chas. =. w. Miller, father IN
law, and Z. j. Mohennsy, sou in law, wherein
! Mr.. Miller received the contents of q double
baIreIed shot gun III his left side aud shoulder,
producing mortal wound. lhl men had heeh
at variance for some time.
| % Saturday last ell the Batc9 farm. some
| five miles west OF Hampton, Va, two cplored
men, brothers. named John and William Bird,
got into an alteration in reference to wages
amounting TO 81. when John drew large
pocket knife and cut his brothers throat aud
stabbed him in the back OF the neck aud
through tho heart causing his death instantly.
| The murderer was arrested.
The Bankers National Association COM
mences its annual session ct Saratoga, N. T.,
| To-. lay. Tho executive committee have been
present several days, consulting on business.
| The foreign committee on a plan to prevent
detaoations hopo to report in part before ad-
iouromcut. Elk secretary Hugh Mccullough
and other distinguished fnanciers are present,
and will take part in tho deliberations.
| Levi Barker was seated on the ienc5 near
Fettermap, w. Va, last Saturday evening,
| whom tho lightning struck tree close by him.
| The electricity roboundcd from tho tree when
about half way down and struck the young man
on the head, instantly killing him. There was
only one mark Of tho electricity on bin, and
| that was light burn on his hair, yet every
!! bone in his body appeared to have been broken.
| at tho international pigeon shooting match
Yesterday between Captain Bogardus and Mr..
Aubrey Coventry, near London, Bogsrdus
won by single bird, the score standing 10 to
| 70. The match was for one thousand pounds
aside. The score was very close throughout,
each party by surns leading in the score,
and the very last shot fred by Captain b.
gardus decided whether he had won or the
match was tic. The victor was loudly cheered
| at the result.
Six hundred ourneymen shoemakers of
! Chicago have struck for an advance OF wages
from 50 to Sl2 They have refused an offer Of
| the employers to compromise for $1,000 per
week. The employers declare that it Is llbe-
raj price-the best they can offer. and that if it
is not accepted they can and will get their work
done in the East and at less prices There arc
one thousand shoemakers Of this class in Chi
cage, and those who have not already struck
threaten to do 80. Tho strike includes all the
leading wholesale houses.
Mrs. Drinard, mother in Law of MIR. Mosby
Henley, of Goooblani county, died Saturday
afternoon at o'clock Of the wound Inflicted by
tho robbers who attacked Mr.. tIenIey's store
Thursday night. William BurdeIl. coIored, ar
rosted Saturday On suspicion of being impll.
Gated in the murder was carried to that county
yesterday from Richmond for Identification.
Several other negro men have been arrested IS
being accessories TO this outrage, but with little
hopes OF Identification as the guilty parties.