Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-12-22
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|. BctTecn four ard five hundred Southern
negroes have passed through s.. L1uia. With.
in q week on :hcir Way 70 different parts OF
Kansas.
40 mncraa nack Of tca ducks made their
appearance % III, Su.1nehapa river above
Harrisburg, Saturday. Inc auaners wcro Cut
10 force, and largo numbers wCro slaus htCrod.
at & caucus Of tbs republican Members Of
tic ICGu2tsee Legislature Saturday night, they
adopted resolution recoGnizUg the State debt
as paramount issue. End they would support
20 proposition locking 10 Reputation. and con-
demung the spirit ct reputation ut homo CT
abroad.
Mr.. William, Mckee, s.nior proprietor Of tho
ST. Louis Globc Denocfst, died suddenly OF
heart disease Saturday mofning. Mr.. Mex.
/, known as having been corrected with the
great whiskey frauds which Tcra discovered
OF probably rot !c3s than s 100000.
Yesterday vas the ccldcs! SO far this season
ct ST. Johns, n. B.. the thermometer early in
tho morning registering ( degrees below zero.
A Geld wave struck Syracuse, N. Y, yesterday,
and sent tho mercury down to II degrees below
zero. Taclgc traight trsirs were stalled be
tween Clyde AID Syracuse By the extreme cold.
Edward ki6g, aged IS, end his widowed
sister, Mrs. Maria Mullen, aged 50, were burn.
ed to death oa Thursday light. in their house
relr GIconpor', i |. The brother was SICK,
and the sister, while teuGing him. is supposed
10 have stumbled With az oil lamp in her hand.
Two dogs AID goi! also persisted in tho fire.
Parpcil and D.lloD sailed from Queenstown,
ireland, yesterday, for New Yo:k. Tho Irish
Lard League COMMISSIONS them to receive IS.
slstance fer the relief OF tho distress in Ireland.
Madison Square Garden will he engaged for the
occasion, and 90 adm nj: SIGN i',o charged fer the
benefit Of tho Irish poor. All tic wealthy
lrlshm.n ID New York will be personally called
on for Subscriptions.
Gen. LIE Due, Commis. >ncr OF Agriculture,
has finished his report. ald estimates tho il
crease 10 the value CT the crops this gear over
last at two hundred million dolais. Tho total
cora cropis about 100 900, geo bushels Against
$50 0UO, 900 for last year. Tho wheat yield
this year, while larger 10 tushelJ than last year
receives i}5 iucraaaCd valuali)a prit c;nally be-
cause OF higher prioe9.
Tho first Jury composed exclusively OF ne
ernCs ever impanneleh in Ohio vas summoned
before the Common Pleas Court, at Ciroevil,
Saturday. in the ca'c OF Ado!phnI iIDz ;lwood
vs.. Robert Cole, both cnl0r1d. Tho court room
was crowded. tut tho spectators were disap.
pointed, as tho triel developed Il record liable
to land tho plaintiff in tho coaDty Jail for Der
jury, when his counsel Withdrew tho cause
The French steam yacht l1cnricttc, belonging
TO NJ. Say, prominent end WEALTHY Frnnch-
mar, Ike her shalt eff Caps llattcras. N. G.,
Saturday. NJ Say and family vera taken
aboard tho Norwegian big hatiac, and erfivad
at FMt Mooron Saiuidsy aftcraoor. Tho
llcrriHtIc n,riVcd at Fcrt Monroe Yesterday
undrr sail. The llcuIiotto had started On a
pleasure cruise along the Atlantic and Cuff
cJnEt1
An Indignation m1ctIlg waq held in Bafgor,
Me-, Saturday night, at which Senator iisnIin
and others INSIDE spctch:s In donupciaiion Of
the ao:lnn oil The Governor and c6uncil in throw
ing Out votes IN uumbar e tho cities und
loves OF hla0c cast in the rcceDt election. Gov.
GaIcrlo1 has written q letter in defense of the
ASTON OF hiniaell AID rlicayuss Of Tho council,
maintaining that they have mr!y acted strictly
ia acc;rdsno, with tho requirements Of tho
constitution.
Mr.. ". w. Calc rams 81 birthday will!
occur lust alter Christians. and no will oole-
brato tic day at the L2us Home. The Wash
iDgt0n Star says that 10 did not wish to do g,
this year because Of the death there recently oil
a Georgetown lsdy whom he had k.ow1 ell his
LIE, but ttloDds iGsist hat nothing Shout prc-
vent, while no Is cnoJ or such good health, tho
quiet, INVESTIGATIONS celebration OF his birth
day IN tho beautiful homo he has given 10
ladies in tho ntnc Of his wife aud daughter.