Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-08-19
VIEWS OF TIE DRkI,


There was hcavg frost 10 New BIuosHi:k
Saturday hight.
Ten thousaod people attended great tenn
perance caup m2e!ius uear Ihg1eucc, karsls,
Sunday.
The death rate nmong Tie coiorcd POI u,aticn
of Charleston, s. G., IS - per cont. greater
than among the wii!c population.
The tRo huadred and ificih anniversary Of the
first church erected in Salem, Mass, was ceie~
trlted Suoday with appropriate c2rcncnlts.
The Spauis:l steamer Enrique, one Of the
crew OF which died at the MaIioc Hospital at
Baltimore last Friday, was permitted 10 come
up to L:cu5 Point yesterday.
Two hundred thousand dollars is perhaps
fair estimate CT what the storm OF Saturday aLG
Sunday cost the CoDey Island landlords. both
days the island prescatcd deserted appearance.
The wheat crop Of Illinois this year amouots
10 12,04l ,2j2 bushels, and average oil lg3 bus.
per acre. aud Is valued at $31 .26G. 1jI, al aver
age OF IS cents per bu=he in tho producers
hands.
The rttcmpt to advance pE;cts fer anthracite
coa which has bacn potable during three or
four months, has STIMULATED production beyon nd
consumption, and .hG result is another break in
the market.
Mr.. Johu j. Nichoiasn. senior member of
the banking Erm IF J j. Nicholson & Sons,
of Baltimore died yesterday morning from a
comp cation Of disorders arising cut Ct his &c.
vanced age, he being in lis Il b year
\ violent wind end rain s.orm passed down
the Atlantic Coast on yesterday, doing cons der.
able damage at Cape May. The streets were
Hooded. trees Torn ur. telegraph wires pfcsirat.
cd, srd portion tt Din'2 .iar WA carried
away.
Two coaches on the south bound train of tho
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta railroad we're
!brown dawn an cDbalkment near Columbia,
S. g., by broken rail. on Sunday night, and
turued completely over. Sixteen persons We're
Injured, but nOno seriously.
The Rev. Nrwmau II Ill has g0ua to Swi:Z,r'
land. A large majority Of his congregation and
friends declare their uudiminished confidence
10 him and their intenli0r to stand by him as
firmly az ever Ic will soon be il lis pulpit
again 10 London.
As costs $40 less Der Car 10 ship wheat from
Milwaukee, to New York than from Milwaukee
to Rochester nnd in the SHAPE Of -four from
Rochester 10 New York, Rochester nilirs arc
being crowded out OF The business ADD complain
bitterly of freight DETERMINATIONS.
Tho Investigating committees 10 hIaasaohu
sets aDd RhOade Island show tha. firms c1n1-
pei their employees to vote contrary to their
c)nVciors AID that money is freely used for
election purposes. IL the SpraEue- Padelord
Campaign 1t cost Spfaguc $3.50. 600 aud psdtl
for S44 coo
Kinder Furgersoo. tho Oldest citizen 10 Indi.
ana, aged, los years. died last week at the 70.
sdence Of lis daughter, Mrs. Gob1, near
Holman statiCD, Scytt county. lie WAS born
10 Montgomery c.uliy, Firains, Angus o.
iIIl. where ho married in l7"2. and two years
later moved To kcntuoRy.
Owing 10 hetxcnsion Of tho rail way uostal
selVc, 10 the Southern States, aad the ncolssi
~ fer moro central standpoint OF supervision,
the Postoffice Dspsrtmcn! has added North
Carolina to the third division Ct railway mail
service, and removed the headquarters Of the
division from WashugIou 10 Richmond, Va.
A convict rsm:d S,ulurd in the Forest ooun
IT,. Pa Jail, carly Sturdy morning set fire to
the casing around the Wiodow Of his cell 10 tho
hope Of burning mole tbro ugh which he could
escape, but the flames spread 80 rapidly that
he was forced to call tho kccptr, and narrowly
escaped rozs:i1g 20 death ha!lrc the fire gas *
tiogaishcd.
Tie Uaitcl States Treasurer he's prepared q
circular of regulations in Relation 10 rXort 4:
| charges on mcncyato BE- issued and redeemed,
which provides that On all nolts sent for re.
Gcmptiou the charges ut Contract rates ere Dc.
ductGd frcm tho ,r;cccds; On fractional coin
the Charges must Gc prepaid by the sender; on
fractional currency il ;ulIs # lot less ,han $500
the charges must be prepaid BY he soudsr,
and On returns thereto! :ha ch,rsr Ga c7nrac.
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