Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-08-10
NEWS or TIE DAY,

Ihey arc having peach glu:" 10 Bati
moe. Yesterday 5000 packages were received
there.
10 sovcra! southern States rain AID Sorsas
hsVo damaged the cotton crop, bu,, ou she
whole, the August report is favorable.
Ssuator ConkliDe and Gen. Batj. L. Butler,
held conference ct tho Fifth Avenue Hotel,
Now York, yesterday.
Negotiations are on foot 10 mako Clarcmont
the Joint stccsyar1 for tho Pconsylvsbia and
Baltimore and Ohio railroads Dear Baltimore.
The viii Of the !aso II. Clay Miller, Of Balti-
more. leaves d!r2c! biquesto to tho value of
$500. 0GO
Thirty thousand dollars have hutn spcp: to
get the bodies OF tho victims Ct tho Hudson
tunnel disaster snd she TolE hes got to be dJro
over og:io.
Tho shipment Of produce cast from Ch;clgo
last week was Increased By 10, 900 tons over the
Transportation tor the previous wick, mak!og
total OF S5,O0S TOES.
Ncgoiiatioos between tho Ca1slisn niais!ers
arc Ena!ish capitalists for the CONSTRUCTION Of
the Pacific railroad ere said to DO progressing
satisfactorily.
It il stated that Garcrsl Scbeuck cannot i've
long. lie is 10 feeble health, being S I'll c.od
With Bright's disease, and is II gears Of age.
Gen. Scbeuck is now 10 Vermont.
For tho fifth or sixth time tho Ptruvisrs and
Chl!!a1s Eavo rejected the overurcs made By
representatives ct this government ior fettic.
mert of their difficulties b. arbitration.
Az aerelan outrage is reported ia Ireland.
The Crowd collector in County Tioperary sIa
his Two cons welc fred oo. Tho c,lleotor Will
die and one Of his sors is dcad. Six s!rests
have been made.
A-o:hcr excursion boat carrying large load
OF passengers went down ia Long I.iaud Scuad
on Sunday evening. bet fortunately ir such
shoal water that her upper works wGEo uccov-
cred, aud no lives were lost.
|. A mob, supposed to be Tcpocsscears, troko
into the jail at Athens Ala, Saturday night,
took therofrOm q white man named Blilo7, Whe
had murdered his wife 10 May, 1879, and
hanged him to tree in the court house yard.
1t is estimated that toe total uumbcr oflcttcrs
OF all classes pass!1g through the mails Cor Inc
fiscal year which ended Juno so, 1850, was
SEC j93, 592;; ucstal cards. pc. 4lG,7l6 Dews.
papers. COS. lis G21i magazines, 53472 go;
m!sct llGnc0uS printed matter. SEQ S45, $50, snd
atiolcs CT merchandise, %, 634 d56
AL VIZ uSinuIltiS III tuo CGSC OF iona VI,
Burke against James g. Flood and othe,s, now
on t:ial 10 San Francisco have been decided
ssslns. tho dcisGdnus, and the caaa now rests
entirely On questions of fact. The psiatiG
seeks to recover $l0,429.0 600 of Consolidated
Virginia stock alleged to lavo beca appropriated
by defendant.
At Nowbernc. N. g.. on Saturday, Miss
Lizzie Hill vas arrested on the charge CT havirc
murdered John Lawtecca. young man OF
Edgccombo county, in 1873. Thu cifair is
sbroudcd 10 mystery. hu: i. was understood that
Lawrence was engaged 10 her, When, fer some
reason, she tirod Of him, AID, it is slcged, she
got him cut OF the Way.
Tho railiall il all parts Ct North Carolina
within tho pass ten days has been heavy. The
swollen streams have taken sgay bridges and
feaces, aud have done vsst Damage to tho corn
crop. The Cape Fcar river rasc thirty two feet,
aid it's fertile nnds, with their luxurisnt crops,
arc submerged. The rcopo ere still hopeful,
as the genera! prospect for nops is better thar
for twenty years. The lion weather through
cut the whole spiirg embed tho farmers 10
haVa their crops IL good condition FIR nc rains
The cotoa crop is Tho tcss etoEn in tho State
scc2 The war.