Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-12-20

NEHS OF Tie OdY.

There Woo 100 death ia BiItlnoro las! T:tk
and l45 births.
The receipts CT Nil. Sarah Brnhatds's B.s-
ton campaign amount to $40 $3.50.
The R.rublioans hsva the Organization end
cont!cl eff the Tennessee House OF Representa-
ti9es.
Mr.. David 9. Msrio, we'll kloWn OF! I'm
of Bal,mcrr, fractured his 1kul by falling Oh
the street Friday evening, 10 tha. city, aud
died before daylight Saturday.
CIV. Foster, of Ohio. has Withdrawn from
The janitorial race. This irsareG tho election
Of Secre.c:Y Sherman to succeed Senator Thur
mar.
Fifteen pcrSo0s nra known 10 have been killed
! f.. tho Bitf4lo, N. Y. FIRE last Friday nipht.
The total loss will ret fall isr short of 5000 co.,
| CD witch thtrj is co iusrrarc, Of 1923 500.
Tho fadDgs Of The Maryland Fifth RaQi-
! nept curt ct irqniry show Col. B1rgWyn to be
CD efIiciAuL commsn5iug ofioor, AID slso es'ab
lish the fac; thet ho has msintaiaod thorough
discipline 10 the regiment si1c) he assumed the
| colouelcy.
By decision Of the Court of Appeals Of Mary
land the PepLsylVsnis RAload 10 Maryland
secures tbs right 10 cpttr the City of Cunbcr-
| lsnd By tho r0uto 1t has c5tsso, and to main.
| 1.
| that city.
Tho Merchants ard Miners Transportation
Company, which is eugsged to carry Baltimore
and Ohio freight from New Y ork to Baltimore,
| has ordered two pew steamships to BE- built 10
addition to tho nluo they have already IN per-
| manont service, ifrcs1t Give of temporary char
ter5.
John g. Calhoun, an tomato Of tho Insane
| asylum at Stockton. Csl.. rec2n!ly Committed
| from E5uerslda county, Nevada, Was drow1ed
| noar San Francisco yesterday. lilo bad reoov-
cred bis reason and would hive boen discharged
10 few DAYS. lie was pepheE of tho late
Senator Calhoun.
Mrs. Thomas Hicks Lord is tho guest of
Lady Dudley ct her Eogish cjuotry house,
aud there is DO probability of her returning to
New York before spring. She is Gu. of mourn.
log and her costumes src the admiration of the
ladies. Tho English notl,m,o, who was go
affective to her when she vas Mrs. Hicks has
renewed bis suit.
A meeting OF The creditors Of B. g. Arocll
& Co., coffee Importers of New York, took
place Satuld,y. The total liabilities ere
s., ISL ,9l4, OF which sSS4.650 arc unsecured;
total assets sl57l, l9S. end iudiViiu;l assets OF
Is. @. Arnold, principally 10 real estate, Of
nonlasl value OF SIl5,0OO. A committee OF
six creditors vas appointed to investigate the
affairs Of the firm AID report.
A mysterious star, called tho Pilgrim, which
was observed ir CAS-, 1864 end 1872, is xpeot-
ed by Astronomers to appear befors long. II
vas described 10 1912 as brighter than Jupiter
aad such vas its brilsncy that persons wsro
ablo to detec. it ct coon in c'cir SKY. and at
night when lhn sk7 wss so overcast as to hide
all other stars" II it appears, it will probable
be visible fer sevarel weeks in the constellation
of Cassiopoa.
Twenty-Five electric LAMPS of tho Brush pat-
on. have hoan erected in ns macy blocks o.
Broadway, Now York. AID are all ready for il
lnninaliog that section Of the city between
Fourteenth and Thir y.fourh sroots. They ara
mcuated 90 iron posis twenty feet high; and
the wires, which are FIVE times S. thi,k as those
used for telegraph lines. ara stretched along the
Western Uaion posts. The power is furaIshed
by oro hundred horse power Corliss engine,
to three generating macbiocs.