Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-11-08
NEWS OF LIE DAY.

week last suunlcr,
The raDcr5 !hGt General John Morglo ls
living ia Nav NJ xco is Incorrect.
About SIS 600 worth Of property was de5
tro3ed by FIRE 10 D;vsr, N, H.. yesterday.
Seuat5rs Voorhces Ct I1diaus; Bialp, ct
Maine. aud B:sir, Of New Hampshire, w:re 10
New York % Saturday.
Tho E kIide, Nd, lex hunters bad 6ne Eu1
10 Howard county 90 Saturday, bat cid moi
catch the fox,
Col. Luciep g. Cause. ter six years Congress.
| man from The first Arkansas district. died OF
consumption, Friday, at Jacksooport.
Tho land league Of Lowell, Mass, held
uecticg yesterday TO consider mesturers fer the
sssista1c, Of PARCEL ard bis cosdiu:toTs.
| a Nashville dispatch says the vote for Hsw
kDa, rep. for Governor of Tepnrs:e will reach
05 600. which will give lin $1,000 msj9Il'y
over Wright, State c;e3it domtc:at
Nearly one thousand houses have b:eu erected
real estate are high, and many families are ua-
able to find houses at any price.
| 10 conversation With on interviewer. Mr..
| Hayes expressed the opinion that the pol:c7 CT
| GeoeIal Garfield, as President, will ION oil rs.
| SGQtldl pOlUl6 Do 10 SCStNu Will VI 1uS
present administration. Wis what?
| Returrs from about half the State Of hon
lucky indicate that Hauccck's m:jJriiy will be
50 900. 1t is generally conceded that White,
rep. defeats Turner, dem, 10 the tia.h Con-
grcsslcna district.
The hesviest gale experienced il twenty yesr5
passed. ever EXC, Pa, yesterday, doing con-
siderable damage to shippilg. Tho storm was
also very sever on Like Ontario and several
disasters to vessels werc reported,
Oac hundred and twelve cases Of diphtherie
were reported to the Brooklyn Board Of Health
est week, Of which forty.eight were fatal.
Duriog O,tcbtr 400 cases were reported, the
deaths numbering l6S.
Reuben Dodson. respectable cooGed msu,
| 70 years old, was killed in GreenVile. S. e.,
Saturday night, while Oh bis way home, by ~.
known parties. He wss we'll kloTn democrat,
and lis murder is supposed to be Oh sc,ou1! OF
his politics.
Willie, the fifteen year oil con Of & Gov
erDnr Sprague. made an unsuccessful attempt
in Rhode Island, Saturday, 10 shoot Robert
| Thompson, his mothtrs trustee. lie fired ono
shot from pistol, tho ball W:zaiog close BY
| Mr.. Thompson's head.
| The Methodists spont $272,G22 ia 1879 ia
foreign missions and S254 9O4 10 homo missions.
Tho total valuation of Methodist cbu:
property in this county is between seventy snd
eighty million dollars, on which there is very
large debt.
| Amorg tho things which Governor Williams
bids tho people OF ludana 10 BE- Thankful! Tor,
10 his Thanksgiving proclamation, is tie growth
of the state from population OF CT 600, to
2 600 0C0 10 sixty four years. and % Increase OF
valuation to 81 900. 600 600.
Mrs. Howe. the president of tho Woucp'
Bank, Boston, which is 10 defau. 10 ils deposi
tors nearly baIfa million Ct dollars, upon icing
a!raigoed 10 ojurt triad tho insanity dodge. An
exchange wants TO know IF she scooped 10
$500 900 while insare what wouldn't che have
done 10 her right mind?
The committees representing the State and
local delcCac coy Of New York have resolved up
on a through Investigation Of alleged frauds by
colonization, repeating, &c.. in the recent Presl
dsntial election in that State. 1t is further
stated that the Naticna! Democratic Committee
will convene this v;ce 10 New York city fer
the samo purpose,
| A letter from warm personal friend Of G:n.
Malone ssys: Gen. Malone deo:lreS posi-
lively to talk about future party relations or 81:
1 OVID D0lticlI cOQreps ACkGUHISuEluH HlNscii
as completely surprised BY the result, he say S
be is uDdismayed. ard will do his best mex:
time. He says that for the present, Sd far ss
the Sonata is concerned, be is CAUCUS ct oEc,
aud shall rrgc ic, mastery Inactivity
Tba determination Of Judge Wylio, Of Wash
uglop, NOT 10 release Samuel l.. Petty, tho
treasury messenger. who i; claimed es q iusitieo
from Justice o. N rth Carolina. g7as p!aiuly
nsds known Saturday. Ho said that althoush
lbe forgery related TO only SIS, and $500 bal!
he'd bceo naid ca tho forfeiture Of Perry's bsil
bond ia Narlh Cs.olina, sid although there
,c-ss mo testimony Which tended to show that
,hore was ercat pr jaci,s agnicst him in North
CsroIioa, yet tt2 papers we're su'h Of required
| Lis reDGiiioD.
Sister Gertrude Vcra1a, Of ito s.. Jo1S
ls,p!i.t Home. charitable i;sIulInn IT tue
! Protestant Eyisoopa Chuah IL Nav IH.k, vas
| shot sad seriously wounded ou Suaday By ie 80
Stsplos, on insane mao. Sna EEL unconscious
| inlo the arms of other Sisters. who had been
! alarucd By the fiiog just as they opened tho
door. and, !ui ior their liGitly aopearlcoo
Stanton might hav5 Killed her outright,
Stanton, yher srreated, said ho had beon be
wilohea t3 scno Gus and !h5ush. Sister Ger.
truds vas !ho person PLo beWiichcd hin. He
did not kuoE her. No ono has get bacn found
who knows tic msn.
VTRGTNTA NERS