Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-08-18
NEWS OF IHE DAY.

Diplomatic relations between Roumauia and
tho United States are completely established.
Frost on Sunday night 10 low lying lands is
reported from various portions of Oota,io.
A fire 10 Eureka, Nevada, yesterday, de-.
stroyed property valued ct 81, 100000
The democrats of the Seventh Kentucky dis.
trict renominattd J. q. s. Blackburn for Con.
gress yesterday.
The delightfully."- cool weather wo arc now on
Joylng ID bringing city people back FROM the
seaside and mountain resorts
In compliance with the desire of President
Hayes, tho Sultan bias decided to maintain tho
Turkish legation at Washington,
The SUN collected from customs at New Y ork
tor tho last fiscal year Yves $l3l,8 349. SO,
against $9,046, 244 for 1879.
The Northwestern Lumbermsns Association
IS 10 convention at Chicago, 800 delegates being
present. The belief is that the lumb,riog To-
terest Is hou,ishirg, and that tho demand is
greater than ever.
Duling picoio riot at Irving Palk, B ,lti.
more, yesterday, where 5000 colored people
IRON Baltimore. Washington. and intermediate
points had assembled, ive men wero shot and
severely wounded and twenty others were hurt
A special train wss dispatched from Baltimore
with policemen to queIl the disturbance.
NJ. A. Boynton, lawyer of Grand Haven,
Mich, charged 10 New York with having 10
bis possession bonds of the State of South
Carolina belonging to Charles kerrisou, aliegrd
to have been stolen during tho march of Sher-
mans army TO the sea, has been discharged
there being no evidence to sustain criminal
complaint.
Hon. Hester Clymer. of Pennsylvania, sus
tanned severe frtc.ure of the right arm last
night by the overturniug of bis carriage. The
wheels on one side went over tho end of small
road bridge noar Reading while trying to turn
out for another vehicle His mother in law
and sister in law, who accompanied him. ca
capped with few bruisee
Agricultural Bureau crop reports show that
tho potato crop averages q little better than
year ago, and tho yield 10 sll paris of tho oouu.
try promises to DO good. The acreage of buck.
wheat 10 Pennsylvania and New York, where
halt the totsl crop is grown, has declined two
per cent: The season has been very unfavors-
Die for tho boy crop 10 Eastern and Middle
States. but west of the Mississippi averages are
high.
Gen. Bryan Grimes, was sssassinated on the
l4th instant, near his home 10 Pitt county,
North Uarollna. Rumor says he was riding 10
buggy along tho highway when ho was shot
dead by some one concealed 10 the bushes
The murderer is supposed 10 have been negro
Or white map, against both of whom General
drlmes was 80 important witness 10 an arson
case. General Grimes was very prominent
citizors.
Elk Governor Harschel V. johnson died A.
bis residence 10 Jefferson county, Ca, last night
10 the 69sh year of his age. He was United
States Senator 10 1913 and Governor of Georpi,
from 1853 TO 1857. He Was also the demo cratic
osndldate for Woe President With Douglass 10
l.! 10y. snd member of the secession convention
10 Georgia 10 1861, when he opposed vigorously
the policy of leaving the Uoion. 10 1868 be
was elected to the Confederate States Senate,
ard presided over the State constitutional con-
vven!ion 10 1865. In 1866 be was elected United
States Senator, but was not permitted to take
ms seat; 10 1873 be was elected circuit Judge
of the State. which position he he'd at the time
OF bis death.