Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-07-12
NEWS OF The DAY.

1hs health Inspector OF J,rjsy City states |
that there baVe been eight casts of small pex
reported to him size, last Saturday bficrnocu. |
The total amount OF subscfip!iors to The furd |
lor The bentf; Of Mrs. Gal6slI and family. re.
ported up to yesterday evening. was 1922 1855. |
The Navy Department will DO represented at
the ictktoWn oaten1lal celebration by four
training ships and all The vessels of The North
Atlantic squadron.
sparllnsburg c;ulty. 8. g., has ~ large
mslorliy voted subscription of SIS 900 to one
OF the links 10 tho proposed extension Of the
Virginia Midland Railway.
Va the lst lest. terrific burticano FROM tho
asst swept along tho ooast of Newfoundland
destroying pcsrly al tho small craft in vericus
hartors.
A tell gram OF ynpathy aud congratu!a!ion
TO tho President wss rioaived OF The State
Department yesterday from the Sublime Porte,
through AristaruEi Bay, Turkish ambassador.
HOB. Phinlas W. Hitchcock, ex United
| States Senator from Nebraska, died at Omaha
| Sunday. OF general debility. augmented by ey
pcsu:e IN The recent extreme heat. llo was
fifty years old.
Mr.. Charles Brush, Ct Cleveland, Oaio, sn.
nouoces that b. has solved tho problem CT
storing electricity, so that it can bo carried from
place 10 pIao., ard delivered like coal, oil.
gasoline, etc., or osn b, Il acsd ca cars and used
to pItp,l them.
A delicate looking little girl not fourteen
| years cid WAS found 10 the street 10 New York
last light vomiIing Paris green, which she had
taxa to end her life. The polio, removed tho
| slrl to the hospital, Hhtrs sh, lies in e critical
o,pdilion.
Ida May Dny.on, jersey City, N. j., three
yaars OF aSe. died Suaday last OF lydrophubia,
un Ter most dstrt ssDg oirtu Dslaucrs Shs YVES
bitten by dog on the 18Th Of May, whilst play.
| log on the street, and bydropbobis did not make
lis npptafau until last Friday.
\ h0t "wavo" is king tn. Temperature
rather uncomfortable 10 The Wost. At St.
LOUIS The Thermometer r. Clustered loo @ Wi,h
the exception If July 81, 1869, it was The
| hottest day 10 &c YEARS. Ii was difficult Tor
| The Steamboats, tu get mea 10 discharge their
cargoes.
| District Attcraty Uolkhi Of Washington,
10 ptep.rlog tor The indie ment Of Guileau as
soo1 as tho retus OF tho Presidents wound is
dehnltely aEo,rsnod. All newspapers and
! information beailog 90 tie sutj:ot If tho
| Presidents ojndlliOa are oar4i1l'y kent from
| the asiesain.
| a water spout at Marsha!loHo, Iowa, ysster
day morning, flooded the plaza aud pu. fry
houses tt)at. A number of manufactures
| establishments were damaged. Iha meadow
lands along Tho Iowa river were Inundated, and
The farmers hung Gu! signals Of distrcss from
tho hou'etppS. As far SO ascertsiut Il 20 lives
were lest.
| Fourteen cars OF freight train on the
| Che,g', ST. Paul, Minneapolis ard Onshs
railroad broke loose Sunday at HUDSON, Wis,
and started backwards doWo q steep Grade to-
wards North Hudson. scqairiog a remaikstle
speed. At the depot they crashed into another
freight trsio, killing The engioetr. Tho loss il
estimated at $40. 900.
| Information comes from D. A1c Ak, Of a
murder Committed near that place. A little
orphan girl. about - or IA years old, who was
beiog raised by MIR. SsrgI. was Outraged
and murdered last Friday moroirg whiIs ca her
way 10 school, The body vas nos found uall
Saturday Suspicion poists 10 two colorod
men as tho perpetrators OF tho outrage, aod it
seems to DO correct, as they hev, lo!t the
country and cannot DO found.
Governor Foster. Ct Ooio, has r,o,vcl telo-
grams from The Governors of Iodiaps, Massa-
cLu'ettS, Kansas. Wise lnsin, Touuosseo, Ar.
kansas. 1lliocis, Virginia, Alabama, Missouri,
Georgia. ksnIu,ky. Mississippi, New York,
Nebraska Vermont. Florida, Georgia, Nav
Jersey. West Virginia and Wyoming Territory,
approving tho suggestion 10 refarsuc, to fixing
day to BIO observed as praise day far tho ro
covery of President Garfield
William Wilson engaged himself to marry
Susan SGuhwell Ct Ogden Utah. ard aucng
his Riits were o saving machine and cabinet
organ. Her parents forbade tho uuiun. and
told him TO tska away tho presents, but he
delayed doing so uotl be was married TO anoh
err girl, aud thor, When be c.lled, Scsln gave
him such a lbrasbDg that recovery ia doubtful.
Hs considers himself husky 10 not btiag tied to
tho virago for life.