Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-09-12
NEWS OF The DAY
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The deaths from cholera at Manila on
Sunday We're l0%.
liolston Annual Conicrcncc.M M. +. Church
is to commence at Chattanooga, Tenn. Oct.
~. Bishop Simpson will preside
The statue of lbrahim Pasha, in Cairo, has
been overthrow. on the ground that the
erection OF statues is irreligious.
The Car and his family drove out in St.
Petersburg yesterday in an open carriage,
without escort.
The heaviest drop in corn experienced
yet i'll Chicago occurred in the earlier op-
lions yesterday, the decline being 3a5 cents.
Provisions also weakened steadily.
At Ammo, Ill.,, yesterday special Jury re-
1nrncd 4 verdict of nincty-ninc years in the
penilcntiary against Samuel Hazel, who
brutally murdered his five years old child.
Judge Charles James Faulkner jr., will be
strongly urged 10y the eastern counties for
the democratic nomination for Congress in
the second district Of West Virginia.
President Arthur held Il reception on
board the steamer Dispatch, at Bar Harbor,
Maine. Yesterday morning and witnessed
naval review i'll the afternoon.
A coniiding Englishman folded s. Bank
OF England note, directed it to friend in
Scotland, stamped and posted it at Leeds,
and in this unprotected state it went to its
destination.
The doors Of the Merchants Club Of Bal
timorc were for the first time thrown open
10 its members yesterday morningand until
late iii the afternoon the spacious building
waS throngcd.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has on its track
cast of Pittsburg 42,293 freight cars of all
CLASSES and sos passenger cars in use daily.
West of Pittaburg the Pennsylvania compa-
ny have ~, 600 cars. making the total equip
mcnt for freight 76,S03 cars These cars
placed together would make II continuous
train $50 miles long.
The grain markets were generally lower
yesterday. The principal feature was a
sharp decline i'll corn, caused by the tavora-
bic weather in the West and advices of low
cr prices in all other markets. At the Bal
tlmorc Corn and Flour exchange mixed
Western corn for October delivery sold at
~ cents, and closed in the afternoon at 72g
cents.
4 heavy rain and wind storm visited Co
lumbus, Ga, and vicinity Saturdaynight and
continued more or less throughout the day.
Sunday. Reports of much damage to cot
ton and corn are received. a special from
Tuskeegcc, Alabama, says that about 1000
trees were blown down in that city and dam
age TO the crops i'll the surrounding country,
us estimated, will reach $4,000. A special
from Talbotton, says the storm was the most
destructive that has visited that county since
1906. Great damage was done to crops and
timber
The long-drawn out star route trial ter
minated yesterday in mixed verdict
the jury convicting some, acquitting some,
and dlsaSreeing as to some. They found
that Rerdcl and Miner had conspircd to de-
fraud the government; that Turner and
Peck, the latter (deceascd) had not so con-
spircd, but whether Brady, the Dorseys, and
Vale had been concerned in the conspiracy
with Rerdell and Miner they could not de-
eide. The public will share the Judges con-
fusion at the result. How contractors could
be guilty of an oflense in tryidg to get large
price for doing little work when no officer
OF the government is in collision with them
will puzzle the Philadelphia LAWYERS of the
prosecution. The trial has been a tedious
and costly one and It's barren results unsat
lsiactury 10 all. but the fact that the Jury
stood ten for the conviction of the chief Of.
tenders Is almost equal to verdict of guilty.
ct 1t Is lame and impotent conclusion that
the men whom most the jury considered
TO DC the grcetest criminals escape for the
Whiie ana The lesser ones are called guilty.
Ii Is said that motion for new tria will
i,p entered