Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-07-13
NEWS OF THE DAY
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The Emperor of Germany will visit the
Emperor of Austria at Ischl on the 9Th of
August.
The water of the Schuykil river, above
Reading, is returning to its normal condi-
ton.
BY an explosion Of gas in Paris. yester-
day, twelve houses were DESTROYED and
twenty persons killed and forty wounded.
G. E. Muller, one of the largest iron and
stell merchants of Middlesborough, Eng
land, has failed. His liabilities are tl50 900.
On the 9TH instant a band of forty rene
gade Indians attacked the town of MacMl
lenville, Arizona, burning the houses and
wounding two men.
The packing houses of Baltimore are now
very busy with their summer work, and the
amount of vegetables and fruits put'up this
year will be very large.
The chemical analysis of the bouquet
which Mrs. Scoville attempted to send to
Guiteau, it is said, disclosed that it contained
enough arsenic to kill twelve men.
The last spike in the Paducah and Mem
phis dision of the Chesapeake, Ohio and
Southwestern railroad was driven to-day
in the neigborhood of the Hatchie river in
| Tennessee.
The stockholders of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal will meet to-day to elect Il pres
ident, but doubt has been thrown on the
legality Of the call.
The deaths in New York yesterday num-
bered lS9 OF these % were infants, due to
the effects of heat There were seven deaths
from sunstroke, and quite a number of pros
trations from the heat.
The Pennsylvania republican State cen
trail committee held 4 conference in Phill-
delphia yesterday for the purpose of har.
monzing the factions of the party. All the
regular candidates expressed their willing
ness to retire, if necessary.
William Ritter, negro in Jail at Hendcr,
SON, Kentucky, on the charge of rape and
murder of Helen Brewster, u mulatto girl
II years old, was taken from the Jail at that
place Tuesday night by mob and hanged
to tree. Ii is supposed that the execu
TONERS were composed of blacks.
The lightning struck Ghias' block at Tex
arkana, Ark, last night. The walls fell OF
Paragon:s saloon, crushing it to atoms
About thirty lives were lost. Some of thu
bodies have already been taken out, ant
workmen arc engaged searching for Others
; fire has broken out under the ruins.
The cable steamers Retriever and Silver
town have landed the shore ends of thu
cables on the coasts of the Central Ameri
can States, and will leave Tchuantepec OF
Thursday, laying the cable southwark I,
Panama, thus completing telegraphic com
munication from Valparaiso northward.
a fight with knives occurred at Oxford
n. c., Yesterday morning between two mel
named Usry and Morgan. They quarrel
about piece Of land several days ago and
meeting OH the street yesterday, each drew
a knife and the bloody work began. Boil
were trightfully and MORALLY wounded
The news from Alexandria, Egypt, in thi
mornings papers is no later than that given
in yesterday evenings GAZETTE, or arc tn
details much fuller. 1t is supposed that tn
Egyptian troops have evacuated the city
, and that the city is being wilfully reduce,
to ashes, but this is only surmisc. At mid
, night large fire was visible in the dircc
f ton Of the British consulate The city i
repeated to he almost empty, and it is be
, licvcd to have been abandoned to low
Arabs possibly to 9plnnder.' hut this ia>'n q