Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-08-05
NEWS OF THE DAY
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The wife of Fred Douglass died in Wash
ington yesterday aged SO years.
The President will probably accept an i'll
vitation 10 visit the West in September
Gold mining has been resumed on the
Isthmus of Panama.
The business failures reported in New
York during the past seven days numbered
104, as against III last week.
Provision is made for large increase of
postal and pension clerks by the legislative
appropriation bill recently passed.
Mr.. John f. Kenna has been nominated
for Congress in the Charlestown, w. Va,
district.
The Providence Paper Mill, near Elkton
Md, owned by the Philadelphia Record, was
burned yesterday.
Lieutenant John w. ~Banenhower was
very much improved by his visit to the
mountains, both in general health and in his
eyes.
An unprecedented rainfall in the vicinity
Of New Lexington, Ohio Thursday night,
timated ut from 800, 900 to $4,000
An informer named Conncll is going TO
testify to the existence of secret Irish
organization for the deposition of Queen
Victoria.
The Porte has drawn upon the Khetlive
for the expenses of sending Turkish troops
to Egypt, and the English consul general
has warned the Alexandria banks not to
honor Turkish drafts.
Mr.. VIM. l.. Wilson, recently selected
president of the University of West Virginia
has been named by the Commissioner OF
Agriculture us one OF the commissioners OF
board TO gather agricultural information fol
that department of the government.
H. o. Dow & Co., known rs the Queen
City Plow Company, dealers and manufac
turcrs ofagricultural implements, have made
IN assignment ut Springfield, Mo. Their
assets are estimated ut from $4,000 TO $40.
600; the liabilities are not known.
A horrible double murder was committed
last Tuesday night at Spring garden Centre
in Eolusia county, Florida. 4 Mr.. Ncll' and
his wife were killed and horribly mutilated
then robbed, and the house set on fire. Tho
flames were extingllished in time to discover
the atrociOus deed.
Yesterday evening Franklin P. Hawkins
and Lewis Minks attempted TO drive across
the railroad track at Bayview Junction, q
short distance east of Baltimore, when thcil
wagon was struck by the engine Of Il train
The wagon was demolished and both Occl
pants seriously if not fatally hurt.
VIM. Walsh and J. j. 1lely, prominent
young men, rival suilors for the hand of {;
young woman residing in New Orleans, me-
in front Of her residence yesterday morn
ing. Each drew pistol and commenced
firing Seven shots had been exchanged
when young Walsh fell dead with bulet
in his brain.
Another Presidential crank was arrestcl
in Washington last night He said that h,
would be President before the year is out
that Arthur was Canadian, and that there
were plenty Of American citizens who ough
to have his place He said he had becl
locked up for two weeks in Chicago io
being crazy; that his birthplace was Boston
but that his father and mother lived il
st, Louis, No. He gave his name as De
nobriga
Colonel f. B. G. Cash, who was tried las
year for killing Colonel Shannon in duel
announces himself as an independent candi
date for Congress in the 9TH South Carolin;
district. EX-Judge ]. r. Mackey, who Wa
a prominent republican during the admins
tratlOns Of Governors Scott and Moses, an(
who became democrat in 1876, has sever
ed his connection with the democratic
party, and also announces himself as an in
dependent candidate for Congress in TIT
fifth district
Six miles north of Grenada, Miss, on tn,
kirkman plantation, Capt. Thomas Kirk
man Thursday night went to the quarters o
a colored woman with whom he has LIVED
for several years, and killed her and he
four children. Each were killed by single
blow from an axe. kirkman, after In,
murder, took an eighth Of an ounce of NOR
phine, coolly unlrcsscd, and went to bed in
the same room with the dead. When dis
covered i'll the morning he was still alive
though no hopes were entertained of hi
recovery.
AT Cumberland the New Central Goa
Company having notified the county au
thorities that the county would be held re
sponsible for farther trouble ut the mines
the Sheriff went to Homecoming yesterday
morning and swore in posse of twenty
men, mostly strikers, and placed them OF
duty. The officials of the Georges Greek
Coal Company had conference with thci
old miners on the subject of resumption, bu
nothing definite was reached A number O
persons including several women for whom
warrants were issued by the New Contra
Company, charged with unlaw:,l assemb,
and threatening the police at Lonaconn!
Wednesday, appeared and gave boud il
500 each for the October court.
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