Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-12-04
NEWS OF THE DAY
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General Grant has written another letter
defending General Fitz John Porter
Nine converts to the Baptist faith were
baptised i'll the river at Baltimore yesterday.
New Orleans is preparing already for the
next Mardi Gras.
The new suspension bridge across Mag
ara river is to be completed by September
|, 1855.
Congressman Orth, of Indiana, is dan.
gcrously ill with Bright's disease Of the kid
neNs.
Inc Baltimore Day is now sold at ono cent
4 copy. 1t Is 4 good paper, and deserves to
be encouraged by Baltimorcaus.
Two children were burned to death by the
destruction Ola tenement house at Millvillc,
Pa, on Friday night.
A grand.niecc of Simon Cameron has
eloped from Kalamazoo, Mich. with tray
cling salesman.
Mr.. J. Cloud Norris n cll.known Balti-
more printer and publisher, died Friday
night, in that city, after a lin erins illness.
Nicholas Heibeck. Baltimore cabinet
maker, committed suicide by hanging on
Saturday because he could get no work al
his trade.
dispatch from Provincctown, Mass,
says the schooner Oliver Ames, from Kennc-
bee river for Baltimore with ice, was wreck
cd there Saturday. The crew was saved.
Thirteen young children died in the steer
age OF the steamer Gcllert, of the Hamburg
American line in the passage to New York
which ended on Thursday.
Fires occurred yesterday in Galveston
and Houston, Texas: in Vincennes, Ind.
and Philadelphia and Pottsvilc, Pa, de-
stroying much property.
Clinton McMichacl. the editor and pro-
prctor Of the Philadelphia North dmerican
has been appointed by the President to be
the successor of Marshal Henry.
y negro named Bill Allen, who had kill
Cd a policeman i'll Chicago, was riddled with
bullets yesterday and killed by officers who
were eadeavoring to capture him.
Frank Frayne, who shot and killed An
'nle Won Behren in Cincinnati at the Thanks
giving matinee, has been acquitted, it, OF
course, being proved that he had no inten.
ton Of hurting her.
As Mr.. John Hunnicut, of Walhalla, SC.
was going homo on Saturday night with hi.
little son, years of age, he was brutalll
murdered. and his boy had his head frac-
tured. The boy is still alive, and says
negro with m ax-handlc committed the
deed.
AT o'clock yesterday morning shoot
ing atiray occurred in the Office of Doctors
Clay and EvttSky, at Dubuque Iowa. They
nad been partners for long time. Doctor
Evitsky died instantly, and it is said Doctor
| n YNnt 1
bottom Of the trouble.
Late Saturday night Henry Cannon, col
ored, went to the house ofhis wife, from
Wnom be had been separated, in Memphis.
broke in the door Of her dwelling, and kill
Ell with butcher knife q colored woman
who was sleeping with her under the i'm
prcs:Aon that the companion of MS wifi, was
Il man.
A Baltimore bar-kecper a night or tw,
| ago upon nearing that Il detachment from
tho salvation Army" would hold services
on ms corner hired an organ-griuder and
six boys with tin horns, and unon the for
mer commencing to sing the latter s.struch
up" causing the detachment TO seek an.
other field
III. c. Denman. who claims to be brothe,
of an English Lord, has been arrested H.
Dubuque, Iowa, charged with illegal voting
1t appears that he recently purchased lo
of furniture i'll that city on credit, giving q
mortgage on the same, and failing to meet
his payments, had his chattels seized on bl
the sheriff. whom he sues for $40 900 dam
ages.
1t is said that if the population Of thi.
country continues to double each twenty
five years, as it has been doing, we shall
have eight hundred millions of people t.
ward the close OF twentieth century, or an
average Of four hundred to the square mil,
of productive land, more than can be sup.
ported unless the power of the human rae
to extract food from the soil is enormously
increased.