Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-12-27
ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE ANi) VIRGINIA ADVERTISE
ro.Day'S TELEGPAPHIC NEWS.

To.DAY's TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Tho recent sunsets of fire, so Mr.. Norman
! ooi.rar believes are caused by the Java
earthquake. "a
,jspatch from New Orleans says at ~
o,rlock This morning the condition OF Arch-
bishop Perche had in no way improved.
\ snecial dispatch to the Minneapolis
Mimi. Tribune reports the burning OF sever
al buildings in a business block at Fargo
yesterday. Loss $36,OOO
There were -. 500 deaths in Philadelphia
so far this year. OF this number Sol aea.nS
were from diphtheria 416 from Group anu
so from scarlet fever.
n Suakim dispatch OF the 18th inst,
state; that the rebels are menaclnS klwaJeh
and IN Egyptian gunboat will embark the
garrison aud inhabitants of that place.
An important consistory will be held in
Rome in March. Several new cardinals will
be created 1t is strongly probable that an
Amcr;c:ln will obtain one OF the coveted
| hats.
!. Jean Bapiistc Cueron Lcsueur the Archi-
tcct, aud member Of the Paris Institute IS
dead He was horn in 1871. lie was the
author OF mary works on architecture anu
chronology.
An unknown man Was run over and IN
s!auly killed yesterday afternoon Ivy
ircigh lat train on. The Philadelphia, Whining
| ton and Baltimore Railroad at Sixteenth
street ANIL Washington avenue Phliadel-
lhia.
| There appears TO be q revival of attempts
| 10 destroy life and property by the use OF
explosives, in England Beside the explo-
lion a. Birkenbead on the night OF the 23lh
dynamite cartridge was exploded in Bar
rack street, Strabanc, county Tyrone, Ire
land, yesterday, destroying the root OF a
house.
A dis,,ntch from Houston, Texas, says:
Last evening on the Galveston, Houston
and Henderson Road, near Clear Creek, an
engine, while switching, came in collision
with a hand car, slightly injuring COLI
tractor named +. +. Lewis and killing two
employees. Henry Bentiy, colorcd another
employee, was fatally crushed.
A Gi-patch from Alma Col, says snow
slide near Monczuma ON Monday, carried
John Hcntlsrem, John Ahlstrerl and John
| Ling, three miners. half mile down the
mountain AhIsrcm and Ling were found
Yesterday badly frozen, and will probably
die. Headstrem, who is still missing must
have been killed.
II is reported that the French govern
merit has sent u dispatch by telegraph to
Admiral Gourmet urging him 10 follow up
his victory at Sonlay with the utmost
rlomptneSs aud energy compatible with
prudence. 1t is expected that Admiral Cour.
bet will make an attack upon Hong Hoa,
some 20 miles above Sontay before he will
march his forces against Bac Mini.
Two hundred students, feeling offended
Iry an article that had been published in the
Paris Communist Journal Cri Dn Ptupie, be-
sicgcd the Office of that paper yesterday
evening and demanded that retraction OF
She offensive article should be printed. The
editor refused TO acceed to their demands.
The students dispersed, but will meet to-
right to determine what course they will
adopt in the matter.
At yesterdays session Of the Ohio conven-
| ton Of colored men in session at Columbus,
resolutions were adopted to petition the
Legislature To pass laws FOR their protection:
to repeal all the old statutes against them;
to improve the facilities for the education OF
colored youth, and asking both State and
national aid for colored schools; recon-
mendn@ cooperation among colored people
by the formation of joint stock companies in
business; thanking Senator Edmunds for his
Civil Rights bill, and Justice Harlan for his
dissenting opinion, &C., &c.