Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-08-01
NEWS OF THE DAY.

John Caswell & Co., tea dealers OF New
York city, have failed.
A national quarantine has been establish
ed at Delaware breakwater.
A fire al tho Hot Springs, Ark, yesterday
destroyed $65 900 worth of property.
Thomas Dickson, president of the Della
ware and Hudson Canal Company, died yes
ter,lay a. Morristown, n. j.
About seventeen thousand bushels of corn
were posted on the New York exchange
Yesterday as out OF condition.
The famous PAGERS Johnston and Richbell
have been matched at Cleveland for race
for S. 900 within three weeks.
Jeff. Wilson, colored, yesterday, IN III
of jealousy, shot and killed Jane Sanford
also colored, at Lexington, Mo.
At Jackson, KY, in drunken quarrel,
Wednesday, Sylvester Thorp was shot and
| mortally wounded by lack Campbell.
Mr.. Francis Metzger, well-known citi-
zen of East Baltimore, died yesterday morn'
ing of,paralysis, at his home in that CITY,
President Arthur, accompanied by Gen.
Sharpe and few friends, will leave New
| York for the Catskills Saturday morning
The steamer City Of Yazoo struck snag
and sunk at St. Delphine, nine miles below
Baton Rouge, La, yesterday No lives were
| lost.
Frederick Vock, of ST. Louis, one of the
principal indorsers for Kemple, the carriage
builder, who failed yesterday, committed
suicide by taking laudanum last night.
! The members OF the Manhattan club, Of
, New York, gave a reception at the cluo
rooms, in Fifth avenue, last evening, to the
, members of the democratic notification com
mittee, which arrived from Saratoga yester
day.
} The investigation of charges against the
keepers of certain intelligence offices OF pro
3 curing young girls for immoral purposes i
going on in New York. Two of the glrl
were sent to Aspinwall, and !lu Yaht back te
View YORK.
The gas tank in the hold of the Long Is
, land Railroad Company's ferryboat Manhat-
tan Beach, at New York, exploded yester
day from lighted candle being carried toe
; near it. Edwin K. Odell, the machnist, was
picked up crushed and senseless, and Sam
uel Farley, the engineer, was burned about
the face and hands.
Gov. Hendricks, ACCOMPANIED by Col. F.
u. Bannister, Of Indiana, and Judge George
W. Cathran, Of Chicago, arrived at Albany
at 22O p. M, yesterday, from Saratoga.
After short stop at the Delavan, carriages
were taken for the executive mansion.
where Gov Hendricks met Gov. Cleveland.
Their meeting was a cordial one. Gov.
Hendricks returned to Saratoga at p M.
Baltimore and vicinity were visited yes
terday afternoon by severe storm of wind
and rain, with thunder and lightning.
Houses on many streets on the moro de-
pressed parts Of the city were flooded, and
several of a block Of buildings in course of
erection on Carey street were thrown down
Several large shade trees in Harlem park
were blown down, seriously marring its an.
pearance. On Baltimore street heavy iron
awning posts were broken off by the force
of the wind. A colored child was killed by
the falling of part of house on Jephson
| street. The storm was more severe than
| any that has occurred for several years.
The New York prohibitionists formed a
county organization last night. A conven.
ton attended by two hundred persons was
held in the Seventh street Nj. f. Church.
L. Il. Ellsworth was chosen chairman.
The committee on credentials reported that
twenty-three societies were represented. A
general committee, consisting of one from
each assembly district, was chosen. Reso-
lutions were adopted condemning the H.
censing and sale of Intoxicating drinks, and
endorsing the platform and electors of the
national prohibition convention. It was
predicted that the party would win in 1855.