Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-08-12
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The British forces in Egypt are to be rails
ed to 10000.
A number OF Massachusetts clubs invited
Mr.. Blaine to banquet, which Mr.. Is. de-
cines
Judge E. z. Ellis, father of Congressman
+. John Ellis, of Louisiana, died yester-
day aged IS.
Senator Elmunds is living quietly at his
home in Burlington, VT, going out but little,
and avoiding publicity.
Mexico is overrun with locusts. A hun
dre;! square miles of territory in iucatan is
covered with them.
The plague has reappeared at Kerbela,
in Asiatc Turkey The influx of pilgrims
aggravates the malady.
The anthracite coal interests have agreed
upon suspension of coal mining on Sep
TENDER 1st to 9Th inclusive.
Mr.. J. ID. Price, Il well-known real estate
agent, died in Harrisonburg, Va, suddenly
Of heart disease Sunday night.
A meeting of Butler men was held in
New York last night to arrange for pub
lie reception to General Butler on August
10th
The ships composing the Greedy Relief
Expedition will shortly be put out of COM
mission, and their officers will be placed on
waiting orders.
IIX Judge Ford, one Of the best known
and most prominent lawyers i'll ST. Mary's
county, Md, died ut his home, in Leonard
town, OH Sunday.
\ very pcrceptible shock of earthquake
occurred on Lon. Island yesterday shortly
after noon, and II slight shock was felt al
Hartford, Conn, Sunday night.
The cholera epidemic, which has for some
tine been rivaging Marselles and Toulon,
is exported to be extending the area Of its
operations, without abalinS any OF its VIC
l.nce.
Kadyk Bcy, formerly Turkish minister Of
finance, has been arrested at Smyrna for H.
legal speculalions on the bOurse, in which
improper Uses were made of funds belong
ing TO the State treasury.
The custom Of leaving bunch of flowers
with Il card when calling is common with
cottagers at the most fashionable summer
resorts, and will undoubtedly be followed
next winter in New York.
A prize fight last night at Billy Madden's
saloon, in New York, between John Lynch
and Frank McCue, with hard gloves, was
won by Lynch. McCue was badly punish
ed. Both neil were covered with blood at
The end of the third round.
The Wheeling w. Va, Miaiigencer says:
especial dispatches sent hence to newspa-
pcrs East and West have grossly misrepre-
scnletl the financial condition of the city of
Wheeling" aud declares that the city owes
in round numbers Sob 900 all told
Ex- Mayor Edward Cooper has resigned
the craftsmanship of the executive committee
of the New York democratic State commit
tee on account Of i'll health Lately, when
in Europe, Mr.. Cooper contracted Roman
foyer, and he is still great sufferer from its
effects.
John Butler, flmrr residing in Hanover
county, Va, shot his wife fatally yesterday.
He had been beating one of the children,
when his wife interlerred, and he turned
upon her. She had him arrested, but he
escaped from the officer, and, returning
home, shot his wife Butler is now in Han
over county Jail.
A telegram was received at the Postotfice
Department yesterday announcing that The
postoIlicc in Dambers, :. c., had been clos
ed, and that the postmaster and his assist
ant had departed. Shortly after second
dispatch was received, signed by Il. G. Rob-
inson, the postmaster, who said that he had
been atlackcd and that his life had heen
threatened, and that lie had closed the Of
flee.