Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-08-18
NEWS OF THE DAY.


The new King of Anam was crowned yes
terday AT Hue with great pomp.
PittSburg was visited by terrible thun.
der shower. Saturday. Hail fell as large as
marbles.
Ex-senator John Pool, of North Carolina,
died suddenly of apoplexy in Washington
Saturday.
There were 15S deaths in Baltimore last
week, % more than for the corresponding
week of 1855
The Washington Light Infantry went iu-
to camp yesterday at Long Branch, and the
90 US received an enthusiastic welcome.
The steamship Assyrian Monarch, which
arrived III New York yesterday, brought
l2l thoroughbred Normandy stations and
mares.
For the fourth time the entire business
PARTON Of Anoka, Mimi, has been de-
s;roycd by fire, enailing loss of $l75 900
ar 5000 0n0
\ revival Of the cholera epidemic is feared
ia Toulon, owing to relaxed precautions.
The disease is making Roadway in the
smaller towns.
A despatch from Melbourne, Australia.
SAYS that the rowing race between Beach
and IIanlan on the Parramatta river for
500 side, has come OIL, Beach winning
by seven lengths.
Lieut. Greedy, in an interview giving an
account of the Arctic expedition and its
scientific results, expresses his firm belief in
he existence Of an open sea beyone the ice
fields. but doubts the ability of man to reach
the North Pole.
VIM. l.. Schafier, for over fifty years
cashier of the Girard National Bank, Phila-
delphia. died Saturday of heart disease
aged IS years. He was clerk in the Of
flee Of Stephen Girard from 1928 to the
death of the philanthropist in 1881.
Lieut.. Greedy when asked Us to his ideas
upon the probable results of Arctic eyplor-
aIious SAID: Il do not think the North
Pole can be reached unless every circum-
Sauce hitherto found to he unfavorable
should prove favorable to the party at
tempting to reach the Pole"
John a. Logan, r. cadet at West Point
aj;d Il SOD Of the republican candidate for
Vice President, has been placed under ar
rest 10 await trial by court martial on
charge of using profane language while on
dusy and for conduct unbecoming a cadet
and prsjudcal to military discipline.
Joseph Brattan, chief Judge of the Or
yhans' Court Of Wicomico county, Md,
died Saturday morning in the sixty eighth
year Of his age ut his residence, at Barren
Creek springs, twelve miles from Salisbury.
The deceased was descendant from Col.
ourl Brattan. who held commission in the
Continental army during the Revolutionary
war.
1t is stated that Letter has been received
from ex- Senator Conkling in which he says
hat it is not true that he has promised to
make any Blaine and Logan speeches or do
any campaign work this fall. This is un-
fortunate in view Of the fact that the Blaine
managers in New York recently authorized
the statement that Conkling was relied up
on by them not only to enthusiastically
support blaine and Logan, but that be had
promised TO make a dozen or more cam
pnign speeches.
4 Boston despatch says: The will Of Ar.
:hur W. Austin, Of Milton, has been filed at
DuIham. He bequeaths his estate to his
surviving relatives, but makes the college
Of William and Mary, in Virginia, his re-
~iduari Icgatce. He also gives all his books
and papers OF Il public nature to that insti
tuition. I'm case the said college shall be
Discontinued, the property then is to be
given Ia the University of Virginia, of
which Thomas Jefferson was one of the
founders Mr. Austin was well known
citizen Of Boston, of which he was once
postmaster apd Il thorough democrat.