Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-09-12
NEWS OF THE DAY.

day is the anniversary of the battle of
North Point.
A citizen OF Barnegat, N. j., has three
acres planted in sunfowers.
Colonel Ingersoll will address the Free
thinkers Convention at Albany Sunday.
Paddy Ryan says he is anxious to meet
Sullivan, but that the latter is afraid to
fight him.
A Young man was fined S. in Washington
Yesterday for disturbing the services of the
Salvation Army.
Another Mollie Mcguire outbreak is
threatened in the Pennsylvania mining re-
gions November 1.
Among those recently admitted to the
Naval Academy at Annapolis was Louis
NcNulton, of Virginia.
Forty of the 81 candidates for naval cadet
ships recently examined at Annapolis have
been admitted to the Academy.
Three American bishops are in Rome in
connection with the work of the Third
Plenary Council, held in Baltimore.
Mother de Chantal, at Wilksbarre, Pa,
aged sixty years, died at St. Mary's Convent
yesterday morning of organic heart disease.
1t is announced that Congressman John
w. Daniel, of Virginia, will be one OF the
speakers at the Iroquois banquet in Chicago
November 4.
Four specimens Of the Rattlesnake variety
of watermelons raised in Maryland) were
received in Baltimore yesterday. They
weighed respectively SO, SCI, So! and 50
pounds.
An appeal is made for assistance for the
homeless families at Washington Court
House, Ohio. 1t is estimated that the indt-
ydual losses from Wednesdays tornado
will reach s250,0OO.
Fifteen associations of labor, including
10000 workingmen, expect to participate
in the labor demonstration in Baltimore to-
day to inaugurate movement for making
September IL legal holiday.
Ex-senator Creswell, government coun-
sci before the Court of Alabama Claims, in
letter to Comptroller Durham, holds that
his salary was fixed by Congress, and makes
a formal demand for the money.
Letters OF administration were granted in
New York yesterday to Mrs. Isabella Davis,
the widow of Tom Davis, who was recently
shot by Holland. The personal property Of
Davis, so far as known, was about 500.
Alfred D. Darby, lately employed at the
Government Printing Office in Washington,
has been sent to the insane asylum. His
mania was due to an over taxed brain. He
msgined himself to he possessed Of oil
knowledge.
Gen. Rosecrans, register of the treasury,
has asked for the designations of VIM. 7.
Ttcomb, assistant register, and Hartwell
Jenison, Charles Ncall, Arthur Hendricks,
]. 81. Beatty and N. B. Walker, chiefs Of
divisions in the registers office.
Peter Knolbach, of Locust Gap, Pa, who,
in fit of jealousy, shot his sweetheart, Miss
Julia Kramer, through the head while she
stood conversing with a rival sutton, was
sentenced by Judge Rockefeller yesterday
to six years solitary confinement in the
county prison.
Mr.. John A. Kinner, CT Lynchburg, Va,
one of the best chess players in the South.
ern States is earnestly engaged in organic
ing State chess association. The plan
contemplates annual tournaments at the
principal cities in Virginia. The first ofthe
tournaments will probably he held in Rich
mond in October.
Mr.. Doyle, the sculptor, who is at work
on o statue of the late United States Senator
B. H. Hill, for the city Of Atlanta, has found
a defect in the marble of the pedestal, and
he is to cut new one. The figure is of he.
roic sizs The Senator is standing erect,
with q cloak gracefully draping over his left
arm. Tho likeness is said to be fine.
The Rev. j. II. Brown, colored minister,
confined in the county workhouse at Mem
phis, Tenn, and serving out term for big
amy, succeeded in breaking out on Wednes.
day night. He was pursued by three guards
and overtaben. The guards ordered him to
stop, but he paid no heed to their command
and all three fired at him. He fell forward
dead
The September report of the department
of agriculture, now in press, contains an ar
tcle showing the production, consumption
and distribution of wheat of the United
States in eight years past, and others de-
monstrating the excess of commercial esti-
mates of Pacific coast wheat production,
and the incompleteness of assessors returns
of Western States as to area and product.
Since the ending of the coal hauers'strike
in the Wheeling Creek Nv. Va coal mines
there has been much i'll feeling between the
old drivers and the men who filled their
places. Thursday night two of the strikers
miners and others attempted to tear down
the house of Isaac Jones, one of the new
haulers. Jones fred into the crowd, seri-
ously 'wounding Frank Eiclicker and Ber
nard Moconaugh. Serious trouble is now
feared.
A large meeting of the manufacturers of
sugar shocks was held at Grafton, w. Va,
yesterday. 1t appeared that while hereto
fore largo amount of shocks were manu-.
featured by them, all of which were export.
ed from Baltimore, and gave employment
to hundreds of men and consumed timber
otherwise unstable, that unless there was
some action by Congress at once to protect
the shocks, that they would entirely BE-
superseded by English bags. 1t was, there
fore, resolved to ask Congress to place an
additional tariff upon sugar imported in
bags, and to secure the cooperation of the
exporters and shook manufacturers every
where to this end.
The COURSE OF TRUE LovE-That was
a touching story about Capt. Robson, who