Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-08-06
NEWS OF THE DAY.


NEWS OF THE DAY.
The report of the health officer of Wash
ington for last week shows l21 deaths, OF
whom 20 were white and 81 colored.
A part of the tower of old Christ Church
in GEORGETOWN, which is being demolished,
fell Yesterday and slightly injured several
wnrkmen.
Mayor Lamb has issued a proclamation
calling upon the citizens of Norfolk to ar
range for suitable observance of the burial
day of General Grant.
Mr.. Robert Harold, well known dealer
in china, crockery and glassware, OF Rlch-
mond, made an assignment yesterday. His
liabilities are about Sl3, 600.
To day, at Gastein, the famous Austrian
watering place, Kaiser William of Germany
and the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austra
will have their annual meeting.
Samuel Jackson is on trial in the county
court at Warrenton, Va, charged with the
murder of Lycurgus Yates, at RectortoWn,
Fauquier county, on the 18th of December
last.
At The chapel of the Redemptorist Dori.
tiate, Annapolis, Sunday, nine young men
took thv perpetual vows of poverty, chastity
and obedience, and eleven others received
the habit of religion.
Jennie White, colored woman, who died
in St. Joseph, Mo-, on Sunday last, is said to
have been born one hundred and twenty.
two years ago She was a native Of the
eastern part OF Georgia.
Henry Laboucherc caused stir in the
British House of Commons yesterday by a
motion to reject the appropriation bill until
he present government explain their
Egyptian policy. The motion was rejected.
The Fitz Lee Troop, of Lynchburg, pa
raded the streets Of that city Saturday after.
noon in honor of the nomination of their
"sod father" Gen. Fi'Zhugh Lee, as the
democratic candidate for Governor Of Eir-
giDn
A dispatch from Vienna says "Auslria
has formally notifed the United States gov
crnmenL that Mr. Kelley is not acceptable
as American minister to Austria, and has
expressed the hope that he will he recalled
and another appointment be made"
Prime Minister Salisbury told the deputa-
ton Of sugar manufacturers who want re-
talatory measures imposed upon the United
States for the bounty afforded through its
custom laws TO American manufacturers Of
not give the desired help unless tho country
changed its free trade policy.
North Carolina is receiving the benefit Of
n steady fJw Of immigration, the average
number of Immigrants per month being
about $50. The State commissioner of i'm
migration says they come mainly from Penn
sylvania, but all the Middle and New Eng
land'States are represented Most Of the
al,
The cost Of General Grants funeral in
New York is estimated ut about one million
dollars, but as IN offset to this enormous ex
penditurc il has been calculated that The
strangers who will visit the city to- witness
the pageant will spend there at least 3d.
00,000 SO that The spectacle is paying in.
restment for the city. 1T is thought that at
least 400, 600 strangers will De in the city on
Saturday.
The remains OF Gen. Grant reached New
York yesterday and will lie in state, in the
City Hall there, until Saturday at 10 o'clock
a. N. The correspondent Of the Baltimore
Sun says ut is a pity that the funeral is
partaking more aud more of the character OF
great show. This immense display is not
at all in keeping with the simple, unassum-
ing character Of the man in whose honor os-
tensibly it is all made"
The New York Herald says that "John S.
Wise, the read uster candidate for Governor
of Virginia, came to New York city after his
nomination, to pave the way for raising
funds to carry that State. He declared
while here that with $4,000 Virginia could
be fixed as sure republican rs Pennsylvania
or any northern State. Mr.. Blaine has
promised to assist Wise, but whether be
will 60 to Virginia to stump the State is not
known"
At Porter Station, village of three hun
dred inhabitants in Indiana an epidemic is
raging. which in the last three days has car
ried Off five persons, leaving fifteen danger
ously i'll, and about twenty five others of
whose condition the doctors cannot speak
with any degree of certainty. The people
of the village are mostly Swedes. About
ten days ago the first symptoms of the
scourge made its appearance, and manifest.
ed itself in vomiting and diarrhetic dis
charges.