Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-08-12
NEWS OF THE DAY.


Senator Cameron, of Pennsylvania, is said
to be worth 100000.
Information has been received at the
State Department of the release OF Santos,
an American citizen imprisoned III hcuador.
Further advices from Tonquin say that
over ten thousand Christians have been mas
sacred in the provinces of Biendink and
Phyyen.
The London Daily Netcs prints two COL
umns of anecdotes from its Paris correspon-
dent about General Grant. The matter IS
all creditabe to the General.
Mrs. Mary Barefoot, aged ninety three
wears aud nine months, died July rs IN
Bedford county, Pa. She died in he house
which she helped to build sixty eight years
apo. The total number of her descendants
living is PSF.
A French woman, who was formerly the
mistress of Sir Charles Dixie, has been cited
for the plaintiff in the Crawford divorce
case. She, it ia alleged, will DE the leading
witness to prove the liaison of Sir Charles
with Mrs. Crawford.
Bishop Randolph, of the diocese OF Vir
einia, is reported 10 have made the best
wheat crop on his farm, near Melrose Sta.
ton. made in the lower section of Fauquier
county. A ueighbor, on 235 acres aud with
80 tons of guano, made 925 bushels.
The amount of matter concerning Gen.
Grant published in the newspapers and
periodicals Of the United States since the
day Of his death is simply enormous. The
estimate being 160,G 96 columns. The NUM-
Der of words would be over 100000.
PAIL Angulo and other Spanish refugees
in London are under veillance, the Span
ish government having received information
that plot to assaasinate King Alfonzo has
been arranged in England, and that emissa-
ries have left England, via France, for the
Spanish frontier.
Col. Alexander Thompson, whose illness
has been mentioned in the GAZETTE, died
at Providence hospital, Washington, Sun
| day, aged about seventy five years. He
was an old citizen of Hanover county, Va i,
of which he was once sheriff. He was buried
yesterday in Graceland cemetery.
The horse owned by Gen. StonewaIl Jack
son during the war, and ridden by him up
| to the time of its famous owners fatal wound
| was sent to Richmond yesterday and placed
! ia the Homo for ex Confederate Soldiers.
| The animal is nearly 81 years old, and for
some time past has been ut the Virginia
Military Institute, at Lexington.
Tho Soldiers monument at Atlanta, GA,
| is to have statues Of Grant, Lee, Johnson
and Sherman around the base Of the col
umn. Near the top will be two soldiers
the blue and the gray-clasring hands, aud
above the globe that crowns the summit
| will be the Goddess OF Liberty. The struc.
ture will be $50 feet in height, and will cost
100000
Ex-Governor Franklin D. Moses, of South
Carolina, recently released from a term of
imprisonment in Midalesex county, Mass,
! for obtaining money under false pretenses,
was agsia in court in B,>ton yesterday on
| default warrant for obtaining money from
Samuel C. Cobb, Fred. l.. Ames, and others,
representing that he was Colonel Simms,
of Charleston.
The highest tides OF the season occurred
| on Saturday and Sunday at Atlantic City.
| From the old government jatty TO the new
| iron pier he water broke over the beach,
filling the pond and flooding TO tho broad
walk In many places it dashed far under
the bath houses, and the breakers rolled
through the pilings of the piers, reaching
nearly to the floors.
The four. masted ship Frederick Billings
| was launched at Rockport, Me-, yesterday.
| She is the second largest ship ever built in the
us. Her tonnage is ,, CPS tons, length POI
| feet, from deck to main truck Isl feet. Her
masts will extend 10 feet above the Brook
Ign bridge, and three Of the four sections
will have to be lowered in order to pass
under that structure Her total cost is
$4,000
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