Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-12-06
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

There were 142 deaths in Baltimore last
week.
The old postoffics building in Philadel-
nhia was sold on Saturday to A. J. Drexel
for $4,000.
The French transport Chandernagor, re.
ported lost with 200 troops, is safe at
Tourano, AMMAN.
Thomas Finn committed suicide Satur-
day in New York because the girl he loved
did not love him.
The speculative transactions in stocks and
wheat in New York last week were the
largest ever recorded in that market.
The New York and Mobile Steamship
Company has been organized to operate a
line OF steamers between those points.
Twenty-Five leading citizens of Chicago
have subscribed million and ahalf dollars
to build grand opera house.
Secretary Endicott, in his annual report,
recommends an increase Of the army and
the creation of an assistant secretary ofwar
The net receipts of the government for
the year ended June so, 1886, were 1886,
439, 727, and the net expenditures S242,
49, 3S.
The Maryland State bastardy law was on
Saturday declared unconstitutional BY
Judge Dufy, of the Criminal Court of Bal.
timore.
Tho fne steamboat Charles Morgan, ply
ing between Cincinnati and New Orleans,
was burned at Fulton, Ohio, Saturday night
Loss $4,000.
BARLEY Campbell, the author, was re-.
moved Thursday from the Bloomingdals
Asylum, n. Y, to the Homeopathic Asylum
for the insane at Middletown.
Robbers on Saturday captured the night
Waterman Of James Emmett's bank, at
Waverly, Ohio, and in his presence blew
open the safe, took several thousand dollars
and departed.
William Dunn, who was married to Miss
Minnie Howard Eve months ago, at Louis.
vile, Ky, separated from her. but on Sat-
urday paid her visit and shot himselrdead
before her eyes.
AT meeting in Cork yesterday, address
ed by William O'Brieu, tho policemen pre-
sent were stoned by the crowd In the
evening there was n riot, in which many
persons were injured.
One thousand pensioners received certi
Lied checks for their quarterly allowance at
the UGlted States pension agency in New
York Saturday. Of these. six hundred
were veterans and four hundred widows
and orphans
Miss Louisa Carroll. daughter of ex-Gov-
ernor John Lee Carroll. was married in
Paris On Saturday to Count Jean do Ker-
gorlay. young officer in the French army.
All the noted Americans in the American
colony were present ut the wedding.
Scotland is going TO make an effart IN
capture the Americas cup that England
and ireland have so vaiuly essayed to win
through the crack cutters Genesta and
Galatea. Mr.. James Bells Thistle, now
building on the Clyde, is to be the challeng.
ing boat.
Capt James B. Eads says that gentlemen
interested in the scheme to shorten the dis.
lance between the Atlantic and Pacific
coasts ct North America by means of a ship.
railway across the Isthmus of Panama have
decided to abandon the acceptance of gov
ernmental aid, traInmelled by governmental
restrictions, and to form private corpora
ton.
1t is predicted that at the next conyen.
ton of the Protestant Episcopal Church
the word Protestant" will be dropped
from the name, and the name American
Catholic" or some similar name, adopted.
hecentiy it has been observed how great
Gas been the advance in strength which
The High Church party has made, and how
much less resistant the Low Church party
has become.