Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-12-29
NEWS OF TEE DAY.

Las oSCI liuSllOuSO uUtll 7 5OEueFS.
A food is feared at Port Deposit, Nd.
owing to accumulated ice in the Susaue.
hanna.
A movement is on foot, to erect mouu.
ment over the grave of Father Ryan at
Mobile.
The city council of Charleston returns
thanks to all contributors to the funds for
the earthquake sufferers
1t is estimated that it will cost 81 900 900
to establish q boundary line between Alaska
and British North America.
At the meeting of the British cabinet yes.
terday it was agreed that Lord Harrington
be again Invited to enter the ministry.
p. Henry Dugro, the grand sachem of
Tammany Hall. has resigned County
Clerk James A. Flack has been elected to
succeed him.
The Secretary of tho Treasury yesterday
issued the 145th call for the redemption of
bonds. The call is for $40 100000 of the 5
per cent. loan of 1882.
There is said TO be q movement on foot
among Grand Army posts to pay of tho in
debtednoss on the late Gen. Logan's Wash.
ington residence.
Two dynamite cartridges have been found
in the cable tunnel in the street in San
Francisco, along which the car line runs
where the strikers riot occurred.
Railway lines on the continent of Europe
are still blocked with snow. The storm of
Monday evening again put a stop to tee-
graphic communication in England.
1t is said that VIM. NJ. Clements who re.
signed as master of transportation of the B.
and .. system on Jan. /, 1856, will be ap-
pointed 10 his old place on January l, next.
Mrs John Burke, Of Scranton, Pa, fell
down stairs with q lighted lamp in her
hand Sunday night. The lamp exploded,
set fire to her clothing, and she was burned
to death.
Sidney B. Abbott, local editor of the
Georges NeUs, Charleston, S. c., was run
over yesterday and killed III tournament
after winning the first priza and browning
the queen.
1t is said that DR.. McGlyna has been sus.
pended by Archbishop Corrigan. of New
York, and will remain suspended until
the matter between him aud the authorities
at Rome has been settled.
AT a grand reception given to the officers
OF tho army by the Minister of War, in
Paris, yesterday, Gen. Bculangcr emphat-
ically discaimed the warlike intentions as
crihed TO him in Germany.
Timothy Wright, of New lo.k, filed bill
in Chicago yesterday against his cousin,
Iaomas Lyman, for an accounting and dis.
covery, claiming that Lyman has failed to
account Tor an estate worth nearly So, 100000.
Nlpper and Major, two famous 35 pound
Philadelphia dogs, fought for $500 side
yesterday. Nipper had lit in the third
scratch, and the fight was given TO Major,
though it was charged that Nipper had been
poisoned.
Gen. Boulanger, the French minister of
war, has consented to reduction in the
supplementary credit asked for the military
department Of the government for the lnan.
cial year from S60,0O0,OOO, the amount ro-
Quested, to $l0,000,000.
Rev. G. 3. Scales, of East LYNN, iii
who ran away with Miss Matthews. leay.
ing his wife and five children behind, was
arrested at London, Ontario, Yesterday.
The parties concerned consented to 60 back
in charge Of detective.
The 1 o'clock train from New York YES
terday evening brought 267 school teachers
from New York city and Brooklyn to Wash
ington. Many of the excnrsionists visited
the naval observatory and botanical gardens
last night To day was spent in sight.
seeing.
In East st. Louis yesterday a water tank
on the reirgerating. house OF the Helm
brewery fel! through the roof, killing John
Keefer, ali employee, and breaking the pipes
SO as liberate quantity Of ammonia gas,
which was inhaled by two men with proba
bly, fatal results.
Charters of incorporation were filed at
Nashville, Tenn. yesterday, for two new rail.
roads, Memphis and Nashville and the Ten.
nessee Midland, the first running from Mem.
phls to Nashville, the second from Mompbis
to the Virginia State line in Hancock coup
ty, Tenn.
Harvard College receives some S4OO 600
from the will of John Q A. Williams, which
was filed in the Suffolk County Probate
Court yesterday. The estate is left in trust,
and, after the bequest of several legacies,
when the residue shall have reached S4OO..
600, it is to be given to the president and
fellows of Harvard College.
On Christmas night Sam Black and his
two children were burned to death in his
house on the Northwestern Railroad in
South Carolina. Black was drunk and fell
IN the large fire place. In his efforts to get
out he scattered the fire over the room and
the house was burned, only the charred
bones of the unfortunates remaining.
In the trial of Rev. Waldo Messaros in
Philadelphia yesterday the defendant took
the stand. He denied emphatically Mrs.
Couston's statements. She had forced her
attention upon him and had repeatedly
said her husband was thief, forger and a
liar Mr.. Messaros branded Mrs. Coulston's
allegation as part of plot to oust him from
the pulpit and the charge of assault as u
vile lie.
Under the new free delivery law thirty.
five cities have made application to have the
delivery established. Col Bates, Superin-
tendent of Free Delivery. said yesterday
that any town entitled to the benefits of the
law must make application to the Depart.
ment either through its postmaster or by pe.
tifion, if it is desired to hive the free de!iv
cry system, otherwise the Department can.
not act in the matter.
The Logan pail bearers will be Gen. 81
mon Cameron, Ex-senator Roscoe Cunk
ling, ex Secretary Robert Lincoln, G. H.
Andrews, of Youngstown, Ohio, Col. Fred