Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-07-24
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The remarkable heat wave still hoVers
over England.
Ex-President Arthur's health is said to
have again improved.
Secretary Manning is said to be improy-
ing in health rapidly.
Pittsburg, Pa, tailors are advertising their
delinquent customers.
Interest in the Grant monument fund
seems 10 be on the wane.
There were 1G0 business failures in this
country during the past week.
Baltimore manufacturing interests arc
said to be on the increase.
The Baltimore baseball team defeated
the Cincinnatis 10 to yesterday.
Chaco, tho Apache chief, it is said, has
committed fifty murders during his life.
An electric motor for streets, it is claimed,
has been successfully tested in Philadelphia.
There was boom in Southern State Sc
cureties in Wall street, New York, yester-
day.
The British yacht Galatea has not yet
reached New York. She has been out 2G
days.
| 1t is estimated that the oleomargarine tax
will yield million dollars to the govern
ment.
Three boys were drowned while bathing
in the Delaware near Cooper's Point, yes.
terday.
The Philadelphia brewers have decided
to stand by Ehret during his conflict with
the boycotters.
Representative Morgan, of Mississippi
cerliies to the virtues Of the maidstone in
preventing hydrophobia.
A kentucky school teacher, named Wat
son, was given hundred lashes for outrag.
ing three of his girl pupils.
The outlook for the proposed Lynchburg,
Halifax and North Carolina Railroad is
said to decidedly encouraging.
An enthusiastic Californian is construct
ing an air ship in which he says he will
cross the continent in two days.
The Richmond democratic committee
have called meetings in that city for the
purpose Of electing new committee.
Leonard Whitney special agent of the
Western Union Telegraph Company in
Washington died last-night of kidney dis
ease, aged Sc years.
At Franklinsville, Randolph county, n.
c., boiler in the Randolph Manufacturing
Company's mills exploded. Several men
narrowly escaped injury.
Fifteen Jewish Immigrants from Russia,
who arrived in New York Thursday, were
ordered to return from whence they came
because of their extreme Indulgence.
According to the New York World under
| takers profits average about 400 per cent.
While sometimes running as low as 800 per
cent, they frequently amount to 800.
Mary Holweil Holweger, an interesting
girl of thirteen, was waylaid by some un-
known Gend near her parents residence in
Franklin, Ohio, yesterday, outraged and
murdered.
A wild woman, half starved and almost
naked, has been captured in the Swamp of
the Spooks, marshy tract Of woodland on
the outskirts of the Lutheran Cemetery, 10
Fresh Pond, L. I.
The trial of case in New York yester-
day developed the fact that the last of Gen.
Wushington's natural teeth has been kept
as an heirloom in the family of John Green
wood for nearly q century.
Stephen Brodie, a newsboy and pedes-
TRAN, jumped from the New York and
Brooklyn bridge yesterday. and was taken
from the water uninjured.. Brodie was
drunk when he made the leap.
It is stated that the various packing firms
at the Chicago stock yards propose TO re.
turn to the ten-hour system August l. If
the men refuse TO work on the old system,
il is asserted that the houses will close.
Charles Hutcbing. the general business
agent Of the American Board Of Foreign
Mission was yesterday morning run over
by Boston and Lowell railroad cars near
Boston receiving injuries Of which ho died
in few hours.
A story is going the rounds to the effect
that the first oath of allegiance taken by
Abraham Lincoln was administered by JEFF
ferson Davis. 1t was during the Black
Hawk war, and Lincoln at the time was
captain Of militia.
An ice. cream supper was given at East
port, Maine, Thursday. The minister and
about DO other persons were taken violently
i'll with cramps and vomiting. The doctors
say the illness must have been caused by q
poisonous extract.
About o'clock yesterday morning COL
ored woman named Mollie Hayes was taken
sick on Pennsylvania avenue northwest.
Washington, and taken into the hallway Of
| house 207 Of that thoroughiare, where she
was delivered of child.
The rain and wind-storm which passed
over Philadelphia Thursday night about
midnight did considerable damage, especial
ly in that portion south of Reed street. A
number of buildings were unroofed, and
several persons slightly injured. Great ex-
element prevailed during the storm.
Suit for sec, 900 damages was commenced
in Chicago yesterday by Miss Ezrene Fuller
against Dr. Stephen G. Heveney. Miss
Fuller charges that while being treated the
doctor gave her drug which caused her to
become unconscious and that while she was
in this state he made criminal assault upon
| her.
Heavy rains caused sewer to cave in
Thursday night, in Brooklyn, N. Y, causing
break ten feet wide. Soon after the gas
pipes broke, letting out volume of gas. 1t
| ignited, and sent flame up nearly to the
ton of the houses, and illuminated the vi.
cinity until the supply was turned off by the
gas company.