Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-09-08
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS UE HE LAY.
There were 1874 business failures in the
United States during the past week.
Prince Henri d'Orleans, accompanied by
his secretary, called at the White Hor
yesterday and paid his respects to the Presi-
dent.
The Right Rev. F. Jansen yesterday re-
ceived at Natchez, Miss, the ponlifcial
brief appointing him Archbishop of New
Orleans.
Mrs. Harriet Bsechtr Stowe is seriously
i'll at her residence in Sag Harbor, n. Y.
having bad a slight apoplectic attack u few
days ago.
President Spencer, of the Baltimore and
Ohio, has appointed commission to make
study of improved methods of work in
| railroad shops.
The City of Mexico was visited Thursday
| night by slight earthquake The oscilia-
tions lasted twenty.four seconds but no
damage was done.
The board Of Offices appointed to test
the guns and gun. carriages OF the U. ).
steamer Boston, report that they hnd them
thoroughly efficient for service.
A fire last night destroyed Memmert Il
Co.'S soap factory, on Rock Creek, in the
suburbs of Washington. About Sl2Oo
worth of tallow was consumed.
The steamer Nevada, which sailed from
New York for Liverpool on the 4th, was
towed back to that port yesterday by the
steamer Polaria, having broken her main
shafs.
There was a regular panic in peaches in
Baltimore yesterday, caused by the large
receipts of inferior peaches and the bad
weather. They sold all the way from ten
cents to a dollar per box.
The steamer Erin, which arrived at New
York on Thurday, brought 156 horses. The
nsiority were Psrcherons and intended for
heavy draught horses. There were few
French coach horses also.
TIE steamer Pfussien, from Philadelphia,
while on her way to Glasgow, in the Clyde,
at midnight Thursday night, came in coils
lon with and sunk the British steamer Mem
ling. The Memling was almost cut in TWO.
The Prussian was beeched.
The Hatfield trial at Pikesville, KY, has
come to close, all the prisoners being &C
quilted. They have returned to West Vir
gipis. Thus ends the famous case that
threatened interstate complications between
West Virginia and Kentucky.
The Texas State Capitol board yesterday
refused 10 receive the building. 1t is claimed
trat the massive copper roofs leak and there
are other serious defects. Messrs. Farwell
and Taylor. of Chicago, were 10 receive
Geo eco acres Of land for she building.
) A dispatch from Zanzibar says: 1.-THE
Pangani natives yesterday resisted the land
ing Of the German company's officers and
, the Sultans troops. Shots were exchanged
and two Germans were wounded. A Ger
man mau-ofWar afterwa-d bOmbarded
Tangs.
For the fourth time Cutler. Iud., was the
scene of q terrific explosion Thursday night.
Dynamite was placed under the postoffice
and that structure literally blown to atoms.
A large quantity of dynamite was found the
next morning under the hotel with matches
half burned.
1t is said that Mr.. Robert Garrett, during
the past few days, has had several violent
attacks and has had TO be restrained by the
: nurses, who are in constant watch over
him at Ringwood, n. ]. He is more quiet
in The day time, but at night his condition
changes. He becomes violent, means and
wells at short intervals until be falls asleep
from exhaustion.
n. H. r. Dawson, United States commits
s-oner OF education, in his annual report
Gays that more than twelve millions OF chill
dren attended the public schools some part
of the last fiscal year, and of these nearly
eight millions were in average daily attend
ance. In both respects the Southern States,
once go back ward, have made greater prog
ress than other parts of the country.
On Thursday night, while several gentle
men weresttng on doorstepin Courthouse
Square at Bonham, Tex heavy charges of
buckshot were fired toto Tho crowd from the
corner, about IS feet distant. ]. O. Hofi
man, democratic nominee for county asses.
sor, was instantly killed, and j. II. Holt
brother of the Texas member of the demo.
cratic national committee, was dangerously
wounded. Hoffman and ono other candi.
date were the only nominees Of the demo-
cratic party who had not been Endorsed by
the republicans. Holt and Hoffman had
received warnings that if they did not keep
quiet they would be put out of the way.