Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-08-02
NEWS OF THE DAY.


NJ. de Lesseps has promised the Panama
Canal shareholders that the canal will be
open by 1890.
The public debt statement shows that the
reduction of the public debt during the
month of July amounted to 81 ,1S7, 2sS OS.
Able ]. A. Boyle, the Oldest priest on the
continent of America, died at Montreal
Tuesday. he was born in France in 1901
David Jackson Jumped from train run.
ming forty miles an hour near Piedmont. w.
Va, yesterday. and had both legs cut off.
James o. Johnson, lifelong friend Of
Henry Clay and executor under his WILL
died at Lexington, KY, yesterday at the
age of eighty.four.
Willie May Brown, twelve years of age,
was probably fatally shot at Atlanta yester'
day morning at her fathers home, being
mistaken for burglar.
Thieves entered the First Presby terrain
Church in New York last night and stole
the church's historic silver chsiice-a gift
from Daniel Gibson in 1880.
The postoffice at Atlantic City was enter.
ed Tuesday night by burglars, who secured
over 81 100 worth Of stamps, all the register
ed letters and from $50 to S75 10 cash.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com.
pany ia having made preliminary surveys
for the connection of Staten Island with the
Jersey Central tracks by the Arthur Kill
bridge.
Michael Murray, aged 81 years, while un
der the influence Of liquor yesterday, and to
carry out boast, Jumped from the rigging
of Spanish bark lying at q pier at New
Yort, distance of94feet, and was drowned.
The three elephants which broke loose
during the procession at Munich Tuesday
trampled to death man, woman and o
child, and 20 badly frightened lady that
che diei. Much damage WAS done to prop.
erty
While party Of boys y ere bathing in the
river near Georgetown, S. c., yesterday
only short distance from shore, an aliiga-
tor about twelve feet long appeared in the
midst of the bathers and, seizing a 12-year-
old boy, disappeared with its prey. Moth
| ing has since been seen of the boy.
The League games for the baseball cham
pionshiD played yesterday resulted as fol-
ows: New York 5. Washington 4 Philadel-
phia 4, Boston 2 Indianapolis 4, Detroit i;
Pittsbure c. Chicago New York will play
at Boston to day, Philadelphia at Washing.
ton. Indianapolis at Chicago and Pittsburg
at Detroit.
The American cotton oil trust held its au-
nual meeting yesterday in New York. The
outstanding certificates of the trust repre-
s. mt capital of $40 1S3 2S5. Net earnings
the past year were 81 81 376; expended for
| improvements. $3.50 93l; balance for the
year, 50 029, AS. No dividend was declar-
ed, the surplus earnings being reserved for
use in furtherance OF the purposes OF the
| trust.
The Senate yesterday passed the House
bills TO authorize the Baltimore and PoUo.
mac company 10 extend side track into
square 1925 10 the City of Washington and
the Richmond and Danville Railroad Com
pany to lay tracks in the District of Column
bia. The sundry civil appropriation bill was
further amended and passed. MIR. Calls
amendment appropriatiDg $40 600 for the
recovery of the property Of the late Confed-
crate States now held in adverse possession
was laid on the table.
Most of the members ofthe national dem
ocratic executive committee have left New
York for home. The Hon. John s. Barbour
of Virginia, will remain in the city and lend
the committee the help of those organizing
qualities that have won him such repute at
home. He snys he sees no reason why the
republicans should hope for success 10 Nir-
GINA, West Virginia or Tennessee. "In Vir-
ginia we have the republicans hopelessly d.
vided; but. even if their factional feuds were
settled We could beat them again as we did
in 1883 and 1854 All my reports and obser-
vations promise that both West Virginia and
Tennessee will give even bigger democratic
msjorities than usual. However, we do not
believe in over confidence, and will not al.
low any neglect to put the result In peril"