Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-10-13
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Mr.. Levy, proprietor OF the London Daily
Telegraph, is dead.
A fire 10 st. Louis last night destroyed
$50 900 worth of property.
The exact number of the dead by The col.
Iision on the Lehgh Valley railroad Wed
nesday evening is sxty-thrse.
The u. S. stea uer Tallapoosa is rumored
to have run ashore OF The coast Of Brszil
and sustained serious damage.
Thompson, Love s. McAIahon, coal deal
ers of Baltimore Yesterday made deed of
trust for the benefit of their creditors.
q French cruiser has arrived at Zanzibar
for the purpose OF preventing the use of the
| French flag by savers as a cover to their
trade.
Land speculatous caused the failures of
the Boyer Valley Bank at Woodbne. Iowa
aud the Caldwell Bank al Logan. in the
same State.
Pauline Mccoy, q nneteen-year old negro
girl. was hanged at Union Springs, Ala,
Yesterday for the murder ofa fourteen-year-
old white child.
There were &c new cases of yellow fever
and deaths at Jacksonville yesterday.
Total number of cases to date, 3,495. Total
number Of deaths, sos.
The democratic conferrees of the eighth
congressional district of Pennsylvania, NOM
mated William Mutcher, OF Esston, yester'
day morning On the 34i;h ballot.
Baron Carl Won Gotta, head of the great
German publishing firm which issued
Goethe's and Schilei's works, has just died.
The house was founded as early as lG4O.
Addison Cammack. the bear operator in
tn. stock market in New York, is credited
with having made over one million dollars
on tins recent capeEings Of the wheat mar
kets
Hon. S. S. Cox was renominated last night
for Congress by the German democrats OF
the ninth district Of New York. Tsmmauy
Hail nominated Mr.. Cox also for the same
district.
The B. & o. Railroad board OF inquiry
recommended the dismissal OF the freight
train men whose mistake caused the acci.
dent last Saturday night on the Metropoli-
ten Branch.
Mrs. A. L. Nichols, OF Washington, who
was guest at the Westminster Hotel, New
York, is mourning the disappearance of q
case OF awelry valued at 81 coo. Whether
the valuables were taken from her room or
were lost on the street is not known.
Prime Minister Floquet, of France de
cIares that he will resign if the project for
the revision of the constitution Is rejected
or has to be adopted by a majority secured
by coalition He further declares that he
will only accept the vote of republican
majority sdoptiug the project.
The three -masted schooner Annie B Ran
dali, from Clarkes Cove. Maine, for Eliza
beth City, n. g., with ice, was wrecked last
night five miles south of Cape Hatterss.
The crew were rescued by life saving meE
after having been strapped to the mast Tor
FIVE hours. The vessel is a total wreck.
The opening of the contest on the mayor
city election in New York with four candi-
dates 10 the field, almost sets the national
issue in the background. Samuel j. Iildeu
once said about similar situation: You
might as we'll expect peace in hell as no
trading ia New York with three men run
Mug for the same office"
The result of the charter election on Tues
day in Newark, New Jersey. Appearsto de-
moustrate the futility ofthe free trade scare,
upon which the republicans have been rely
ing for success in the present campaign.
The city went democratic for the Grst time
in twenty years in an election proceeding
the presidential election.
II has been estimated that the number Of
J
made up or al any rate not known to the
party canvassers, does not exceed ten
thousand 1t is also estimated that the
number of speakers, big or little, on the
stump in the ninety counties OF Indiana at
the present must he at least , 800.
Tammany Hall has again rendered the
olive branch to the County Democracy by
the unanimous passage by the committee OF
twenty four OF resolution in favor OF un
ion of all the democratic organizations in tho
nomination of congressional candidates in
districts in which democratic dissensoDs
might result in the election of republican
members Of Congress.
Mr.. Jay Gould's expressed determination
not to give active attention to business Is
thus explained by Mr.. Henry Ciews in his
crculer when Mr. Gould wants to buy
stocks he usually deserts the street and is
reported Us being sick, even unto death, but
when he wants to sell he Is always to be
found 10 good health in proximity with his
brokers, doing the fine work in handling
the market to land stocks upon
, Dynamite on The Track.