Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-10-08
NEWS OF THE DAY.

York.
Mrs. Langtry, her neice and Mr.. Fred.
Gebhard arrived al New York from Europe
yesterday.
Andrew Carnegie, the millionaire iron
manufacture. returned to New York from
Europe yesterday.
It seems now pretty we'll settled that, in
spite OF Pasteur's supposed discovery, there
is no real cure for rabies.
It ia stated that Mr. O5erly is to be sue
ceeded rs civil service commissioner by
Governor Proctor Knott, OF Kentucky.
There ara $50 divorce cases entered in the
four courts of Common Pleas ofPhiladelphia
for the current year to dete.
jos Lannon, of Boston, says he is the man
W no IS to fight Kilrain, but the public gen.
orally believe that Sullivan Is the "un-
known"
The Rev. DR.. Julius f. Grammer entered
yesterday upon the twenty fifth year OF his
| service as rector Of st. Peters T. h. Church,
Baltimore.
A weak girl baby prematurely born at
the Wards Island immigrant hospital, New
York has been kept alive for thirty days in
an incubator.
Gen. Beauregard, who returned from Eu-
| rope OF Saturday OH the steamer Umoria,
was confined 10 bis stateroom during the
trip, and is now i'll in New York.
Ii is understood that the Pre- has
decided 20 sell Oak View, and that when
the sale is completed he will purchase a
place Oh the Heights OF Georgetown.
A striking feature OF yesterdays bulletin
from Jacksonville, Fla, was the small num-
Der Of new cnses and the large death roll,
nine in number, and all white. New cases,
So deaths, 8. Total new Cases TO date,
3,l5l /; total deaths, 29l.
The conductors, drivers and cable grip
men on the North Side, Chicago. struck
Saturday. The strikers employed express
wagons and ether vehicles 10 carry passen-
gers along the line of the cars. The men on
| the West Side threaten TO strike also.
Jake Kilrsin says he is ready to meet,
within forty eight hours, the syndicate that
PROPOSES matching an unknown against
him, and in case the syndicate fail to make
q match with him he will claim the $1,000
forfeit now posted with the Herald in Pari7.
Ga Saturday delegation called on the
President and petitioned him to pardon
Judge Terry, COZ fined in Jail at San Fran
cisco for contempt Of the United States
Court. The President promised TO consu
with the Attorney General in reference 10
the matter.
Last "Wednesday Alexander Johns, q
young negro engaged in training horses at
the race track in Hubbardston. Mich,
eloped with Ida Ly bolt, the thirteen-yesr-
old daughter Of white man with whom
Johns was boarding. The two were arrested
Friday as they stepped of the train in Chi
caGo.
The Rev. ]. W. Grubb preached al CalVs-
~ Nj. E. Church South, Baltimore, last night
on 1.-THE Dance of Mod'rh Society,"" whith
he called modern nuisance and a SID
dressed in its best clothes. He said "Ican.
not see the slightest objection in dancing,
but dancing ia one thing and the dance of
modern society Ia another"
Advlces from Rome received at Berlin an.
nouuce that the Vatican is genuinely salts
frd with The programme arranged for the
reception Of the Emperor of Germany in
Rome. The Emperor will call upon the
Pope at the Vatican before going to the
Qnirinal. Gaining this point has gladdened
the tiicials st the Vatican.
A telegram from Charleston, w. Va, says
that last Friday niG bit a masked burglar en-
tered the house of E more Outright, and In
the absence of the latter fired a snot at his
wife, driving her from the house. He then
ripped open the bedding and took two thou.
sand dollars in bills, which he'd been collect
Ell to make payment on the farm. The
thief easily escaped
The Mcclellan Hotel 10 Birmingham,
Ala, was destroyed by fire on Saturday
night, and paaic occurred among the
guests. j. A. Weatherby, with bis sister
and niece, jumped from the third floor 10
the yard. distance of fifty feet. Weather
by sustained fatal injuries. His sister had
her leg broken and sustained internal inju.
ries. The niece escaped with spraned
ankle.
The Whitecbapel horrors are still the
greatest mystery that has appalled, modern
London, exciting the intensest indignation
among all classes, and causing unparalleled
panic among that body Of women, number
ed by Thousands who abide mostly in the
sums and patrol the streets of the city for a
living. The police have adopted the theory
that the letter and postal card signed
Jack the Ripper" sent to the Central
NeuS e week ago Thursday, emanated from
the actual murderer.
A dispatch from Charleston, W Va, say:
Reports from the Hatfield Mccoy region
show that for the present there is cessa
ton of hostiities between the contending
parties The Hatfields Hospitality entertain
all visitors. but are heavily armed at all
times, and express o determination not
to be taken Word was sen. them By g
Mccoy leader to "kil every ID detective
they can find" with promise to do the
same on the Kentucky side. Kirk Mccoy
and Dave Stratton, under arrest at Logan
Courthouse, have been discharged from Gus
tody.
VIRGINIA NEWS.