Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-07-19
NEWS OK THE DAY.

AT New Orleap5 yesterday lOuT petsouo
were Frustrated by the heat. two of whom
died.
Queen Victoria will confer duke
upon the Earl of Fife, who is to marry Prln.
cess Louise of Wales.
Miss Fay Cranberry, daughter of Bishop
John G. Cranberry, of the nj. E. Church
South, died at the Sulphur Springs, Mo-,
yesterday.
The story about Mr.. Macksy supplying
funds for Gen. Boulsnger's agitation is re-
vived by the EStgette, NJ. Jules Ferry'a or
gan in Paris.
Alexander Thomson, the eldest son Of
Mr.. Frank Thomson, vice president of the
Pennsylvania R. R., died suddenly in Lon
don Last night.
John L. Sullivan, accompanied by Will
liam Muldoon, passed down the st. Law
renee river yesterday on the steamer Pass.
port, en- route to Montreal.
James COPELAND, once well TODD Fulton
market, New York, fish dealer, shot himself
over the grave of his little boy in Green
wood yesterday. His wounds are fatal.
The sugar trust ia preparing to make
vigorous battle to sustain present prices
Three hundred thousand barrels of sugar
have already been stored in Brooklyn ware.
houses.
The leader of the dervishes in Egypt, In
reply to Gen. Grenfel's demand for surren-
der, calls oH the latter to surrender, and
tells him to remember the fate of Hicks and
Gordon.
Nas'r Eddin. Shah of Persia. was 30
pleased with Mrs. Alice Shaw, the lady
whistler, that he gravely proposed to buy
her and take her with him to Persia on mis-
return.
The Delaware Breakwater, at Lswes,
which has cost the United States millions of
dollars, has been declared failure, aud
steps are to be taken to have better harbor
made there.
The steamer Hogarth. at New York from
Buenos Ayres, reports that yesterday che
sighted an object floating in the water which
appeared to be white and may have been
the lost balloon.
A thief was arrested in New York pawn
shop yesterday as he was endeavorlng to
pledge the silver communion service which
he had stolen from the mission of the Taber-
nacle Baptist church.
The approaching meeting of the New
York State democratic committee, to be
held at Saratoga on August 6, gives rise to
stories of combination between County
democrats and republicans against Tamma-
ny to capture the next legislature and give
the metropolis new charter.
DIR. T. B. Mellow, who was tried and &C.
Quilted of the murder OF Capt. F. W. Dawson,
was expelled from the South Carolina Med
ical Society yesterday, and the honorary
nembers of the military cOmpapy of which
he is surgeon are moving to withdraw from
1t.
Anita and Merriam Boggs, maiden sisters,
living in Jackson county, W. Va, commit
ted suicide last Tuesday by taking arsenic.
They left letter signed jointly. saying that
there was nothing in life for old maids, and
that they were tired of it. They were in
fair circumstances, but had no relatives liV.
ing.
One hundred men with black masks over
their faces attacked the house of Nancy
Vincent, notorious resort. at Montpelier,
Ind, Wednesday night. One male inmate
was whipped with switches. The Vincent
woman was caught and tarred. and the
house aad furniture demolished. The occu
pants have fed.
Richmond Terminal broke sharply on
Wall street, New York, yesterday on
rumor that the company was planniDgto in
crease its capital stock $40. 900 600. This
was fatty denied by parties 10 authority.
President Inman, of the Richmond Termi-
nal, Gays there Is nothing new in the COM
pany's affairs to account for the weakness
in the stock. Mr.. Gould was then put down
for cause.