Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-01-06
NEWS OF a Day.

A gale ragged over Great Britain yesterday,
doing much damage.
The United States squadron of evolution
has arrived at Gibraltar.
The ACCOMPLISHMENT of the Czlrina ia ex
pected shor ly at ST. Petersburg.
Over one half Of the Baltimore and Ohio
FIVE million loan has been redeemed.
The Portuguese are reported to have haul
ed down the British flag In the Makololo
country.
Silcott, the defaulting House cashier, il
said to be hiding In New York State near
| the Canada line.
Great foundations are reported throughout
northern Italy, as the rivers are very full
and there is little frost.
An anonymous donor has given fl00,0 C0
to establish a oonvalescent home for the
benefit of the London poor.
Andres Perthes, of the famous house In
Gotha that publishes the "Almanach de
Gotha." is dead from influenza.
Mr.. Perry, the astronomer, who was sent
to Demerara at the head of the British gov.
eminent scientific expedition, is dead.
1t is estimated that the eale of seats and
boxes at the National Theatre in the City OF
Mexico for the forthcoming Patti engage
ment will exceed 5000, 600.
Mr. Joseph l. Roche, for the last four years
business manager of the Baltimore american
died yesterday morning. He had been suf
fering from an affection of the lungs.
A meeting Of Russo. Polish Jewish work
ingmen in Baltimore last night was attended
with some disorder when the speakers re-
ferred to socialism and denounced the gov
eminent and religion.
Oyster pirates are giving trouble in the
North Carolina sounds, and the commission.
ers of several counties have called upon the
State authorities to protect the oyster beds
from illegal depreciation.
One hundred million of dollars of English
capital have been invested in various Amer
lean industrial enterprises within the last
twelve months and the prospect Is that 10
the present yenr a much greater amount
will follow.
Among the arrivals at London on the Um-
bria was Herbert Smith, the well-known
Philadelphia broker. who was to Join hia wife
and children In Switzerland on New Yeats
Day. Mr.. Smith was taken with the grippe
which rapidly developed to congestion of
the lungs, and be died before his wife could
reach him.
An epidemic which Is said to be the black
tongue fever is raging in Monongalis county,
W. Va. 1t was first discovered 10 the family
of Thomas Burns, a few miles from Morgan
town. Four of his family died with 1t in
one week. The people of the neigbborhood
are very much alarmed, and the authorities
of Morgantown have ssnt provisions for the
balance of the Burns family, with orders to
remove them and burn the residence, TO
prevent the spread of the disease.
During the last ten years the population
of New York. according to the estimates of
the Health Department., has increased by
about one third, or something like 400 900.
That il, the gain in the number OF the in.
habitants since 1880 has been nearly equal
to the whole population of the city forty or
forty five years ago. The proportianate in
crease In Brooklyn is estimated to have been
even greater, or hard on one.half in ten
years, and the population Of the two cities
ia now probably between 100000 and
$500, 900.