Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-08-17
HRYs OF TIE Day.

Mrs. Langtry is negotiating ga ehGeSs-
ment In America.
Amelie RiVes.Chsnler, accompanied By
her husband and party, sailed from HarVe
for New York ca Saturday.
The agricultural papers predict that fern
profits this year will be one billion dollars
lncre than during tbs recent years of do.
preston.
| Six hundred clerks were dropped from
the rolls of the Census Office In Washington
en- Saturday, and ths night work has been
discontinued.
Mr.. James Boyce, one ofthe leading ocai
merchants OF Baltimore. died sGddden;y ct
his country seat, near Toweon yesteFdaS
morning In the slxty-sishth gear OF his age
The residents of Shelby county, Indisnar
at the head waters OF Flat Rrck river, are
alarmed at renewal of the volcanic gas
Disturbances which terrified them year
ego.
Mrs.. Ez, Hsnnen Gales Ramsey, widow
of the late Major General George ID. RAM
sew, of the army, died In Washington on
Saturday, ;r she seventy second year OF her
age,
| The German cabinet Saturday decided
oct 10 reduce the corn duties unIil shso'ute-
y compelled to 60 SO. The ministers rely
Cd America 70 supply tbs deficiency 10 the
crops.
While preaching Ia Kilkenny Cathedral,
Canon Carleton fell suddenly to the hooF
yesterday and wss dead before several oftbe
congregation Rho ran to his assistance had
reached him.
An asent OF Baron HiIsoh Is reported to
have bought nine hundred acres OF land In
Woodbine, Oh the West Jersey Railroad,
near the northern boundary OF Cope May
o0aaty.
& death from leprosy occurred 10 the Nsw
Orleans smallpox hospital Friday. The pa
,:art gss white woman named M,a. Mary
B3It. She whs brought TO the charity hoe-
| Dttsl 10 June lest, before the ne.ure OF her
disease Tas discoVeEeo.
Chairman CiaTkscn, of thu republican na-
icusl committee, according 10 the New
York Times, declared in that city Saturday
that thu published ntory that President Ra-.
,ison had decided not 60 allow bis name TO
! 30 before the next national convention YES
fake"
! TJ Casey, Philadelphia baker. rsaous6
F! his four children from burning building,
Saturday evening by dfoppiog them out OF
| third-ssory window into the srmB Of men who
were standing below. His wife would not
be located In that way. 30 Casey tosaed CIT
mattress and then pitched bis wife on top
CT 1t. She aud the children escaped iDiu.y.
German scientific circles are keenly inter
/ csted 10 the experiment about to be stied at
TIE Frankfort Electrical Exhibition of pro-
! ylding eli the motive power for the exhibi.
ion from Laufen. eeyenty miles distant.
The electricity will be generated there by
| water power from the falls In the Neckaf
river, and will be conveyed to Frankfort
through cables.
Miss Amy Stokes jumped from ths aeoon6
story window Of her home In Philadelphia
Saturday evening, and received Injuries that
sent her to hospital, though che will recoV-
al. Her husband, NJ. B. Stokes, vas arrest
| ed. His wife said that Stokes had threat
ened her life, and to escape from him che
Ras forced to Jump from the window. He
caught her by the heels as she wes going
cut, but could not hold her. The husband
denies that he attacked her.
The authorities OF the State and the board
of commissioners OF Gullford county. n O..
are bent upon discovering by civil acton
the status and responsibility OF the famous
Georgia company, the corporation which
delivered the Central Railroad Company
into the hands Of the Richmond aud West
Point Termira RaiIway and Warehouse
| Company. Notice has been served on the
organization by publication, end tbs suit,
which lie for the non-psy OF teZes, is get
down for trIsl In the Superior Court OF Gull
| ford county on Aug 81.