Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-09-08
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Mr.. Cleveland left Gray Gables fer

Mr.. Cleveland left Gray Gables fer
New York city yesterday.
Satisfactory progress is being made
in the preparation oTsouvenif cOirs aad
bronze medal for the Worlds i;lir.
Ex-United States Senator Francis
Herman, of New York, died in Utica
yesterday evening, aged sevcnty-si%
years.
1t is stated that Assistant Secretary
Nettleton, of the Treasury, will resign,
and that Hon. Charles E. Coon will
succeed him.
At st. Paul, Mimi, yesterday Nancy
Hanks broke the worlds trotting re-
cord for Tie regulation track by going
mile in 2.07.
The North Carolina republican State
convention at Raleigh yestesday no mi
mated D. NJ. Furches for Governor, ard
full State ticket.
Ex-United States Senator Henry ".
Blair was yesterday nominated for
Congress by the First district, New
Hampshire, republicans.
The Maryland board of public works
decided in Baltimore yesterday that,
owing TO inconsistencies in the oyster
laws, tongers will be permitted to catch
oysters without license until Septcm-
Der 10.
The President Is expected back at
the White House the latter part of
next week. On his way home he will
address the rural New Workers at seve
raj points. The President also pro-
poses a trip through the Western
States and is expected to make speeches
en- route.
At Stamford, Conn, yesterday John
r. Brooks, an eX-convict, who landed
in this country from England Il week
ago, shot himself, his wife and his wiies
child in the house of J. j. Hewitt. The
shooting grew out of the separation of
Mr.. and Mrs Brooks in England about
two years ago.
Eight new cases of cholera were re-
ported on the steamers Normannia and
Rugia yesterday at the New York
quarantine. No new cases were re-
ported on the Moravia nor were there
any new cases at Hoffman Island. The
reports from Europe yesterday showed
no material change in the cholera situa
ton there.
A fire of unknown origin, in Phila-
delpha last night, totally destroyed the
big mills owned by the VIM Arrott cs-
tate, and badly damaged John Will
liams' factory, which occupy the entire
square bounded by Twelfth and Thir-
teenth, Carpenter and Temple streets,
causing loss of not less than $1,000
within an hour.
The Rev. DR.. Talmage preached a
farewell sermon last night at Che Crys
tai Palace, in London. At a banquet
which took place before the service a
vote of thanks for the doctors eminent
services to Christianity was carried
amid great applause. DIR. Talmage
was presented with gold watch with
commemorative inscription. He left
to-day for Belfast.
No place for holding the information
al Monetary Conference has been Sc
lected. Mr.. Gladstone and Sir William
tIuOu IldlCOulu hlC tuOlSi 90 ga MS
that the conference will lead to moth
ing. Mr.. Gladstone is opposed to dis
cIssng anything affecting the currency
of the British empire, and he also ex-
presses the opinion that Mr.. Goschen
went too far in t. ating with Secre-
tary Foster
The counsel and receiver of the
Richmond Terminal Company in New
York state that the order given by
Judge Brown on Tuesday is the first
step to compel the restitution of the
s7,000,OOO cash paid by the Terminal
Company for the Georgia Cen
trail stock. The Georgia Central con-
tract was signed by Lehman Brothers,
August Belmont, John II. Inman, Isaac
l.. Rice and others. The ground for
the action is the recent decision by
Judge Sperry in Savannah that the
Richmond Terminal Company could
not legally buy or control the Georgia
Central stock.