Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-01
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

call q special session Oh tne Legislature
tolelistrict the State.
A review of the work done at the
present session of Congress shows that
very little important legislation was &C
complished.
Mrs. Frank Brown, wife of the Gov
ernor of Maryland, had almost recover
eel on Saturday from her sunstroke of
the day before.
The investigation of Mr.. Watson's
charges of drunkenness on the floor of
the House has so far been without at
firmativc result
Ex-United States Senator Anthony
Kennedy, of Maryland, died at Annap.
Oils yesterday i'll the eighty-second
year Of his age.
Mr. Balfour has summoned all of
Lord Salisbury's supporters to be in
Parliament August II, when, he says,
division Of the very estimportance
is expected to occur.
The New Orleans City Council has
passed an ordinance prohibiting the
blowing OF any steam whistles, either
by locomotives, boats or factories, with
in the city limits between a. IN. and Z
p. IN.
Ex-Secretary ofthe Navy Nathan B.
Coil wants The nomination for Governor
of West Virginia again, and the pros
poets are that he will lock horns with
Secretary :. b. Ell,ins for the control
of the State.
The fire in the business part of Cam
bridge, Md, OH Saturday, destroyed
fifteen houses, including bank, two
hotels, two newspaper Offices, business
houses and dwellings, the estimated
loss being :G5.000 insured for Si5, 900.
Herbert Shade, the Maori, who was
brought to this country by Richard +.
Fox nine yelrs ago for the purpose Of
demolishing John l.. Sullivan, is now
fleeing from TIE wrath of Bishop
Sneazey, of the Mormon church, with
whose pretty daughter he has eloped.
Near Winchester, Ky, yesterday six
boys were drowned in the Kentucky
river by the ovcrturning of a skiif. The
boys were bathing i'll the river, climb
ing in and out of the skill and were
thrown into panic by The boat over
turning with some Of the smaller boys.
A dispatch from Valence, Department
of Drome France, says that a cyclone has
caused an immense amount of destruc-
ton in that town and vicinity. The
vineyards were completely stripped OF
their fruit and many houses were badly
damaged. The loss i'll vines alone is
enormous.
In the primaries in the First Missis-
sippi district on Saturday Hon. John
Allen swept every comfy i'll the dis
trict like n cyclone. He carried every
county in the district by overwhelming
maiorities except one, badly defeating
his opponent, ex-Congressman II. l..
Muldrew.
There is great activity in democratic
headquarters, New York. 1t is said the
head of the campaign committee will
come from the West, and that MIR.
Whitney's influence will predominant
the campaign. Lieutenant-Governor
Sheehan spent Sunday with Senator
Hill at Normandie.
The Germans are in great fear that
the cholera will be imported from Aus
tria. They have established a strict
Gordon on the Gallician frontier. Prof.
Yirchow and DR.. Hirsch say America
is in no danger Of importing cholera, if
good quarantine is established and san
itary conditions preserved.
The Sussex county, Del, aims house
was struck by lightning during ter
rifle thunder storm Saturday afternoon
and totally destroyed. There were IS
inmates in the building at the time, and
four of them persisted in the flames.
The loss will reach S40,0 900 with that on
the building covered by insurance.
A colored man, while working in the
bayfield, on Il farm in the swamp near
Annapolis on Saturday, ran his foot
under the hay, his big toe protruding.
Thinking this to be the head Of a snake,
he iabbed the prong of a pitchfork
through it, decorating it so badly that
he came very near having the loclljaw.
Prince Bismarck had royal recep-
tioa at Jena on his way from Kissengen
to Weimar. Ii is reported in court cir
cles at Berlin that Emperor William
censured Chancellor Won Caprivi for his
iniudcious handling of the Bismarck
controversy and for his treatment of
the Berlin international exposition mat
ter. The early advent Of Count Won
Eulcnburg to the chanccllorship is held
rs probable.