Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-12-27
TIT .EeRApHIC BREyITIES.

is falling in Augusta, Ca to-ua5
Five wooden stores, in Camden, ; {.
caught fire last night and burned down
There is anxiety over the non-ar,
rival in New York of the Cunard
steamer Umbria, which sailed from
Queenstown for New York on DeceHi-
Der 49,
Following the total destruction by
fire OF three handsome residences at
West Winston, n. c., yesterday, a ire
last night, burned McArthur's livery
stables, and destroyed % horses.
lieutenant West and his company OF
U. s. troops, on Christmas evening
came up on a band of bandits camped
on the Alazan creek, near New Laredo
Tex, and killed one and wounded an
other.
OF more titan twenty steamships
due or overdue at New York, only four
have reached port up TO one O'Clock
today, and these bore evidence OF the
ro,Irh weather and intense cold ex-
pericnced.
Church Of St. John the Divine, in
New York, was laid this afternoon by
the Ri. Rev. Henry c. Potter, d. d.,
~ q 7. of the Episcopal diocese Of
New York
At a festival and dance given at the
home Of Walter G. Reed colored, IN
Dover, Ky, last night, Il terrible and
fatal shooting scrape and rot occurred.
In the melee four negroes were snot'
two fatally.
AT the bull fight Sunday afternoon
at Queretaro, Mex, three matadores
were terribly gored by the enraged an
imals, FIVE horses were killed during
the performance and the sport was pro-
1ounccd great success.
A. ]. Bryant, whose home IS in
Packsville, s. c., and who is under ar
rest for drunkenness, at Bangor, Sic,
hanged himself with his suspenders TO
his cell door in the police station yes
terday, but was cut down before he had
strangled to death.
jack McAulilFc, while intoxicated,
walked in the room of MS late hacker,
b. II. Benton, in New York, last night,
and without any warning, struck him
severe blow over the left arm with
heavy cane he carried, and banged him
right and left, seriously injurins him.
Speaking OF the New York Senator
ship, in connection with which his
name has been prominently mentioned,
NJ. Chas. A. Dana, who is now in
Paris, says chat the democracy may Sc
select Mr.. Frederick r. Coudcrt, the
well-llnown New York lawyer, as a
compromise candidate.
The whole Texas aud Mexican borG-
cr is in a state OF fermcnt and '.revolu-
iionn is the sole topic of conversation.
There is always in Mexico smolder-
ing revolutionary feeling among the
people and there would be little trouble
~ bringing about q genuine civil war
ii the proper man sound the tocsin
STOCKHOLM, Dec. 27.-Thc famine in
North Finland is increasing. Many
villages are snow bound, and it is fear
ed that the suiIerings of the people are
intense, as they have no means OF
breaking through the great drifts on
account of the weakness of themselves
and of their cattle. 1t is feared that
whole communities have persisted, as
nothing has been heard from them for
u number of days.
Yesterday morning a tenement IN
which about dozen Italian families
resided located on Hempiield railroad,
IN Grecpsburg, Pa, was burned. James
Anglico an old man was burned 10
death. Many small children were ter
rlbly burned and it is thought that
many OF them will die. The occupants
of the house numbering so people rush
ed out into the snow in their night
clothes and are now being cared for by
the people in the neighborhood.
Anna Grouse, Il domestic, in Indian
apolis, Ind, seriously wounded burg
lar with knife last night. She had
come in late with two friends and find
lug evidences that the house had been
entered, armed herself and found the
burglar upstairs. lie attempted TO
throw her to one side, and she stabbed
him in the arm and shoulder. The
burglar broke away but was caught
When his mask was removed, he PROV
ed to be Charles Jaycock, % cousin of the
girl.
a body of Mexican troops, who recently
tried to enforce the payment OF taxes by
Yaqui Indians in Bein, Sonora county, were
rcpulsed. The Indians then drove out the
Spanish traitors from Belin and burned their
houses aud proi erty
Louis P.ss.ce5 me famous French scientist,
To day celebrated the .0th anniversary Of his
BIRTH lie was rendered an ovation il Paris
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