Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-03-07
News OF the Day.

A wedding containing more of tho elements
Of romance than are to be found 10 The ordloary
ouiet homo affairs, was celebrated tuesday
blight, 10 Chicago. The bride was Miss Hannah
B. Corcoran, daughter Of ex-Alderman John
Corcoran, aod the groom was Count Paul
Marcomayro, az Italian. but now resident OF
Alexandria, Egypt. Immediately after the
ceremony, the young couple took their depar
ture, and will DOT stop journeying until they
reach Egypt The romance Of the affair lies
in the fact that Miss Corcoran first met her
husband while she was pursuing musical studies
10 Rome, where she has dWelt for the past few
years. She had been homo but a short time
ere here sutton appeared and claimed her Tor
bis own.
The Italian brig Primo from Now Orleans
for Gibraltar With cargo OF ,lC5 bb's OIL and
5000 slaves, while being towed out OF the
Southwestern Pass grounded 1t being dark,
the tow boat left her with the intention OF ro'
turning in the morning. During the night The
brig floated of and drilted ashore. The captain
and Drew becoming alarmed, abandoned her.
She drifted to sea during the night and was
picked up by pilot boat twenty i've miles from
the passes. She was brought to New Orleans
yesterday. Tho vessel and cargo have beer
libelled by the pilots who picked her up.
The annual report of the Union Pacific
Railroad shows large falling OF In business
but the gross earnings exceeded the operating
expenses by over 81, 900, 900. The annual meet
ing of the directors passed resolutions acknow
edeiug the necessity for a sinking fluid 10 pro
vide for the debt to the government, but advls
tlement fixing sum 10 excess of 81 900, 900 or
rlp m
For the season ended March /, the tota
number of hogs packed at Cincinnati were
632, 3O2. being an increase of los, 726 over las
year; aggregate gross weight, 1856 .93s
pounds; increase, IS. 7S2, C5S pounds; average
gross weight. 2S4 10 pounds; aggregate ylelt
Of lard from head, gut, leaf and trimmings
25, 9Ol, 1853 pounds; increase, S, 900. 700 pounds
Charges are made from San Francisco agalns
Mint Director Lnderman TO the effect that TIL
minis are directed to enable private individual
| to make largo gains at the expense of leeltinat
dealers in trade dollars, and that he disclose
prematurey the orders of the Treasury Depart
ment for illicit purposes.
Senior Don Enrique Muniz. editor Of TIT
Spanish Government organ 10 New York CITY
has mysteriously disappeared, ADMINISTRATION
| is being made under the suspicion that Their
has been foul play.
The loss by the fire at the Hot Springs, Ar
| kansas is estimated at $1,000 With onl
1926, 900 insurance. thousand poor peopl
have lost their homes, aud are suffering 10
want OF clothing and food.
A portion ofthe bridge in progress oferectio
OF Powell's Bend. on the Potomacriver, fell yes
terdsy while thirteen men were at work upo'
| it, three of whom were fatally and all the 9th
ers badly injured.
Fire Commissioner Ordenstcn, of San Fran
CISCO. has disappeared: aud the Widows an
| Orphans fund of tho Exempt Fire Company
of which he was custodian. is short about tlV
thousand dollars.
| Because her mother had cbastised her 70
staying out late at night, Miss Stella Cattas O
Newark, N. j., swallowed four grains of strgch
niue last night, and will die.
a Detroit dispatch says that twelve fshcr
men have boen saoat on cakes Of loo in the ba
siuoe Monday night. Search is being made 10
them but it is feared they are lost.