Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-04-05
VIEWS OF THE yfl..

Tbs u. S. steamer Piymguth, wbi:h itf.
Boston tor cruise 10 West India s7aters. March
Is, bes returLei TO Vineyard Scuud pi,h tive
caS:s ot yellow lever 90 basr'.
Tic steamship Charleston sailed from
Charleston 90 TUESDAY with eight hundred
quarts Of strawberries and twenty ii7e packages
of green peas, The E7,t of the season, :tr New
York.
4 train Oh the Dlenp pits and louisville Road
ran through q trcstIe, near Brownsville, Tenn,
yesterday, precipitaIing the engine God several
care, killing the engineer AID w0unaiDg the
fireman End brakeman
The Union League Club CT New York gave
reception last hight to President Andrew u.
White, of Cornell, the ucwly appointed minis.
ter to Germany. Mr.. White delivered an ad.
dress On education in political science
The Pittsburg Southern Railroad IVES sold at
y sheriti's salo Thursday, and purchased ty
Hon. James II. Hopkins. OF PttshIrg. for
S55 900. Mr.. Hopkins claim agaies: tae ROAD
was for $4,000.
| The New York pagers OF yesterday stieluo0n
announce that the jealous woman vino SHOT hlr.
| Washington Nathan 10 tho Coleman House,
Wednesday last, was Mrs. Blrrc!t, aud not
Miss Maria Wood, tic oc.rcs'.
Chen Lao Pm. the Chinese u;li;icr, called
With Secretary E7arts at The Executive Man.
eioo. 10 Washington. yesterday, to take leave
OF tho President before lcsVItg for Madrid,
whittier he goes unon diplomatic mission. He
will return to the Uated States and subseq ucat-
| ly visit Peru, and perhaps other South Amerl.
can States.
The health OF Archbishop Purcell il fast fail.
| ing under tic burden oil lis fnauc!al troubles.
| OF late he has been attacked with r.lntiog
spells, and on Thursday he remained so long
unconscious that bis attendants were CHARMED,
fearing that be might die. Tho best iutorricd
see liulo hopo for the payment Of his creditors
A hard freeze in the vicinity CT Charleston,
S. g., Thursday night, seriously damaged carly
vegetables on the truck farms. Potatoes arc
damaged % per cent, and the cucumber, to-
msto and bcaD crops ere almost ca!rclS killed.
Strawberries ore badly hurt, and retarded fully
tHo weeks. The loss to the truck farms arouod
Charleston is estimated at 9 qasrtcr Of mil
lion dollars.
A5res Jonee, tho mountaineer accused Of the
murder two years ago of Lieutenant Mololyre,
at tho head of his troop in tho Georgia noun
tales, will be taken iror, jail at Atlanta, Ga,
to-day for his preliminary examination. Nc
lntyrea murder created a great sensation 10
Georgia, and the authorities haze been work
Jog i; up ever since its occurrence. Jones is Z
desperate MAD. who deGed the Officer RI ead citil
cd arcs: fox long time.
10 the House of Representatives. yesterday
the debate on the army bill was coDliGued, TIE
principal speeches bcug made by Mir. Tucker,
Of Va, aud Mr.. HaRlty, Of Conn.,, tho former
maiotaiog the perfect consitulionai:y Of tic
amendment prohibiting the use of troops {:
tho polls. AID the latter opposiog it, Dir.
Garfield denied that hs had said tackiog rider:
90 appropriation bills was revolutionary, Gu:
iusisted that attempting 10 annlhllate the Amy
because daagTccabo law could not be repca!
ed 10 the regular way. Vas. The veto will b.
taken to-day, and the struggle transferred 10
the other end Of the Capitol.