Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-12-31
NEWS OF The DAY.
THepiy murders occurred 10 Cicc!cnssi q

THeuiy murders occurred 10 Cifc!cneti our
Jog the year ending to daY.
The sale of seasou tickets FL: the Bernbardt
appaeemsnt 10 Cbic,Sn c'ossd en- "Wednesday
oight, and aggregated 81 600.
The Presisoat has not vet selected the suc'
e,s,or 10 ,Jadga Woods. as United States croult
iudee for ,hs Fifth Judicial Cicl!:.
Hon. Alexander b. SteI her 8 yesterday eve
oiog entertained party ct youog G4orelans al
diun:r OF the National Hotel. 10 Washington.
A young E,elisbmao nsmsd Harry D.
Wright committed suicide Yesterday at Detroit,
because his f,1ces discnded him on count
Of bis Incorporate habits.
The clergy of the various Protestant churches
of The city havs Issued card asklog the ladies'
Of Ottawa not to f r. wlne. or sDlrlIu9u4 dnoE
Of auy kidd to their visitors 90 New Yesrs Day
The Orildrao's H s,ital 90 Thirty fonrtb
ret, Nv York. erected uodsr the suspicis
Of the Protestant Epitc,pal Sis.eshood OF 81.
Mary. was dedicated yesterday afternoon b,
Bishop Potter.
Rscsivsr Saarpo. Ct the L!ns Island Kali
road, So rd,v formerly resigned bls tros.
and Aus 10 Corbln. who recently nuIoh'ssd
coutr Hog interest 10 the road, was appointed
8 re ev.r.
Yesterday morning. while John Busus
tweuty Eve years cid, employed by tho hlem
phis Brewing Company. was costiog the inside
a o.sk with brewers pitch, the ossk tXood'
ed. killing Biusus and slightly illuIIOg two
theirs.
Yesterday moroog 90 cast bound eGierau'
train, on the Uaon Pacific Railroad, parted 10
two, near Lodge Pole Stanon. Nab, ADD on
the portions striking togeher again, eight oart
were wrecked, and Ave passengers hurt. bu5
none fatally.
Russell Sage has 81 ono 900 per aunum 10
0 mo. Jay Gould S. 900 600. sDd Vanderbilt
$40 900 900 Mr.. Jay Couke, whose failure 10
1873 brought on the hard times. is said to have
been for tia last three yeats erj)yiug an IN
coms OF SIS 900.
Mr.. ADD Mrs. Nicholas Patterson bavo oon
veyed a handsome country residence. valued at
$50, 900, to the Cbildren's Homo of Cincinnati
The properly 7sas marriage gift By bier hu'
band to Mr.. Patterson, who is nl5oe oil
Hiram Powers, the soulptor. 1t will be used
10 connection With the Homo for sick and Grip
pled Children.
Al elderly woman named 7, fl r, Of EuV Do
Lao. Wis, died yesterday uoder very peculiar
CIRCUMSTANCES. DUO hd3 b euueIeI IIoA puou
mona for Some years. and q warm fltirou va:
ordered to be put 90 her chest. Hor husband,
an hatitusl drupkard, applied heavy lron,
and 80 hot that it buroed through tho clvlty oil
her chest. a1d she did 10 the greatest agony.
A y,upg lawyer Of LopiaVi.ls, KY, has in-
stituted o suit fer damages against several
young men. 10 whose company BIO vas On Christ
mas Day, alleging that they 'rathlessig cut and
c,used vt BIO cut IRON bis facs Gae set Of
wbiskers. Whereby his health was greatly CO.
dauscrcd ODD his pa:rimooial prosptc cts blight
ed and ruined" The deed was doue vile the
victim Wss sseep 10 bsrb:t's oiair, The
damages are laid at $500.
James Brown, aged eighteen; George Davis,
aged seventeen, ard John DoDaIddsoo, nineteen
years old. appeared ct i!hs Essex Market Police
Court, New York; yesterday Afternoon. and
asked the JodgS- to s,ad than to some ohaIi
table INSTITUTION. They said hay hsd been 10
the weaving business 10 PhiladslDhis. aud left
there>a week siate, owing TO the scarcity of
work. They had walked The streats Of New
York sipos and vera unatlc to obtain employ
mept