Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-04-12
wE ESnS or TEE Day.

VIM. II. Howard, Governor Ct Dakota Ter.
titory, died a: The N.Ilons Hotel, in Washing
ton city, Saturday.
Reports frcm Sussex c)un!y, Del, represent
that The peach buds have boon excessively
dipped by the frost.
VIM. II. Vanderbilt scut $2l coo OCOin four
per cents to the Treasury On Saturday for reg
istfati1u. making total Ct $5l ,00).0c0 10 hi,
namc,
Durieg the pio.;eGs Of fire az Wllmincton.
n. g., yesterday. Il vail fell 10, c,u.og the loss
OF one lifc ard ssIicus it 1li=s 10 eight or nine
citiz:rs.
Five c,lorea men era % trial at Greeuvile,
S C., or tuting the acs4cm2 OF music 10 that
city 10 d Gambler last. Oas of The number.
Fletcher Maddox, pleaded guilty, ard threw
himself upon The mercy OF tie court.
OF the six hundred Thousand dollars tquircd
to lasnre the errciiO0 Of Dew opera house 10
New York, ,hrc hundred Thousand dollars
or just oDe ha'f thu amcuat-Wss raised at the
opening Ct lie books on Saturday.
TIE sci; OF JaiDts A WhuIen against Gen
PsiI. Sheridan for $40. coo. the value Of the
reIslnal properly in Tue kilona plantation 10
Louisiana, Ircm which he was ij:cled by Gep.
SGetldnu, has bceo appecl:d TO the U. s. Su
promo Court.
1t is rluCrel that rec rciiiai)D Les taken
pisc, between tic rival damCc alto f.c ions
10 Pennsylvania. For several years nast the
TWO leaders, SenatCr Wallace and Speaker Ran
dali. have been at dagger points, as ii were,
aud an angry feeling has been kept up all the
time among the democrats.
On Thursday u ght last some uiscrcInt clam.
bfred VI on back roof eli q hotel ct Atrion,
Ohio, removed c pane OF El'S t.0rp Hiaduw,
end salula,iDg with cal oil the pillow cf O
young lsdy q ho Was a.leop in bed, set it on fire.
The fro Wcnt ou. after destroy leg the lady 8
hair and mos; Of the pillow.
Perpetrators haze been yearly complotcd by
the pullu al Palace Gar Company for the ertc
| ton, near Chicago. OF the most extensive and
| complete establishment for the bnildiog OF rsi-
| 8oy oars 10 the word. They will occupy plot
| of ground 1850 fcc4 IOrg by about SEQ feet
deep.
Two checks fer Sc, 500 aud 81 SOD were Ger
| tilted as cjrrtc. ty the officials Of The National
| City Bank Of Brooklyn Oh Saturday that were
| afterwards discovered TO b. iorgeries. They
purported 10 be siepcd By the treasurer OF
| king county. ard woro on checks that arc
| specially printed Tor the treasC1er's Office.
The Investigation Ct the alleged outrage upon
| Whitaker, tho ccl,rcd cadet ct West Point
| Military Academy, wns c:n,iouad Saturday.
Nothiog important YVES elected. Whattskcl
| reoitcd bis story over again. lis suspected by
/ persons ct The Academy that Whitaker had O
| confederate.
Dr. Albert G. I. GoeIstn, o hone 2a!hic
phys clan Of Philadelphia, has been Committed
| to pr s,n on tho frdipg ct coIontr's jury
Il a! lis wife had died from poison. lie is also
suspected ct causag tho 6esth Of his wi'e's
father AID mother, al three Of tho deaths
| haViog occurred within mouth. He is said
10 have be, u disi'pstrd ic his habits, aud his
wife h.d c>up!siard 20 her friends of bis in
fidelity, thOuSl. thsy had boun married les:
than year. The motive lUr tho murder o.
| lis wife is ALLEGED to DC tie obtainiog OF her es
| tate. worth about 81 .0I0. which she had como
into possession CT by the deaths Of ier parents