Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-02-17

The na.l3D.i democratic cunia.!t;cc WI! ineet
at Willard hall, Washington, Monday.
A dinner recently given by Senator Jones, OF
Nevada. is reported T." Rave been gwen to briDs
about reconciliation between Blaine and
Cooking.
The Mission and Pioneer wooden mills at San
francisco have ANNOUNCED Tic discharge OF
their Chinese employees bmi II { Substitution OF
whites.
The wifn nt Adam Nluuny. living near Now
Glasgow. Nova Sc0sla. OH Sunday gave birth to
live CHI dren, three girls and Two boys. They
arc finely developed and al last accounts were
doing We'll.
The Ohio river 81 Louisville, n.y., yesterday
Was - feet above low water mark, and ht Cin-
cnnali 81! feet, and 1aing. The Cumberland
river at Nashville, 1'enn.. was AZ feet 4 inches
ab5va low waller marx. hut falling.
parnoll lecturtd at Wheeling, W. Va, last
nlehi. lie ANNOUNCED his Acceptance Of tho
place rendered him on thu commission 10 dis
tribute the New York Herald fond in Ireland
provided he DO hli0H"d 10 appoint proxy to
act in his stead until he returns to Ireland.
At Bainhrldgc. Pa, on Saturday. Charles
Lane murdered his vile and two children, and
then took his own lille ly poison. When dis
covered the VclmH we're lying on their beds
aud their third ohiid, a boy three years old,
was fouud with his lcrt badly frozen. lts 70
oovery Is doubtful.
The assurances on the Eniirc warehouse and
goods, partially destroyed Ivy fro at Chicago
Saturday night, iIciude 81 500 lii the Merch-
ants and Mechanics, Va, and 81 900 III tho
Virginia Fire ard Marine. Tho totsl loss was
$500. GOO. Insured in As companies for about
$500 COO.
Joscphus Echols, twenty throe years old. o
native Of Wcstporf. Miss, committed suicide
yesterday in New York by cutting his throat.
lilo had been endoavOring TO perfect 6 philo,
s5phcal machine for improvement in and index
log books, receiving q patent for tho Same in
1913. lie was very poor, ind his prldo drove
him TO commit the act.
Tho Smithsonian Institute has received from
tho Astronomer Royal of England the an
| uounccmcnt Of the discovery by Gill at Cupo
Town on tho 18th OF February, 1880, OF comet
| 10 eight hours and fifty. oight minutes right as
cension. twelve degrees thirty one minutes north
deonation, with daily motion OF two minutes
and thirty five seconds 10 right ascension, and
| twenty minutes south.
The Senate Committee on Elections yoster-
NuI toNh % Huai fObO III luSal CaeCs lulu
will be Two reports. The finding, it is said, of
| tho resolution will be that no ACT has been dis,
covered which warrants the unseating OF lugas,
but the majority will eriticiso Kansas election
methods very sharply and Intimate that. in
| their opinion, some corruption was used to SC"
cure Ingalls, scat, but that no (lugalls) know
nothing it.
Tho vito Of Rev. Charles Il. Walker, of
Somerset, Mass, and his stablcman, George T..
linkham, wero arrested in Now York, Sunday,
as they stopped from Fall River boat, by a
detective, charged by Mr. Walker with copo--
ment. No one appearing against them, the
Justice discharged both. Mira. Walker declared
that tic charge Of clipping with tho stabcman
was false, and gave c narrowing account of tho
i'll treatment shc had rtc,ived iIom her hus-
band, with tho allegation Of intimacy with
another woman ho had brought into the house.