Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-05-28
HEIR,S OF LILLE UdE

NEWS OF TIE DAY.
Thirty eight h!ooded calls were sold at Freak.
1ess Farm. near L.xinrtoo, Ky. last Thurs.
Jay, Tor S225,O75
Tho attendance 3. tic fprog meeting Of the
Mary gland jockey Club, which closed yts!sIday
reached total Of tweaty thousand persons.
Tho FairucuDt Manufacturing Company
brs pat cotton uit 10 operation nasr Wiiis
ton, :. T., for mskicg yarns Dire tIon The
seed cotton.
Tho stesncr Ue!eD brought to Baltimore,
yesterday, from the Eastern Shcro Of VIZ.
gina 800 barrels Of green peas ard SEQ crates Of
strawberries.
It's said that tho SStGcs acquire tho Eag-
lIsh lsneuEgc with greater facility thsn any
other TeutOnic race. 1t is stated that 100 900
OF this hardy sud frugal people will Como TO
America during tho present year.
10 Laurens cou0ty Ca, on Thursday, Miss
Garret shot her mother. i.floling mortal
Wounds. When The father OF Miss Garrett ro
turned, Ee beat her 20 vercly that her lite !:
despaircd of.
TIE tria! Of The suit of Rufus Hatch against
the Western Uoion Telegraph Company and
Others 10 restrain tie issue snd distribution o.
SIS 600 Geo of increased capital stock of the
Western u MOO Telegraph Company, was DO
gun yesterday, 10 New York.
Tha United States steamer Alliance, Cora
! ma1der Cooper, noS ct Norfolk, Va, hes beer
| ordered to prepare aid proceed with oil dis.
| patch Oh eIulso in search OF the Jtaaootte
between Groerla5d, Iceland aud tho coast oil
| Norway and IS Tar al the no1,hcra coast OIL
SpiIzbergen.
The Chicago po! C, rsiied on9 Of tho many
gambling holls 10 that city f,w tights since
| and the prisoners were choioo in their seIccior
Of names. Dennis kearucy. Malone. Roscoe
| Conkliug. Henry Wtri Bcechcr lIsrtuap
tho NihlIiss. O'Dcnovsn Rosa and Samuel j
Ii!d,o oil appear on the record IS being where
90 one would haVo expected to fOd them.
AT Chicago yesterday uornicg young Ger
| nan named Henry Graft cntsrcd saloon and
calling Tor pint of whiskey swallowed it, Ills
then bet 50 With the saloon keeper thai he could
drink quart Of tbs samo liquor without stop
ping. lie did 81; tut b. re he could lurl
| around ho dropped 10 the floor aud 10 few
| moments YVES dead. The saloon keeper va:
held Tor tho ACTON ct tn, grad jury.
A dispatch from l., Sale, ILL.,, says an earth
lusE, shock Was distinc ly iu. Thursday night
| 10 the manufacturing quarter, between tho bluff
ADD csnsl, 10 the scu:hWsster part oftho town
and That yesterday evening six fstuns neaIIy
Two iuch' s wide, ruDliug nearly parallel 1orh
veg! and southwest for GOO feet in leug.b
we're discovered. Tho walls and fcurdauni
OF buildings ard the furnace msoorry 10 D. D
Sielgers fsottr7 Wero cracked 10 numerous
places and nro estimated to have sutk siy
iGohes.
Things are quiet s! Albany sEsio. Mr.
C,rkiog acd his associates left yesterday alter
noon for Nag York, where the CANVASS will b.
conlnu:d. 1t is said that they will return L
Albany on Monday, snd remsiu Julicg TIC *
psged long selIc Uegl week and the week ai.er
IS it is gov understood that it will take week
to break The deadlock No chaDuo wLatlve
| hiss ttkeu plaoO 10 the situation. Each sEc,i0t
claims hb3ut half ct The republican member s
erd the real disi ion viii cot DO kucwl ustil
formal vote is taken on Tuesday.
The Knights Ttmplsr, DaMola2 C,muarde
~. of Boston. sod It, Johns Commayd,ry, g
| peooiiarna. r l., arliyeIin Baltimore, Icstcr
dsy afternoon from Richmond. AID were hand
someiy received ty tho Knights TemGla. L
Baltimore, including the efic:is CT the Gran,
CommaDdery. Alter 40 imposing parad
through some Of the pliroipsl stfcuIs thty wer
rccsivtd by Maytr Lstrobe. at the Guy Ii sIl
List highs q reeeplipo spd barqpc: were ten
dertd tie visitors st Masonic Tcmplo ty Beau
seept Commald ~, No. s. wh,n a f.rua
speech Of weIComo Was delivered by SIR kuish
+. G. Lattobe. mayor of the city. SiYv laGi; s
wives and relatives CT the visiting Knights
| acc )mpGrycd them