Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-01-25

NEWS OF THE DAY


Z. u. Plumb has been reelected to the L.
>. Senate from Kansas.
The last funeral rites Of Prince Charles, of
Germany, took place at Berlin yesterday
The President gave a dinner last night
to the diplomatic corps.
Mrs. Stonewall Jackson is visiting friends
in Columbia, ). c.
Senatorial deudlocks continue in the
Michigan. Minnesota and Nebraska leoisla-
lures.
The OK. Empress Eugeue left Paris Yes
ter'iay. President Grevy having informed
her that her presence was undesirable.
Mr.. John Skinner Wright large coffee
importer. OF Baltimore and New York. is
dead.
Samuel 5. Greene, Professor Of Mathema-
ties IN Brown University. died yesterday in
Providence. r. |.
Jassen. the rcsnrrectiOnist was Yesterday
sentenced in the Washington Police Court
to eleven months and twenty-nine days in
jail
Maria Sanders. on marrying Johu Beabort
aged 81, at Ashland, Ohio received Il pres
ent of 500, 900 in real estate. She persists
it WAS a ovc-natch.
\ commissioner from Turkey is coming to
the United States shortly to complete to-
hacco contracts. owing to the severe failure
i'll quantity and quality of the Turkish
crops.
1t grew colder yesterday in the upper
Missouri valley, but moderated nj Chica.
so and other points further east Snow
fell in the northwest and III the lake re-
9ion.
Pope Leo NH, has appointed TO the
vacant See of Charleston, :. c., in success
sion to the late Bishop Lynch, Mgr. North
rnp. and TO the new See of Grand Rapids.
Mich, as its first bishop, Mgr Richter.
An alteration occurred at Towsentown,
Md, yesterday between Col. Mcintosh and
eX-Judgc Grason, resulting in Col. Mcintosh
being Knocked down by u son of Judge Gra-
son.
The net earnings of the PHILADELPHIA and
Erie Railroad Company for the past wear
amounted to about 81 ,4O0, 600. which is more
than sufficient to meet the fixed charges of
the company, which aggregate 81 1927 .:}55
St Petersburg papers report that the
bodies of two Of Lieut.. Chips party have
been found al Chatan Bay, and that they
will arrive at ST. Petersburg in February en-
route to America.
At Dublin yesterday Messr$. Davitt. Healv
ana Quinn were ordered to find securities
for their good behavior, or 90 to prison for
SIX months for setillious language They
will have week in which to decide whether
they will give bail or go to jail.
Ialton Sykes intends to give about s., 900
oVo out OF his private purse for the erection
OF anew Roman Catholic Cathedral in Lon
den and Lady Sykes will give an annual
sum OF $2o0, oM to keep i'll proper repair
and establishment
lhc cold weather has inflicted terrible
losses upon the drovcrs bound too chicago with
live stock and upon the packers at the stock
yards, who were forced TO suspend operations
on Tuesday for want of supplies Most of
the hogs III the pens were either frozen to
death or unfit for killing, and numerous
trains on the railroads were hlockaded in
the snow, with little chance Of the animals
reaching the yards alive
Information has been received at Brisbane,
Queensland that large three masted
schooner was lost 1t the mouth Of the Fly
river New Guinea The crew, II in mum.
per, were Killed by savagcs, their heads be-
ing cut OIL and distributed among the ma
tive Villages. Capt. Pennafeathcr, OF the
only loI Ct Wreckage with nothing TO iden-
tty The vessel One old woman confessed
that the crew had been murdered. Can't.
Pennaieather burned the native villages
and destroyed their canoes.
Benjamin F. Rnrd Il railroad hand, MAS
KILLED On Sunday in the railroad ward ar
Harrisburg. He was 10 have been married
in few days 10 Miss Mary Lane, and that
lady was deeply affected by his death, and
hah her lovers photograph taken as he law
IN his coffin. Before the funeral his mother
appeared and disclosed the fact that the
deceased had been married for three years
and his wife and her Two children made
! themselves visible to follow his remains TO
the grave. Another Harrisburg lady claims
! that Burd was engaged TO her also. So ends
the romance
The Woman Suffrage Convention in
Washington yesterday adopted resolutions
! declaring that woman suffrage means stable
institutions, happy homes, equal wages and
equal purity for men and woman ::
pronouncing the pending reforms in The
'rvll service dishonest pretense unless
women arc graded in the service the same
as men: denouncing ''thc proposition TO
'lisiranchisc the women Of Utah for no crime
Whatsoever as 4 ''crucl display OF power
which lies in might alone" and asserting
That women should be given the ballot TO
| preserve the integrity of society and the per-
manencc of American institutions, in view of
the fact that the immig grafton TO this
country now averages 30O,UOO persons per
/ annum.
! CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
/