Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-03-15
NEWS OF TIE nay


Frank Byrne and his wife leave Havrc
for America on Saturday.
woman named Figuer, IN important
Nlhilist, has been arrested at st. Peters
burg.
4 decree has been gazetted at Berlin
prohibiting the importation of American
hog products.
Mr.. Parnell's bill amendatory Of the land
act was rejected by the House of Commons
yesterday.
The phosphate factory of Bowen L Mercer,
of Baltimore, was destroyed by fire last
night.
Mrs. CORVALLIS West, the London profess
sional beauty is to appear in Washington
society.
In the Maine House yesterday the bill re-
storing the death penalty for murder was
passed.
Local option, which has prevailed in Shep-
| herdstown, W. Va. for one year, was defeat
Cd Monday last BY 81 majority.
No action will be taken in the matter of
Tom Ochltrcc's salary until final decision
shall have been rendered by the Secretary
of the Treasury.
\. l.. Dukes has been acquitted in Union
town, Pa, of the murder of Capt. A. c.. Mutt
| There was great public indignation at the
verdict, and Dukes sought the protection of
the sheriff.
On Tuesday night Col J. S. Gambler, Of
Gov Boyrton's staff. ofGeorgia, in attempt
ing 10 jump from train at Atlanta. was
run over and both his legs We're cut off, It
is thought that he will die.
An Oshkosh Wis. dispatch saws: The
Rev James OMalley, pastor of ST. Peters
Church, has caused sensation by publish
ing card declaring the marriage of Sena.
tor Tabor and Miss McCourt illicit.
Ex-senator David Davis was ANNOYED on
his way to North Carolina by the vulgar
curiosity of many people to get sight of
him. 1t is said that women were the great
est sinners in this respect
The committee Of the Massachusetts Leo-
lslature on the liquor law will report reso
luton providing for such an amendment to
the constitution as shall prohibit the manu-.
iacture and sale of Intoxicating liquors in
the State.
About week ago Gov Crittenden par.
doned from the Missouri penitentiarv Clar.
ence Hite, WHO was sentenced to % wears
Imprisonment as one of the Jesse James
gang. Hite was taken home to Logan CO.,
Ky, last Thursday, and died the following
Monday.
The general railroad passenge. agents, at
thelr convention in New York yesterday,
passed n resolution demanding that a doe
tors certificate should accompany every
corpse carried on the different roads, and by
TINS means prevent the spread Of conta.
glous diseases.
Int
ton Post, on the day Of his recent marriage
to Miss Brady, received letter from his d.
vorced wife and mother of his children full
o! kind wishes for his future happiness and
prosperity, and expressing the hope that this
union would bring him the contentment he
had failed to find in his first marriage
4 sensation was created in the Massachu-
sets legislature yesterday BY message
which Governor Butler presented, vetoing
the bill making appropriations for the expen.
scs OF various charitable and reformatory in
situations Of the State. He declines to sign
1t Tor various reasons, chief among which is
that the salaries paid state officials in charge
oil the institutions i'll question are too large
An important decision was rendered by
the Supreme Court of Massachusetts in
Boston Yesterday against the Merchants
Bank OF Boston compelling the latter TO
restore to the plaintiff Ia LADY, Certain Sc
curitle5 to the amount of $40, O00 which the
PLAINTIFFS trustee had deposited as collateral
for money advanced, and which having been
lost III speculation. necessitated the sale of
the securities.
The will of the late Mr.. Samuel G.. Wy.
man was yesterday examined by the Judges
OF the Orphans Court, in Baltimore and let
tiers testementary were issued to VIM .kevser
and III: !. keyser,the executors named in the
will. Tne bond filed was $S00,OOO the sure
ties being Messrs. Enoch Pratt, w. w. Tay
lor and G.. W. Ward. The will is probably
good now, and will be at once acted upon
BY the Messrs. keyser, who understand it.
Mr.. Frank S. West, of New HAMPSHIRE
at one time well known journalist, died in
Washington yesterday morning at the are of
81. He removed from his native State of
| Virginia in 1916, WAS agent OF the New York
Associated Press at Richmond, and was con.
nected at different times with the Freder.
icksburg, Va, Record and the Richmond
/ Wing, Dispatch and Enquirer. For several
years past he had been employed in the gov
eminent printing Office.
Al meeting of the Federation of Trade
and Labor Unions of Washington Tuesday
evening, resolutions were adopted thankina
the Citizens Committee for its efforts to eY.
pose and break up the combination ofthivcs
and faithess officials by which the CITY has
so long been plundered, and recommending
the organization Of "a general vigilance
committee, composed exclusively of persons
engaged in honest and useful occupations.
for the purpose Of purifying the character
and reputation ofthis metropolis"
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