Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-06-28
NEWS OF THE DAY.

U. S. Minister Lowell is sick in London
with the govt.
Reports from Bordeaux state that the
wine crop of 1854 will be abundant and Of
excellent quality.
White China silk is being extensively
used for under clothing. 1t is softand silky
and delightfully."- cool.
A painful sensation WAS created in Spain
Yesterday by the decision of the Cabinet to
have two officers, who were guilty OF deser-
lion, shot
1t is rumored that Senator Fairs divorce
wife is about to marry young San Fran
cisco newspaper man. She is worth about
IS, 900.
Reports from Cuba state that General
Aguero and his ilibusters have raided
Guayabales and carried oil provisions and
fifty horses.
The condition of the cholera scourge at
Toulon Yesterday was not improved. Seven
deaths occurred. Fires were burned for
purifying purposes.
Suit has been instituted in the Superior
Court of New York against James Il.
keene for S205 200, being the amount due
under some OF his contracts held by w. E.
Scovl.
Seventy-one cadets have just been ADJ
mitted to West Point, including two Span
iards, who passed satisfactory examinations.
Among those admitted is VIM. Il. Uhshiell,
of Virginia.
H. II. Bangs, of Boston, doing business as
the Bay State Casket Company, has failed
and made an assignment to w. Il. Stedman.
The liabilities are about $4O0, 900, mostly in
New York.
The Fitz-John Porter bill was again under
consideration at the Cabinet meeting yes
| terday. No conclusion was reached and it
is not probable that final action will be had
before next Tuesday.
A four round glove fight between John
L. Sullivan and Charles l.. Mitchell will
Jake place at Madison Square Garden, New
York, OH Monday night, the latter having
entirely recovered from his recent illness.
l.. Dell Ford, night operator for the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad
at Macon, Ga, shot himself through the
heart yesterday, dying instantly. love
affair is supposed to have been the cause OF
the act.
Mr.. Charles A. Dana, Of the New York
Sun, says he voted for Mr.. Greeley in 1872,
for Mr.. Tilden in 1876, for Gen. Hancock
in 1880, and expects to vote this fall for the
candidate of the democratic national con-
Vention.
Bug Cephas, colored, who is to be banged
August ! for killing MIS-. Celia Bush-Mur-
ply in Dorchester county, Md, has confess
ell the crime, stating that it was done as u
preliminary to robbing the house, where
she lived alone but that he found no money
on the premises
In the House OF Representatives yester-
that John A. Logan owned eighty thousand
not only by the Senator's friends, but by
owns is in Illinois.
The Pan Presbyterian Council at Belfast,
Ireland, devoted yesterday to the considera-
ton of missionary matters. Ministers from
various reform churches on the continent
spoke Of the feeling in Paris in favor of the
Cause, and expressed the hope that the con-
ference would meet in Paris before many
years.
The Louisiana Legislature has passed the
Tulane University bill, which will found in
New Orleans one of the best endowed uni
versities in the country. Col. VIM. Preston
Johnston, son OF Gen. Albert Sydney John
ston, and former professor in Washington
and Lee University, Virginia. will be at the
head of the new university.
The House bill providing for the retire
ment and recoinage of the trade dollar
seems to stand poor chance for becoming
a law this session, Mr.. Cameron, of Penn
sylvania, in the Senate having yesterday
offered q resolution to discharge the Conn
mittee on Finance from it's further con-
sideration. The resolution went over, and
it is probable will not be called up during
the present session.
About one o'clock yesterday morning fire
was discovered in the hardware and agri.
cultural implement establishment Of Messrs.
Baker & Getzendanner, on Main ST., Charles
town, w. Va. The building and most of
its contents were destroyed. The fire COM
municated to the parsonage of the NJ. f.
Church South, occupied by Rev. J. Lester
Shipley, and the adjoining house, occupied
by Mr.. Osborne. Both houses were DESTROY
ed, but most of the furniture was saved.
Mrs. Shipley, who is first cousin of Gov.
Cleveland, of New York, is an invalid, and
had to be carried from the burning dwell.
ing. The total loss is estimated at s12 900.