Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-05-16
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The African NJ. E. General Conference
has adopted a resolution refusing to recon-
mend camp-meetings.
The first business proposed for the French
Chamber of Deputies is revision OF the
French Constitution.
It is announced in Berlin that the NOR
ganatic marriage of the Grand Duke Louis
of Hesse-D armstadt has been legally dis
solved.
The national anti-monopoly convention
ut Chicago yesterday was attended by Only
200 delegates. Gen. 3. F. Butler was nom
mated for President.
A fire swept over Panama yesterday, con-
Stunning many buildings, and causing a loss
of $500 .O00 Four lives were lost, and the
mob plundered the merchants.
The General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church convened yesterday, at Saratoga,
and the General Assembly of the p eshy-
terrain Church South met at Vicksburg, Miss.
The bill loaning one million dollars to
the Cotton Exposition to be held at New
| Orleans has passed the Senate of the United
States, 18th amendments, which latter have
been coucurred in by the House.
The Secretary of the Navy has received
| letter from Lieutenant Emory, of the Greedy
relief steamer Bear, stating that the ele-
ments appear favorable to the undertaking,
and detailing the course of the Bear on her
way to the Arctic seas.
A subscription has been started at Ithaca,
II. Y, for the benefit of Grant, to be known
AS Grants Fund of Honor 1t is intended
that every one in Ithaca shall subscribe 81
and no more A snug little sum is expected
to be reached by this means.
The Superior Court of New York has
decided that Rev. DR.. Newman, of the Mad
ison Avenue Congregational Church, Is not
n member Of the church and not the perma-
nent PASTOR and he must not interfere with
the meetings of the church.
The General Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church in Philadelphia Was en-
gagged during the greater part Of the session
Revs. John M. Walden, w. X. Ninde,
Willard F. Mallaleu and C. H. Fowler
were chosen.
Leading London brokers consider We'd
nesday's panic in Wall street as merely
local AFFAIR The markets in England and
in the money centres of Europe have not
been much affected. American travellers
abroad have been much alarmed for the
! safely vi tHeI otpoSilS W uoiuC.
The pilgrims to old ST. Mary's to cee-
brate the 250th anniversary of the founding
Of Maryland had pleasant day yesterday.
Mass was said at st. Inigoes', and then
st. NIary's was visited. where addresses
were made by Hon. Richard T. Merrck, of
Washington, and Father McGurk, Of Logo
In College.
Mrs. Della 1. S. Parnel, the mother Of
the Irish agitator, has been made defendant
to writ of foreign attachment issued out Of
Court Of Common Pleas Of Philadelphia al
the suit of her brother, Edward L. Stewart,
in the right of his wife, Mary R. Stewart
The plaintiffs claim about Sc 900 as damages
for breach Of contract in reference to some
Panama stock.
A resolution was offered in the United
States Senate yesterday to make an investl-
CATION of the New York national banks, TO
learn If they have complied in all respects
with the laws Of the United States. 4 bill
was also introduced to prevent stock gam
bling and speculation by bank officials.
None Of the cities outside of New York
have been affected to any material extent
by the failures Of Wednesday and yesterday
At the third day of the National Jockey
Club spring meeting, at Washington, yes
terday, the event of the day was a handicap
steeplcchase. The starters were Ranger.
Gath, Tonkaway, Wooster, Abraham and
Shamrock. The start was good ono. AT
the first Jump in the center6eld Tonkaway
fell, then Shamrock threw his jockey, and
Gath fell, broke his neck aud died. Nome
of the jockeys we're hurt. Ranger came
under tho wire six lengths ahead of Abra-
ham second, and Wooster third. Time, 4:37.