Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-12-06
NEWS OF THE DAY

IDe LIMOS Legislature IL b ITO ou Jolu'
ballot
The franchise bill was passed by the Brit
ish House Of Lords yesterday.
John Cunningham, colored, who was shot
| by Guy Donohue, in DiuVille. on December
?, died yesterday.
Mrs. Victoria Morosini- Hulskamp and her
! coachman husband were in Baltimore yes
terday evening, and took dinner at the
Mount Vernon.
There is understood to be movement
on foot to place John Mccullough, the ira
gedian, in an asylum, so that his mind can
receive proper treatment.
The New York board of aldermen yester-
day passed over Mayor Edson's veto the
resolution giving the Broadway Surface
Railroad Company permission to construct a
railroad on Broadway.
Mr.. Springer yesterday read letter to
the House committee of which he is chair
man. from former clerk in the Office of the
first comptroller Of the treasury, in which
charges are made offraud and negligence in
the first comptroller's office.
John Rust was found dead in his bed at
437 West Thirty-second street, New York,
yesterday. His wife says he came home
drunk Thursday night and she fed from
the house. When she returned yesterday
she found him dead with his head split
open.
The Alabama State Senate yesterday
adopted resolution favoring large appro-
priations for the support of the public
schools of the State, and declaring the obi
CATION and fixed purpose Of the white
people of Alabama to aid in the education
of the colored children in the State.
In the Johns will case the Court of APP
peals of Maryland, decided yesterday that
the appellants, John Johns and Mary M.
Johns, could not use the unprotected will in
support of their title to property left by the
testator. The decree below was affirmed
and the cause remanded.
Before the Springer Committee yesterday
J. J. Barker, clerk in the Treasury Depart.
ment, testified that in the election in 1882
in New York a voucher for $33 900 was
allowed for supervisors Of election, when it
was shown that the supervisors were paid
for from five to ten days service, while one
day each was all the service required.
The work of the Plenary council in Bal
timore is rapidly drawing to close. There
were two sessions yesterday, and much
work was done, but the end was not reach
ed, as expected. There will be two sessions
to .day, when oil the business for which the
council was called will De finished, and it
will be affirmed at the public session at the
Cathedral tomorrow.
James G. Blaine arrived in Washington
yesterday afternoon from New York. Upon
leaving the train he walked up the plat
form, until Mr.. Walker Blaine, who was
waiting to receive his father, joined him
Mr.. Blaine looked careworn, and appeared
several years older than he really is. Only
a few persons at the depot recognized the
defeated republican candidate for Presi-
dent, and there were no attempts at dem
onstration. Mr.. Blaine and his son went
out through side gate and entered their
carriage and drove Immediately to the
Window mansion, where Mr.. Blaine and
his family are to reside this winter.
On Tuesday night next the Centennial
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church will begin in Baltimore, continuing |
in session for week. The number of del. |
egates who will take part 10 its proceedings
will he about five hundred, and will include |
the NJ. E. Church, the NJ. E. Church South. |
the Colored Methodists, the Metbodists of
Canada and the independent and Primitive |
Methodlsts, who are also supporters of the
episcopal system. 1t is computed that the |
conference will represent four millions of |
members belonging to the several branches
Of this religious denomination, and estima.
ed as a community Of twenty millions of !.
cersons.