Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-04-28
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF 1HE DA1.
King Alfonso is suffering from intermit
tent fever.
Ninety female clerks in the Internal Rev
enue Office have been dismissed.
The marriage Of Princess Victoria Of
Hesse and the Prince Alexander has been
postponed until May.
Two anarchists in Berlin have confessed
the details of the plot to blow mp the Ger
mania statue at Neiderwald.
A terrific cyclone nearly destroyed all
the buildings in jamestown, Ohio, yesterday
afternoon. Six persons were killed and
many injured.
Princess Elizabeth. of SAKE Altcuburg,
was married yesterday to the Grand Duke
Constantine. The ceremony was performed
at the Winter Palace, st. Petersburg, amid
great pomp.
Advices from Western Texas are to the
effect that cattle are suffering and large
numbers dying for want Of water and grass,
the drouth having been very severe i'll that
section. Myriads OF caterpillars have also
appeared and are destroying all kinds of
vegetation.
The Egyptian troops at Berber are report
ed to have fraterniZed with the rebels. Four
brigades Of Bashi Bazouks and 800 infantry
are said to have gone over to the enemy.
The political clubs in London are incensed
at the course Of the ministry with reference
to Egyptian affairs, and have formed a non
party coalition to attack the government.
The Supreme Court of Georgia has dccid-
| ed that Sunday is dies NON .jur dicuS, and
service cannot be made or legal notice given
on that day, or the business or work of
ordinary calling done, therefore the publica-
| ton Of the advertisement of a marshal's sale
for taxes in a newspaper appearing on Sun
day was not legal, aud the sale hereunder
passed no title.
A cable dispatch has been received al
Harvard College observatory from the Eu-
ropean astronomical centre at kicl, Prussia,
announcing the discovery Of an asteroid
number 1851 by Palisa Mt Vienna. It's po-
sition on April 26 at 4h. 12s., Greenwich
mean time was right ascension, 13h. Abs;
dcclination, south, 3 deg. 2lm. Ais. daily
motion in right ascension, 44s.; in decina-
ton north, GIN. 1t is Of the twelfth magni-
tude.
The first amendment to the constitution
Of Louisiana, which was submitted to
popular vote at the recent election, was
adopted. This amendment provides that
the interest on the State bonds which had
been fixed by the constitution at 3 per cent.
for fifteen years from January / 1855, and
per cent. thereafter, shall be raised to
per cent. from January |, 1855, for the whole
term of thirty years. This is believed to
be the first instance in which Il State by the
vote of people has raised the interest on its
public debt.
julius Columbian, notorious thief and
ex convict, was arrested Saturday in New
York, charged with completely in the theft
of $4,000 in bonds, stolen in 1882 from the
residence of Owen and Hugh McSorley, near
West Brighton, Staten Island. Columbian's
arrest was Effected through the agency Of
Mrs. Ellen Peck, celebrated in connection
with the Babbitt- Beck with case, with whom
he entered into negotiations tos sell the bonds.
Columbian escaped through back door when
the police appeared, throwing away $4,000
of the bonds in his flight One hundred
officers secured the city for him, and Sat
urday morning he was run down and ar
rested.
According to the New York Herald there
have been elected, so far, SIS of the $50
members of the republican national conven-
ton. OF these 800 are for Arthur, 139 for
Blaine, 40 for Logan, As for Edmunds and
% for Sherman. There yet remain to be
elect 242 delegates. OF these Texas will
give Arthur 26 votes, Kentucky will give
him 90, North Carolina 16, New Hampshire
6, Nevada 6, Rhode Island S, Florida S, Col
orado E. From the other States whose del
egations are still incomplete be will get at
least 10 of the IS in Wisconsin, of the 10
from West Virginia, 9 of the 6 from Nebras-
ka, 2 of the s from Minnesota, , Of the from
Massachusetts, of the "a from Iowa, with
10 or 12 from the other States. This will
give Arthur 432 votes and secure his nomi-
nation.
Henry Ward Beecher says that be would
not support Blaine if he were nominated.
Without analysing the public services of
Mr. Blaine, or making any invidious or dis
paraging distinction between him and the
other candidates prominently mentioned,
he says: Il have no sympathy with and /
would not support any candidate whose |
sources of income have been the money CEN
tiers and monopolies of the country, nor
would counsel the nomination of such a |
man by either party. I cannot reiterate my
sentiments on the subject of Mr. Blane's |
candidacy too strongly. His nomination
would be public calamity and his election
a national disgrace. You will, however,
understand that, personally, I believe Mr..
Blaine to be an excellent man; bit as pol
itician his sun has set and he may devote
himself entirely to the literary labor in which
he so much delights"
The Southern Planter for May has been received
from its publishers in Richmond This monthly