Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-01-10
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Senate yesterday adjourned over
until Monday.
Wolseey telegraphs that he expects to
reach khartoum January q.
The English government has decided 10
create minister Of education.
The overtures of the Duke of Marlborough
10 bis divorced wife for q rernarriage nave
been rejected.
The Southern Lithograph Company of
New Orleans has failed, with liabilities OF
$50 600. assets $50 900.
King Hunbert has conferred upon Prince
albert Victor of Wales the order of the An
nuuziata L u he occasiUu Of the Princes at
tanning his majority.
AIsj. Charles B. Brady, of St. Louis, who
was Que Of Gen. McCiollau's body-guard,
com mitled suicide Thursday night by shoot
Ing himself through the head.
There has been run on the banks in Bue-
nos Ayres on account Of the inposSibiity OF
getting drafts Oh Europe. Business is al Il
standstill, and the financial situation colnpli-
Gated.
A human skull, to which was attached
paper tag inscribed "a. T. Stewart" was
found yesterday i'll the area OF a private resi-
dence IN Hoboken, n. j.. aud taken to the
morgue.'
Several gentlemen have united in II move
ment for the organization Of cremation so
ciaty In baltimore, TO build and operate 4
crematory for the incarceration Of the bodies
of the dead.
The building committee of the New York
Mining, Stock aud National Petroleum Elk
change have drawn up plans for Il new
hpil IN R-,nluar Thn CYIouu1 will
cost 100000, and the building $780, 900.
1t is rel It'd that Judge Hilton en- behalf
of Mrs. A. T. Stewart recently offered an en-
dowmenL to the diocese of Long Island for
the cathedral at Garden City. which would
produce an income Of Sl5, 900 per year, but
the offer has been declined "a being made
quate.
Great Neck, n. y, is excited over the
elopement yesterday Of Jeremiah O'Relly,
married man and the father OF two child
rem, with Maggie Corrigan, ii handsome girl
% years of age. O'Reilly has been employ
I'd as coachman by Mr.. f. d. Morgan, the
New York banker, who has summer resi-
de nee there for over six years, and was held
in high esteem By the family.
A terrible gale is reported to have occur
red in Samson county, ia North Carolina.
John Jachson's house was blown down
and his two children badly hurt. 0. Jack
sons house and barn were destroyed. The
buildings on the farms OF Thomas and JAS.
Jackson were also RACED. John Calvin's
saw mill was carried into Il pond. Henry
Warrens dwelling was unrooied. A stack
pole was blown eight miles. The church at
Goshen was blown down The cyclones
path was narrow.
States Circuit Court at New York by Emma
Fl. Wallace, Of Ohio, against the Rev. Nor
gan L. Dix and the cooperation of Trinity
Church for the recovery Of n large sum OF
money which she claims is due her rs II
descendent and her-n law of Anneke Jams.
The complaint is very lengthy and goes
Into the minutest details concerning the
identity of the complainant, the property
involved and her claim to u portion OF it.
1t is understood the plaintiff would com-
promise her claim on the payment of
81 DOC, 600.
The papers called for by Mr.. Hawey in
the resolution offered by him in the Senate
on Thursday, requesting the President 10
communicate to the Senate a historical state
ment concerning the public policy Of The ex-
ecutiye department of the Confederate
States during the late war. which has re
Gently been filed in the War Department By
Ger. W. T. Sherman, will probably be seul
to the Senate on Monday They consist Of
an autograph letter from the late Alexander
Stephens, of Georgia, to Hsrschel V. John
sou, which has recently been published, and
secret message from Mr.. Davis to the Con-
tAderate Congress, which was captured at
Richmond.