Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-04-11
NEWS OF The DAY.


The Countess Seltorne, wife of the Lord
High Chancellor of Great Britain, IS DEAD
Columbus Crawford, colored, was hanged
Yesterday at Yorkviile, S. g., tor Inc muir
der of Ellison Sanders. AT the last moment
he confessed his guilt.
The plant of the Baltimore Day has been
purchased by H. ]. Ford for $21 900. 1t ~
expected that paper will soon DO started
| in the interest of Senator German.
| Secretary Whitney has issued an order
recurring all clerks in the office OF the Sec,
re,ary of the Navy to remain on duty until
live O'Clock daily for the present.
The New York Worlds Bartholdi pedes
tai fund is growing rapidly, and on Thurs
day evening last amounted to sl9 80 10 10;
The SUM represents the offerings OF lo,o5o
persons.
The bill comforting the franchise upon the
female sex through the process of consul
stitutonal amendment was defeated III the
New York Assembly "Wednesday by one
majority.
Reports from the Delaware peninsula
state that the peach buds have greatly de
velcped during the last week, placing them
in critical condition in case of low tenn
perature.
The Lewiston (Me.) Journal says "a
good many tons OF the ice harvested on the
Kennebec this winter have been sold already
by measurement in the houses at 10 to 10
cents per ton aboard vessels.
Robert B. Vance, of North Carolina, has
been appointed Assistant Commissioner Of
Patents. and VIM. F.. Mclean, OF Indiana,
First Deputy Commissioner Of Pensions
The designations Of fourteen postoffice in
spectors have been requested.
Elk President Arthur expects to leave
, Fortress Monroe this evening for New York.
A special car will be provided for him from
Cane Charles by the Pennsylvania Railroad
His health has been considerably improved
. by his visit to Fortress Monroe.
Secretary Manning, who has been at AL
hany. n. v, for some days, will leave for
Washington tonight. While in Albany he
was rendered reception by the leading
bankers of that city, but declined with ex,
;; pressions of regret and appreciation.
Mr.. Jonathan Shafer, soldier of the war
of 1912, died at his residence in Sharpsburg,
Nd, on Wednesday night, in the Dist year
of his age. The deceased participated in
the battle Of Badensburg as a member OF
, CAPTAIN f. g. Wiliams's Wiliamsport Hus.
: sais.
Herman Althcrp clerk in New York,
. ged twenty, killed himself on Thursday
morning by lodging ball in his brain.
There was no reason for the suicide. His
: accounts were all straight, and he would
have inherited 500 600 on reaching his next
3 birthday.
A body supposed to be that of S. 3. Con.
ant, the missing editor of Harper's Weekly,
was discovered by two colored men yester-
day floating in Coney Island creek, New
York The body was very much decom-
, posed, the flesh being ealeu from the face
and hands.
! Just after the ad ournment sine die ofthc
Tennessee Legislature, Deputy Sergeant,at-
Arms Turner shot twice at Pink McGarvor,
democrat, inllcting two flesh wounds.
McGarver in turn stabbed Turner, it is
+: thought fatally. The alteration grew out Of
! the recent registration bill trouble.
, At meeting of King solomon Lodge Of
Freemasons, at Toronto, last night j. Har
rison, a member OF the lodge, was accused
Of being q secularst agnostic and free
thinker, and should therefore be expelled
After very warm discussion he was, on a
vote, expelled He will appeal to the
Grand Lodge.
Mr.. Allen 0. Myers, of the Ohio Legisa
ture, who was recently reported as attempt.
ing suicide, denies that he made any
such attempt. He says he never failed in
anything he attempted, and while he will
; hear patiently the charge that he is a mem
Der of the Ohio Legislature, or other reflec-
tons upon his character, he desires to draw
the line at reports of suicide.
Regarding the question of have rec cunt
r of all the ballots cast for mayor of Chicago
at the late election, under the direction of
the committee of public safety, Mayor Har-
rison says he is willing that the recount shall
J be made; that he will abide by the result
and that he will accept as correct tho alb
|, stract of the ballots cast in the precinct from
which the ballot boxes and ballots were
stolen.
A dispatch from Coshocton, Ohio, says Il
r plot to assassnate Gov. Hoadly was dis
covered last Monday when the Governor
received through the mail strong wooden
box, from one end Of which hung string.
The Governors suspicious being aroused,
he caused the cover of the box to be re-
moved, and carefully arranged Internal
machine, loaded with dynamite sugs and
spikes, was disclosed to view.
Col. Ludlow, the chief engineer Of the
Philadelphia water department, has been
taken to task by the city council for giving
publicity 10 the fact that the greater part OF
the drinking water supplied to the citizens
of Philadelphia is polluted by the drainage
aud waste of seven or eight thousand people
in Mauayunk, who have disregarded the
order 10 have the evil corrected, and that
two thousand Of the city wellSare also large
u polluted.