Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-12-29

NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
A United States marine at Annapolis is
charged with biting of another marines
ear.
The schooner VIM. NJ. Bird has just re-.
corded 500 miles sailing in thirty.eight
hours.
There are number of wrecks along the
New Brunswick coast from Saturdays
storm, and many lives are believed to have
been lost.
Samuel P. Haverield, a clerk in the
Treasury Department, committed suicide
Yesterday morning in his room in Washing
ton, while suffering from mental alteration,
caused by bad health.
The Jury in the Washington Circuit Court,
Judge Cox, has awarded $4,000 damages
against the Baltimore and Potomac railroad
company to Frank Springman, whose feet
were cut of a railroad train.
Justice c. E. Doddridge of Charleston, W.
Va. son Of the late Philip Doddridge, the
most prominent man in the State, died Sun
day, aged ~ years. Deceased was for many
years prominent lawyer of the kanawha
bar.
FREQUENT reference has been made to Mr..
Keiley's tcivil marriage" to Jewess as the
ground of objection to him in Vienna socl.
ety. Mr.. Kelley was married in due form
by a Catholic priest and with the papal
dispensation.
Sunday afternoon, at Jamestown, Clark
county. Ala, Alexander Reid, the negro
who brutally murdered Miss Carrie Boyer
at that place on the 18th instant, was
chained to tree at the spot where the
crime was committed and slowly burned to
death by crowd of Indignant whites and
blacks.
Mr.. Henry G. Davis, of West Virginia,
saws that he is not candidate for .. S.
Senator to succeed Mr.. Camden. Mr.. Davis
is now engaged in banking, farming, lum
berng, mining, and building railroad,
which, when completed will connect the
Baltimore aud Ohio railroad and the Chesa'
peake and Ohio railroad.
Unknown persons entered St. Elizabeth's
Catholic Church, Chicago, several nights
F ago, and tore down and mutilated sixteen
oil paintings, threw down the figures from
the inches, scattered the vestments and
smiled the altar wine over them. Ia the
schooroom adjoining desks were overturu-
ed, books strewn about and the walls spat.
tered with ink.
) John G. Davis, superintendent of motive
power for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
, Company, resigned yesterday on account Of
, ill-health, and w. II. Harrison was ap
pointed to succeed him. Dir. Davis has
/ been in the service Of the company continu,
ously for twenty years as master OF ma
chinery, assistant to the late president
j., John W. Garrett, and master OF motive
power. He will still retain position as
consulting officer.
The County Court Of Rockingham has
. accepted the resignation of Samuel B. Sterl'
ing, the defaulting treasurer, and mis- sue
i. cessor will be appointed tomorrow. Three
of his bondsmen yesterday went to the
eastern part of the county after Sterling
where be has been since last Thursday, and
where he will be Intercepted before full
meeting of the sureties as to the cause o.
the shortage, aud if possible the where
abouts of some of the missing funds will be
ascertaned.
In the little Polish church on Forsyth
: street, New York, a wedding Of some note
took place yesterday afternoon. The con
tracing parties were Miss Felicia Benda,t the
daughter Of the celebrated Polish actor o.
that name, and Ralph Modjeska, the son o.
the famous tragedienne. The contracting
parties are cousins, and special dispense
ton from the Pope was necessary to the
celebration Of the ceremony. The young
people have been in love with each other
since childhood, and despite parental
opposition, have at last become united.
One member of the Vanderbilt family
who, if not popular, is at least not socially
: repelant, is COL Vanderbilt Allen the only
soa of Mrs D. NJ. Allen, ore of the disin'
herited daughters of the Commodore. Grad
uating from West Point in 1860, young AL.
len served with distinction through the war
on Sherman's staff. Subsequently BIS went
to Egypt and entered the service of the
Khedive, where he remained ten years,
Col. Allen explored the Soudan and the
} dark districts of Kordofan long before Gen.
Gordon appeared in Egypt Returning to
America some years ago, the Colonel caught
tartar in the shape of a wife, and the mat
rimonial infelicity of the couple eliminated
after few short months in the divorce
court. The fair plaintiff said that though
she loved the gallant Colonel for the dan
gers which he had passed, she could not
: put up with habit of his smoking nnrg-
hileh every night previous to retiring. The
Colonel is a man of fine presence and q well
known club man.
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