Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-07-30
NEWS OF THE DAY.

President Cleveland. it is said, will sign
the oleomargarine bill.
Eighteen persons were Frustrated by heat
in New York yesterday.
Col. John s. Mosby will lecture next win.
ter on "Stuart's Cavalry"
1t is now said Congress may prolong it's
session until the 9th proximo.
Reports of severe hail storms come from
various parts of Pennsylvania. - *-1.1,-,--
Geo. A. jerks has been appointed solicitor
general in the place of John Gcode.
DR.. Bliss, of Washington, was thrown
from buggy near Cleveland, Ohio, this
week and seriously hurt.
The President yesterday morning received
FIVE fine watermelons of about fifty pounds
weight each from friend in Georgia.
Pat Leary, of Cardiff, Wales, terribly pun.
ished Joe Ridge, of Pittsburg, in fight of
twelve rounds, near Covington, KY, yester-
day.
Officials in Washington seem disposed to
treat the Cutting affair with Indifference,
and say he will doubtless be released in
day or two.
A young woman in Lamar county, Ala,
who has "died, entered paradise and return
ed to this mundane sphere" is attracting
much attention.
The United States sloop Of war Yantic
sailed yesterday morning from Portland,
Me-, with sealed orders not to be opened for
twenty-four hours.
One Billy Oliver now proposes to Jump
from the Brooklyn bridge. Should he get
an opportunity to carry out his foolhardi-
ness he will never wear leaden shoes.
John Applegate, jr., the sixteen year old
son of John Applegate, of Philadelphia, was
drowned yesterday in the Delaware river
near Point Pleasant, N. j., while bathing.
The first eight.inch steel gun ever manu-
featured in this country, which was built ut
the Washington navy yard, has been tested
at Annapolis with the most satisfactory re-
suits.
George Arensburg, one of the most rapid
and skillful typesetters in the world, died of
consumption in Bellevue Hospital, New
York, Wednesday. He was we'll known in
Washington.
Nellie Grant is said to be happy. 1t is
further asserted that there is no truth in
the stories of her marital troubles. Next
summer she and her husband will pay q
visit to America. g.
A fire occurred yesterday afternoon in
little tenement house on Third avenue,
New York. Mrs Mitcherlng, aged sixty
FIVE, was too feeble to fight her way out and
was burned to death.
The funeral of Hubert o. Thompson, the
leader of the New York County emocracy,
yesterday was attended by many prominent
Now York politicians, and tho interment
was in Woodlawn Cemetery.
Tx. Congressman Rogers, of Buffalo, is TO
| be Public Printer in place of Mr.. Rounds. He
is foreman of the Buffalo Courier Office.
Public Printer ROUNDS, before his appoint
ment, was foreman OF theF Buffalo Express
Office.
The knights of Labor district convention
at Bath, Me-, yesterday elected thirty-two
delegates to the General Assembly, to be
held at Richmond in October. Resolutions
eulogistc of Powderly were passed unani.
mously.
At Essex Junction, VT, yesterday, the
national greenback labor party, only twenty
delegates strong. put State ticket in the
field, headed by T. B. Smith, for Governor.
The platform is copied from that of the
knights of Labor.
Prince Fushimi, of JAP pan, and the mem.
bers of his suite were formally presented to
| the President yesterday by the Secretary of
State. The Japanese minister gave dinner
! in honor of the Prince last evening. He
will probably return to New York to-day.
Emanuel Chiarez, aged sixteen, of Browns
Vile, Tex, cut Off his step-mother's head
with an axe yesterday morning while she
was sleeping. He Gays she refused TO let
him 20 to the circus Wednesday and the
devil told him to cut her head oil. He is in
Jail.
Three large man eating sharks, the largest
eight feet long, were speared in. Oyster Bay
| II. ~ harbor and landed on the dock in the
village Wednesday night by Capt. Baylies.
Large numbers OF these sharks have recent
| ly been seen in Long Island Sound and the
bays.
Peter s. Tucker was held for examna-
ton in New York Yesterday, charged with
having debauched little girls whom he en-
poyed in his office. Grace Wheelwright,
aged II, and Lille Jones, about the same
aye, are the complauants. Tucker is 81
years old.
The body of man was found in the wa
tor at Coney Island beach yesterday morn.
ing. 1t answers the description of S. S.
Conant, editor OF Hurper's JVeekly who dis
appeared year ago. The undercothing
on the body was marked as. S. c." Conant
was last seen alive at Coney Island.
Edward Munson, clerk employed in
grocery store at Jersey City, had novel
experience Wednesday night. He went
swimming near the West Shore ferry at
Weehawken, and while in the water his
clothes were stolen. The un fortunate bath
or walked to his home, nearly a mile distant
in an empty barrel.
On the night of July 4th, the Roman
Catholic Cemetery at Springfield, Mass, was
observation-disclosures being overturned and
disfgured, and much damage done. An in
dignation meeting was held, q detective was
hired, and the city offered one hundred dol.
lars reward for the arrest of the perpetra-
rors of the outrage. Wednesday six men
were arrested on the charge of being the
vandals. Five of tho men are Catholics.
In the United States Senate yesterday
resolution was introduced to properly cele-
hraie Tho centennial anniversary of the