Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-08-02
NEWS OF THEDAY.


The House Saturday passed the alien
landlord bill.
1t is now predicted that Congress will adj
journ Wednesday or Thursday.
The President Saturday vetoed bill
granting pension to Jennette Dow.
A New Jersey farmer has cured a rattle
snake bite by poultiee of salt pork.
The steel bark Lord Templeton, the
largest in the world, is at Baltimore.
Mrs. Cleveland was admitted yesterday
as member of DR.. Sunderland's church.
A member of Plymouth Church is writing
novel in which Henry Ward Beecher fig
ures as the hero.
The Marquis Hochisuka, envoy extraordi-
nary and minister plenpotentiary of Japan,
has arrived in New York.
The Sibley Mills, Augusta, Ga, have shut
down and six hundred and fifty persons were
thrown out Of employment. ~.
A belief is current that the prosecution
has some startling features yet to offer in
the anarchists trial in Chicago.
The English cutter Galatea arrived at
Marblehead, Mass, Saturday evening. A
great reception was accorded her.
| Owing to reduced appropriations the
names of thirty clerks of various classes were
dropped from the rolls Of The Patent Office
Saturday.
Henry F. Mullin, postmaster of Delaware
City, Del, who was arrested Friday for en-
| beZzlement, was committed in default Of
81 500 bail Saturday.
1t has been fully developed that there
will be no opposition to Gen. Gordon's can
didacy for Governor of Georgia by the indie
| pendents or republicans.
John Torney convicted of fraululently
counting two hundred ballots as an election
| Judge in Cincinnati, has been sentenced to
three years in State prison.
During fight between musician and a
brakeman at q picnic at Lake Maxenkuskee,
Ind, Saturday, the latters neck was broken
| by blow from the former.
! Jacob Kinest, a farmer of Fishing Creek
| Valley, Pa, has been arrested for setting
fire to his house with the intention of burn.
ing his wife and children.
Miss Jennie Macarthur, of Butte, Mont,
was drowned in Sun river recently while
endeavoring to rescue a woman who had
been thrown from carriage into the stream.
The forty-two shoe factories at Brockton,
Mass, whose proprietors are members of the
Manufacturers Association, shut down Sat-
urday night until the existing trouble is
settled.
A row boat containing Elk young men was
capsized by swells from passing steamboat
in the Hudson river, near New York, yes.
terday evening, and three of the party were
drowned.
1t is announced that Mr.. James o. Green
son of DR.. Norvin Green, president of the
Western Union Telegraph Company, is soon
to be married to Miss Hewitt, daughter of
the Hon. A. S. Hewitt, of New York.
During a scufle between drunken man
and several female members of his family on
the porch of house in Brooklyn yesterday
the structure gave way throwing the party
to the pavement. One woman was killed.
A Baptist church in ST.. Clair, Pa, was
badly damaged by dynamite on Saturday
morning. 1t is supposed the affair grew out
of the recent crusade of the "Law and Order
Society" against violations of the liquor law.
Hon. Jefferson Davis recently wrote the
following letter to New Yorker, who ex-
hbits it "Sir-I am too old to quarrel, too
old to boast The man of sense in his old
age likes to be let alone. With respect,
yours, ETC."
Three little children Of a man named
Isaac Waters, in Onslow county, n. c., set
upon q little crippled boy with stones and
sticks, a day or two ago, and beat him to
death. The little criminals are in Jail at
Jacksonville.
An attache Of the Chinese legation in
Washington has created sensation by fall
ing in love with the eighteen-year-old
daughter of War Department official. The
Celestial has cut of his queue and donncd
American apparel.
From Isle Royal, in Lake Superior, come
REPORTS that its fishermen are suspected OF
having riled the bodies of the forty victims
lost in the Algoma disaster last fall, and
that to avoid detection they sunk The
corpses far out in the lake.
A reign of terror exists in Comanche
county, Texas. A gang of regulators has
ordered thirty white farmers 10 leave the
county, besides ordering the negroes to so.
1t is said that this samo gang was guilty OF
the lynching at Sipe Springs some time ago
Henry Lague, of Holyoke, Mass, attempt.
ed to poison his family on Tuesday by put
ting fly poison on their meat and potatoes.
Mrs. Lague, two sons aud daughter were
made sick, but recovered. Jealousy Of his
wife seems to have been the motive for the
deed.
The details given in a recent Washington
letter make it hard to believe that the PEG.
pie in this country are in very desperate
straits, when they consume in Il single year
.S3 gallons of beer for every man, woman
and child, and Ito gallons spirits, besides
5O.2 cigars for every inhabitant, p cigarettes
and 8 80 pounds smoking and chewing to.
bacco.
A dispatch from Gunnison says: "In tho
district court Saturday afternoon Frank Ma
son, charged with murder, who has been on
trial for week, was acquitted by the jury,
which was out one hour. It appears that
the murdered man applied opprobrious cpl
taphs to Mason. The jury, in it's report,
declared that any one who called another
such names deserved killing.
Tremendous storms visited Rockaway
Beach and Atlantic City Saturday afternoon.
At the latter place the storm was the most
severe that over visited that city. At the
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