Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-11-08
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Inefe were III deaths IN Baltimore last
week
The pastoral letter of the bishops was
read in Protestant Episcopal churches yes
terday.
A satisfactory test of the Turnbull long
distance telephone was made in Washing
ton yesterday.
The national bank circulation has thus far
been reduced $4,000 900 by the recent three
per cent. bond calls.
Stephen B. Elkins gave dinner to James
@. Blaine and other prominent republicans
in New York Saturday.
John r. Copeland, leading citizen Of
Williamsburg, Va, died on Saturday, after
brief illness, aged 81 years.
The democrats, it is thought, will have a
good working majority in the new House of
Representatives and the Senate will be
close.
George NJ. Balm, on trial at Norfolk for
misappropriating funds CT the National Elk.
change Bank, testified in his own behalf
Saturday.
Nicholas Callan, one of the oldest resi-
dents of Washington, and for a long time
connected with the government ofthat city,
died last Saturday, aged rs years.
The President, accompanied by Secre-
taries Bayard and Lamar, left Washington
yesterday afternoon for Boston, to attend
the anniversary of Harvard College.
Theodore Roosevelt, the defeated repub
llcan candidate for Mayor, left for Europe
on Saturday TO bring home bride. The
lady is Miss Edith Carow, who is twenty six
years of age.
VIM. Henekamp & Sons piano factory,
Baltimore, was completely destroyed by
lire early yesterday morning. The loss on
the building and stock is estimated by the
firm at $685. 900.
Prof. Baird asks for $3.50, 900 to build an
addition to the Smithsonian Institute. He
says there is not room for the vast amount
OF interesting material stored away 10 the
National Museum.
Messrs. p. Hanson Hiss & Co., furniture
manufacturers, and kerngood Bros, dry
goods dealers in Baltimore, failed on Satur.
day, the former for upwards of $4,000 and
the latter for S175 900. Assets in both cases,
1t 10 said, will cover the liabilities.
The Grant relics bequsathed by the Van.
derbilt estate to the Government, and con-
tanned in fifteen large boxes, were delivered
Saturday. So soon as the relics are proper
ly classiiiedthey will be placed ia cases, to
be manufactured especially for their recep-
ton, and exhibited to the public.
At the government printing Office on Sat-
urday eighteen men were discharged. It is
rumored that another heavy discharge will
soon have to be made to bring the expenses
of the office within the appropriation; that
the monthly expenses will have to be re-
duced to 100000 per month, while at pres
ent they amount to SllS,0O0
The presence in New York of Mira Pres;
dent Cleveland and Miss Winnie Davis,
daughter of Jefferson Davis, on Saturday,
caused futter in society. It is said that
they both arrived in tie city on the same
train, the Presidents wife in specis car
and Miss Davis in palaces car just ahead
OF her. 1T is understood that there was no
communication between The two. Mrs.
Cleveland stopped at the Fifth Avenue He.
tel with Secretary and Mrs. Endicot., and
she Left early yesterday for Boston. Miss
Davis was accompanied by General and
Mrs: Anderson, of Virginia, and put up at
the New York Hotel. Miss Davis made
most favorable impression on al who met
her, and if her visit could have been pro-
loneed she would have been the object of q
multitude of social attentions.