Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-12-21
NEWS OF THE DAY.
The ex Queen of Hanover is seriously

The ex Queen of Hanover is seriously ill.
Congress will adjourn tomorrow until
January 4
The President yesterday nominated Rich
ard Welsh to BE- postmaster at Annapolis,
Md.
Bodies of workmen have seeded from the
Knights of Labor in Pennsylvania and New
Jersey.
Rev. Sias Wiggin, of Sutton, VT, aged
seyenty.tive years, committed suicide yes
| terday by hanging.
| The Lloyds are about to build steamer
| intended to scrpass III speed aud sZs any
vessel now afoat.
Mauroyeni Bey, fret secretary OF the Fur
kish legation at Madrid, has been appointed
| Turkish minister to Washington.
| The government will soon institute pro-
ceedings in Boston to test the validity of the
patent granted the Boil Telephone Com
pany.
Parnelite members Of the Parliament
hood winked the police, and collected the
rents on the Nandeleur estates in County
Clare.
The bill for the suppression OF pleuro.
Pneumonia calls for United States cattle
commission of three persons and AN appro-
prlatlon OF Sl,OUO,O QUO.
Mr.. Parnell is i'll and confined to his room
in London. He is unable to receive visitors
and is prohibited by his physicians from TAX
ing any part in political discussion.
Jacob Goldman, convicted of passing
counterfeit money by the United States
Court at New Orleans, has been sentenced
to ten years hard labor in the Chester (Ill.)
panitentiary.
Col. Geo. Northrnp, one ofthe best known
railroad men in the South, and the drllmas.
ter who developed the Invincible DeMolay
Commandery, Knights Templar, of Louis.
vile. KY, has been adjudged lunaic.
Powder]y has written to a committee OF
the United Labor party, declining to ad-
dress the convention, and says so long as he
Is az the head of the Knights he will never
again occupy place on political platform.
The trial Of John L. West, charged with
HOUSEKEEPING and assault with intent to
commit rape on Mrs. Mary l. Page, in Wash.
lnSton, short time ago, has been set for
The 18th of January next.
Citizens of Washington county. Md, and
Berkeley county, w. Va, are making an ef.
fort to have an iron bridge built across the
Potomac river at Wiliamsport, Md. It's
estimated cost is $25 900, which is sought to
be raised by stock subscribed by private in
dividuas, aided by 81 joint appropriation
from the two counties.
The Washington newspaper publishers
and tho Typographical Union have agreed
on basis of IL! cents ter 900 ems for af
ternoon papers and IS cents per 1000 ems
| Tor morning papers as tho price of compost.
ton, to go into effect on January /. This
is m advance from 40 cents per 900, the
price at present paid by both morning and
afternoon papers.
The Senate yesterday passed the House
bill for the relief Of the survivors Of the
Jeanette expedition. \ bill to incorporate
The Windsor Hotel Company Of the District
oil Columbia vas also passed. In the House
MIR. lli.cocl called up his motion to suspend
the rules and pass the bill relating to duties
on tobacco, but The motion was defeated
ayes 90 nays lG5.
Cattle men from East Tennessee report bo
| tween Bristol and Knoxville, extending
down to Aahevile N. G., the deepest snow
| ever known in that section falling Sunday,
the 18th. 1t was forty inches deep, with 20
drifts. No wagons have been able to move
since 1t fell la every direction the news
was coming in Of the roofs of houses being
crushed in by the weight of the snow