Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-12-23
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Cholera is on the il crease in Buenos
Ayres.
Both houses of Congress adjourned YES.
terday till January 4th.
1t is stated that Mr.. Blaine will not par.
ticipate in the New York Senatorial contest.
M. de Lesseps estimates the further needs
of the Panama canal at 137, 500 900 francs.
The Bay State Brick Company of Boston
has been sued for importing foreign work.
men.
1t is reported at Const antinople that Eng
land threatens permanent occupation CT
Egypt unless Turkey breaks with Russia.
An epidemic of the horse disease called
'Pnk Eye" prevails in Buffalo, n. y, and
the city railways have eighty-seven horses
on the sick list
Lieutenants John Abbott and J. F. Meigs,
attached to the Tennessee, are lying in the
New York Naval Hospital dangerously i'll
with typhoid fever and dysentery.
The body OF VIM. F. Wilmington, tho
Anne Arundel county, Md, farmer who had
disappeared, was found in Severn river yes
terday. A coroner's jury rendered a ver-
dict of suicide.
The Hungarian minister Of commerce has
resigned on account of the opposition of par
lament TO the governments financial policy.
1t is expected that other members of the
government will resign.
The sixth annual festival Of the New
England Society of Pennsylvania was held
yesterday evening at the Continental Hotel,
in Philadelphia. President Cleveland, who
had been invited to attend, yesterday sent
a letter of regret.
Obey f. Owens, the receiving teller of the
of the Third National Bank of st. Louis,
who in 1882 embeZzled about 100000 of the
banks funds, and was serving sentence in
the penitentiary at Chester, Ill.,. has been
pardoned by the President.
Congressman Lowry, of Indiana, who
| was defeated at the recent election by James
| B. White, republican, has served notice Of
contest on Mr.. White. Mr.. Lowry charges
that money was unlaw[ully used at the cleo
| ton, ard that White is not citizen.
| The trial of Rev. Waldo Mes ,aros
pastor Of the Northwestern Independent,
Church, of Philadelphia, on O charge of an
assault upon Mrs. Mary. Coulston, a member
of his congregation, was begun in that city
yesterday. The court room was crowded.
The English government it is reported
has resolved to prosecute Mr.. John Dillon
and Mr.. Healy for their declarations a,
yesterdays meeting of the executive com
mittee of the National League. that they
would continue to carry out the plan Of
campaign in defiance of the government.
A fsticull' occurred in the Georgia State
House in Atlanta on Monday night, the par
Elephants being Representative Gardner, OIL
Pike county, and Mr. A. A. Murphy, Of
GAINESVILLE, who was defeated for the Leg
islaturo by the former on tho wet and
"dry" issue. Gardner was knocked down
and considerably bruised.
! John t. Morris, a reporter of the Sun, wa:
before Judge Duffy in Baltimore yesterday
in the matter of his refusal to answer CUES
tons bearing upon the source of certain in
formation obtained by him from the granG
jury room. Mr.. Morris again declined t.
answer the questions, aud Judge Duly i'm
mediately committed him to Jail for con
tempt of court.
Governor Hill, Of New York, has granted
a reprieve until February rs in the case o
the murderess Mrs. Druse, recently convic
ted in Warren, Herkimer county-an &C
count Of which shocking crime was publish
ed in yesterdays GAZETTE. Among
the reasons given by The Governor for biz
action is that the Legislature is about as
sembllng. and there are many who think
that the law relative to capital punishment
so far as it affects women, ought 10 bs
mo di6ed.
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