Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-11-15
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Rev. VIM. Delaney, Catholic Bishop of
the Diocese of Cork, is dead
1t is thought to be doubtful whether Sen
ator Jones, of Florida, will ever resume his
seat in the Senate.
At q meeting at Glasgow, Saturday, it
was resolved to raise monument to Burns's
Highland Mary on Castle Hill, Dunoon.
A call has been issued for Il convention of
all the trades unions in the United States
and Gamma, to begin at Columbus, O., De.
cember S.
The Bulgarian Sobrauie has sent depu
tation to the courts OF Europe to ask the
powers to name a candidate for the Bulga-
rian throne.
| 1t is reported that the Chinese steamship
| Takataman burst her boilers off Nirat, and
that 81 persons persisted, including the Of
ticers, who were Englshmen.
Two ladies have donated $3.50 600 for the
erection ofa Protestant Episcopal Memor.
ial Church at the northwest corner Of Eight
teenth and Diamond streets, Philadelphia.
Rt Rev. Alfred q. Curtis was Yesterday
consecrated Bishop of Wilmington, Del. at
the Cathedral In Baltimore. Cardinal Glib.
bons was the consecrutor, and Bishop Beck
or, OF Savannah, preached the sermon.
Prince Roccagiovne Bonaparte, who was
wounded when serving as q volunteer in
the French army in Tonquin, has commit
ted suicide BY shooting himself with re-
volver. He had lately shown sigus of in.
sanity.
DR.. B. W. Allen, for the past four years
professor of anatomy and surgery in the
West Virginia University, died Saturday
night, aged sixty-tour years. He was one
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State.
Jacob Miller, well.to.do farmer, and an
elder in the Presbyterian Church, residing
near kearneysville. Jefferson county. w.
Va, committed suicide By hanging himself
with trace chain in his corn crib Saturday
evening. He leaves family.
David McMinn attempted to board
freight train at West Virginia Junction, one
mile west of Piedmont, w. Va, Saturday
evening, and fell under the wheels, and was
terribly mangled. He died few hours after
the accident. He was a miner, twenty five
years old, and unmarried.
One report says that at meeting Of the
Chicago packing house strikers yesterday 1t
was decided to continue the strike, despite
General Master Workman Powderly's order
declaring the strike off; bat another ssys
that the strikers have been ordered back by
Powderly, and they will obey the order.
Mr.. John c. Bullet, of Philadelphia, rep.
resenting number O. capitalists of that
city, has purchased an undivided four fifths
of the property known as Kalorama heights
near Washington, for the sum of 100000
The same syndicate has purchased for $40
GOO, the estate know as Norman Stone"
Probably the last check in existence on
the Confederate States of America was ex-
hibited at Dallas, Tex, yesterday by Col. J.
F. Caldwell. 1t was for $780, 900, drawn on
the Confederate States depository at Column
bus by W. NJ. Gillespie, quartermaster in
favor of Col. 4. Sanford, dated April a.
1865, five days after the surrender of Lee.
The trial of Eugene Johnson for the muir
der of Rev. J. p. Thatcher, Of Moundsville,
w. Va, which has been in progress for tho
last two weeks, resulted Saturday night ia
a verdict of murder in the second degree.
The deed was committed several months
ago, while Thatcher, who was marshal of
the town, was attempting to arrest Johnson.
A recount of the vote cast FIR Assembly
man in tue district embracing Paterson, n.
j., resulted, after several alterations of
elation and depression on the part of the
rival candidates, in the conclusion that Car
roll the democratic candidate, was elected
by one majority. This makes certain tho
election Of democratic Senator from New
Jersey
The steamship Balderinero arrived at
New York Saturday from Havana with a
band of gypses, consisting Of Pietro Mark
owtz, q native of Bosnia, Turkey, the chief
Of the tribe, his wife, son and his wife and
baby and FIVE children. 1t was found that
Markowitz had with him in bags $4,000 in
Spanish gold. They could not, therefore, be
called paupers, and were allowed to land.
The children were baif starved but Mako.
witt refused to buy any food
A portere has recently been completed to
hang in the principal drawing room of Mr..
Corcoran's house in Washington, which for
unique elegance aud elaboration has PROB
ably no parallel in this country Five years
ago the idea Of the portiere was suggested
by Mrs. Atkinson, of Virginia, a member Of
The sisterhcod at the Louise Home. It il
compose of squares from every State and
Territory in the Union. The devices on the
squares are mostly allegorical or historical.
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The CAUSE OF THE RECENT DEMOCRATIC
DEFEATs.-Col. Baughmen, the democratic
candidate for Congress at the recent cleo