Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-05-18
EEWS OF TIE Day

The Court OIL CIallnS uaa hectuSu Iudo lho
French spoliation claims &c valid.
The banns of marriage between Patti and
Nicolini have been published in Paris.
Crop REPORTS received in Chicago show
excellent prospects generally for the wheat
crop.
The President has vetoed the Senate bill
to establish port of delivery at Springfield,
Mass.
The Senate has confirmed the nomination
of Mrs. Thompson to be postmaster ut Louis
vile, Ky.
The republicans of Cumberland, Nd.
have elected their candidate for Mayor by
majority of 1O2.
Mayor Hodges, of Baltimore, has vetoed
an ordinance to increase the pay Of city Ia
borers to 50 day.
Ed. Grant took out letters of admins
tration upon the estate of Gen. Grant at
Washington yesterday
So far President Cleveland has sent 2,l00
nominations to the Senate, Of which LOO
have been confirmed and Is rejected.
resolution has passed both branches
of the Baltimore city council expressing
sympathy for Ireland in the struggle for
| home rule.
The business men of New York city are
making determined effort to defeat the
bill making every Saturday afternoon To-
gal holiday.
The President yesterday sent message
to Congress urging that arrangements be at
once made for the survey of The Northwest
ern boundary.
Three thousand men belonging to the
| London volunteers are said to have prom
sed aid to the Ulster loyalists in resisting
Dublin Parliament.
A number of miners in Georges Creek
coal region have voted to go to work ut the
old rate, 40 cents q ton, and the operators
regard the strike as broken.
Ex-President Arthur's health has been
steadily growing worse the past week and
there are few who believe the cxPresdent
will ever again leave his house alive.
Mr. Gladstone is reported to have inform
cd the Queen, despite her protest, that
she must dissolve Parliament unless the de-
| feat of,he home.rule measure is overWhelm-
| ing.
Rev. Peter a. Sequin, an ex-Catholic priest
and former Presbyterian missionary in New
York, has been arraigned before the Chica.
20 Presbytery to answer charges of lying
and deception"
The Senate yesterday passed the Dingley
shipping bill, with on amendment 70 author
| ize the President to deny to foreign vessels
privileges in our ports denied to our vessels
in foreign ports.
In New York yesterday the negro, Miguel
Chacon, who killed his former mistress,
Maria Williams, because she left him and
returned to live with her husband, was SEN
fenced to death.
A dispatch from Madrid announces that
the Queen Regent has given birth TO male
child. There is great rejoicing over the
event. Cannon arc being fired and the peo-
pie are generally celebrating the birth of
the Prince.
| DR.. T. s. Henderson, we'll known in polit.
ical circles in Brooklyn, n Y, was found
dead in Albany Sunday with his throat cut.
He was dentist by profession, but was
chiefly known by his connection with poll
tics and as an Irish nationalist.
John H. A. Mcdonald member of the
Edinburgh and st. Andrews Universities,
presented in the House Of Commons last
night petition against granting home-rule
to Ireland. The petition was signed by
LOG, S94 Scotchmen. 1t was one and one
quarter miles long and weighed 211 pounds,
and was borne into the House on the
shoulders of stalwart attendants.
The House shipping bill, as passed yester-
day by the Senate provides that many SER
vices now rendered TO shipoWners by customs
| officers, inspectors of steam vessels and ship
ping commissioners on the payment of fee
are hereafter to be performed at the expense
wholly of the United States treasury, the
object being to promote the ship.ownins in
terests which the tariff tends TO destroy.
Tue Master Builders Association Of
Washington held q meeting last night to
discuss the labor difficulty and unanimous
| ly decided to adhere to the proposition
made to the men that nine hours should BIO
a days work, and to make no further con-
cessions. They will meet again Wednesday
night and fix upon day, probably Satur-
day next, when, if their men do not accept
the nine-hour system, they will go outside
the city for workmen and resume building
operations.