Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-09-23
NEWS OF ESEE; EpA1-


Tho prohibitionist convention for the fifth
congressional district OF Maryland has NOM
mated Mr.. James ?. Arm. trong, of Snau}d.
ing's district, Prince Georges county, for
Congress.
Mr. Franklin B. Gowen yesterday for.
mally resigned the presidency Of the Pills
delphia and Reading Railroad Company,
and Mr.. Austin Corbin was elected as his
successor.
The Pope has appointed special com.
mission cfclrdlnals to examine and report
upon the divorce laws of different countries
with view to enable the Pontitf to suitably
Instruct the bishops Of the Catholic Church
throughout the world on the subject Of d.
Yorce,
A monster procession OF Odd Fellows took
place at Boston yesterday. The streets
along the route were thronged With people,
and windows of buildings and all points OF
vantage from! which to view the parade were
crowded by citizens and strangers. The
procession was the largest Of its kind eyer
seen III Boston, taking two hours iii passing
a given point, and il is estimated that ba
tween 10. 900 ard 5000 men were in !,ne
Martha Irons, The leader OF the great
strike last spring on The Gould system wa
| brought 10 st. Louis fran Kansas CITY veg
| terGay TO stand trial on tho charge OF con.-
| p!lcity IN the noted wire tapping affair.
Ills case was to have come TO trial last
| Monday, but the prisoner failed To put in All
appearance, and his bon6smcu surrendered
| him to the officers. His case comes up next
November. He denied that lie wss drunk
When recently arrested in Kansas City.
The Emerson & Fisher Carriage Works
in Cincinnati, have issued paper to their
| employees with view 10 settling now the
question Of the Knights of Labor regarding
the operation Of their business. Tho COM
pany, which employs about five hundred
men, wants to mako its contracts with the
mcu personally and not be hnmpered by
| local uEt0CS. About one hundred men have
signed TIE paper agrecing 10 stay with the
works in preference to the Knights Of La
her.
The new two doliar certificates, bearing
the head CT Gen W. s. Hancock in the Wig
nette, arc being turned out es rapidly IS
possible by ths Baveau of Engraving and
PiiIting. There is great demand 10,
them. Tine one-doiiar certificates, bearing
tho mead Of Martha Washington, are salt
20 be the handsomest notes ever made
They will he put in circulation early mex
week. and are being printed at the rate O
10000 day. The tive.doliar certificate
has been az yet SCARCELY commenced upon
AID will hardly be ready for use before De
cember.
The ceremonial required to perfect ths
conversion of u Christian to the Hebrew
faith Is in process at the Hebrew Synagogue
in Washington. The convert, young mar
| n. the romn Of anil, Fnrd fall i, Iowa yr;tl,
beautiful Hebrew maiden Of Atlanta wkilt
he was in the employ ola business house i!
that city. The two were married by a jus
tice Of the peace, which ceremony, according
10 the laws of Georgia, is of couIse strictly
legal, but the wife's family, who are wealthy
opposed the match, because, as he was, no
of their faith, lie could not be married &C
cording to their form. tis understood tina
when the young man is formally received
into the Hebrew faith his purpose is to b.
remarked with that ritual.