Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-12-10
NEWS OF TssE DAY

Miss Winnie Davis is the recipient of
many social attentions in New York.
The evidence for tho defence in the
Campbell divorce case in London was con
cluded yesterday
Five men were sentenced at Westminster
Md, yesterday TO the penitentury for burg
larry in Baltimore county.
Field, Thayer & Co., prominent boot apG
shoe dealers, of Boston, have failed, with
liabilities estimated at S600,0OO
The new French Cabinet is announced
with NJ. Goblet as premier. Gen. Bouan.
ger will occupy the same position as in the
preceding ministry.
A collision Of two railroad trains near
Rockville, Nd, yesterday, badly damaged
two engines and several cars. No passen.
gers were severely injured.
Congressman Swinburne, of Albany, NY,
has served notice upon Congressman elect
Nicholas T. Kane that he will contest bis
seat in the Fiftieth Congress.
John Wannamaker's offer for the PhiIa-
delphia gas works has, it is believed, de-
feated the project to lease the works to Do
Ian and Barker
Alexander Levergne, Of Opelousas, La,
with a cowhide, yesterday, when the latter
drew revolver, and shot him dead
Prominent colored men in various parts
of the South are endesvoring to organize 3
"Colored Peoples Worlds Exposition" to
be held at Montgomery, Ala.
S. B. w. Gill, prominent attorney OF
Pitlsburg, who disappeared after embezzing
over 100000 in trust funds, it is thought
died in Belfast, Ireland, the 10Th of Novem-
Der last.
A man attacked Deputy Case in the lob
by of the Chamber of Deputies, at Paris
yesterday, and tried 10 stab him. The dep
uty was rescued by friends. The assailant
was arrested.
John Hughes, q colored convict in the
Missouri penitentiary, at Jefferson City,
made murGerous assault upon George
Gould, foreman of the shoe factory, yester.
day, cutting him badly with shoe knife.
Francesca Reynaud, colored man from
St. Jago de Cuba, was found hanging to
the iron door Of his cell in the Southwestern
station-house, Baltimore, yesterday. He
had applied for lodging. He died soou aft er
being cut down.
The contents of the ice and storehouscs of
John Sommerfeld's beer brewery on the
Calverton road, near the city limits of Bal.
timore, were destroyed by fire about half
past seven o'clock yesterday morning, aud
one thousand barrels of beer lost.
Yesterday afternoon Senator G. W. Jones'
OF Florida, and his son, were out riding in
Chicago, when u runaway horse threw the
Senator out of the carriage, badly straning
his side. He will be laid up for come time
but expects after the holidays to be in Wash.
ington again.
The House Of Representatives yesterday
passed bill extending the free delivery sys
tenn. Also the electoral count bill in an
amended form. The bill creating depart.
ment of agriculture and labor was discussed
Mr.. Tucker, of Virginia, making the princi
pal speech against the measure.
In the second trial Of ex-Alderman Me
Quade in New York yesterday ex- Alderman
Duffy acknowledged committing perjury be
fore the Senate investigating committee
In the course Of tho cross examination he
acknowledged that he had sworn falsely ir
the first trial on several points He repeat.
eddy contradcted himseIfin his testimony
and was greatly confused by the counsel
for the defense.