Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-12-20
NEWS OF FEE DAV

lne estimated cost OF the Coll Campbell
divorce case is t25, 600.
The snit against Lord Chief. Justice Cole
ridge has been settled finally.
In January all French employees on the
Alsace- Lorraine Railway will be dismissed
and replaced by Germans.
The Red Star steamer iceland put into
Queenstown Saturday partially wrecked :;
one man was lost overheard
fund is to be raised for women's and
girls Offering to Queen Victoria in honor of
| the tittieth year of her reign.
The card rate on window glass in Pitts.
burg has been advanced 10 per cent, which
is an increase Of 80 per cent. over last years
prices.
The manager of the Gemsah boring oper-
| atoms near Cairo, Egypt, reports a heavy
How OF pure petroleum at the depth of 125
| feet.
The condition of Alice Oates, the actress,
IN Pblladelphia, WAS unimproveG last night.
she had been steadily failing during the
day. aud her death was considered matter
of but few hours.
| Cardinal Jacobni has rendered his resig.
nation as papal secretary of state, owing to
| ill-health. The Pope refuses to accept his
resignation, hut the appointment of sue.
cessor to the Cardinal is under discussion.
Frank Sellers, a schoolteacher, who had
attempted to assault a little eight.year. old
girl at Gainesville, Ga, was on Friday whip.
ped nearly to death with a rawhide by the
father of the child. He was then ordered
by crowd of angry citizens to leave the
State st once, aud did so.
The farewell dinner of the democratic
members Of the New York congressional
delegation to Hon. Abrem S. Hewitt to
mark his retirement from congress prior to
entering upon his duties as Mayor of New
York on January |, took place in Washing
ton on Saturday night.
Late on Saturday afternoon, at Cham.
| p!on, Mich. during the absence from home
Of miner named Gribbell, three mask ed
men forced an entrance into the house,
bound Mrs. Gtibhel hand and foot and
made off with $500 Attempting to call
help Mrs. Gribbell was cut with knife by
one OF the nen, and her condition is serious
On Saturday night a wagon containing
four corIses was captured by the Baltimore
police and the colored driver, Edward War
field, arrested. Wartield had q hearing
yesterday, and was dismissed, it being
shown that q" four bodies had been taken
| from DayV!eW cemetery, when is excepted
from the provisions of the law which makes
stealing from grave yards a misdemeanor.
Sir Charles Russell, counsel for Lady Col
in Campbell, made his closing argument in
the Campbell divorce suit Saturday. He
said he knew that Lord Colin Campbell
charged his wife with adultery, but he had
been unaware, until he heard defendants
counsel making his closing argument, that
the husband also charged his wife With per
jury and subornation ofperjury. Lord Colin
and his counsel had displayed an acrimony
unparalleled. If their charges against Lady
Colin were true, they would place her on q
level with the commonest prostitute. Lord
Colin was only the youngest eon in the Ar
gyll family although Mr.. Finley appeared to
think with another Campbell who, when
the Marquis o: Lorne married the Princess
Louise, exclaimed "Eh, mon, the queen
must be prood leddy to-day.