Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-12-27
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Lord Colin Campbell'a solicitors have ap-
piled for new trial of his counter suit for
divorce against his wife.
The ocean yacht race for 900 guineas,
proposed in honor of the Queens jubilee,
will be open to the world.
It is positively stated that Secretary of
the Interior Lamar is to be married ut an
early day to Mrs. Holt, of Macon, Ga.
In the last three weeks the transactions
in the New York speculative markets have
amounted in value to nearly 81 300 100000
Gen. E. G. Fair, United States minister 10
Belgium under Buchanan's administration,
died in Montgomery, Ala, Friday, aged
about so years.
Ashen D. Cohen, prominent lawyer of
Charleston, S. c., while out hunting par.
tridges Saturday, was shot by fellow
sportsman and seriously injured.
The glass manufacturing firms in Balti-
more have signed an agreement that thew
would to-day shut down their factories If
their employees did not accept reduction
in wages of 10 per cent and allow two ap.
prentices to each blast.
Mr.. Abraham Waller, of Albemarle coun.
ty, Va, and Ann Cazsnove du Pont, dangh
ter of the late Eeuthere Irene du Pont.
were married at the brides home, near Viii.
mington, DEL, Thursday. The bride, be-
sides occupying a high social position, is
QUE of the weatnest women in Delaware.
Charles T. Armisted, the colored Chicago
lawyer, who has been spoken of as minister
to Liberia, has received letter from ex-
Gov. Hoadly, Of Ohio, saying: "You are a
young man, and do not think have any
desire to die immediately. The appoint
ment as minister to Liberia, is, in my iudg-
ment, equivalent to n sentence of death. u
Armisted, nevertheless, says he is willing to
make the trial.
The Washington papers of this morning
report the President as again confined to his
| room by an attack of rheumatism, but it is
| authoritively stated that his condition is
| neither alarming nor serious, that the rheu.
| matio pains are confined solely to one knee
| that the present attack was brought on by
| the President leaving his bed too soon and
| working too hard last week, and thai the
case readily yields to treatment.
Pinkerton detectives last Friday captured
| in Chicago man who, they assert, is Jim
| Cummings, who is charged with robbing the
| express car on the St. Louis and San Fran.
cisco Road of between $4,000 and 100000
| With him were arrested two of his pals and
| his mistress. On the person of Cumming
IS 300 in cash was found. Some doubt has
been expressed as to the identity OF the man
supposed to be Cummings, but the detec.
tives insist that they have got the right
| man.
The Philadelphia Tocsia, the organ of the
workingmen of that city, says edtorially
From the number of secret circulars pub
lished by the head of the noble order, it is
to be inferred that the distinguished gentle
man is trying to make it appear, at least
that he is earning his princely salary OIL
So 900 year. Many poor Knight of La
Dor, If not on the verge of starvation is Ger.
| tainly not earning more than enough tc
keep body and soul together during this
Christmas season while the heads Of The or.
der are reveling in all the Injuries their
princely salaries afford. The officials Ger
tainly have bettered their condition. Pile
on the assessments"
Hon. s. S. Cox entertained at his house
in New York, on Saturday might, Rusten
Et1endi, the Charge d'Aiiaires from Turkey
The occasion was the presentation by Rus
tenn EGendi of the diploma and Gordon OF
the FIRST grade of the Order of the Mejidic,
which had been presented by the Sultan
Abdul Hamid II TO the ex- Minister on bis
resignation Of that post. The ceremony
was enhanced by the fact that Mrs. Cox was
her husbands rival in this agreeable matter
as she displayed the Order of Good Works
or the Grand Order of the Chevakat, which
she received direct from the Sultan before
leaving Constantinople. Pleasant speeches
were made. A banquet followed. at which
toasts were drank to the Sultan, Said
Pasha, the Minister of Foreign Affairs at
the Porte, and memories of the Bosphorus
exchanged.