Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-05-21
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Four divorces were granted in Washing
ton last Saturday.
Two thousand immigrants were landed at
Castle Garden yesterday.
Mrs. Della Parneil, The mn;her Of the Irish
leader, has arrived in New York from Eng.
land.
MIR. George r Clark, We'll known bust
ness man OF Baltimore aud Il prominent Ma
son, died yesterday.
The Prince of Wales has left London for
Berlin to attend the wedding of Prince Hen
ry and Princess IreDa.
Dr. Hugh Kennedy, for many yea,s editor
ofthe New Orleans True Delta, died in Louis
vile Saturday, aged rs years.
A granite monument has been erected on
! The spot where General Hancock fell wound
ed during Pickett's charge at Gettysburg.
John l.. Sullivan has purchased one.
third interest in circus, and will accompa
nv the show On its summer tour OF the Uni
ted States.
]. ID. C. Atkins, Commissioner OF Indisn
Affairs has expressed an earnest desire to
tender and receive acceptance of bis resigna-
ton at an early day.
It is actually fact that the hustle will
not survive this season. Already the most
fashionable women have discarded bustles
and look pretty and graceful too.
Rev. Edward J. SouriD, 5. J OF ST. 1gna-
thus Catholic Church, died in Baltimore yes
terday, aged seventy-nine years. He wss
one OF the best known priests in the country.
Tie Woman's Christian Temperance
Union Of Monroe county, New York, has
presented Mrs. Cleveland with an elegsnt
Griffith Club microscope and acces series 10
recognition of her temperance views.
In the African NJ. Il. General Conference
ct Indiana polls yesterday the following bish-
ops were elected: W. ]. Gaines, Of Geo,g gin;
B. w. Arnott, of Ohio; + Il. Tanner, OF
PenGsylvania, and a. &. Grant, of Texas.
Belva Lockwood, who was nominated for
President by the Equal Rights Convention
held at Des Moines, Iowa, last week, ssys
she will wait for Inc formal document be-
fore making her acceptance public. Mrs.
Lock woods copartner on the ticket, Alfred
Fl. Love, of Philadelphia, is prominent
Philadelphia Quaker.
Gao A Riley, q carpenter, of Baltimore,
was SHOT and instantly killed yesterday al
ternoon at Curtis Bay, Anne Arundel coun-
ty. MI, and VIM. Johnson, aged 20 years, a
clerk OF ]. J. Thompson & Co, of Baltimore,
was arrested, charged with the shooting.
The affair occurred in q field on the farm
owned by w. S. RaYner, aud within fe~
wards Of Floods summer resort, on the upper
side Of Curtis Bay. A woman was at the
bottom Of the affair.
1t is learned that the Emperor Frederick
has signed the decree ordering reprisals III
return for obstacles put in the way OF Ger
mans entering Francs before Prince Bis
marck started for VaIzin. The French Am
bassador is trying to prevent the issuance oil
the decree bat the German Government in
sist upon satisfactory explanation of the
case of Littaues the commercial traveller
who was rtfused permission 10 journey in
France, and guarantee that similar cases
shall not occur
The drill and State Capital celebration ut
Austin, Texas, closed Saturday with sham
battle 10 which $500 troops participated.
During cavalry charge priva.es Charles
Walters and L. Reynolds, Of Company B.,
Third Cavalry, were thrown from their
horses and badly injured, Waters probably
fatally. In the interstate drill contests the
Houston Light Guards won the first prize,
q, 900 tho Belknap Rifles, of San Antonio,
the second przs, 81, 500; the Sealy Rifles, OF
Galveston, the third, 1000.