Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-10-29
NEWS tsF THE DAY.

Mr.. Edwin D. Wright. pro missing mem
Der of the District bar, died last Saturday.
Nathaniel Watts sgeG 81 years, one Of
the Old Defenders of Baltimore, died yes
terday.
Sir Morell Mackenzie ia said to have re.
ceived 81, 800 day for attending the late
Emperor Frederick.
The potato crop 10 the whole country the
present season is the largest ever grown in
the United States.
Molher.in law Folsom was one of the re
viewers Of the democratic parade in New
York last Saturday.
President Carnot has issued decree ex
tending the time for the registration of
foreigners in France to January /, 1889.
The King of Greece in opening the par
lament on Saturday announced the be.
trothal OF the Duke of Sparta to Princess
Sophie, of Prussia.
Evening dress trousers hereafter are to be
decorated down the sides with rich black
silk embroidery worked on broad stripe Of
the best black piece silk.
A London dispatch says that Barry Sui.
livau has fallen into Il hopeless state of i'm
becility. He has to be fed like child and
is unable TO recognize his wife or family.
The latest report of the Department of
Agriculture Just received from Washington
makes no material change in the former es.
Inmates of this years wheat harvest in the
United States.
Notwithstanding the heavy rain OF Isst
Saturday. about twenty thousand OF the
business men Of New York united in the
democratic parade and were reviewed by
President Cleveland.
II is said the Queen will not let her maids
OF honor accept the $50 600 LEFT them by the
deceased Lord Sackvillc, rs it does not look
we'll and. if this be true. the money will 60
to his lordship at Washington.
II is rather surprising to some of the
friends Of General Harrison that Senator
Edmuuds Is taking the same actire part in
the Presidential campaign this year that he
did four years ago, when he gave such hear
ty support to his friend Blaine.
a report fnds credence that Emperor
William will confer with Prince Bismarck
over project for his Msjesty's coronation
on the IS h Of January. The anniversary OF
TIE date upon which King William was Gre
ated Emperor at Versailles.
Rev. Mr.. Spurgeon is quite i'll. His
trouble results from undertaking extra ser.
vices at this time Of the year, when fog and
cold make preachers work in London so
difficult. One CT bis hands and both feet
are rendered useless, and he suffers great
pain.
There was dance at North Coalburg, ".
Va, Friday night, and two men-Giibest
Lacy and Hen. Slack -became involved in
Il row over an old grudge. Lacy assaulted
Slack with. brass knuckles and pistol. Slack
shot Lacy through the heart. He WAS
arrested and admitted to bail.
The Pena aud Rio Grande stage was
robbed twenty miles from Pena, Texas,
Saturday, by man with revolver and
Winchester rifle. Serg. Fulmer and VIM.
D. Wyant, Of the United States army, were
among the passengers. Ali the occupants
of tho stage were made to take of their
clothing.
An old prophecy has been raked up from
some obscure corner of Germany about
Kaiser with only three limbs. who is to End
Germany at the height of lie power, fight
TWO big wars, and then have his country
60 to pieces. The Emperor's defective arm
is taken as an Indication that he is the three
lmbed individual meant
Columns upon columns OF the London pa.
pers are devoted daily TO reports of the Par
ne! commission. The tory papers discuss
the possibilities OF Parnell's conviction az
though he, and not the Times. was on trial,
and the liberals spend long hours demon
stratiug how the Times cannot escape COD
viclion for forgery. As matter of fact, it
is unlikely that any satisfactory result will
be reached
A municipal population, in waiting upon
the Emperor Wiiiam Saturday, presented
an address of welcome on the occasion of his
return home, and were startled by emphat
ic rems rks, in the course of the Emperor's
reply, on the scandal and gossip Of the press
affecting the imperial family. In oonclud-
ing bis remarks the Emperor observed that
he vas about TO move to Berlin, and he re-
quet ted the delegation to see that less Yves
written about his change of residence.
The report of the Citizsns' Auxiliary sani
tary Association, OF Jacksonville, Fla, shows
the total receipts "a follows Donations,
S3O9, 577. 66 mem bership fees, 1866; REIN
bursed by the U. S. Government On account
of sanitary work, 50 5S2 Is; total, 1912 $780,
II !; total expenditures. S2lO, 654 "a balance
in treasury. $101, 721 81. OF the expendi
visiting physicians nurses and their e1pen.
ses 50 600 for sanitary guards, $4,000 for
aid Of other cities, and the remaider for hos
pita 5, supplies, transportation, 60.
Lord Sackville. the British Minister at
Washington, ia sufficiently before the world
at present 10 consequence of his famous pc
litical letter. bnt English journals discourse
regretfully of his errors 10 early life, which
will give the title as we'll as ell the estates
Inherited from the late lord 10 distant rel.
ative, Col SackviIle West. Among these ia
Knole the beautiful residence of the late
Lord Dorset, which is described by Disraeli
in Lothian" as Vauxe, and which is said to
be the moot exquisite place of its size in
England.
The Emperor aud Empress of Germany
were present Saturday at the conservation
of the Church of the Holy Ghost. which was
founded by Frederick. The church is near
the Belle Alliance Pia!z and when finished