Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-11-25
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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During the past seven years thirty eight
men in Vienna have been poisoned by their
wives.
A movement is said be on foot to form
combination between tbs Knights of Labor
and the Farmers Alliance.
The defense has not closed 10 the Cronin
trial. There is said to have been much per-
jury. Beggs objects to testifyiDg, and jury
man is suspected.
The Driggs-Schroeder rapid firing gun, in
vented by Lieutenants briggs and Schroeder.
United States naval officers. has been sold
to English capitalists for 100000
The Santa Cruz Athletic Club of Califor
MIA has offered to give $50 900 for fight to
finish between Sullivan and Jackson, to
take place on the beach near that city.
A Pullman car on the Savannah, Florida
and Eastern RAILROAD was dersiled on Sat
urday and Bishop Whipple and wife, of
Minnesota, and other passengers were In.
jured.
The Brazilian minister at Washington is
officially informed that all the provinces
have accepted the republic and provisional
government of Brazil without any resistance
or protest.
Mr.. Edison has invented battery cell
which he believes will revolutioniz, the
present battery syetem for telegraph ana
telephone work, and will obViate all the
trouble now caused on wires by wet
weather
The annual report OF the Firat Assistant
Postmaster General shows that 20 $50 new
postmasters have been appointed. Z .S53 of
whom were in consequence of removals.
The total number of postoffice5 in the coun
try ia $500.
Sharpless Bros dry goods packing house
and Carney & Andrews wholesale gre.
cery store in Philadelphia were destroyed
by fire on Saturday night. BY the falling
of the walls of both buildings several fire
men were injured and one killed.
The general belief at Albany, n. y. is
that, at the proper time, William q. Whit
ney will 20 into the guDernatcrisl race TO
win. His friends say he can get Tammeny
Halls support for the asking, and that the
strongest counties will be his when neces.
sary.
The north. bound passenger train on the
Missouri. Kansas and Texas railroad wac
"held up" last night at Pryor creek. near
Perry Station, I. 7. The express and mail
cars were robbed. The passengers were not
moIested. The amount secured by the rob
bers ls not known.
John Vermilion was visited on Friday
night near HALLS Station, Prince Georges
county, Md, tied to a tree and made to
promise that he would leave the neiehboI-
hood. Vermilion was recently tried for
abusing his father sn aged man, and threat
eniug his life with au axe.
Congressman Roswell Flower will oll,r in
the next Congress bill or constitutional
amendment providing for the election by
the people of postmasters, collectors ofinter-
| nal revenue, custom house officials, and
other Federal officers. the President only to
retain the power Of removal for cause.
1t ia believed that there were nina lives
lost through the collision and sinking OF
the Old Dominion steamer Manhattan,
which ran into the schooner Agnes Manning,
of Fenwick Shoal Light chip. on Thursday
night. The men supposed to have been lost
depended upon life-preservers for their
safety.
At Medical Springs, Mo-, on Saturday
night, stand pipe of natural gas
was accidentally thrown down, aud the
flames turned upon party of women and
children. The flame struck q child 10 the
face. literally roasting it. Three ladies and
three children we're burned about the face,
but not fatally.
At a reunion of survivors of the 10Th South
Carolina Confederate Regiment on Friday,
Senator Butler delivered an GRAFTON in which
he resented the aspersions still cast in Ger
tain quarters upon the men woo wore the
grey. He defended the motives and princi-
Piles of the Confederstes and denounced the
partisan heartlessness shown in several In
stances Southerpers were willing to accept
the situation with good grace and he
thought northerners should do th e same.