Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-02-09
NEWS OF THE DAY.


United States last week.
Secretary Whitney, it is now said, will be
the next democratic candidate for Governor
OF New York.
There is little prospect now thatthe Cabi
net will be completed until after Gen. Har-
rison has reached Washington.
Il is believed By mauy in Washington that
nothing definite will be doue With thu tariff
bin at this session OF Congress.
Minister Preston. OF Hayti. has received
dispatches that England and France have
recognized Legi!ime as President of the
black republic.
The Theatre Royal, at A!derahot. Eag.,
was burned last night during performance,
and many persons were injured in the panic
which ensued.
a new religious sect has appeared in South
Carolina, whose creed teaches the existence
Of three heavens snd three hells, the pres
ent lifs combining heaven and he'll No. /.
There is great excitement in Weizel coun-
ty, " Va over the discovery that many
persons, including several children and
many animals, lave been bitten by rabd
dogs.
Oscar l.. Wiley, OF Virginia, who murder
ca Francis Valentine in Baltimore few
DAYS ago, was yesterday declared not guilty
by reason of insanity and was sent to Spring
Grove Asylum.
The PENNSYLVANIA Railroad Company hiss
fitted up a train of five passenger coaches ri
Pi,tsburg with q new hot-water heater,
which, it is thought, Will solve the car heat
ing problem.
Sylganus u. Brown, g. prominent polit
clan and niue owDcr OF Paterson, n. j
clarees that an unlawful attempt has been
made to incarcerate him in lunatic asy-
lum after abduCting him from his home in
that clty.
A snow storm has ragged in Montreal with
undated fury. The thermometer has not
been above ten below zero since Monday,
aud The s;reets are almost impossible with
snow drifts THO ice carnival is now in
progress there.
The Paris Figaro says that the late Crown
Prince asked the Emperor to allow him to
renounce his rights 10 the Austrian throne
in order 81 marry the Baroness Nerscera
morganatically. Wien the Emperor refused
he informed the Baroness OF his fathers de
cison, and they both resolved to die to.
gether.
The Uoited States Senate Yesterday
passed the legislative appropriation bill
after rejecting the amendment to increase
She clerical force of the civil service COM
mission The House passed the army and
| agricultural appropriation bills, and held an
evening es5on for the consideration of pen
siou bills.
Judge A. w. Rucker, of Denver. Col,
whose controversy with Senator Blackburn
as 10 certain EXPIRE s5ions of President Cleve-
land concerning the election in New York
attracted attention some time ago, slapped
the face Of Col John Atkins, of the Denver
Ncws in bsr-room in Denver yesterday
because Colonel Atkins said the Judge
would not fight. Judge Rucker was sent to
jail.
Glidden & Curtis selling agents ofthe Pa.
citic Guano Company and of the OHIO and
Western Coal Company at Baltimore, have
assigned to John c. Ropes for the benefit OF
their creditors Their liabilities are placed
at 81 900 .000 and consist largely OF indorse-
ments on the paper of the guanc company.
The announcement Of the failure caused
quite a sensation in Charleston, s. c., and
other fertilizer centres.
After the dissolution OF the joint session Ct
the West Virginia Legislature at IL o'clock
Thursday night, the Senate returned to lis
own chamber The republican members
went away, and eight sergesn's at arms were
ssnt to bring them back. BY morning six
members had been brought before the Sen
ate and f0ed Sc and costs each. The Two
houses took one efiectual ballet Yesterday
for Senator The vote stood kenna, 30
Cot. 50 The balance Gathering
An outbreak occurred among the ihous
ands Of unemployed persons in Rome yes
terdav In the morning great crowd of
this class assembled and marched through
the Via Condotla and other streets of the
city, hlackening the shop fronts as they
went, and 10 some cases entering stores and
carrying Of whatever plunder they could
secure Street lamps and windows were
smashed by the mob, and on the Via Fra
tina a number OF buildings were partly
wrecked Several collisions occurred be-
tween the polics and the rioters, and q
number Of persons we're wounded. Several
of the rinrlesders among the mob were ar
rested Troops formed Gordon around the
disturbed district