Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-04-01
NEWS OF THE DAY

Turin telegram reports that Kossuth is
dying.
To day was the Presidents quiet day and
there were few callers at the White House
A dispatch from Vienna says it is rumor-
cd that Emperor Francis joseph has been
seized with sudden illness.
The Passion Play will be given at Obe-
rammergau in the autumn of 1890, The
text and music have been revised.
The President will hold special recep
ton tomorrow evening in honor of the
Prince and Princess Takento of Japan.
1t is estimated at the Treasury Depart.
ment that there has been decrease of
$l2,50 900 in the public debt since March
FIRST.
Cardinal Gibbons has received a letter
from the Pope commanding him for his let
ter Of sympathy for the loss of temporal
power il Rome.
Gen. Payne, OF Boston, SAYS he will not
enter the yacht Volunteer this year against
the Velkyre, Lord Dunrsven's yacht,
which will compete for the America cup.
Count Herbert Bismarck has made ar
rangements for grand public demonstra
tons on the occasion Of Emperor Williams
visit to England, which has definitely been
fixed for July
In New York yesterday Minnie Palmer,
seventeen years old, was shot by man
whom she had flirted with in her apartment
in Thirty ninth street. The would-be muir
derer escaped.
NJ Bouchez, the public prosecutor Of Paris,
is opposed to the prosecuting of General
Bouianger, and ia reported to have resigned
in consequence of the governments decision
to proceed against the General.
While Father Agostino was preaching in
the ST. Carlo Church in Rome yesterday q
bomb was exploded, Great excitement fol-
lowed and several woman tainted, but the
preacher continued his sermon.
General Cardenas, the we'll known dwaft,
died at Dexter, Mich, Saturday, of con-
sumption. He was born in Mexico 81
years ago, and has been exhibited as q
freak in all the principal cities in the United
| States.
The republicans Of Georgia now in Wash.
ington, have presented to the President the
name Of Judge Emory Speer for appoint
lneut as Associate Justice of the United
States Supreme Court, to succeed the late
Justice Matthews.
In Washington on Saturday Dallas NJ. De
Hughes, alias G.. NJ. st. Clair, alias Marion
( D. Newman, the romantic deceiver who
borrowed $50 from Washington young
lsdy aud got 500 from a Baltimore insur-
ance firm in the false pretense that his
daughter was dead, was sentenced to two
years and six months in the penitentiary.
The Secretary of the Interior has issued
an order respecting removals in which he
says: The heads of bureaus and other Off
GERS Of this department will not call for re.
signations except by direction of the Secre-
tary, and in making recommendations for
the dismissal of employees they will please
state specifically the reasons therefor.
A fire broke out in the Baltimore and Pc
tomac Railroad freight yards, on south Cap
itol street near h, in Washington yesterday
morning, and destroyed 500 barrels of oil
and eight freight cars. Loss $4,000. The
origin of the fire is believed to have been
from spontaneous combustion. The dense
black column Of smoke rising few hun.
dred yards south of the Capitol caused
great anxiety and alarm. The engines,
however, kept the flames from spreading to
any OF the surrounding property.
The Senate, among others, has confirmed
the following nominations: John Hicks,
Minister to Peru George B. Loring, Minis
ter to Portugal Robert T. Lincoln, Minis
ter to Great Britain Allen Thorndyke Rice,
Minister to Russia Thomas Ryan, Minister
to Mexico Patrick Egan, Minister to Chill {;
Robert Adams, it,. Minister to Brazil Ian.
sing B. Miner, Minister to the Central
American States; w l.. Scruegs, Minister
to Venezuela W. o. Bradley, Minister
Resident and Consul General to Corea, aud
George Chandler, of Kansas, First Assistant
Secretary Of the Interior.