Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-03-12
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

During last year $40 So immigrants land
ed at Castle Garden.
Coal prices this spring are not expected
to be lowered much.
1t is denied positively that Freddy Geb.
ha.dt and Mrs. Langtry are married.
II is stated that Mr.. Cleveland and biz
late Cabinet will soon go on little Jaunt to
Cuba.
The Queen has approved the appointment
of sir Julian Pauncefole as British minister
to the United States
The thrilling story about murdered tour
ists in Yellowstone Park, published yester.
day, is said TO be hoax.
The negro exodus from North Carolina
continues. The immigrants go to the cotton
plantations of Mississippi, Louisiana and
Arkansas.
Augustus L. Eek climbed to the top OF
Washington monument, in Baltimore, yes
terday and adjusted new tip on the light
ming rod.
Prof. Brewer Morton. of the Yale scienti-
6c department, has declined to accept the
offer If assistant secretary of agriculture ct
Washington.
1t is rumored that the French government
will soon take vigorous steps against the
patriotic league, and that Gen. Boulanger
is on the verge of being involved in the mat
ter.
Jack McAuliffe, the lightweight cham
pion, in New York yesterday announced bis
readiness to meet any man in the world for
from s., 500 to S., 600 stakes and this cham
pion belt.
A thirty-foot boiler in the forging depart
ment of the Cleveland, o., Rolling Mill ex,
poded yesterday, demoiishing several
houses and killing two men and ip]urlng
eleven persons.
4 new law partnership, under the urn
nams of Whitney, PAYNE, y Lamont, has
beer formed in New York, the members OF
the irm being w. c. Whitney, 0. Il. Payne
and Danel S. Lamont.
1t is reported that the Panama Canal
Company have requested the Tehauntepec
Snip Railway Company to take np The up-
finished part of The Panama Canal and build
ship railway in place of the canal
IL is said that au order for the sale Of the
Cincinnati Washington aud Baltimore raj
road will soon be Issued by the Superior
Court at CINCINNATI the sole 10 take place IN
September.
A resolution introduced in the New York
Board of Aldermen to-day, calling for the
hosting of the harp Of Erin on the City
Hall on St. Patrick's day will, it is said, be
approved by Mayor Grant. who will also
review the parade on that day.
Charles H. Mcintyre, member of the
marine corps, committed suicide by poison
inc himself in the station house 10 Washing
| ton last night. Mcintyre deserted from the
marine corps yesterday morning. He came
from Charleston. W. Va, where his relatives
reside.
The Indiana Legislature adj ou-ned yes.
terday, and after the adjournment it leaked
out that ali the bills vetoed by the Governor
and repassed by the democratic majority
lacked the signatures of the Speaker of the
House and President of the Senate, and will
therefore fail.
]. Calvin Ccre, farmer living near Uu
iontown, Pa admitted to his house man
| who asked for something to eat as the fami
! IS were alb lut to retire Sunday night. The
| man was followed by five others masked,
who proceeded to bind Mr.. Core hand and
foot, and robbed the house OF $500.
Before The adjournment OF the North Car
oina legislature yesterday provision was
| made for more fully pensioning Confederate
veterans and needy widows ofConfederates ;
q tax of three cents on each hundred dol
lars worth OF properly and nine cent? on
the poll being levied for tle purpose
a mob Of about two thousand people gath
cred in front of the city hall at Milwaukee,
Wis yesterday 10 await the arrival OF Sam
ZIP ia and Hah Ding, two Cinnamon,
charged with ingeigiiug little girls into their
laundries for INN oral purposes. The crowd
disappointed in not getting ct the Chi
namen, left the place and smashed the win
dows and doors of number of Chinese
lsundries. The anti Chinese feeling is very
bitter.