Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-05-27
ArEyANnRTA GAZETTE AND VIRGINIA ADVERTISER
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
In the new Thames Yacht Club races on
Saturday the Valkyrie again beat all CON-
petitors.
The cartilage of the noses of several OF the
Yale boat crew, have been perforated to al
low them to breath better
The Southern Presbyterian Assembly in
ser ion at Chattanooga adjourned Saturday
to meet next year in AsheVille, N. U.
THE machinery palace of the Paris expo
eition is l 400 feet long and the largest build
ing ever constructed under single roof.
John l.. Sullivan works hard in Belfast, NJ
j., with his trainers, and the people therea
bouts are enthusiastic over the coming hight
The English Salt Union has entered into
an alliance with the American commission
ers to protect the American and Engllsh
markets in that product.
Gen. Lew Wallace and Nathaniel b.
Tucker have been appointed commissioners
to 20 to Hayti aud eudesvor to secure coal
ing stations at Mole st. Nicholas and Sam
ana Bay.
A skiff containing three men and two la
dies was caught in wind and rain storm
Saturday afternoon while crossing the river
Just south of Memphis, Tenn, and capslzea.
All the occupants were drowned.
The civil service commission has made an
;mnortant alteration to one of its rules by
nroyiding that hereafter the list of eligbles
for appointment to the government service
and their standing shall be- made public.
There was an imposing display of military
and other organizations at the funeral OF Dr.
|
of Philadelphia, has been arrested on susp'-
cion of being connected with the muroer.
AT Abheville. S. G., Saturday, John L, Ly
on, 63 years old, slot D. l.. Mosoy, 70 years
old, the husband of his step daughter. Inc
supposed cause WAS family quarrel. Mos.
BY was lawyer. He leaves widow and
two children.
VIM. d. McGill, well known citizen OF
Haeerstown, Nd. died at the residence OF his
sister, Mrs. Ellen Swan, in Baltimore. on Sat
urday. He wasa son of the late DR.. NC
GIL. of Haegrstown, formerly Of Richmond,
and was fifty four years of age.
Mrs. Dorr. Miss Van Nostrand and Miss
Marvin, of New York and Brooklyn, now
travelling in France, are about to complain
10 the State Department at Washington OF
outrageous treatment they say they received
from the French authorities at Mentone.
Henry Whitney, a tramp, the top of whose
skull was lately knocked off by Nickel
Plate locomotive, is lying in the Erie coun.
ty, Pa, almshouse with naked brain, .
and NAV live. The denuded brain, the ply
steal workings of which can be plainly seen,
is kept from exposure by an artificial GOV
ering.
The law prohibiting the importation OF
aliens under contract to perform labor or
service of any kind in the United States it is
said will be invoked to prevent the landing
( Of the European scholars whom Bishop
Kespe has engaged to serve as professors In
the new Catholic University now being
erected in Washington.
Among the complainants in the police
court in New York yesterday was Daniel
Parke GUSTS. descendant of the Washing
tor. GUSTS family, of Virginia. Saturday
nicnt while under the influence of liquor,
he asked man to direct him to hotel.
The latter carried him to house and left
him in charge of woman whom Gusts
claimed robbed him of $500.
King Humbert intended going to Stras-
burg with Emperor William, but the project
ed visit was countermanded after the Italian
embassy in Berlin received kilograms from
Paris reporting that the French newspapers
and people were disturbed by the announce,
ment. which was construed as an insult on
the part of King Humbert to the Frencn "a
! ton.
Bismarck has obtained from Signor Crisni
| a pledge for q moderate internal pollcy TO-
ward the Vatican, and asked the Austrian
prime minister to join in united pressure on
the Pope to make pesce with the vatican.
Emperor Francis Joseph reluctantly allowed
| Count Kalnoky to intervene In the matter
and the Pope promptly rejected the over
lures.
George A. Jessup, cashier OF the Scranton
|! City Bank, Pennsylvania, ia under arrest Tor
appropriating 100000 of the banks funds.
| The institution has closed its doors. All OF
the directors, with the exception OF Presi.
dent Throop, as soon as they were convinced
of the enormi,y ofJessup's shortage. to save
themselves withdrew to the last penny every
cent that they had on deposit.
a number of prominent ex.sodiers from
Philadelphia came to Washington to day to
present to representatives of General Pick
ett's Division of the Confederate army q
beautiful silk flag on behalf Of the Philadei'
| phie Brigade. The presentation was made
on the lawn In iront OF tne w nite house,
in the presence of large number of specta-
tors. The presentation speech was made by
Col. J. E. Riley. and the flag was received and
the responding address made by { lionel
Biekeey of Pickett's famous division.
SUICIDE OF A M1NIsTER.-The Rev. Hen
~ Greenfield Schorr, assistant rector of ST..
Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church, Balti-
more, committed suicide at the parish house,
Cathedral street, between Mulberry and Sar.
atoga streets, yesterday. by shooting himself
in the head with pistol. Mental excite
ment, produced by financial troubles, Is