Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-05-29
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Marquis Of Londonderry will retire
from the yiceroyship ofIrsland on August D.
Prime Minister Crispi, who accompanied
King Humbert to Berlin, has returned 10
Rome.
The Presbyterian General Assembly con.
cluded its labors at New York and dissolved
last night.
The body of young lady was cremated
at Fresh Pond, L. l., because burial 10 con
secrated ground was denied.
The celebrated race horse Proctor Knott
was again beaten at Cincinnati yesterday by
Come to Taw and Long Fish.
The friends of the late Gen. James r. Her
bert, of Baltimore. have decided TO erect q
monument to his memory in Loudon Park
Cemetery.
Cardinal Gibbons, exMayor Hodges,
Judge Phelps and other prominent citizens
of Baltimore, say they are in favor OF high
license for that city.
Perrin, the man who fired blank cart
ridge at President Csrnot, of France, on the
eve of the opening of the Paris exhibition,
has been sentenced to four months impris-
| onment.
conHagration in the town of Podhsjce,
! Galicia, has destroyed six hundred houses, a
church and q synagogue, and caused the
| loss of many lives. Twelve corpses have
been extricated from the ruins.
In discussion of motion in the French
Chamber OF Deputies yesterday to Interpret
late the government regarding the delay OF
the Senate in the Boulanger case, M. de
Casssgusc was censured for denouDcing the
president.
Cornelia Neville Graham. widow OF James
Graham. and daughter OF the late Major
Morgan Neville, of the United States army,
died at New Orleans on Friday. She was p
direct descendant of Gen. Daniel Morgan, OF
revolutionary fame.
DR.. Thornton, once slave in Virginia, is
practicing the faith cure system in Councils.
Vile, Pa, and Henry Lalney, head waiter at
the Smith House, says that it has cnred him
OF 80 misery in the stomach" which had
bafil I'd FIVE doctors for eleven years.
The Americas cup committee held meet
ing in New York yesterday. Il is said they
are determined on adhering to the condi.
lions Of holding the CUP under the deed OF
Gift. to which the yacht squadron objects,
and there may therefore be no race this
seRsoD.
Senator Henry B. Payne, who has been
quoted as saying that he would look for
vindication in reelection from Ohio to the
United States Senate, says he will not be 8
candidate under any circumstances, and
that 10 inducements eau cause him to
change his mind.
Intimations said TO have come from Con.
gresham Randall and other prominent
democratic members of the House of Repre-
sentatiyes that the republicans are likely to
have trouble in organizing that body in De
cember have created furry in political
circles, aud the republican Congressman are
surprised that their claim of clear msjori-
| ty should be questioned.
A 6isagreeabe smell about house In
New York last Friday led to search for
the cause yesterday, when the body of Bird.
get Henrahan, who had been dead for a
week, was fonui with her son lying drunk
beside 1t. He had apparently been having g
wake for week over his mother. and all to
himself. He had eaten nothing, and was go
weak that he was taken to the hospital.
The Rev. Henry Greenfield Schorr, of Bal
timore, who committed suicide on Sunday,
msde public Just before he shot himself the
letters written to him by Mrs. Margaret NJ.
Smith, COMMUNICATE of st. Paul's Church.
In her letters Mrs. Smith confesses her love
for the pastor, but declines to enter into a
secret engagement. DR.. Schorr became con.
vinced that Mrs. Smith would not marry
him, and on Saturday last wrote letter to
a newspaper making Mrs. Smiths letter
public.
The inquest over the body of Mr.. May.
brick, whose death is supposed to have been
caused by poison administered by his wife,
was begun in Liverpool yesterday. A letter
was produced addressed to man named
Briefly by Mrs. Maybrick, containing the
following sentence Dearest, my husband
is sick unto death. All depends upon how
long his strength can hold out. Darling, re-
Flieve your mind of all fear of discovery, now
or in the future. In any case do not leave
England until 1 see you once again."
THE RUSH TO EURopE-Ifyou haven't your
bought ticket, you can't go to Europe this