Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-03-25

rate Of one dollar aud eighty cents per 500
is high enough.
While dining in cafe in Paris on Satur-
day Gen. Boulsnger was suddenly seized
with faintng ft and hid to be conveyed
to his home.
or The twenty one election cases thus far
tried . tbs United STATES Court at Wheel
ing, w. Va, two were diemissed and seven
teen acquitted.
The mulatto woman Parsons made an in
cendary speech at Cnicsgo yesterday during
VIII ch she said revolution was inevitable
and indispensable.
In the icy waters OF New York Bay yes
te.day, Faith Cure Elder William &. Ray
mond baptised three people who were sui
iering from diseases.
The rumoris revived that if Chaancey Nj.
Depew is sent to the Court OF st. James
Sanue Spencer may succeed BIN as presi-
dent Of the New York Central Railroad.
An agent of e New York bureau of press
clippings has made an arrangement with
Mrs Harrison to forward to her newspaper
comments on the President for 500 mouth.
In New York on Saturday Daniel S. La
mont was elected president of the Houston,
West Street and Pavonia Ferry Railroad
Company, the capital stock of which is
$3.50 600.
Mrs. Harrison is replacing the servants in
tho White House, substituting white help
for the negro servants who have had con-
troll of the domestic machinery there for
many years.
The Verrugas bridge. the most famous of
the bridges on the Orova Railway, Peru,
has been swept away by flood. The bridge
was los feet high and its original cost was
! 100000 soles.
Col. Robert Iugersoll did no5 lecture at
the New York Academy of Music last night,
for the benefit Of the Confederate Soldiers
Home, as had been expected. The receipts
we're nosover $500.
The diplomatic correspondence between
the United States State Department and lis
representatives in Europe and Japan in re
lation TO the preservation OF the seals ID
Behring Sea is made public
The colored people held mass meeting
ct Raleigh, n. c., Friday night, end organ
| " d 4he North Carolina Emigration Asset
alton, the proposed object of which is to col
onizo all cocred people of that State in Ar
| kansas.
The steamer Colorado, which arrived at
| New York on Saturday, picked up two dead
sailors on life raft of Cape Charles and
passed s. large quantity of wreckage lndi
eating the loss of some vessel, probably n
ste amer. 1t is thought probable that the
raft and driftwcod belonged to the British
steamer ermandell.
The Popes income for 1855 amounted to
-. 52O, 900, of which $l,S60000 came from
n Peters pence. and 5000 900 from the in
terest of moneys invested out of Italy. The
outlay of the Vatican only amounted to
81 000O0.
Little Fannie Ray, aged three years, fell
ont of third story window OF her home in
Baltimore on Saturday and died an hour
Inter. TIE little one struck the pavement
head foremost Before she died her head
had swollen 40 three times It's natural slzs.
The New York ice dealers are already an
n9uncing that the shortuess Of the crop will
comre! ,hem to Increase the price to fifty
cents hundred pounds. A meeting OF ice
dealers will shortly be held TO determine
what the price will be this summer.
The wife and oldest daughter OF Aaron
York. wealthy farmer ut Peru, lnd., were
killed and other members OF the family in
inred Saturday by the explosion of several
| sticks of dynamite, which he placed in the
stove to dry preparatory to using it to blast
| sinmps.
1t IS reported that the Mormons are very
active in certain sections OF this country
10 Alabama. for instance, and in Georgia
and Tennessee there seems 10 be good
stamping grouod for the peculiar notions OF
Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. In
those States 8 great many families have
been broken up by these missionaries.
A thousand men armed with Winchesters
and Colt revolvers are in the mountains of
Knox and Harley counties, Ky, and Clai-
borne county, Tenn. and q reign of terror
and boodshed prevails. The Sowdcrs Tur-
ner fend, in which forty persons have al
ready been killed, has broken out again.
The famous Gen. Sowders has been captured
and put in ALL and his followers are retail
ating on the Turner's.
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