Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-04-12
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Prince Bismarck had brief audience
Yesterday with the ex-Empress Frederick.
Edwin Booth Gays he will start for Cleve.
land to morrow, almost as well as ne ever
WAS.
Fif.y-three hundred emigrants sailed from
Bremen and Hamburg yesterday for New
York.
The President and Senator Platt, of New
York, went driving together in Washington
yesterday.
Ex.President Cleveland has been elected
life honorary member Of the Manhattan
Club of New York.
The Duke of Luxembourg took the oath of
Office as regent of the Grand Duchy of Lux
emburg yesterday.
The Michigan State House of Delegates
has passed bill prohibiting the manufacture
or sale of cigarettes.
Sir Charles Russell says tho Psrnelites
will show conclusively that they were free
from the remotest connection with crime.
Billings & Eaton, wholesale hide and
leather dealers, Boston, made an assignment
Yesterday The liabilities are about $40, 600.
The French government is disposed to
agree to Germany's proposal for an In
CeTNatlCIIdi
ton.
Wbi;elaw Reid says Secretary Blaine was
not overruled by the President on the qnes'
lion Of his appointment as minister 10 Eng-
land
Mr.. Dudley, OF Indiana, will not testify in
his 'bloek of fourn libel suit, ano the New
York Ereni1,g Post asks that the suit be dis
missed.
Tt is understood that Bishop Keane, of the
Washington University, is not meeting with
full success in the engagement OF professors
in Germany.
Russell B. Harrison, son OF President Har-
rison. was arrested in New York yesterday
in the Crosby libel suit and gave the re-
quired bail.
1t nov looks as if the Kilrain Sullivan
fight will really take place. The fight will
| he for $4,000, or $4,000 side. Half OF this
amount is already posted.
A large meeting of Baltimore business
men WAS held last night to discuss the pro-
position to revive the city's sugar trade IL
! is proposed TO open big refinery there.
Assistant Postmaster General GARRISON
Yesterday appointed nearly 200 fourth-class
postmasters to tGke the place Of democrats.
The guilotine is kept buoy and more than
one basket is required to hold the demo
cratic heads.
1t ia said that while Germany has not pro-
tested officially against the appointment of
Mr.. Bates ss one of the American commits.
sloners to the Berlin conference, yet the gov
eminent wouId prefer some one else sp-
pointed in his place.
On account of the several fainting fits
which the Pope has bad recently the twelve
cardinals held q meeting short time ago,
mt tho home Of Cardinal Ricci in Rome, to
consider the possibility OF ooncave OF car
dinals 10 the future.
The Presidents policy with relation to
the Southern appointments has been made
cesr to the southern Office seekers. He has
declared his intention TO select none but
men who have the respect Of their neighbors
and who are Intelligent and capable.
The committee of the New York Yacht
Club, appointed to consider the cup chel-
lcnge, reported at general meeting OF the
club last night that they had decided to re
commend tho acceptance of Lord Dunra-
ven's challenge. The club acted accordingly.
La Lherdad. the queer little vessel 10
which Captain Joshua Slocum, with bis
family, made the perilous voyage from
Santos, Brazil, to the United States, ar
rived in Baltimore yesterday from
Washington, where he has had her on exhi
bition.
Mr.. Jerome Burke, chief of the gazette
division in the patent Office, has been mott
! fed by the commissioner Of patents that II
| rendered, his resignation would be accept
ed. Mr.. Burke, however, declines to re.
sign, and declares biz intention 10 allow
the commissioner to dismiss him if he so de
siree.
Along Chesapeake bay shore the remains
of csttle can be seen, and it is thought that
| they oame from the Eastern shore. At
Nagg's Head, five miles from Kitty Hawk,
several cottages wsre blown down and
floated away, and all the other buildings
arc more or less damaged. The hotel is
annded over.
Tha house of Mr.. W. p. Word. hnuse-car
renter and millwright, living in ROBIN county
Ga., was hurued to the ground "Wednesday
night. The entire family, consisting of
vile and five small children, persisted in the
flames. The house was small one with the
chimney and door in one end, and escape
was barred for thi= reason.
Gov MLolan, Of Nova Scotia. who is in
Washington, said yesterday in answer to
the question How Go your people look up
on the question of annexation" said:
There are apnexatioDists In Canada, just
as there are anarchists in Chicago. but
the people of my province srs GOT very
anxious to become citzsns of the United
States"
Peer Kelly, peddler. was murdered on
Mprrow5ore creek, small stream in Lo
gan county. w. Va, last Thursday week.
About dark he was overtaken By several
men, who demanded his money. Kelly
showed fight, and they shot him, dragged
him from biz horse, cut his throat from ear
to ear, took his money and left his body ~.
ing in the road, where it was found the mex,
morning.
At Youngstown, Ohio, last night, while
pouring 1000 pound casting, in the foun
dry Of William Todd & Co, il exploded,
hurting the molten metal in every direction.