Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-05-31

Ludwig Vouhinkesteinhsusenbl oser, of
Cincinnati, has the longest name in the
United States.
Tho Rouranian Senate has voted S15,.
600 900 forms to complete the Notifications
of the country.
TheLondon Jockey Club has warned Lord
James Douglas off the Newmarket course
for defauting in bets.
A bill! has been introduced In the Georgia
Legislature looking TO making education
matter of compulsion.
Mr.. VizetelIy. the we'll known bookseller
of London, has been sentenced to three
months Imprisonment for publishing Z)la's
novels.
Prince Alcis Schwarrenberg and lieuten-
ant of Hussars fought duel near Vienna
yesterday. The former was mortally wound
ed and ia dying.
Congressman Carlos French has been
elected member of the democratic nation.
al committee, to represent Connecticut, In
plscs of VIM. H. Barnum, deceased.
Col. John G. Haskell, of Columbia, has
been elected the member of the national
democratic committee from South Carolina.
He Is general counsel for the Richmond and
Danv!le Railroad.
Eugene Bosher, sergeant In the First Vir.
GINA Regiment, was arrested in Richmond
yesterday charged with taking 500 from the
pocket of Capt. Gasser's coat which had
been left in the armory.
Memorial Day was generally observed
throughout the country. At Birmingham,
Ala, Winchester, Va, and other southern
towns the Confederate and Union veterans
7, nitad in the rnpmOrial EXERCISES
The body of Mrs. Margaret Leindner,
with bullet in her head, WAS found in the
garden of her home, on the Annapolis road,
| in Anne Arundel county, Md. yesterday. The
manner of her death is being investigated.
The fear has been expressed by many that
| the location of the old Libby prison in Chi
cago will prove disssler to that city in
business way. as it will rob her of all her
trade with the South, which is considerable.
At the funeral of the late Mrs. Henry
| Hoffman, at Ssssamansville, Berks county,
Pa, there we're used up at the funeral
feast 200 pies, rs loaves of bread, 60 dozen
rolls and cske, a calf and large quantity OF
| ham.
During fog In New York harbor yester-
day the British steamer Iolani was run into
| by the steamer Stelvio and badly damaged (:
the steamer PalmRs ran into and damaged
the steamer Aiva and the Red Line steamer
PenDland ran aground.
The National Museum at Washington has
lust received from A. G. Winslow, OF that
city who was superintendent of the mechani-
cal division Of the treasury from 1866 to 1877,
the first key to the rational tref suly made
| when Alexander Hamilton was secretary.
| The key ia of iron, about nine inches long.
Mary Griswold, girl sixteen years old,
of Portsmouth, Vs., was found In house of
| i'll repute in Baltimore yesterday by her
father, John B. Griswold, and sent to the
Female House Of Refuge by Justice Hobbs.
The girl bad been away from home since
October, and her father had been looking
| for her,
Archbishop Janssens will leave for En-
rope from New York on the 29th of June
next. He will. of course, go to Rome and
visit the Holy Father. It is expected that
the new Biahop of Richmond will be ap.
pointed before he leaves this country. Car
dinal Gibbons will he the first to be notified
ofthe appointment.
a heavy storm passed over the Potomac riy-
er districts of Washington county, Nd, yes
terday afternoon. Houses were blown down
and crops rniued. At Falling Waters the
new barn OF John w. Criswell was blown
down, killing j E. Powell. pumpmaker,
and fatally injnring John Vogle, commonly
known as Dixie" who had taken refuge
therein from the storm.