Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-05-14
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Mr.. LYMAN has been elected president OF
the civil service commission.
The foreclosure sale of the Wabash rail-
way will take place tomorrow.
It is aaid that Mr.. Jacob L. Doty, .. S.
Consul at Tahiti, Society Islands, is TO
marry the Princess Polona, of Tahiti.
A dispatch from man. in Toronto says
DR.. Cronin has been there since Friday last,
but that he has not seen him since II o'clock
Sunday morning.
Lee Carson, alias Charlie Armstrong, a
negro. was hanged at Selby, N. O., yesterday
for burglary. He had been guilty Of every
sin in the decalogue.
1t is stated that the Cz,rewitch will soon
be betrothed to Princess Helen, fourth
daughter of the Prince of Montenegro. The
Princess in now in convent.
Senator German says under no clrcum'
stances will he be 8 caDdidatefor chairman
of the national Democratic committee, ana
that he will vote for MIR. Bfice.
Gov. David B. Hill? of New York, has
vetoed the secret Saxton ballot reform Dill
on the ground that it is an imposslbillty and
would amount to ballot destruction.
1t is probable that the President will is
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deserters from the United States army
whether under confinement or at large.
a gold crown. worth S25 900, has been
sent to Vienna by the Austro Hungarlans
of Buenos Ayres. 1t is to be placed on the
coffin of the late Crown Prince Rudolph.
Ii is said that the work Of the Samoan
conference is progressing satisfactorily to all
concerned The question of the disposition
of Mataafa, however, remains undecided.
The board of trustees OF the Jefferson
Medical College, Philadelphia, yesterday
elected DR.. VIM. w. Keen, of that city, to
fill the chair Of surgery vacated by the death
Of Dc. Samuel W. Gross.
10 The House of Commons yesterday Right
Hon Edw. Heneage asked the govern menl
TO consider the question of the abolition o.
the Viceroyshp OF Ireland and the transfer
Of The duties of the cllce TO the chief secre
tary.
Bishop Wright and thirteen other mem
beers Of the Uaited Brethren General Con
ference at York, Pa, bolted the conference
Yesterday and organized rs separate body
on the basis of the old constitution OF The
church.
Over 200 delegates from the internationa
convention CT AOunH MfI SHiislah az
socialions, Just held in Philadelphia, visited
Washington yesterday and were received
by the President. They afterwards calet
on Postmaster General Wanamaker wht
made sn address.
The steamship British Princess, FROM
Liverpool at Philadelphia yesterday, reports
Fighting q sea serpent. Capt. Smith de
scribes the monster as large black obsta
Gle, tho head resembling in s:zo and shape
The top of beef barrel. The body could
be made out plainly by the disturbance o
the water around it, and 500 feet away from
the head and neck, the monsters tail wal
beating aud flashing the sea into foam.
The big 200 pound black bear that was
driven cut Of the mountains OF West Vir
ginia by party OF hunters, swan the Poto
mae river and made his appearance at vii
Transport, Nd, where he put to rout the
crew of canal boat, afterwards crossed
into Pennsylvania and last week was seer
in the neigbborbood of Chambershurg. The
an.ire community turned out to hunt him
and he was fuAlly despatched, after show
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