Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-03-21
NEWS OF THE DAY.

No dividend will be declared By the b. x
OR. r company this spring.
The prime minister of Hungary wss boot
ed in Pesth by large crowd yesterday.
Justice Gray's engagement to the eldest
daughter of Justice Matthews is announced.
Rev. James Curley, of Georgetown Co.
ege. the oldest priest 10 the United States,
is i'll. s
The rumored removal of the New Jersey
Steel and Iron Compeny'5 extensive works
from Trenton to Chattanooga, Tenn, is de-
MED
Henry Coleman, colored, on trial in Nor
folk county for the murder of Jas. Grant
was convicted of murder in the first degree
yesterday.
Herbert ". Laid, OF Providence, has bsen
nominated by the republicans for Governor
of Rhode Island and Daniel c. Littlete.d for
Lieutenant Governor.
1t is reported that Gov. Wilson's call for
an extra session of the West Virgins Legs.
lature will be ignored by the republican
members of that body.
The steamer Wolihas arrived aI st. Johns,
n. F, frcm the seal fishery with q 900 seals.
All Eastern STEAMERS are loaded, aggresat-
ing 200 900 seals among them.
The B. & 0 r. r., will soon begin to i,n-
prove it's terminal facilities at Harper's
Ferry The co,Apany will construct sidings,
station and freight houses there.
Mrs. Sally Whiting Belmont, the divorced
wife of Oliver Belmont. and George L..
Rives, ex Assistant Secretary of State, were
married in New York yesterday.
Leading lumber firms in Maryland, Vir-
eiDis and North Carolina have formed a
combination to regulate quotations, &C., I'm
der the name of the North Carolina Pine
Lumber Company.
Five persons were arrested at York, Pa,
yesterday, charged with burning barns in
the southern part of that county during the
past few months Two of the accused were
women, two are boys and one is girl still
in her teens.
At the banquet at Rome, yesterday Cardi-
nal Parocchi, the Pope's vicar said that II in
the future it should become necessary for
the Pope 20 leave Europe be would find a
sure refuge among the American bishops,
who would receive him with honorable hos
pitaiity.
A Blue Book on Samoan affairs was issued
in London yesterday. The dispat ches show
that Eng land has been throughout in cordial
accord with America, and that she declined
to accede to Germany's request for assist
ance and cooperation in the restoring OF
order 10 Samoa until she had learned the
American governments views on the sub
4ct.
Mr.. Cleveland and party arrived at ST.
Augustine, Fla, yesterday. and were met at
the Union Station by over 500 people, the
Ponce de Leon full band and long line of
carriages They were escorted to the Ponce
de 4eon Hotel. Mr. Cleveland was assign
ed the pink bridal chamber, the same room
occuuisd by him last year. They will sail
for Cuba iu few days.
Ia the Spanish Senate yesterday Senior
Morett. Minister OF the Interior, said
that the Government had no knowledge
of q scheme to sell Cube to the United
States. He declared that there was not
enough money in the whole world TO buy
the smallest portion of Spanish territory,
and that, if necessity should arise, SpaDiards
would know how to defend their countrys
soil.
Nellie Norton, aged thirteen, was en!iced
from her home in Richmond county, n. c.,
last Wednesday, by Samuel Hodges, wild
over, aged seventy Eve, who by false state
ments procured a license and married the
girl. When Nellie realized what her rela
tons to Hodges were, she desired TO be tax
en- back to her home, and the citizens taking
the matter in hand the old man fled to the
woods and the girl was returned to her pa
rents.