Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-09-04
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Mr.. Vanderbilt's high priced cook will
soon return to Paris.
On the.Sheepshead Bay track yesterday
Exile ran mile and a.quarter In 2091
Immigration through Castle Garden this
year is 2S per cent. lower than last year.
The London dock laborers continue their
strike, and the dock officials refuse to make
concessions.
Legitime, the depoSed President of Hayti,
is expected in New York tomorrow, and
will sail for Paris Saturday.
A dispatch from London says; Three sis.
tiers named Cuvelier have committed suicide
at Vesinex owing to losses in betting.
The Marquis Carlo Ginsri, Of Florence,
has bought the island of Monte Christie
and will construct there splendid resi-
depce.
Lord Zatand will be sworn in as lord
lieutenant of Ireland on October /, and will
make his state entry into Dublin on De.
cember 9.
The West Virginia gubernatorial commit
tee threw out ffty.slx fraudulent votes in
Mcdowell county yesterday Judge Elem
ing's plurality vote now is 200.
All the shoe factories in North Adams,
Mass, are closed except b. T. Cady's, and
1900 men are out of work. The settlement
of the wage question does not seem near.
kilograms from various points in the
Third Congressional district of Louisana, In
dictate the election of Andrew Price dem
by good msjority over II. G. Miner (rep).
Baltimore is beginning to put on holt
day appearance, aud the indications are that
the exposition next week will be success.
Five war vessels are expected to take part
in the sham bombardment.
A woman who has been running "the st.
Stephens Guild,n in New York, under the
name of Sister Beatrice May, is said to be
the notorious Oliver woman who sued the
late Simon Cameron for breach of promise.
Steve Brodie declares his purpose OF going
over Niagara Falls in a rubber suit, and
with his face uncovered He says if the
falls we're 1000 feet high, he would attempt
the feat now that some other man has gone
over.
Taking of testimony in the habeas cor
pus proceedings in the case of Deputy Mar.
shall David Maggie, who shot end killed
David Terry at Lathrop recently, was com.
menced in the United States circuit court
beforeJudge Sawyer at San Francisco yes.
terday
The New York baseball club gained on
Boston yesterday through victory over
Pittsburg and Boston's defeat by lndianapo
lie. Chicago took third place from Phla-
delphia and indianapolis gained on Pitts
burg. In the American Association Brook
Ign increased its lead over st. Louis
The mining town of Barker. about 65
rxlI,
almost totally destroyed by fire on Sunday.
man named Ellis. his wife and fur child
rem we're burned to DEATH and three other
men are missing. The town, which is the
business centre of the mining districts, VIII
be rebuilt at once. w
The Maybrick Committee ia seeking to
have the Home Secretary decision annulled
and the verdict quashed, and thus secure
tho release of the condemned woman The
children of Mrs Maybrick have been
adopted by lady and gentleman OF London,
with the approval of the relatives on both
sides of the family. The children assume
the name of their foster parents.
General Longstreet has written letter
denying the charges recently made by a
Washington correspondent to the etfee that
during the war he had driven the ladies of
ex President Johnson's family from their
home in Tennessee, had turned the elegant
mansion into q smallpox hospital, and brok-
en- into the library and distributed books
and papers among the soldiers.
The senatorial committee on dressed beef
and transportation, y, sterday morning in
Chicago went into statistics furnished by
Editor Goodall and A. @. Halowell, OF the
Drovers' Journal. MIR. Hallowell said that
IS FOL head OF cattle were received a. the
yards last week. OF these large propor-
ton we're from Texas. poor, thin beef, only
& for canning Those were used up IN the
hacking houses