Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-11-16

| An effort ls being mace 10 pio0uie
buovs for the lower part OF chesapeake
bay.
The o1een of Portugal gave birth to son
Yesterday. Both mother and child are oo'
ing we'll.
little hog lost Tuesday evening in the
| storm has been found dead in ditch near
Hoboker, n. J.
nurse in New York yesterday, angered
with an infant, put it on hot stove, and 10
was horribly burned.
A negro desperate at Schraa!enburg, N.
J.. Yesterday shot and wounded an entire
family and was himself probably fatally
wounded.
Mayor Chaplin, of Brooklyn, is an svowed
candidate for the presidency. and Gov. Hill
is securing delegates for himself to the nomi
mating convention.
The United States cruiser Baltimore now
ranks as the fastest vessel of her class float.
In the four.honr run at ssa last thursday
she averaged 202 knots.
Willard Powers Fillmore, son of the late
Milard Fillmore, the thirteenth President CT
the United States, died at Buffalo, n. !,
last night, aged about 60 years.
The discovery OF new coal bed i5 re.
ported from North Sidney. n. S. a we'll
known expert claims that there are nineteen
millions of tons in the seams.
Speculation concerning the organization
of the House of Representatives increases ss
the day for the caucus approaches. The
contest for the minor offices is also beginning
to take form.
The Rome Fanfulla Gays that Vatican
circles have been led to expect the estab
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Holy See after the return Of Mgr. Satoll
from Baltimore.
Advices from Brazil are to the effect that
revolutionary movement in favor of re
public has broken ont 10 Rio Janeiro that
the cabinet ministers have resigned and that
the army controls the situation.
General Schcfisld, in his annual report,
says that among the causes Of desertion
from the army is the discomfort inspired
by ordinary labor and routine of military
duty in time of peace. The officers are also
in measure responsible.
The committee Olive engineers appointed
! to report on the Panama canal will sail from
| France for the Isthmus On the 10Th of De-
cember. These gentlemen have been
charged to conceal no unfayorable facts. and
| not to underrate anything that Ia of u hope.
| fuI nature.
Parnell's mother, who is living at Borden
town, n j., is said to be almost starving.
1t is asserted that che is compelled to sell
her dresses and awelry for bread and that
she is penniess and alone. living in dis
manted house with only her cat and guitar
for company.
Patti, the opera singer, receives the larg-
est wages ever paid to az artist, human or
divine. She is paid So 500 every night she
SINCE in the Albert Hall, in London. Even
with this, and the expenditure Of IS 600 for
each concert her managers are able to show
q prof of from 81 900 TO IS 600 per night.
Since the withdrawal Of the Brooklyn and
| Cincinnati clubs from the American Baseball
Association ths Kansas City club has trans
ferred it's membership from the American
to the Western Association. Baltimore it is
said will try to buy Washington's member
ship in the League. Detroit and Syracuse
have expressed desire to enter the Asao-
citation, and Rocheter may also go in.
Tbs Virginia Society, Of Atlanta. has
adopted resolutions coneratuIating the cause
of good government every wherein the over.
throw of Malone, and rejoicing in 1.-THE vic
tory achieved by the manhood and integrity
of the Old Dominion" The association has
elected Gov. Lee and Governor eect Nc.
Kinney honorary members of the society.
Mr.. Hamilton Douglas, of Alexandria coun-
| ty, is member of the committee on resolu
| tons.