Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-01-14
NEWS OF THE DAY.


Three bishops of the Protestant Episcopal
Church preached 10 Baltimore yesterday
Bishops Brewer OF Montana Whitehead, OF
Pitt8burg, and Peret, OF Marylaud
Mrs. Jay Gould died at her home, on Filth
avenue New York at $50 last night. Dr.
Baldwin said that any attemp: to prolong
life would he not only useless, but almost
cruel.
Mrs Josephine E. Poe died at her residence
in Baltimore Yesterday 10 the Slstyear OF her
age. she was daughter OF William Ciemn',
OF Virginia, and sister of Virginia GLENN,
the wife Of Edgar Allan Poe.
On Thursday last in the New Hampahire
constitutional convention, an amendment OF
the State constitution was adopted that no
person shall be eligible to citizenship who
cannot read the English language.
Charles Brown, alias button, colored,
c-niincd in St. Mary's county, Md. jail for
iarcery committed at Rock Point, attempt
81 - 5rsek ill last week, by burning the
.q,odow frame in his cell from the brick
wo.E
Secratats Fairchild arrived in New York
SATURDAY. ii.ht 20 give personal attention
to the inyt. iealion of the appraisers Office.
ASSlSldut = Fl"Sl lCtul Sic hbt
Hammill auc Bs-dwell have been recon-
meDded for removal,
Miss Mary CARROTS latest gift is the
hu,idinu pew iug erected in Baltimore
ard wh!c1 IS ;ataGded to prepare gicls for
eutrace 10 Bon Mawr College, near Pnils-
deipala. !! s,l % endowed by Miss Gar
ret6 after e j. ljoi-hod.
Ii. Jaeqa-a the opponent Of General
Bauiauger IA ae Department Of the Seine,
al Vises Che e,a ris GOT 10 ii5.eu 10 "a soldier
who has lost tse right to appeal to the Il g
and TO reject ore whose caDGid stare signii
indisciplne and national ruiG."
Indiana democrats say that Mr. Dudley
viii most certainly be indicted by the Uni
ted States grand Jury on account of his
famous "hoaters" letter. They are deterrn-
iped that the means by which that State
was carried for Harrison shall be exposed
Thos. Axworthy, ex city treasurer Of
Cleveland, Ohio, has arrived at Toronto and
will take up his residence there. The only
dishonest act of his life, he SAYS, was COM
miiied through the force of circumstances
over whicn he had no control. His short
age was $500 600.
1t is said that Mrs. Harrison ia in receipt
Of 20 many letters each day that she has
been compelled 10 employ secretary
Three quarters OF these letters are from OF
fee seekers Pathetic appeals ere made to
woman with the hope that she will infu
ence her husband.
Il; is probable that the great American
swiudier known over Europe as ''Vandy ke'
has been captured at Simbacb, small sta
tion on the Bavarian frontier. His arrest
was caused by 90 attempt TO swiudle jew
elers there in the same daring manner he SO
successfully adopted in Liverpool, London,
Paris and Berlin.
Work is going on as usual on the Panama
Canal, and confidence in its prospects has
been restored for the present by that fact
and by private kilograms from Paris. The
newspapers OF Colombia and other Spanish
American republics severely criticise the
resolutions presented in the United States
Senate warning European powers to keep
their bands Oil the canal.
The steamer Ailss, which sailed for Hay
Ii from New York on Saturday, took cut q
crew that Will take charge of the steamer
Has tian Republic and return with her 10
Boston. On Friday night the steam yacht
Mercedes left New York for Samans San
Domingo. The Haytian Minister believes
that the vessel is destined for HlDpo!yte,
commander OF the Army of the North 10
Hayti, and that she will be used against the
Government of Legitime.
at the Pratt mines, fi.e miles from Biz
uinghsm, Ala, on Saturday, Mrs. ] 5 kel-
Ian and her son Willie, nine years old, were
murdered by negro. The woman and boy
had gone into the woods a short distance to
drive ND their cows. They met the negro,
who told them he could show them where
the COWS were. They followed him short
distance, when he turned ana struck Mrs.
Kelan with o heavy cub. The boy scream
ed for help, and was Immediately Drained by
the brute.
One of the legal questions in the contest
"a to who WIS elected Governor of West
Virginia has been settled by the Supreme
Court deciding that the Secretary Of State
can not be eujoined from laying the returns
of the Board of Canvassera Of the vote for
Governor in Kanawha county before the
Speaker of the House of Delegates. The
democrats say they are satisfied with the
decision The republicans claim it a. f.
great victory Gen Goh. There il rumor
that the Senate will now organize at once.
Ia the litigation in Philadelphia between
Eugene De- Mitkiew'icz and Mr.. Wharton
Barker, arising out of dispute in the
scheme to obtain from the Chinese govern
mept concessions to Introduce toephoning
in that country, rule was taken by Barker
on the plaintiff to show cause why security
for the payment OF 81 500 costs should got
be entered. The rule sets out that Baker
has ust defense against the demand OF
the plaintiff; that the complainant j. impa
cuious and largely ia debt to many per-
sona," and that if plaintiff should be defeat
ed il would be impossible for defendant to
recover his costs unless security is ordered
by the court to be entered.
VIRGINIA NEWS.
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