Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-03-13
NEWS OF THE DAY.

| Mrs. and Miss Blaine are returning thelr
calls by sending cards by footman.
The alleged rich placer gold mine finds
in Lower California are said to be fraud.
Real estate in Washington will hereafter
be assessed at its true value instead OF two
thirds value.
Mr.. Preston Haytian minister, has le-
quested Mr.. Blaine to recognize the Legi-
Time government.
Rear Admiral John Lee Davis, retired,
| L. :. n, died at the Ebbitt House in Wash
ueton yesterday.
TIE temporary linancal embarrassment
of the johns Hopkins University will be
safely tided over.
Ex-Preeident Cleveland was last night
elected an active member OF the Bar Assc-
citation Of Nav York.
A bill is before the New York Legislature
to consolidate the cities of New York,
Brooklyn, &c under enc municipal govern
ment
Private letters received from Z.nz bar
say that Stanley, according to native re
ports, is marching rapidly toward the east
coast of Africa.
TIE Wholesale spring schedule for hand
coal as agreed upon in New York yesterday
is reduction of 50 to 80 cents u ton from
the winter schedule.
The Dnc d'Aumale had an interview yes
terday with President Garnet. He warmly
thanked the President for resembling the
degree Of exile against him.
1t is rumored that Mr. James Blown Pot
ter is about to sue for divorce from his
wife, the society star who started ont to ele-
vate the profession ofacting.
Only partial returns from the New Hamp-
| shire elections are received, but there seems
| little doubt that the constitutional prohibit
ton amendment has been defeated by de-
cded majority
In Braxton county, w. Va, yesterday the
houses OF number of dissolute females were
torn down By self constituted regulators
and the inmates driven away. num-
Der of the leaders in the affair have been
arrested.
The Spanish government has received dis
patches announcing the loss Of the steamer
Remus, which had Spanish military expo
dition on board. The vessel was wrecked
of the Philippine Islands Forty-two were
drowned and enc hundred and twenty seven
were saved.
A party of armed masked burglars terror
izsd the people about McClellandtown, near
Uniontown, Pa. Monday night, entering
dwellings and torturing the inmates by pla.
cling hot Goals to their feet, setting their
beds on fire and practicing other crueites
until the victims gave up whatever money
they possessed.
Next Friday, March 10, was the day fixed
for putting into effect the order placing the
entire railway mail service under the cper-
ations of the Civil Service law, but the or
der will not be acted upon at present. The
time will be extended, probably to The end
of the fiscal year, to allow The President and
tmaster-General TO reorganizs the SER
vice, which they think is badly demoraliZed
1t hss been determined that John 5. Clark
son, of Iowa, will be the First Assistant
ostmaster-General; and john w. Mason,
of West Virginia, will be Commissioner Of
Internal Revenue. There is 20 prospect of
an immediate change in the oflice Of Solicit
tor General, Judge jerks, the present in
cumbent, having been requested by Attor-
ney General Miller TO remain in his position
until the end Of the present term of the IN
i ed States Supreme Court in May next.
John A Campbell, ex Justice OF the Su-
preme Court of the United States and A.
sistant Confederate Secretary of War, died
at his home in Baltimore yesterday evening,
aged nearly seventy eight. He was born
near Washington, Wilkes county, Ga. In
1853 he was nominated to ill the vacancy
in the Supreme Court by President Pierce
and was unanimously confirmed by the
Senate. He entered uron his duties at the
age of forty-two. LII the spring OF 1861 be
RI signed bis position on the Court and came
South and became the Assistant Secretary
o, War of the Confederacy.