Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-03-20
NEWs GF TIE DAY.

| An old fashioned suoW-storm prevailed
yesterday 10 New YORK.
The C. & o Canal receiv. will hold q
m Getting st Hagerstown tomorrow.
In the United States Senate yesterday
Mr. Egarts spoke ia favor Of the Blair edit
calionSl bill.
President Harrison went 10 Beneies Sta
,ior, Baltimore county, yesterday, to try his
luck at duck shooting.
Mrs Burcheil, wife of the alleged muir
derer of Beuwell, has been discharged from
custody at Woodstock, Ont.
lady in New York, So years of age, sued
corpet play er, IS years old. for breach of
promise to marry, and obtained elk cents
damage.
The old State capitol OF Georgia was sold
on Tuesday to Joel Hart for 1925 500. The
building will probably BE- converted into al
opera house.
The entire business portion OF Maysville,
Ga, was burned yesterday. causing loss Of
from $l5, GOO to $4,000. Only one store is
left in the town.
NJ. J. Cheatham, white, was hanged at
Grenada, MIS-, yesterday, for the murder
OF John Tilman, colored. on July 10 last.
The hanging was private.
At French post at Ubungus, 10 the Con-
90 county. ten natives under an European
egent were massacrea because an European
abducted the wife of native chief.
Il is now said that the reason Gen. Long
street has net been appointed to federal
position is that President Harrison has been
informed that he did net vote for him.
The steamboat companies of Baltimore
protest against the national law regulating
lines ard rockets, and elso against requests
of the census bureau for secret business in
formation.
John F. Plummer, we'll known In the
WOODEN trade and as republican business
man and proteclionst of New York city, has
made an assignment. The amount OF the
liabilities are stated to be 81 ,000.0O0
Congressman Grain is endeavoring to 10
duce the Court of Claims to award him that
portion of his salary which he failed to re-
ceive owing TO the defalcation of Slcott, the
cashier Of ex-Sergeant-at-Arms Leedom
The tiger which has been at large in Bu!-
lock county, Ca, fjr several months, de.
stroying property and frightening every
body, has been killed by party of teen
farmers, all OF WHOM claim to have fred the
fatal shot.
One of the directors of the Washington
and Georgetown Railway Company says
that within elk months work will be inaugu.
rated on cable line for Pennsylvania Ave.
nue. and Fourteenth street, thus making a
continuous stretch Of cable over the prop.
erty.
During session OF the Christian Work
ters' Convention in New York on Friday,
Miss iI.aa Benedict. of Lansingburg, who bad
been totally ..ind since last October. rose in
her seat and declared that Der sight bad
been instantly restored She walked un-
aided to the platform where she gays her
experience, declaring that che had regained
her vision through faith.
At Alton, H.. ex-State Senator D. B.
Gillian was awakened at ten minutes past
one o'clock yesterday morning by the oper-
ations IF a burglar. Nj. Gillian started to
secure the fellow, who shot at him twice,
the first shot missing, but the second taking
effect In the left breast a short distance be.
low the heart. Gilsm's struggle with the
burglar was terrible one, and it was only
by the greatest luck that he escaped being
killed.