Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-02-20
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

RumOrS OF BiSInhlCh Wv
again in circulation.
Tt ia claimed that the sugar trust Can re.
fine sugar at one-hslf cent pound.
Cant. Hamilton Mnrrell, the hero OF the
Danmark disaster, will marry Baltimore
lady this summer.
The catch Of shad in the eastern waters
of North Carolina is now large, and heavy
shipments north are made daily.
The republicans in Congress are said to be
marsbaing their forces for the passage of
the Sherman federal election Law.
Douglass Green and Mrs Snell McCres,
whose marriage last week created such
| sensation, have arrived at Southampton,
| EGG.
Petitions continue to pour into the Mary
| land House of Delegates on the canal ques.
ton from western Maryland, and largely in
| favor OF continuing the waterway.
Three attempts have recently been made
to burn the town of Rocky Mount, n. c.,
and it is believed that the incendiarism is
the outgrowth of the negro emigration mat.
ter.
la the Maryland 81 ouse of Delegates yes
terday resolution was introduced asking
Gov. jackson to request the State of Virgin.
\
Hog Island.
Roswell P. Flower, of New York, has
been chosen chairman Of the democratic
campaign committee of the House of Repre-
sentatiVes. Mr.. Venable is the Virginia
member of the committee.
Ga Tuesday Jake Staples, a negro who
criminally assaulted MIS-. Lewis near
Heiskell's Station, Tenn was captured and
tied securely 10 the depot, IL is thought ne
will be lynched by the Infatuated citizens.
At Biadensburg, Prince Georges county,
Nd, yesterday, Thomas Lee, colored, gash.
ed his wife's throat, fatally injuring her, and
then cut his own throat, dying almost Inn
mediately. The reason for the murder was
that Lees wife refused to live with him.
As stated yesterday, the deadlock in the
Iowa legislature has been broken after last.
ing Eve weeks and three days. The demo.
Gratis get the speaker, assistant clerk, and
two minor offices. The republicans get all
the other officers and the first five commit
tees.
Prof James Dinwiddie, of Virginia, who
ia to be the new Principal of the Peace In.
stitute, n. O., met the trustees Monday
night and closed all arrangements He took
charge of the lease held by Mr.. Burwell,
present Principal, and leased the Institution
for fifteen years.
The Lenten regulations issued by Arch
bishop Fabre for the archdiocese of Mont
real have been countermanded. Yesterday
the Archbishop received information from
Rome to the effect that the Pope bad Issued
a brief In which be grants dispeDsation
from the ordinary Lenten regulations to
countries affected by influenza
Ia the q. s. Senate yesterday Mr. Blair
continued mis- speech on his educational bill,
during which ne declared that 1.-THE great
American press ia the source of more mis-
chiefin the country than there would be il
we bad 20 prees at ALL" The Senator says
he believes the press of the country is in
league to suppress the speech he is engaged
in making in the Senate.
Civil Service Reform Commissioner Ly
man in Washington last night under oath
testified before an investigating committee
that his brother-iu-!aw, clerk Campbell, OF
the commission, had confessed that he had
stolen set of examination questions, and
that he had furnished them to lady friend
who desired to use them to aid her in pre-
pairing for an examination for promotion.
1t Ia probable that change will be made
shortly in the route of the Piedmont Air
Line which will place Oxford. n. O., on the
main line. Work ia TO begin at once on
railroad from Keyevllle to Fsrmville to con-
meet at the latter place with the road from
Gordonsvile on the Virginia Midland. The
route through Oxford would then be shorter
| from Washington to the South than the
present one via Danyllle.