Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-03-18
NEWS OF TIE Day.

Minister Palmer, the American represent
alive at Madrid, will resign.
The hill to repeal compulsory plotage
has been virtually defeated 10 the House OF
Representatives.
Psvton 2. Cole, New York lawyer,
vawned SO widely yesterday that his jaws
came out of place.
Ocean greyhounds are getting to be the
style. At least four new ones will be on In
the course of this spring.
A destitute widow. living in Memphis,
has been discovered to be sister OF Mrs.
General Hooker, of the Federal army, dur
ing the war;
Senators Call and George have retired
from the committee on immigration because
it is said, they do rot wish to associate With
Senator Chandler.
The House of Representatives yesterday
passed the bill providing for the transfer OF
the revenue marine from the Treasury DE.
partment to the Navy Department.
The British Minister, Sir Julian, and Lady
| Pauucefote last night gave dinner IN honor
of the Baron and Baroness Sternhurg, when
was one of the handsomest yet given at the
legation.
| In its night session the Maryland House
concurred in some Senate amendments TO
the G. g. o canal railroad lease bill and re-
iected others, so that conference commit
tee will have to be appointed.
Secretary Tracy and his friends were yes
terdsv taken from the United States steam
err Despatch, aground in the Potomac, oy
the United States fish commission steamer
Fish Hawk. From last reports the Das.
patch is still aground on the shoals.
Fire at Whitall, Tatum & Co.'S. glass works,
at Milville, n. J, yesterday, communicated
with the saltpeter watts, which were trans
formed into roaring furnaces, which, Wnen
water was thrown upon them, exploded
with terrific force, scattering the debris In
every direction.
In the u. S. Senate yesterday Mr.. Daniel
spoke in favor of the Blair educational bill
and Mr.. Morgan against it. In the House
Mr.. Kelly introduced bill to provide tor
the election of members of Congress. The
House passed bill for the enumeration by
the next census of Chinese population.
A tremendous sensation mas been crested
In Berlin by the sentence of professional
{ midwife to seven gears imprisonment, and
the imposition of sentences of various
degrees of severity upon several laoles OF
high families, = &c were proven to have en-
ployed her u aid them in thwarting nature
! by Malthusau practices.
a handsome young woman created sen
sation at the Buckingham hotel in New
, York last Thursday night by entering the
dining room and pointing pistol at her
/ husband whom she found seated at table
with a female friend The would be muir
: dereas was arrested and locked up until the
effects of the liquor she had been drinking
passed off.
The Iron Wor1d Of Pittsburg, of March Z,
figures out the actual cost of making bes-
semer pig iron on the west cost OF Englano
at $40 81 per ton, and the coat OF making
the same quality at Pittsburg at Sll 9i-dli-
ference in est ia favor OF Plttsbu:g, 81 81
!, per ton More remarkable still is its SHOW
ing that the labor cost in Pittsburg is only
81. 35. while in England it is g %. Why the
tariff?
In the last dscade the value Of Southern
property has increased from - 9l9, 1856, O9o
to 81 900 166 400. Tnat section now pro.
duces five times as much pig iron as 1t did
ten wears ago. The mileage OF railroads has
been doubled and the cotton crop increased
by a million and half bales. The hum of
manufacture sounds the knell OF past age,
and the supremacy of King Cotton, while
more extensive than formerly, is no longer
assured
Fire st Indianapolis yesterday afternoon
in the Bowen Merrill bookstore resulted in
a terrible catastrophe. A majority of the
spectators had left, under the impression
that the fire was out, when there was ter
rible crash. and the entire building, except
the front wall. fell inward, bnryipg num-
Der of fremen in he debris which was piled
forty feet high Ten were taken out dead
and about tweniy were badly Injured, some
1t is thought fatally.