Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-01-20

Governor.
Mr.. Robert Garrett, whose mind is i'm
paired, is reported as being badly treated at
his home near Baltimore.
Gov. Francis, of Missouri, says no one else
is mentioned in his State for President IN
1892 but Grover Cleveland.
Miss Cemmerer bas obtained q verdict of
So 900 in New York against Mr.. Muller for
breach of promise to marry.
Ex-Postmaster General Dickinson l5 Of
tie opinion that there will be no bankruptcy
law passed by Congress this session.
The business portion of the village of Ffu'
palitv, fifteen miles north of Altoona. Pa,
was destroyed by fire early yesterday morn
ing.
Al English syndicate hes purchased five
potteries ip Trenton, N. j., for 81 500 COO,
and eleven in East Liverpool, O., for $1,000,
900.
About II o'clock last night a woman
jumped from the roof of q four story house
on Second avenue, New York, and was in
stsntly killed.
Orlow W. Chapman, Solicitor General OF
the United States, died at his residence IN
Washington yesterday morning OF catarrn
of the kidneys.
Bishop Ryan, of Buffalo, removed Father
Kiawiter from st. Adelbert'5 Polish parish,
and the congregation, which protested, has
appealed to the Pope for redress.
Georgia to-day honored Gen. Robert E.
Lees birthday by a general cessation OF bus
mess, and the Governor presided over the
memorial services at the State capitol.
MIR. Powderly was arrested in Scranton,
Pa, on Saturday on the warrant sworn out
by Mr.. Callaghan. He gave bail. Callag-
han will be charged with malicious libel.
The Kansas winter wheat cropis in splen-
did condition, and it ia reported that never
before has the outlook for an enormous
crop been more tlattering than at present
The son OF ex-Minister Won Pulttkamer.
of Germany, is i'll at Bellevue Hospital,
New York, having wandered around the
world after an exile from his native country.
Archbishop Corrigan sailed on La Bour-
gogne from New York on Saturday to visit
the Pope, and hundreds of priests and lay
men went down to the pier to bid him fare
we'll.
On the Irish saa yesterday q terrific gale,
accompanied by thunder and lightning,
caused great damage TO property along the
coast. A number If persons were KILLED by
lightning.
One of the coroner'a lry investigating the
Kuifin murder in Trenton, n. j., says the
evidence against DR.. Knitfin and Miss Pur-
sel is very slight, and they are now paying
more attention to the burglary theory.
News from Oporto is that the city is in O.
very disturbed condition. RiotiDg occurred
during yesterday and continued last night.
The cause is the popular Indignation against
the governments course 10 the dispute with
England.
Robert Blaine, brother Of Secretary Blaine'
is quite i'll with pnemonie, and was unable
to attend the funeral ofhis nephew, Walker
Blaine, on Saturday. Assistant Attorney
General Maury is also i'll with the grip in
Washington.
Prince Amadeus, Duke of Aosta, brother
of the King and formerly King of Spain
died at Turin on Saturday Of pneumonia.
The Duke of Aoeta was forty. five years old
He was King of Spain from December, 1870,
until February II, 1879, whom he abdicated.
Near Springfield, Mo-. on Friday night
the house of Hugh Farmer was burned to
the ground. Farmer perished in the flames.
III Is UellpNeu luAb bJuio VI Q hDSio
tenants murdered their landlord for his
money and Get fire to HE house to cover the
crime.
A larrs tank in the Standard Oil Works
at Constable Hook, n. j., containing 10 600
barrels of crude henZine exploded with
great force Saturday night. The flames ig-
nited au adjoining tank holding the same
amount of henzine and both were consumed.
The loss is $50 900.
The Kilrain .Vscquelin light, which was
TO nave taken place al New Orleans on Sat
urday night, was postponed unit! February
2. in the hope that the City Council will al
low the mill TO come off within the city
Limits otherwise the fight will take place
in the adjoining parish at st. Bernard.
Rev. N. II. Dyer, the Congressional min
lister in the town of Digbton, Macs, led from
there Saturday night to escape his flock
who threatened to tar and feather him. He
recently denounced a membe OF his con
~gregation for INDUCING in kissing games at
social parties.
Wild hogs entered the cabin ola farmer
10 the Chickasaw Nation, near Arbuckle, In
dian territory, Friday, and devoured q five
year-nld child which waialone 10 the house.
When the mother returned to the house a
wild boar ran oat at the door and into the
bushy swamps nearby, carrying one of the
legs of tina child in its mouth. Tbs remain
der of the body had been eaten in the house.
An English syndicate has purchased from
the Reading Railroad Company the plant
for the manufacture of the patent coal dust
brick located near Mahonoy City, Pa.
The process of manufacture consists OF
mixing the coal dust with pitch and then
COMPRISING the mixture into bricks eigh-
teen inches long, six inches wide, and the
same tizs In thickness, to weigh about fifteen
pounds.
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From Brazil.