Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-04-28
NEWS OF TIE Day.

epsin appear 90 the stage, ls Incorrect.
Two hundred illegal republican ballots
have been thrown out in Hartford, Con-
necticut, which gives the town to the demo
crats.
The question of allowing chickens to run
at large is the issue ia the municipal elec-
ton at Norwich, KaD,, and there are al
ready two tickets in the field.
The Pan-Americsn delegates are said to
have returned home dspeased because moth
ing practical was accomplished by the con-
press. owing to the obstacle OF cur tariff and
navigation laws.
Serious charges are preferred against Jas.
l.. Wheat, postmaster of the House OF Rep
resentatives and resolution will be Intro
duced 10 the House in dsv or two calling
for an investigation OF the office.
Yorkvile, en- Arkansas village, was er
tirely blown away by heavy wind and
rain storm Saturday morning, end cloud
burst in English county, Indians, did To-
mense damage on the same day.
John ]. O'Brien, the republican leader Of
the eighth Assembly district In New YORK.
and the ex-chief of the bureau o. elections,
died at Coney Island yesterday morning, e.
ter an illness of several months.
At the annual dinner of the Americas
Club of Pittsburg, last Saturday, Speaker
Reed made speech in which he bitterly al
tackled the people of the South. saying they
were bulldozers, hallot-box suffers Sc.
The Evangelical church troubles at Naper
Vile, H., in which the German membership
OF the Brick Church is most bitterly involved,
eliminated in such riot yesterday that the
MAYOR was called on to quell the disturb
ance.
A dlabolical attempt was made to burn a
tenement house in Brooklyn on Saturday
night in which resided twenty families,
NUMBERING about one hundred souls. But
for wakeful baby's warning the attempt
might have succeeded.
For the frat time In the history OF
the Catholic Church in this country
was celebrated at the Church of the Im
maculate Conception, In Baltimore yestet
day. the qualification of John Gabriel Per
boyre, the French Catholic priest who was
martyred in China in 1910.
Rev. T. De Witt Talmage 10 his sermon
in Brooklyn Yesterday discussed Christiani-
tv and science. In New York the Rev.
Heber Newton paid tribute to Bismarck
and Emperor William. The R5v. Dr. Sill
yerman denounced the bills before Congress
tending toward union of church and State.
The Grant Birthday Association held
banquet at DeImonico's in Now York on
| SATURDAY. night to commemorate the ann
yersary of the Generals birth. About $50
guests were present. Among the speakers
were General Sherman, Joseph G. Choate,
and G. NJ. Depew. Mrs. Grant was present.
The House committee on Private Land
Claims has authorised favorable report on
bill for the relief of the heirs of Myra
Clark Gaines. A preamble to the bill re-
cites that Myra Clark Gaines, as the legal
representative of Daniel Clark, deceased, of
Louisiana was entitled by reason of Spanish
grants, to 3S 457 acres of land, and that Mrs.
Gaines, while so entitled, died and lief theirs.
Patrick II. McCann created sensation
before the Fassett investigation in New
York on Saturday by swearing that Mayor
| Grant contributed $50 600 to q fund to pull
chase votes for his appointment as Commit
sioner OF Public Works. Mayor Grant denies
the whole story, aud Mr.. Croker, the Tam
many chief, who is now in Wiesbaden, telt-
graphs that Mccain 9 etatement is false.
A dispatch from the City of Mexico, says:
"Augustine de Iturbidp, on his arrival at
San Juan de Teotihucan. when he joined
his regiment, was ordered under arrest, pre-
sumaby for crltcsiug President Disz, the
commander chief of the army. He bas
| been brought to this city and now is pri'
soner in the military prison In Santiago de
| TialteIaIoo, a northern suburb" Prince
| Iturbide, whose mother WAS Miss Alice
| Green, Of Georgetown, is we'll known in this
State.
Rev. Sam Jones preached three sermons
at Charlotte, N. c., yesterday to audiences
! OF 6 600 at each meeting. The evangelist
created sensation and aroused much indig
nation among the old citizsns by denounc
| ing the 20 h of May celebration OF the Meek
! len burgdecarati ofindependence asfound-
ed on myth and nothing but drunken
| frolic. AT last nights meeting Jones said
that his charge in the afternoon that The
| Mecklenburg declaration of independence
was myth, wa. he had since learned, an
egregious error. He apologized humbly for
slandering noble people, and said Phla-
delphie people had imposed on bim In the
matter.
President Harrison has written to Attor
ney General Miller, stating that he learns
there Ia organized resistance to the excel
ton of processes of U lied States courts in
northern Florida, and iustructiug him to
take such step9 40 may bs necessary to en-
able United States Marshal Weeks to exc
cute such writs of arrest az may be placed in
| his hands. In reply to the statements con-
tanned in tho letter sent by President Harri
son TO Attorney General Miller regarding
the difficulties in Florida, Mr.. F. W. Haw-
ihorne, of the Times Union has addressed
an open letter to the President in which he
says the Presidents statements must have
been based upon misuformaton.
COMMUNICATED.
Mr.. Reed and the Negroes