Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-03-12
NEWS OF TIE Day.

endeayoring to trim its bill down something
less than $50. 100000.
The Baltimore NJ. E. Conference closed
its annual session in Cumberland yesterday,
when the appointments were ANNOUNCED.
The semi.official announcement is made
in New York of the matrimonial engage.
meut of Mr.. Jay Gould and Mrs. Maurice
B. Flynn.
William Il. Carr, sherif of Montgomery
county, Md, aged 81 and ]. A. Carter, depu-
~ gister of wills for the same county,
died yesterday eyed Al.
Eighty per cent. of over nine hundred i'm
migrants landed yesterday at Castle Gar.
den were Huns and Silesians, going to work
in the Pennsylvania mines.
The Eoglish government intends introdu-
cling q bill into Parliament against the inn
portation into that country OF diseased cat
tie from the United States.
The President yesterday appointed Lieu
tenant Colonel William Smith, deputy pay.
master general to be paymaster-genersl
with the rank of brlgadier general.
The New York Southern Society yester-
day expelled Major William II. Clark and
acquitted Milton Randolph. Some time
since Major Clark shot Msjor Randolph
in the club room.
There is no doubt that the New York
county democracy is for Cleveland, while
Tammany Hall is his bitter foe, and for
Hill Tammeny will express its preferences
very carefully, however.
The site of the surrender of Gen. Lees ar
my at Appomattox Court House has been
purchased by a northern syndicate, which
proposes to make it the national camp
ground of the Grand Army of the Republic.
An old colored woman who says she is 124
wears old, and came from Manchester, Vir-
ginia, created sensation at Newark, New
jersey. where she had taken the wrong
train. She said she was on her way to Rich
mond
James Hamilton Howell Jones, of Pitts
burg, Respondent because be could not lind
employment, took poison and went to the
Church of the Heavenly Rest, in New York
yesterday, to die. He was removed to a
hospital and will recover.
Tha investigation of the charges against
Commander Bowman FL. McCalla, of the
slcop of.war Enterprise, was begun by a
naval court Of inquiry at the Brooklyn navy
yard yesterday, eleven men appearing
against the commander.
The detectives of Philadelphia believe
that Reginald Brchell, who is suspected OF
the murder of Frederick G. Benwell, in
Canada, is the bogus Earl of Somerset who
suddenly shone as leading society light in
that city about five years ago.
A Chicago city official claims to have seen
on railroad train between Baltimore and
Washington Charles Reed, the lawyer who
figured in the Guiteau case, and who was
supposed to have committed suicide by
jumping from New York ferrybcat.
Bell Allen and Witherford Trying, two
negroes charged with the murder of Con-
stable Belcher, were taken from the Mercer
county, w. V, Jail by mob Saturday night
and shot to death. Both negroes were nc
torious deeperadoes and had killed three
men before the Belcher murder.
James A. Wadlel, an ex-Confederate sol.
der, died at the Confederate Home, Pixies
Vile, Md, yesterday. He was horn in Bal
timore in 1885, Mr.. Waddeil was q sergeant
in the Twenty-third Virginia Infantry and
served In the division OF Gan. Stonewall
Jackson until the death of that officer.
The dead body of the woman found muir.
dered in cellar in New York on Monday
last has been identified as that Of the wife OF
Isaac Jacobs, who had killed her. Jacobs
entced her to the house after she had se-
cured separation from him. He killed
her the night before he murdered Rogozinski
and committed suicide.
Mrs Jefferson Davis had intended joining
her daughter in Europe in April, but, as
she has begun work on the sketch of her
husbands life, this visit will DO doubt be de-
ferred until late 10 the summer. Mrs. Davis
will be among the distinguished guests in.
vited to be present at the unwilling OF the
Lee monument on May %. Her recent be-
reavement, though. will no doubt prevent
her from being present on that interesting
occasion.